Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from December, 2008
China: The Top Ten Most Popular Search Terms of 2008
ESWN translated Hecaitou's blog post on “the top ten most popular seach terms of 2008“.
China: Peace Keeping Force At Village Election?
ESWN translated Liu Jinlong's blog post and local media report about a village election escorted by armed peace keeping force.
Hong Kong: FBI: 2009 Shennong Plan
Maryanndonnell blogs about the upcoming Fat Bird Institution's performance in Hong Kong City Festival 2009.
China: Sexy Girl on Government Website
Joe from ChinaSMACK translates report about the hacking of Jingzhou City Bureau of Commerce's websites and the netizens’ comments.
China: More on Boycotting French Goods
ESWN translated a few articles reflecting on the call for French goods boycott.
China and France: Boycott of French Goods
On December 1, an article appeared in China.com urging a nationwide boycott against French product in order to protest against the meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Dalai Lama. The post advised consumers not to buy about 50 French brands, including cars, clothes, alcohol and skin-care products. Commentaries from...
Africa and China: Good or Bad Partnership?
Allen from Fool's mountain posted some videos discussing the nature of partnership between Africa and China.
China and U.S: Ideal Citizen Education
Russo at Frog In A Well compares conservative education program in the U.S with textbook in China from 1933-39 about “being a good citizen”.
South Korea: Comfort Women Demonstration
Michael Solis from Ohmynews! forecasts the Korean comfort women demonstration on Human Rights Day.
China: Political Science Professor Denounced By Students
ESWN collects and translates local newspapers commentaries about two of his students reporting to the city's public security bureau and education committee, accusing a political science professor of making counter-revolutionary comments during a lecture.
China: Traci Lords at Hong Kong Movie
Human Flesh search engine from mainland China managed to dig up the details of an adult movie appeared at one of Stephen Chow's popular movie. The female figure is Traci Lords. See ESWN for details.
China: Editor removed from Southern Metropolis Daily
feng37 wrote on a new wave of control over media in China: the highly renowned chief editor of Southern Metropolis Daily's Editorial section, Jiang Yiping (江艺平) has been sacked and replaced.
Japan: Print Media in Crisis
Ampontan translated an article from a magazine which gives an overview of the problems faced by the Japanese print media with a few suggestions for overcoming those problems.
China: Punishes France and EU
A letter to editor at the Fool's Mountain commenting on the cancellation of China-EU summit in France.
Hong Kong: 1938, a Gateway to China
Charles mok posted a documentary video, A gateway to China, on Hong Kong in 1938 via youtube.
Hong Kong: Murphy’s Law
Erynnyes from Those were the days said that the SAR government in Hong Kong is under the spell of Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Any issue, small as evacuating tourists from Thailand, has gone wrong [zh].
Japan: Spoofing Aso
Englishman posted a few photos spoofing Japan's prime minister Taro Aso's wit in his speech.
Japan: Decorated trains
Edo from Pink Tentacle collects a series of photos on decorated trains in Japan.
China: Creative mind of Chinese peasant
Mutant palm posted a video produced by Microwavefest on a barefoot robot designer, peasant Wu Yulu.
China: Guangzhou Taxi Driver Strike
Localgd posted photos showing Guangzhou Taxi driver strike.
