Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from January, 2009
China: A school with 3 kids
Rob from Black and white cat translated a Xinhua feature on a school in Guangxi mountain area, in which there is only 1 teacher and 3 children.
China: Stunning Sayings From Chinese Economists
ESWN translated 17 sayings from illustrious Chinese economists circulated on the Internet, with Chang Ping's comment.
China: Study on Internet Censorship
Chinayouren tested various search engines and summed up a number of observations on Chinese internet censorship.
Taiwan: Alternative Music Scene
Steve from Fool's Mountain blogs about the alternative music scene in Taiwan, with a number of mtv.
China: Blogging for Change
Although Bullog.cn, one of the most influential independent blog hosting platform in China, has been shut down under the pretext of internet cleaning of smut, a number of prominent bloggers declared that they would continue to speak. A few days ago, Sohu, a commercial blog hosting company, hosted a blogger...
China: Internet Purification and more to come?
Imagethief tries to make sense of the latest internet purification under the context of economic downturn, which may bring extra landmines in the crack down.
China: Global Media Market
Zhongnaihai quoted from South China Morning Post and discussed the Chinese government's plan to invest 45 billion yuan (about 5 billion U.S) on media that target on global audience.
China: The Human Flesh Search Pact
ESWN has translated the human flesh search pact launched by digtech.cn.
China: Support National Brand
A new website, I wall China, has been set up to support national brand. Netizens are encouraged to vote for their favorite brand. The background music is also very national.
China: Censorship on Charter 08
Uln from Chinayouren wrote on the censorship of Charter 08 within mainland China, in particular among Chinese websites.
China: Tibetan Plateau Meltdown
Asia Society's China green project has a series of video on the Tibetan Plateau meltdown situation.
China: Bullog.cn shut down by Net Nanny
Alice Liu reports on the shut down of Bullog.cn by net nanny at DANWEI.
China: 2008 in Poker
ESWN introduces the Chinese netizen's poker design based on major incidents of China in 2008.
China: Bu Zheteng
ESWN discusses various possible translation of “bu zheteng” in President Hu Jintao's speech last week.
China: Xinhua demanded Democracy, 60 years ago
Black and White Cat translated Wang Xiao feng's collection of Xinhua Daily's headline 60 years ago, which shows the Chinese communist party's belief in democracy and human rights in the past.
China: 49, 79, 89 and 09
Andrea from T-salon translated a tweet that tells various turning points in China history in relation to socialism and capitalism.
China: Netizen Day
Rebecca MacKinnon from RConversation blogs about the Chinese government's announcement of a new celebratory day - the China's Netizen Day in September 14.
Japan: Space Toilet
Edo shows how the next generation of space toilet looks like.
South Korea: Internet and Cultural Barriers to Content Production
The Metropolitician tries to account for the Internet and cultural barriers to content production with the presence of conglomerates in the industry.
China: Job Security Problem
Brain Black from China Challenges blogs about the impact of global economic downturn on job security in China.
Hong Kong: A Misleading Internet Poll Of Youth And Pornography
ESWN translated a blog commentary (from Those were the days) criticizing a recent survey on internet, youth and pornography.