A media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. My Twitter account is @oiwan and personal views are published on: patreon.com/oiwan
Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from March, 2009
Hong Kong: Ng-hao big-naug or you are dead!
On Tuesday, March 18, a local police shot at a Nepali homeless man twice at close range and one of the bullets end up in the head, leading to the man's death. The police report soon after the shooting said that the police officer went to check out the hillside...
China: Goodbye Grass Mud Horse
Last week the story of Grass Mud Horse has traveled to the U.S.A via the New York Times and re-imported back to China with new ideas for reproduction, such as the marriage of two legendary creatures: Grass Mud Horse and FaKe Squid into FaKe Mud Horse. As imagethief pointed out,...
China: A Visit to Chen Guangcheng's Family
ESWN translated Wang Keqin's report on his attempt to visit human rights activist Chen Guangcheng's family, and how Wang had been chased out of the village.
Japan: Shintaro Kago's Terror Animation
Shintaro Kago, a Japanese guro manga artist, has set up a channel in youtube (warning: some are rather scary). via Pink Tentacle.
China: Student Forced to Quit School Due to Blogging?
A Beijing Foreign Studies University female student wrote in her blog on 16 of March that she was forced to quit school because of her blog post that criticized the department of education. However, is she telling the true? What is the other side of the story? more via ESWN's...
China: Shadow of Premier Wen
Mobiuswang posted a PS photo of the shadow of premier Wen Jiabao.
China: Female Worker Mock Ad
Jeremy Goldkorn from DANWEI picked up a Mock Ad poster from local forum Xici Hutong on how workers are dealing with the financial crisis.
China: How to love the country
Chinageeks comments on human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and his family's experience in pursuing social and political reform in China and discusses how to be and what it means to be a patriot in China.
China: Nature of the State
Inside-Out China has a post discussing the nature of China polity, in particular whether or not the country should be considered a totalitarian state.
China is Unhappy
One of the author of 1996 bestseller China Can Say No（中國可以說不）Song Qiang, has recently published a new book, China is Unhappy (中國不高興）, with other well-known writers. The first book appeared after the bombing of China consulate general in Yogoslavia by the NATO that enraged Chinese people and led to a...
Japan: Brazilian community
Roy Berman from Mutantfrog blogs about the life of a Brazilian community (with photos) in the Homi public housing area of Toyota City.
Japan: Link Spam
Motoko comments on Google's decision to punish Google Japan for paying bloggers to promote their new “hot new keywords” by links.
China: Online Democracy
Uln from Chinayouren takes a tour around the Internet to see how netizens respond to the recent NPC-CPCC meeting and online chat between legislators and netizens.
China and France: Patriotic young girl PK anti-Chinese French guy
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a post from MOP about a young girl arguing with a French guy on an airplane.
China: Difficulties in China Business
China law blog sums up various difficulties in doing China business around areas such as: intellectual property, disappearing Chinese companies, joint ventures gone bad and labour law violations.
China: Green GDP suspended
Bullogger reposted a local news about the central government's decision to suspend the release of Green GDP index in China in order to stimulate the economy (zh).
Hong Kong: End of HSBC myth?
Yesterday (March 9) HSBC Holding, Europe's biggest bank, and an Elephant in Hong Kong Hang Seng Index plunged 24% to HK$33, its lowest level since 1995. Since the beginning of financial crisis, many Hong Kong people believe that the city will not be hit directly by the tsunami (partly because...
Western Ideological vs. Chinese Nationalistic Sentiment
Inside-Out China blogs about the nationalistic sentiment shared by overseas Chinese, as a result of direct confrontation with Western Ideology: if the Chinese government were smarter, it should send all dissidents overseas instead of putting them in prison, as living the West seems to be more effective in changing views.
China: Banning Shanzhai Culture?
Ni ping (倪萍), a famous CCTV host actress and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) put forward a suggestion for banning “Shanzhai phenomena” （山寨現象） in the recent CPPCC meeting. The term Shanzhai becomes popular last year when a netizen, Lao Meng, decided...
China: Seven Possible Fates Of An Internet Post
ESWN translated an article from Southern Metropolis Weekly on “Seven Possible Fates of an Internet post“.
China: Blog credibility
Uln from Chinayouren discusses about the credibility issue in Chinablogs – blogs about China in English.
