Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from April, 2009
China: Chat with Anti-CNN.com
Rebecca MacKinnon, a former CNN reporter, chatted with the core members of Anti-CNN.com on Monday. She has written down a summary of the conversation in her blog.
China: Gender Imbalance
Angry Chinese blogger highlights the gender imbalance problem in China with British Medial Journal report on: “China’s excess males, sex selective abortion, and one child policy: analysis of data from 2005 national census survey“.
China: Health Care Reform
Josie Liu from China in Transition comments on the China health care reform blueprint.
China: A Satire That Caused an Uproar in Both China and The Philippines
The story of Chip Tsao's War at home has traveled to mainland China, and nationalistic sentiment is moderating netizen's reaction. China digital times has translated mainland Chinese netizens’ reaction.
China: Psychiatry with Chinese characteristics
Peking University Law Professor specialized in forensics, Sun Dongdong, told China News Weekly on March 23 that 99% of China's petitioners (zh) are mentally ill and that he support for forced hospitalization of them. Update (April 8, 2009 @ 8:00): Internet monitor center issued a notice to webmasters of portals...
China: 2.3 Billion Earthquake Museum
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated netizens’ comments on government's plan to spend 2.3 billion yuan on the construction of Beichuan National Earthquake Ruins Museum.
Japan: Rocket Launched
Tobias Harris has been writing about Japan media and government's reaction in Observing Japan. His latest post is about Japanese government next move in UN Security Council.
South Korea: Protesting NK Missile Launch
Todd from Ohmynews! has written a photo report on a protest on April 5 against North Korea Missile launch.
China: Conflict and Clashes are the Natural Social Norm
Xujun Eberlein from Inside-Out China translated an essay by Tsinghua professor, Sun Liping on Conflict and Clashes are the Natural Social Norm.
China: Animation industy and Ultraman
Premier Wen Jiabo's comment on Ultraman has traveled to Japan as “Destroy Japanese Anime“, there were more than 200 comments showing disagreeable faces :|||. I have also written a post at GV advocacy on recent control on multimedia content in the Internet in China and the netizens call for boycotting...
China: Yang Jia's Mother's Story
ChinaGeeks translated in part Yang Jia's mother, Wang Jingmei's account of the judicial process of Yang Jia's cop murder case and how she was put into a psychiatric hospital and released only to see her son's execution.
South Korea: No Longer Conservative
The Grand Narrative explains why and how South Korea is no longer a conservative country.
China: Reform the International Monetary System
Sun bin comments on the reform proposal on the International Monetary System put forward by the head of China Central bank Zhou Xiao Chuan: China can go ahead with this solution alone while persuading G20/IMF/WB to follow suit.
Taiwan: Police Hassle Political Blogger Meeting
Michael Turton from the View from Taiwan translated a local report on police interruption of a Democratic Progressive Party affiliated blogger Meeting.
Hong Kong and the Philippines: The War at Home
Chan Hau-man re-posts Chip Tsao's controversial article “The War at Home” at inmediahk.net and invited readers to judge the article. Her opinion is that the article was a satire.
South Korea: Worst-Case Scenario on missile crisis
Lee Byong-chul from Ohmynews looks into the recent conflict between North and South Korea over missile launch. Lee thinks it's time for South Korea to prepare for the worst case scenario in inter-Korean relations.
South Korea: Internet Real Name System
Matt from Gust of popular feelings reviews the Internet Real Name System at the time when Google decided to adopt the practice in Korea youtube.
