Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from May, 2009
China: Future school safety, but not the past
David Bandurski from China Media Project looked into the education ministry's recent project on “secondary and primary school safety” and noticed that there was no mention at all of the collapse of shoddily constructed schools in last year’s Wenchuan earthquake.
China: The democracy movement since 1989
During the last mother's Day weekend on May 10th, a number of intellectuals in Beijing organized a seminar discussing 20 years of the democracy movement in China. This is a very significant event in breaking the long silence among intellectuals on the June 4th student movement, as well as in...
Hong Kong: Donald Tsang, please die!
Last week, the public was outraged by the Chief Executive Donald Tsang‘s remark on June 4 Incident in the Legislative Council's policy address in May 13. When asked about his personal view on the vindication of June 4 student movement, he answered: I understand Hong Kong people’s feelings about June...
China: Thoughts on how to do “small” business
Maryannodonnell blogs her conversation with her tea vendor on the ethics of small business.
China: Good Citizenry
ESWN translated government banner propaganda advocating “good citizenry” in Jiangsu province. The purpose is to encourage the residents to accept the relocation plan.
China: Earthquake, one year later
Michele Scrimenti from Chinageek translate Chang Ping's article on the 1st anniversary of Sichuan earthquake: Earthquake, One Year Later: Today Should Not Be a Celebration.
China: Blaming the first H1N1 patient
Nimrod from Fool's Mountain blogs about angry netizens’ reaction towards the first H1N1 patient, an overseas Chinese student surnamed Bao, in China.
Japan: Mass hysteria over swine flu
James from Japan Prob quotes from Tsuyoshi Takashiro's blog [ja] on the opinion about the over-reaction to the swine flu.
Japan: Nice middle age
Harvey from Japan Newbie introduces a hilarious music video by Takosan called Nice Middle.
China: Guangdong street violence
ChinaSMACK translates a netizen discussion on girls street violence in Guangdong.
China: Crisis seen from the Sinosphere
Uln from chinayouren looks into various schools of opinion from the Sinosphere on the China Crisis. The blogger sums up the discussion into: time, markets, people, government, package, chest, riot and inflation/deflation.
Global Shanghai, 1850-2010
Xujun Eberlein from Inside-Out China wrote a book review on Global Shanghai, 1850-2010.
China: Angry Youth
China Beat posted Teresa Wright's observation and view on angry youth phenomena in China presented in a roundtable at Brookings Institution.
China: 1st Anniversary Of The 5.12 Sichuan Earthquake
Today is the 1st anniversary of the May 12 Sichuan earthquake. Kai Pan from CN review has selected 6 popular online videos for commemoration of the disaster.
China: Gay wife
Li Yinhe blogs about the situation of the wife of homosexual male in China [zh]. There are around 20 million homosexual male in China and 80% are married.
Japan: Virtual consolation service
Serkan Toto from Asiajin introduces a virtual consolation service in Japan. The website would praise the user according to their profile information.
Japan: Business models of social media
Fumi Yamazaki looks into the various business models of social media in Japan.
Malaysia: Massive arrest of activists
A black T-shirt caused the massive arrest of 116 opposition members by the Malaysian government. Chong reports on the recent suppression of oppositional party in Malaysia at interlocals.net.
China: Car racing incident
On 7 of May, around 20:05, a 25 year-old young man Tan Zhuo (譚卓 see thumb nail photo) was hit and killed by a racing car when he was walking in a zebra crossing at Wen E Si road in Han Zhou. According to witnesses, the car was racing with...
China: Four Great Rivers Conservation
Asia Society's China Green project has produced a video explaining the eco-conservation project at four great rivers region in China.