Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from June, 2009
China: Conversation with AMARC
Doubleaf explains how Chinese rural residents acquire and disseminate information during the past 20 years in his conversation with the Chair of AMARC, Steve Buckley.
China: Chinese netizen reactions to Iranian election
Allie Shi from Shanghaiist translated Chinese netizens’ comments on Iranian election.
Japan: Mobile social network
Serkan Toto from Asiajin blogs about a fastest growing (2 millions in three months) mobile social network in Japan.
South Korea: Citizen declaration
Cynthia Yoo from Ohmynews International reports on a citizen declaration petition against President Lee Myung-bak's government.
Japan: Copyright Law amendment
Fumi Yamazaki from What's happening in Japan right now blogs about the amendment of copyright law in Japan. Now downloading illegal contents will be illegal…
Korea: Kim Jong-il’s Heir
Beom-seok Sohn from Ohmynews International discusses the potential candidates of North Korea state leader Kim Jong-il's successor.
China: The Fall of Lady Liberty and Chai Ling's Revenge
Xujun Eberlein from Inside-Out China comments on former Tiananmen activist Chai Ling's recent move to sue the film maker of “The Gate of Heavenly Peace” for “defamation” or “infringing trademark”.
Japan: Why highly educated women want to be housewives?
Mari Kanazawa wondered why highly educated women in their 20s want to quit their jobs and become housewives.
South Korea: Media bias against English teacher
Metropolitician wrote in Korean Media Watch on the media bias against foreign English teacher in South Korea.
China: Ai Weiwei Photos
Ai Weiwei, a famous blogger activist in China, took pictures of himself and undercover police who were watching him. (via China geeks)
Japan: Raining tadpoles
Pink Tentacle quoted and translated a story from Sankei about tadpoles falling with the rain to Japan's Ishikawa prefecture.
Japan: Social translation tool
Masaru IKEDA from Asiajin introduced some social translation tools that are designed to fill up the gap between human profession and computer’s imperfectness.
South Korea: June 10 democracy demand
Today is the 22nd anniversary of the June 10, 1987 victory over the military dictatorship. Over 1200 professors at six universities have jointly signed a statement concerning the “death of democracy” in Korea under Lee Myung-bak's presidency. (via Judy Han)
China: A leaking dam?
Chinese information activists have been testing and collecting information about the government sponsored filter software, “Green Dam Youth Escort” via blog posts, twitter (search #greendam) and collaborative platforms since the WSJ's news about Beijing government required PC makers to install filter software for all the PCs shipped to China from...
China: Green dam user comment
Rebecca MacKinnon from Rconversation followed up the WSJ story on China PC filter, Green Dam, and gave more background information about the application of the software locally. She also reminded that criticism on the filtering system should be consistent globally. ESWN translated user comments on the Green Dam.
Hong Kong: Say No to CCTVB
On 4th of June, there were more than 150,000 Hong Kong citizens gathered in and around the Victoria Park to commemorate the 20 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. The number of attendees has broken the record since 1990, telling the world that Hong Kong people have not given up...
China and U.S: Translating mispronunciations
Sinosplice explains how English mispronunciations are being translated into Chinese.
China: Shanghai pride festival
Shanghai LGBT community will organize a Pride festival week from June 7 to June 14. A website has been set up for the event.
Japan: Female Internet user
Fumi Yamazaki from What's happening in Japan right now? blogs a research finding on websites that have higher percentage of female users with 20-34 years of age. The result is “communication sites”, “online shopping sites” and “gourmet sites”.
China: Dog massacre
A county, Yangxian, in Shaanxi province killed every single dog there on 31 of May. ChinaSMACK translated the brief story and netizen comments from MOP.
China: Why blocking popular social websites?
TechXav gave three main reasons explaining why the Chinese government decided to block popular social websites: competitions, sensitive contents and national security.