Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from August, 2009
China: The fate of Philanthropists in Sodom
Alice Xin from DANWEI translated an article written by social critics Leung Man Tao who compared China with Sodom where philanthropists like Xu Zhiyong are prosecuted.
China: Why have they taken citizen Xu Zhiyong?
Uln looks into the Xinhua article for the official explanation for the arrest of citizen rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong.
China: Curing Internet Addiction
ESWN brings into focus CCTV's investigative news story on “Curing Internet Addiction”, in which the reporter Chai Jing questioned the label of “mental illness” from those who use the Internet...
Japan: Bean Curd
Ad Blankestijn from Japan Navigator explained more or less everything you need to know about Tofu or Bean Curd.
South Korea: Gendered Health Drinks
The Grand narrative looked into the advertisements of health drinks and examined how they were depicted with gender conotation.
China: Rape and beatings in a Beijing “black jail” hotel
Black and White Cat explained the background of a recent rape case in a Beijing “black jail” hotel for petitioner with a translation of local investigative report by Southern weekly...
China: Dangers Of Uploading Your Photo Onto The Internet
Fauna from ChinaSMACK picked up a post from NewSC and showed how one's photo protrait was transformed by other netizens.
China: Significance of Xu Zhiyong
Wang Jian Shuo started to write a series of article about Xu Zhiyong and the significance of his role in the development of civil society in China.
Hong Kong: Gender imbalance in Hong Kong
Sunbin looks into the demographic data and explains why the ratio between man and woman has such a drastic change in the past 15 years: in the 35-39 age group,...
China: Bubbles and Demographic Trends
Brian Schwarz from China Challenges puts together various opinion posts on the bubbles of China's stock and property markets and their impact on demography.
China: Conversations with an Old Comrade on the Eve of the 60th Anniversary of the PRC
C. Custer from ChinaGeek translated a widely circulated blog post called “Conversations with an Old Comrade on the Eve of the 60th Anniversary of the PRC“. Chinese netizens believe that...
China: How Did Amoiist Break the Jail?
Amoiist, a blogger who was detained by police for 16 days, wrote about his experience in jail and he believed that twitter and rescue action organized by the Internet had...
China: Foreigners camping on the Great Wall, Chinese reactions
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated Chinese netizens’ reactions on foreign travelers’ illegal camping act on the Great Wall.
Korea: Commentary on Clinton visit
Ask a Korean! translated two blog entries from a famous North Korea blog, Nambukstory, that commented on Clinton's visit and the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
China: An “old comrade” urges re-evaluation of the CCP
Qian Gang gave some backgrounds of an article, “Conversations with an Old Comrade on the Eve of the 60th Anniversary of the PRC”, which has been circulated widely on the...
China: The Dongying Mass Incident
ESWN translated a story from Chinapic about a massive criminal assault incident in Dongying County of Shandong province, which was caused by local government's intervention in the relocation of a...
China: Reactions on Clinton Rescue Reporters From N.Korea
Fauna from ChinaSMACK blogs about Chinese netizens’ reactions on Clinton's trip to North Korea and the release of two reporters.
China: Dark days for China's liberals
Rebecca MacKinnon looks into the political implications of the repression of Gongmeng and the arrest of human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong in China.
China: Economic bubbles
David from Silk Road International is worried about China economy even though it is growing: “how can the Chinese government continue it’s stimulus if the world doesn’t recover to pre-crash...
China: Xu Ziyong
Last month, Gongmeng, a NGO provides Chinese citizen with legal assistance was charged by the Beijing government with evading tax. The head of the Gongmeng, Xu Ziyong is now under...
China: Made up data on the wealth of senior cadres’ children
ESWN translated a report from people.net which traces how the data on “91% of rich people are children of senior government cadres” had been made up and passed along.
