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 January, 2010
Korea: Cell phone information belt
Ask a Korean! translates an article that explains how NGOs obtain information from North Korea via cell phone imported from China.
South Korea: Woman worker's promotion grief
71% of the South Korea working woman believed that the promotion systems at their companies placed women at a disadvantage. (via James Turnbul's Grand Narratives)
China: A policeman shot two farmers dead
ESWN collected and translated a local news story about two farmers in Pogongpai town, Guizhou province, shot dead by local police station vice-director on January 12.
Hong Kong: The Siege of Legco
DM from Learning Cantonese has a very detailed account of the protest against the government finance plan of the world's most expensive Express Rail Link project on Jan 16, 2010.
China: Speculating the future
ESWN translated Han Han's blog post on his wild speculation of the future of Chinese Internet. The blog post was removed by sina blog hosting.
People Power Rises in Hong Kong
dm from Learning Cantonese has written a vivid depiction on the recent anti-express rail protest: “It's just like People's Park, Berkeley, in 1967! I feel old.”
China: Proof for Google's security breach
ChinaHush translated a Chinese blog post that gave evidence on Gmail's security breach in China.
China: More on Google cn
ESWN translated several local news comments on Google's withdrawal from China market: The Withdraw of Google from China is only Psychological Warfare; The Chief Design Officer of Baidu Reacts to Google's Withdrawal from China; 70% Chinese Internet Users Surveyed Don't Think The Government Should Make Any Concessions To Google; and...
China: Baidu hacked by Iranian Cyber Army
Baidu.com, China's leading search engine, was hacked this morning a group called Iranian Cyber Army. (via DANWEI)
South Korea: Health care system
Ask a Korea explains to the readers how the health care system in South Korea works.
China: Eight characteristics of fake “patriots”
C Custer from ChinaGeeks translated a post by Zhou Weilu on eight characteristics of fake “patriots” on the Internet.
China: “Avatar” and forced demolition
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated Chinese reaction of the Hollywood movie “Avatar”, some comments related the struggle to the forced eviction and demolition of people's home in development project.
China: The tragic curtain call of substitute teachers
Starting 2010, 448,000 substitute teachers in China will be laid off. CC & Key from China Hush translated local news and online comments on this latest policy by the ministry of education.
Japan: New finance minister
Observing Japan has an article introducing the new finance minster, Kan Naoto.
China: Welcome back, Yeeyan
Ethan Zuckerman wrote on the significance of Yeeyan, a collaborative translation website, in bridging the English and Chinese world. Yeeyan was temporary offline in December and now back to normal.
Japan: New Year customs
Lee from Tokyo Time posts photos of Japanese new year customs.
China: Reciprocity and trust
maryannodonnell has written an interesting article on her observation of reciprocity and trust relation in Shenzhen.
China: Unblocking and blocking
C.A Yeung from Under the Jacaranda Tree reported on the unblocking of several websites, such as Youtube, Picasa, and etc. But the most reason update is that the blocking has been resumed, as C. Custer from China Geek pointed out the unblocking must be temporary.
Hong Kong: #0101hk – New Year March for Democracy
Around 30-thousand Hong Kong residents spent the first day of the 2010 new year by marching in the street, demanding democracy and the release of Liu Xiaobo. To show their support for this rally, twitterers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China together pushed the hashtag #0101hk to the top...
Measuring “China”
Eln shows the trend of the media appearance of “China” in the past few years.
Top 10 Internet phrases in China In 2009
ESWN translated a local forum CNNB's review of the top 10 Internet phrases in China in 2009.
