Oiwan Lam · March, 2010

Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from March, 2010

China and Hong Kong: Police and media

  16 March 2010

ESWN translated mainland blogger Yang Hengjun's eye witness report on the protest outside the China liaison office in March 13, 2010. Yang criticized the excessive police force and the self-censored practice of local media in Hong Kong.

South Korea: Birth rate

  16 March 2010

Andrew Gruen from Ohmynews! wrote an article addressing the problem of low birth rate in South Korea and pointed out that gender equality is more important than policy in raising birth rate.

China: GFW history

  13 March 2010

Damon from interlocals.net posts a video on the history of China's Great Firewall – a filter that covers the whole country and filters and blocks away illegal and politically sensitive content.

The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

  12 March 2010

Big Lychee writes a book review on Underground Front – The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. The book is written by former legislator Christine Loh on the history of the Chinese Communist Party's underground network in Hong Kong.

China and the U.S: Obama's China strategy

  11 March 2010

China Matters has a commentary on China and the U.S relation. While China offers economic partnership and cash, Obama government isolates China in issues like Copenhagen climate summit, non-proliferation, Iran sanctions and RMB valuation

China: Zola's English blog

  10 March 2010

Well known citizen reporter Zhou Shuguang starts to blog in English as he wants to be more international. Here is his first post.

Japan: No Nukes

  10 March 2010

Martin J Frid blogs about the recently revealed secret agreement between Japan and the U.S in 1969 which has violated the three non-nuclear principles signed by former Japanese Prime Minister Sato in 1974. The agreement stated that if there was a war or a crisis, Japan would not object to...

China: Left critique of liberal calls for hukou reform

  9 March 2010

On March 1, 13 major newspapers issued a joint call to the NPC & CPPCC to reform the hukou (household registration) system. The Chinese leftist, however, considered the real intention of the call is the privatization of rural farmland. More from The China Study Group.

China: A confession of an Internet naked runner

  5 March 2010

What would you do if you were forced to comply to the “real name registration” in order to access the Internet? And if every word that you said online would be monitored by the government? When there is no way for you to protect your privacy, probably you would also...

China: Petty bourgeoisie

  4 March 2010

Elliot Ng from CN Review looks into the Chinese modern usage of the popular term “xiao-zi”, which originated from Karl Marx's “Petty bourgeoisie”.

China: The Diary of the Tobacco Bureau Chief

  3 March 2010

ESWN has translated the 07-08 diary of the Tobacco Bureau Chief in Guangxi. The Diary has detailed record of the government official's lifestyles, including sexual encounters, drinking binges and taking bribes.

China: People's representatives

  2 March 2010

A diagram showing the ratio of Chinese government / party official and ordinary people in the people's representative of the National Congress in China. It appears that more than 75% of the delegate is government / party official. (via twitterer yuanxinting)

China: Official's sex diary

  2 March 2010

Veggie discourse translated a recent sex scandal of a Chinese official in Guangxi, whose’ diary has recorded his daily activities in taking bribes and having sexual intercourse with women.