Oiwan Lam · August, 2010

Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from August, 2010

China: Wiping Sweat Gate

China Hush has a post on the recent “wiping sweat gate”, which explains how propaganda with Chinese characteristic is manufactured.

13 August 2010

China: I am Liu Xianbin

Liu Xianbin is 42 years old and has spent almost one third of his life time in jail. He has been under arrest again since June and activists are campaigning for him under the slogan: "I am Lui Xianbin".

13 August 2010

Japan: Incense

Martin J Frid from Kurashi has written several articles on the culture and tradition of incense: where to buy incense? ten virtues of incense and Japanese literature on incense.

12 August 2010

China: Foreigners’ Chinese Tattoos

China Hush translated some Chinese character tattoos and advised that “if you don’t understand Chinese and ever were thinking about getting a tattoo of Chinese characters, the advice is to...

11 August 2010

Hong Kong: Cop-slapper

Webb explains a recent cop-slapper scandal in Hong Kong. A woman cop-slapper with good family background received a 8000 dollar fine in her third conviction, while in another similar case,...

6 August 2010

Hong Kong and China: Support Cantonese action

Michelle from interlocals translated an article explaining how citizens from Hong Kong and Guangzhou have informed each other in their civic action, such as the most recent cross border action...

3 August 2010