Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from August, 2010
Hong Kong: You want to take the bus? That's so tragic!
This youtube video (with English subtitle) showing a quarrel between the private van owners and bus passengers after has become a big hit online. For more background, see ESWN.
China: National Photography Exhibition Golden Award Winner Was A Fraud
ESWN translated a news story that exposed the National Photography Exhibition Golden Award winning photo being generated by computer.
China: Investigative report on Zhouqu landslide
Wangkeqin wrote an investigative report [zh] on the August 7 Zhouqu landslide. The journalist blogger posted a number of photos showing the fragile construction of water dams in Zhouqu.
China: Domestic consumption
Tom Lasseter from China Rises blogs about his experience and lack of confidence in Chinese domestic consumption.
Taiwan: Political Ad based on Hong Kong
The Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party runs an anti-ECFA ad by painting a negative picture of Hong Kong society. ESWN has the transcript translated.
China: Wiping Sweat Gate
China Hush has a post on the recent “wiping sweat gate”, which explains how propaganda with Chinese characteristic is manufactured.
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".
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.
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 get a second opinion from your knowledgeable Chinese friend”.
China: Zibo kindergarten attack, rumour or censorship?
The censorship mechanism in China makes it difficult to differentiate what is real and what is rumor? The Zibo kindergarten attack has been widely reported in overseas media outlets, but no one has confirmed or denied the news yet. more from ESWN.
China: Zhouqu landslide, a man made disaster
On August 8, a landslide happened in Zhouqu in Gansu province. According to official Xinhua news, the disaster has so far taken away 127 people's lives and 1,294 people reported missing. Since there is very limited information from official media outlets, Woeser's coordinated a collaborative investigation via Twitter soon after...
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, a guy was put into jail in his frist conviction.
Microblogs are crucial in China
Hu Yong explains why microblogs are crucial in China in the China Media Project.
Taiwan: Slogans to Encourage Childbirth
Micheal Turton translated some slogans, selected by the Ministry of the Interior, to encourage Taiwanese to have kids.
Why China’s “Left” Finds Favor in the West
CDT translated blogger-novelist Yang Hengjun's blog post explaining why China's leftist intellectuals find favor in the West.
China: Aftershock – history or political allegory?
While the 2008 Sichuan earthquake has become a taboo in mainstream media because of the bean dregs school building construction scandal and the arrest of citizen investigator Tan Zhouren, the Tangshan Earthquake has been put on big screen on July 22, six days before the 34th anniversary of the biggest...
South Korea: New move of Ohmynews International
Ohmynews! has closed down its international citizen news section and turned into a blog for on the development of citizen journalism. The official launch of the blog will be in September.
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 in supporting Cantonese.
China and the U.S: CCP's Soft Power and The Internet
Tom Legg comments on the interaction between Chinese Communist Party and western Internet companies in claiming and framing the online public sphere by means of soft power vs. discourse on citizen's rights to access.
China: Rural migrant workers need love too!
As if rural migrant workers did not need love before, the state own T.V recently discovered that the post 80s rural migrant workers need love and therefore organized a special episode of If You Are the One for this specific social group. More from DANWEI.
China: Baidu to sue US domain register for “Gross Negligence”
Angry Chinese Blogger blogs about Baidu.com's legal action against US domain register for gross negligence, which resulted in a cyber attack by the Iranian Cyber Army back in January 2010.
