Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from October, 2006
China: How to improve Beijing's quality of life
Will from imagethief have ten recommendations on how to improve Beijing's quality of life.
China: labour law
Law Prof blogs about the comments of Amercian Chamber of Commerce on the draft of Chinese labour law.
China: decriminalization of sex worker
Li Yin-he argues for the decrminalization of sex worker, including prostitutes and “second wives” (zh).
China: eating Chinese
Lyn Jeffery introduces great blogs and forums about Chinese food.
South Korea: diaspora
Jodi introduces two documentaries in Pusan festival about Korea diaspora in Russia, Cuba and the U.S.
Korea: Ban Ki-Moon and North Korea
Citizen reporter Hyejin Kim from Ohmynews puts together analysis related to North Korea's response to the appointment of Ban Ki-Moon as United Nation secretary general.
China: labour and organization
Zheng Jinyan blogs about her workshop, “understanding China”, in Thailand. One of the session is on labour conditions and organizations in China (zh), it touches upon the relation between Africa and China social movement. Zheng stressed that boycotting China product won't help the situation, NGOs should work on the protection...
China: incestuous ad?
Joel Martinsen in DANWEI puts together some discussions about a recent skin-care adverstisment with the actress’ son saying that he wants to marry his mother when he gets old. It results in a debate whether the ad has crossed the line of social standard. Joel also translated a post from...
China: shooting in Tibet
The opposite end of China puts together some Youtube videos on the recent shooting of Tibetian refugees at the Nepal border by the China PLA.
China: piracy as microsoft marketing
Diligence China points out that when local software China Star sells at 10RMB while Microsoft Window sells at 500RMB, without piracy, Microsoft won't have a market share like today: Imagine what China’s software industry might look like if piracy hadn’t killed off a viable, home-grown alternative to Microsoft?
China: translation for Olympic
In order to prepare for the Olympic, the Beijing city has to double check its English signposts and other instructions. Sohoxiaobao has posted some translation jokes(zh): “folk culture village” is translated into “racist park”; a fired chicken dish is translated into “government abuse chicken”; and the word “dry” in Chinese...
China: wikipedia access chart
Andrew Lih shows the distribution of wikipedia's access in China in a chart form.
South Korea: independent journalists intimidated
Days in Daechuri has the latest update on the anti US military base in Pyongtaek, independent journalists were intimidated by local thugs.
South Korea: nuclear cartoons
Kotaji blogs about nuclear cartoons from local newspapers in South Korea.
South Korea: sex trafficking
Micheal Hurt continues to blog about the sex trafficking issue in South Korea: Prostitution is on of South Korea's biggest service industries and its most embarrassing export, in terms of prostitution in its most pernicious and vile form – forced sex trafficking.
South Korea: migrant film festivial
Jamie from Two Koreas blogs about the migrant film festivial in Seoul: There is an interesting range of films here about migrant workers, and not solely in Korea but in other countries around the pacific, from Taiwan, to Canada and Malaysia.
China: nokia ivory cell-phone
Insertia from Taiwan calls for a boycott on Nokia's cell-phone: I Can't believe it. When most countries in the world forbid ivory trade, Nokia sell ivroy mobil phone in China, Guangdong. Please let your frind know it: Boycutt Nokia Ivory Phone.
China: blogging for justice
7 years ago, the girl friend of ken's friend died in the hospital probably because of the misjudgement of the doctor. All these years, he had been contacting lawyers, mainstream media and pursuing in court in order to expose the case to the public. Ken then suggested to him, why...
China: tourism
Imagethief blogs some of his observation on tourism in China: “the Chinese like their tourism like their restaurants: well serviced, loud, sociable and smoky. “
China: labour law
The Chinese government has passed a new set of labour law, Alan Baumler at The China history group blog gives more background information about the role of official union and points out that these laws will not represent a change in the nature of Chinese unions and that these will...
China and Japan: Netizen
Jacky peng in Little bridge blogs about the difference between Chinese and Japanese net users on BBS.
