Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from November, 2006
China: CCTV's political culture
China Media project reports that the resignation of popular sports commentator, Huang Jianxiang, has stirred up audiences’ frustration to CCTV's political culture.
Japan: historical preservation activist
Adamu reports on a speech given by author/businessman/historical preservation activist Alex Kerr.
Japan: internet homeless
Adamu at Mutantfrog Travelogue comments on the growing phenomenon of people living in Internet cafes.
South Korea: too young
Andy Jackson in Marmot's hole worries that the national human rights commission's criticism against the Asiana and Korean Air’s policy of hiring women crewmembers that are no older than 25 years will affect the service.
Asia-Pacific: Asia society blog
The Asia society's young leaders’ summit came to a full end on Nov 19; however, the conversation goes on in the summit blog.
China: year of spoof
Zhao Mu suggests in his blog that 2006 should be the year of spoof in China, spoofs come not only from internet, but also from the government (zh).
China: sex tape and corruption
A Chinese actress, Zhang Yu, showed 20 tapes to media of her having sex with famous Chinese directors and actors. DANWEI has the details. Wang Xiao feng's judgement is that there is commercial interest behind the event, the whole issue is a show (zh).
China: apart from dog, what else?
Positive solution posts a question concerning the one dog policy in China: If you start banning dogs on the grounds that they are potentially dangerous and a public nuisance, why stop there? Here are a few things that I’d give the same treatment…
China: banking regulation
Survived SARS comments upon the newly released banking regulations in China: at first glance, they appear to provide more leeway for foreign banks to compete than was originally expected…
China: wikipedia blocked, unblocked and reblocked
The news about Chinese wikipedia has been confusing. On Nov 13, it was widely accessible, on Nov 16, partial inaccessible, on Nov 17, a reblocked was confirmed and appeared more restrictive – Andrew Lih has the most elaborated update.
Hong Kong: from hit rates to narratives
ESWN has some reflections upon his blogging: but at some point, I ought to develop some opinion or the other after recording ten thousand data points…I believe that there is some room for building up narratives from the ground up.
Hong Kong: cultural gap in Hong Kong journalism
ESWN translates different mainstream reports concerning the sacking of SCMP editors to show the cultural gap between Chinese and English journalism.
Japan: cultural day
David Weber in Japundit has a nice photo essay on the Japan cultural day.
South Korea: A Day in the Life of an OhmyNews Editor
Claire George in Ohmynews writes a personal account of her editor's life and how the job has changed her persception of the world.
South Korea: anti Korean websites
Robert Koehler at Marmot's Hole lists out some anti-Korean websites. However, he disagrees with local newspapers’ opinion that government should step in and intervene.
South Korea: Gender empowerment measure
Michael Hurt reports that South Korea has a 10-stop increase in gender empowerment measure (GEM) since 2002.
China: state secrets
The definition of state secrets is so vague in China. Absurbfool tries to dig out some on web.
China: travelling of song and tune
Jeremy Goldkorn at DANWEI writes a brief history melodies and tunes travelling from China to Europe.
China: strike hard at stray dogs
Imaginethief talks about the impact of “strike hard at stray dogs” policy on his neigbors.
Japan: paper plane
JP on Japundit blogs a recent world record set up by elementary school students in Hiroshima: creating the world’s largest paper airplane and flying it.
Japan and China: oil dispute
Citizen reporter, Hisane Masaki, at Ohmynews has an article on the development of oil dispute between Japan and China in East China Sea.
