Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from May, 2007
China: Property law review
China law blog has a review on the China property law. It is in four parts: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Hong Kong: B.T. piracy case appeal rejected
The Court of Final Appeal dismissed the appeal of Chan Nai-ming, who had been convicted and sentenced to three months’ jail for uploading infringing movies to the Internet by using...
Hong Kong: Indecent Google Link
Because of the recent debate about the ruling of Obscene Article Tribunal in Hong Kong, the mainstream media found out that the Tribunal had once ruled a Google search hyperlink...
Taiwan: Farmers Associations and Rural Politics
Michael Turton has a very elaborated post on the history of farmer associations in Taiwan, which is related with colonialism. In recent year, the farmer associations faced very serious debt...
Hong Kong: judicial independence with a special Hong Kong characteristic?
ESWN put together information, mainstream news reports and blogpost that investigate the accountability of the Hong Kong Obscene Articles Tribunal and found out that the so-called judicial independence of the...
South Korea: Bruce Cumings interview
Timothy Savage and Kang Sung-gwan from Ohmynews have an interview with Bruce Cumings, an expert specialized in Korean history, on issues including social and political development of Korea, North Korea...
South Korea: Cheonggye vendors to be displaced again?
Jamie from Two Koreas blogs about the displacement of Cheonggye vendors from the old Dongdaemun Stadium. As more money is sunk into the Seoul property markets, redevelopment becomes very political.
Hong Kong: From Indecent Student Magazine to Indecent Bible
The campaign against the Bible was started by an anonymous website, truthbible, on 15 of May to protest against the Obscene Articles Tribunal's (OAT) internim ruling that two issues of...
China: Xiamen University
Rosu writes about a recent signature campaign by experts and professors in Xiamen university to stop a grand polluted project in Xiamen. Even though it is yet to know the...
China: Harmonious Wording for Advertisement?
Wangxiaofeng criticised [zh] the hypocritical nature of the criticisms towards housing property advertisements which used words like “supreme”, “luxurious”, etc. Can we change the reality by changing the wording of...
China: Shenzhen Nailhouse
Zola moved from Guangzhou and carried on his report on nail house in Shenzhen [zh].
Hong Kong: Ma Lik's Comments on June 4
ESWN translates two blogposts written by local reporters about their tea gathering with DAB's party Chief Ma Lik and his talk about June 4.
China: Internet politics
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translates an interview with Yu Guoming, a vice-dean of the Renmin University School of Journalism and head of that university's Public Opinion Research Institute, on Internet...
China: Genocide Olympics
Imagethief analyses whether the “genocide Olympics” campaign against China's stance in Darfur would be working or not.
Hong Kong: Indecent bible?
Upon the Obscene Articles Tribunal issued the ruling on Chinese University publication “CU Student Press” as second class “indecent” material, local netizen launched a campaign to the Television and Entertainments...
Japan: The Ongoing Geisha Saga
Marie Mockett from Japundit gives an update on the dispute over violating the privacy of Mineko Iwaaki in “Memoirs of a Geisha.”
Japan: Constitution debate
Japan Observer summarized the editorial of major daily news on the revision of constitution.
China: Delayed reporting
Chris O'Brien from Beijing Newspeak blogs about a recent delayed report by the Chinese government on an outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease in a city in Shandong.
China: New restrictions on Tibet travel
Granite studio points out that the Chinese government has imposed new restrictions for foreigners travelling to Tibet.
Hong Kong: I am CU person
YIN blogs about her feelings of being a Chinese University graduate [zh] in the midst of the student press erotic page scandal: for 10 years I have been studying and...
China: Internet Stories
ESWN translated a few blog posts about the saving of a blue hair girl by a photographer. There are at least 4 versions of the story. So who can you...
