Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from December, 2007
South Korea: Civil Organization to Expel All Illegal Aliens
CINA blogs about the establishment of a “civil organization” campaigning to expel all migrants without legal document.
China: Mock Press Conference
Zhao Shilong blogs about a mock press conference organized by the Journalism department of Zhongshan University for training their students (zh).
China: Lust, Caution and Cultural Revolution
Wu Li from my 1510 finds out that those university students who had made appeal to the Cultural Bureau to criticize the movie Lust, Caution! hadn't viewed the movie when they signed the appeal letter. The blogger felt that such attitude reflected the deep social conflict similar to the social...
China: The Warlords’ Political Debate
Josie Liu from China in Transition discusses the political debate around a newly released Hong Kong movie “The Warlords”.
China: New Holiday Plan
The Labour Day Golden Week has become history, the government has announced a new holiday plan in China. Details via Dan Washburn, from Shanghaiist.
China: Fake Meat at University Canteen
Zhaomu blogs about the fake meat issue at Peking University's Canteen. Because of the rise of pork price, the canteen used bean fiber as substitution. When the issue had been exposed in the school BBS, the canteen manager refused to apologize and defended that he was trying to improve the...
China: Public Opinion on Xiamen PX
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI reports on a public opinion poll on the construction of the Xiamen PX chemical factory. 55,376 of 58,454 votes were cast against the project. Lian yue writes in detail opinions from the public hearing on Dec 13 (zh).
China: Free Music Deal
Fons from China Herald blogs about the deal between EMI and Baidu on free internet music service.
China: Migrant Worker Song
Peijin Chen from Shanghaiist blogs about this year's Spring Festival show specialty: Migrant worker song performance. But is it really about the migrant workers? The story seems to be more about the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
Japan: 2007 Kanji of the Year
James from Japan probe blogs about the Kanji (Chinese origin character) of the year, and the winner is the word “fake”.
South Korea: City Redevelopment Plan
Robert Koehler from Marmot's Hole blogs pictures of the latest downtown city redevelopment plan to be completed by June 2009.
South Korea: Unionists Deported
Two unionists from Migrant Trade Union were deported yesterday in South Korea and a solidarity action was organized in Montreal today. Jamie from Two Koreas has the most updated news.
South Korea: Economy Over Human Rights?
Cho Eunseok from chamnews translated a debate over anti-discrimination bill in South Korea. Apart from conservative religious group, the Korean Employers Federation is a major opposing force.
China: Forgetting Nanjing Massacre
Yesterday (December 13) was the 70 year memorial of Nanjing Massacre. The Chinese government is trying to downplay the historical issue by stressing that they don't want to stir up hatred. Zoula points out (zh) that we should know more about the details of Nanjing Massacre, even though some of...
China: Most Searched Questions
Keso compares the 10 most searched “what and how questions by Google (English) and Baidu (Chinese) and he finds out that Chinese speakers are more concerned with money and stock market, while English speakers are more concerned with love and technology (zh).
China: Government Subsidy for China Petro
Izaobao wonders why Sinopec and China pectro are asking for government subsidy, on the other hand, investors are gaining huge amount of dividend from the companies profit (zh).
Hong Kong: Universal Suffrage Not Later Than 2017
Although a majority of public opinion supports universal suffrage of the SAR Chief Executive (CE) in 2012, the SAR government still insists on a “Not Later Than 2017” position in a recent consultation report (announced in Dec 12) on political reform. The present CE, Donald Tsang, claimed that he would...
Japan: Coffee Splitter
James from Japan Probe blogs about the arrest of coffee splitter who had assaulted 5 schoolgirls with coffee via drive-by spitting attacks.
China: Call for Abolition of Re-education Through Labor
Donald Clark from Chinese Law Professor blogs about a proposal submitted by Beijing University Faculty of Law professor He Weifang, along with 68 other signatories, to the National People‘s Congress requesting that it review the system of re-education through labor (RETL).
China: Laowai Blog
Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist translated a post from a popular local forum (zh) commenting on Laowai's blogs writing on China.
Hong Kong: Tech-donation
Charles Mok blogs about the newly established project, Tech-donation, in Hong Kong (zh). It is organized by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and Techsoup.
