Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from January, 2008
Japan: voting rights to foreigners?
James from Japan Probe summarizes the debate on granting voting rights to foreigners in Japan.
Japan: Japanscapes
Edo collects a few high dynamic range (HDR) photography on Japan Landscapes.
China: Why Baidu?
Fons tries to explains why netizens prefer Baidu to Google search.
China: Shanghai Subway Video
mirenyige uploaded a short video in youtube showing a young couple's good-bye kiss in a shanghai subway station. From the angles of the video, netizens suspected (zh) that it was taken from the CCTV inside the station by subway staffs.
China and Hong Kong: Jet Li on Patriotism
Diumanpark blogs the transcript of famous actor Li Lianjie or Jet Li's T.V interview, in particular his view about patriotism. To Jet, independent thinking is most crucial (zh).
Hong Kong: Political Surrenderer
ESWN translated an article from Wong Onyin, an internet radio host, about the mission of Anson Chan, an icon of democracy in Hong Kong, as a political surrenderer (the giving up of universal suffrage in 2012). Wong's analysis is hated by both pan democratic alliance and the pro-establishment and seldom...
Japan: Language as Long-term Visa Requirement
Debito has an elaborated comment on the Japan government's proposal on making Japanese language a requirement for long-term visa. Ampotant criticizes BBC's report for creating an impression that Japanese don't like to talk to foreigners.
South Korea: DLP on the Verge of Split
Newscham has an article on the crisis of a major left wing party, Democratic Labour Party, after the fatal defeat in presidential election.
China: Contradictory Statistic
In a Shanghai survey 76% of the primary and secondary school students said that they had never been to the Arts Museum while 84% said that they like the Arts Museum. Zhang-qing wonders how the two figures can co-exist (zh).
China: No Human Dignity, No Olympic
Clairewy reposted in her blog an article by Teng Biao (a Chinese Lawyer) about Hu Jia's arrest, which re-instated that “without human right and dignity, there is no genuine Olympic; for the sake of China, for the sake of Olympic, we have to defend human right.” (zh)
China: Internet Mop Culture
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a Tianya article on the Internet Mop culture behind the “Very yellow, very violent” affair.
Japan: Japanese a Requirement for Residence?
James from Japan Probe asks whether Japanese language be one of the qualifications for obtaining long-term residence visas in Japan? The Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura thinks so.
Japan: Brides of The World
Edo from Pink Tentacle blogs photographer Kimiko Yoshida's photo interpretation of brides of the world.
China: Real Name SNS
Tangos pointed out that the different between facebook and HaiNei (another Chinese version of facebook) is that the former stresses network effect, while the latter stresses real name and identity (zh) and it is an incomplete version of facebook.
China: Baby Needs Milk
Civic rights activist Hujia was arrested and his wife Zhen Jinyan was detained. Cathay is worried about their new born baby and she sent some milk powder to the baby via door to door delivery (zh). The blogger wants the couple to know that they are not alone.
China: Inside the Wall Social Network
Kblogs introduces a new social network site in China, called Qiangne.com, which means inside the (great fire) wall. The blogger said that such kind of social network platform would manifest the “harmonious society” to its extreme (zh).
Hong Kong: Massive Contempt of Standing Committe of NPC
The Department of Justice sues the civic radio for contempt of court by violating the restraining notice. Erynnyes said the Jan 13 rally for 2012 universal suffrage is a massive contempt of standing committee of National people congress which had rejected the 2012 time table (zh).
China: Apartment Slave
Fu Jianfeng writes the story about how he turned into an apartment slave (zh) in my1510: in September 2007, within a month, the value of the apartment has increased two hundred thousand yuans; in October it dropped below the original price and he dare not looking at the housing market...
China: Plastic Bag Ban
Imagethief is not optimistic about the policy on plastic bag ban.
Taiwan: Election Interpretation
Angry Chinese blogger listed out various story lines about the result of Taiwan Legislative Yuan Election.
Taiwan: Legislative Yuan Elections
ESWN writes an analysis on the Taiwan Legislative Yuan Elections, in particular on how the change in election system affected the result.