Oiwan Lam · June, 2008

Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from June, 2008

Hong Kong: Preserving Bruce Lee's Home

  10 June 2008

Diumanpark urges the Hong Kong government to preserve Bruce Lee's home as a memorial hall in Hong Kong [zh]. The commercial radio has set up a webpage for a signature campaign to support the preservation.

China: Why School Crumbled?

  9 June 2008

Hu Yong said that the Chinese government should answer to the question why schools were crumbled in the earthquake zone. The blogger insisted that if the truth was buried, China would have no future [zh].

China: Reconstruction

  9 June 2008

TECN posted Qian Li qun's speech on earthquake reflection, which stressed that earthquake reconstruction work should incorporate the reconstruction of the Chinese society in term of the development of humanitarianism, civil society, social reform, etc [zh].

China: Earthquake Migration

  9 June 2008

Zhao mu interview specialists about the resettlement of earthquake victims [zh]. As the whole Wenchuan region becomes an active earthquake zone, relief work would include a huge migration plan.

China: The Suffering of Qiang Minority

  6 June 2008

Sunbin draws readers’ attention to the suffering of Qiang (an ethnic minority in Sichuan) in the earthquake. Initial stats shows that Qiang had lost close to 10% of its population. The government official acknowledged the need to save Qiang's culture.

China: Earthquake Witness from Beichuan

  6 June 2008

Qiang-shan You-ke from my1510 writes in detail what had happened in Beichuan secondary school after the earthquake. The writer lost his wife on that date and witnessed the deaths of hundreds of teachers and students. He believes that 80% of the deaths were result of human mistake [zh].

China: Who Should be Thankful?

  5 June 2008

The CCTV kept showing clips on earth victims expressing thanks to the government. Guo yu hua, an anthopologist pointed out that the government should thank Chinese people instead as they have showed high quality in supporting the relief work [zh].

Japan: Death Art

  5 June 2008

Chiemi from Pink Mag blogs about an art exhibition on death theme. The writer inteviews the gallery owner Narutoshi Sekine about this art category.

Japan: Haunting Beauty

  5 June 2008

Edo from Pink Tectacle introduces a digital art genre by Yoshitaka Kawakami. Most of the works are about haunting look of school girls. The artist's gallery is here.

Japan: OpenWeb.Asia

  5 June 2008

Serkan Toto blogs about the openweb.asia project which is designed to be a network of premium blogs written in English that deal with IT, Tech and web stuff coming from Asia.