Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from December, 2006
China: World Aids Day
China Media Project compares the party and commercial news coverage of World Aids Day.
Japan: old photos
Morgan Pitelka in Frog in a Well blogs some invaluable old photos from 1951.
South Korea: Big Brother Is Watching You
A citizen report by Robert Neff in Ohmynews about the widespread use of security cameras in Korea that causes invasion of privacy.
South Korea: pron star English teacher
Robert Koehler comments on the recent report and internet hunt of an English teacher who worked as a pron star for her tution fee when studying in Canada. He points out that this may be another incident of cyber-terrorism against individual.
Hong Kong: Social forum
Hong Kong civil society is having its first social forum this week, a series of pre-conference citizen reports about grassroots workers conditions, migrant domestic workers (zh), gay and lesbian movement (zh), corprate social responsibility issues (zh), etc can be found online at inmediahk.net (zh).
China: Beijing's big brother culture
Wang Xiaofeng writes about “ye” culture in Beijing. The meaning of “ye” literally is grandfather or big brother (old men with authority). “Ye” or “Da Ye” is used as a suffix to someone's name to show respect or submission. Wang notices that in order to prepare for the Beijing Olympic,...
China: leaping the great firewall
People's republic of… introduces a new tool (Psiphon) to leap the great firewall.
China: The Mass Show Trial In Shenzhen
In Futian district, Shenzhen, more than two hundred people (prostitutes and patrons) were hauled into the street and put on trial in front of the public. ESWN translates the local report with pictures.
China: The Chinese Sparrow War of 1958
ESWN translates two articles about the Chinese sparrow war in 1958 which compare the fate of sparrows with the Chinese intellectuals.
Japan: edible postcards
JP from Japundit reports that a town in Japan is selling edible postcards made of cuttlefish.
Japan: mobile flash art
An article in Pingmag by Verena showing how mobile screen can be a site for creative artworks.
