Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from March, 2007
Hong Kong: ever-worse place for expats?
Simon comments on a recent survey that Hong Kong is becoming an ever-worse place for expats, slipping behind Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney and Sierra Leone as a place to live. What's the reason behind?
China: police post on Shangfang
Ai Weiwei transforms a deleted post in Sinablog into photo files. The post is written by a police Wu Yuo-ming from Wubei, who gave detailed account of his experience in “stopping” people from Shangfang (visiting the higher authority to file complaint). The police pointed out that such kind of practice...
China: Euthanasia blog
Jeremy Goldkorn from DANWEI introduces an Euthanasia blog written by a 28 years old woman, Li Yan, who has been suffering form cancer since very young age.
South Korea: Daechuri video
Micheal Hurt posted a video done by Bum Lee, which is a tribute to the art of Daechuri. The village has been struggling against forced demolition and the construction of military base.
Hong Kong: blogger abuse
Bigbrainwave writes down his telephone conversation with a newspapers reporter who requested him to comment on social and political issues so that she could quote from it (zh)! Bigbrainwave complains that if the commercial media want proper commentary, they should pay.
Taiwan: Preservation of Losheng Sanatorium
More historical background on the preservation campaign of the Losheng Sanatorium written by Liu Kwang-Yin at interlocals.net.
China: egao
Onemanbandwidth has a nice article on egao (spoofing) culture.
China: rural village
A photo essay to explore the rural problem in China by Lung at inmediahk.net (zh).
Hong Kong: Copyright = creativity?
The Hong Kong Government has announced the consultation paper on “Copyright protection in the Digital Environment” in early January this year. Many has pointed out that the consultation is based on the interest of corporate copyright holders rather than individuals and consumers. Worse still, some suggestions within the consultation papers...
Japan: police behind racist mag?
Debito explains why he believes that Japan police was involved in the racist publication: GAIJIN HANZAI.
Japan: self-injury
James blogs about a recent survey by Japan Health Ministry: 15% of Japanese women between the ages of 20 and 24 cut themselves.
Japan: salmon skin
Researchers from Hokkaido University have created artificial blood vessels using collagen derived from the skin of salmon – more from Pink Tentacle.
Japan: abortion law
Joe from Multantfrog discusses about the abortion law in Japan. Its origin is related to the Eugenic Protection Act, which is to prevent the birth of progeny which are undesirable from a eugenic standpoint, while protecting the life and health of mothers.
South Korea: International Woman's Day
Voice of the people has a photo essay on the International Woman's Day.
South Korea: school uniform
The price of uniform becomes a talking point in South Korea, Matt has a summary of the issue at stake.
China: Who Painted the Mountain Green?
ESWN translates three reporters account of their different versions of report on the Yunan's artificial “green mountain”.
China: one yuan cn domain
Yee ya comments on the one yuan cn domain marketing strategy of China Internet Network Information Center: Each domain will still cost 80 to 100 yuan a year in subsequent years, so many people register just for fun.Can you count on them to help the development of China Internet?
China: Thirsty
Michael in the Opposite end of China writes about water crisis in China, with reference to some discussion in recent People Congress meeting.
South Korea: from Yeosu Fire to migrant labour reform
The Yeosu migrant detention centre's fire has developed into a call for legislation to protect the safety and rights of migrant labour in South Korea. Jamies has a very detailed report with background at interlocals.net.
China: casino stock market
One of the most outspoken People Congress representatives, Hung Ke-zhu criticised that the Chinese stock market has been a biggest casino, and within China Securities Regulatory Commission, there are members making use of information for their own benefits – more from Xue yong (zh).
China: property law issue withdrawn
Caijing (a finance magazine in China) has been forced to withdraw its latest issue on “Property Law” because the special issue had addressed the controversial nature of the Law, Zuo Ai zhong explained in his blog (zh).
