Pacific Rim/East Asian Daily Blog Roundup

Posted 5 July 2005 23:09 GMT

Countries	China, Singapore, Philippines
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China

Danwei reports that a state-owned film company's website has been blocked inside China… because they failed to register the site with the Ministry of Information Industries.

Fons Tuinstra writes about a Chinese-language group blog that's translating articles from English into Chinese.

The Sassy Lawyer announces that she's started writing a regular, dead-tree newspaper column for the Manila Standard. Why? It's simple, she says: “Now I am ready to reach out to the 95 percent of the Filipino population without access to the internet.”

Singabloodypore points to an on-line article that suggests that Lee Kuan Yew should start blogging.

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13 February 2012

China

Ministry of Tofu translated a local reports about the poisoning of migratory birds in Hubei province. The dead birds are then headed for dining table in local restaurants.

• Oiwan Lam

China

Roland Farris from Truthout argues that China could be understood as a fascist state with the extension of the role of the nation in all matters, including sports; a sense of national grievance as the core of national identity; the paranoid control of any potential opposition; and the rise of Han Chinese racism.

• Oiwan Lam

12 February 2012

Myanmar (Burma)

Min Sun Min writes about the modern history of Myanmar by documenting the banknotes issued for Burma.

• Mong Palatino

Thailand

Richard Barrow uploads a photo of the ‘Purple People Toilet' in Thailand. It's a toilet for those who belong to the “Third Sex” or in Thailand they are often called “Lady Boys”

• Mong Palatino

11 February 2012

China

The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) reports that more than half of the 27 journalists imprisoned in China are ethnic Tibetan or Uyghur.

• Oiwan Lam

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