The Television and Entertainment licensing authority issued a warning to Radio and Television Broadcast Hong Kong regarding a TV program on homosexual love and marriage. The chief of Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau immediately demanded to meet with the head of RTHK. Many citizens and netizens, including Mo at inmediahk.net (who had working experience in commerical radio company), believed that such act was to give pressure to RTHK and violated the freedom of speech principle (zh).
A popular Chinese drama “Dwelling Narrowness” was “re-scheduled” without explanation recently. ESWN translated various reports and discussions about the drama. A recent development of the drama is that one of the main characters becomes the mistress of a government official in order to help repay her older sister's mortgage.
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated local web portal Netease's pick of 41 popular Chinese internet memes.
Tingting from ChinaSMACK translated a local forum post that shows modern and luxurious design prison in China.
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