Anson Chan has announced that she will compete with Regina Ip on legislator's seat. The pan-dem tried to turn it into a battle for 2012 universal suffrage. Erynnyes wonders if Anson could really represent Pan-democratic force, as her image is more attached with former government official than a democratic fighter. The blogger still feels that Anson will win, but the above factor might affect the number of votes she will get (zh).
A female student Wang Zifei, who sat behind Obama when he delivered his speech at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, has become a Internet celebrity. Local media recently found out that her boyfriend actually paid 100,000 yuan to hire a Beijing Internet promotional strategy company to use the opportunity of Obama's speech to hype up the ‘Obama girl.' (via ESWN)
Xue Ying from CNreview reports on a tech conference in Beijing concerning the development of microblogging in China.
James from Japan Probe blogs about American film maker Michael Moore's visit to Japan.
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Hi Oiwan, it’s great you’re posting this. However I think that most of our readers who don’t live in Hong Kong probably have no idea who Anson Chan or Regina Ip are. Can you give us a one-sentence explanation? Or link their names to some web pages about them? Thanks!!!