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Oiwan Lam

Regional Editor for Northeast Asia

About Oiwan Lam

3160 posts · joined 2006-05-25

Am now a free lance researcher, translator and editor, while my full time work (voluntary work) is with inmediahk.net (a Chinese citizen journalism website) , interlocals.net (a multi-lingual border-crossing citizen journalism website) and Hong Kong In-Media (citizen media center). I worked as journalist on political news (the handover of Hong Kong to China) from 1994-97; then joined an Asian NGO (Asian regional exchange for new alternatives) for their alternative education programme; later worked in Taiwan as managing editor for Inter-Asia cultural studies journal and then studied in Beijing for three year; now am more or less settled in Hong Kong.

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July 2nd, 2009

East Asia

ESWN has a review on the newspapers coverage of this year July 1 rally.

East Asia

Netizens from cat898 started spoofing the collapsed Shanghai building with PS photos.

East Asia

Sam Verran from China Elections and Governance translated a blog post written by a Shishou official reflecting on the local government's “mistake” in handling the investigation and riot.

July 1st, 2009

East Asia

Pink Tentacle has a selection of Manga-style illustrations by ballpoint pen artist, Shohei Otomo.

East Asia

The blog hosting website bullog was exiled and blocked early this year. Recently a new website bullock is launched, with a notice that it will strictly adhere to the policy of “no political content”. More from Under the Jacaranda Tree.

China , South Korea

Angry Chinese blogger explained the problem of Green Dam and reviewed similar censorship software and policy adopted by democratic countries.

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