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Oiwan Lam

Regional Editor for Northeast Asia

About Oiwan Lam

3330 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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November 5th, 2009

East Asia

Martin J Frid from Kurashi blogs about an unique activism style in Akihabara, Tokyo. In those event, activists will dress as maid and perform in the street the idea of alternative lifestyle.

East Asia

matt from Gusts of popular feeling reads from the visa statistics and points out that multiculturalism in Korea is gendered to serve the need of patriarchal society.

November 4th, 2009

East Asia

ESWN brings the readers' attention to a recent judgment by the Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority on an Ads of a luxury development project for being misleading. You can see the Ads and the actual site via ESWN.

November 3rd, 2009

East Asia

The China study has an in-depth report on the rise of semi-autonomous worker struggle through collective actions in China..

East Asia

James from Japan Probe reports on two Halloween parties one with anti-foreigner protest and one with full community support.

East Asia

Martin J Frid from Kurashi blogs about the actual [lack of] practice of GM labeling in Japanese food industry.

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