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Oiwan Lam

Regional Editor for Northeast Asia

About Oiwan Lam

3349 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 22nd, 2009

China and Japan: Feng Zhenghu at Narita airport

Oiwan Lam · 03:07 · East Asia
lingua → fr
Shanghai human rights activist Feng Zhenhu has been living and waiting in the hall of Japan's Narita airport since November 4 when he was barred from entering his own country by the Shanghai immigration the eighth times. Feng is an economist and a human rights activist. After the Tiananmen Massacre ... 0 comments  · read »

November 20th, 2009

East Asia

Shizhao has posted Obama's letter to Southern Weekend during his visit in China. Many believe that this letter has something to do with the story about Southern Weekend's missing front page and blank advertisement.

East Asia

Angry Chinese blogger writes on an intellectual property right dispute case between a Beijing firm Zhongyi Electronic LTD and Microsoft.

November 19th, 2009

East Asia

Roy Berman from Mutantfrong Travelogue blogs about a recent protest action in Taiwan against the importation of American beef. The student wanted to show that eating American beef is scarier than eating Taiwanese cow dung!

November 18th, 2009

East Asia

C.A Yeung translated a petition signed by more than a hundred Chinese netizen demanding the Beijing police to release Zhao Lianhai, a famous rights activist and the founder of an organisation called the Home for the Kidney Stone Babies. Zhao was arrested and detained by the police since November 13.

East Asia

Neojaponisme has a blog post about the protocol for Japanese record labels to pull their artists' CDs from stores when they are arrested on drug charges or for any other anti-social acts.

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