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Oiwan Lam

Contributor profile · 4251 posts · joined 25 May 2006

Regional Editor for Northeast Asia

a media activist, research and educator currently based in Hong Kong. my chinese writings are in inmediahk.net and my twitter account is @oiwan.

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8 February 2012

China

Bishop from Digicha follows up Sina Weibo's new user registration growth after the implementation of real name registration and the blogger provides three possible explanation on the falling trend.

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Jacky Huang from ChinaHush translated a local story from Beijing News about the new discovery by netizen of the printing of a “worshipping cats” totem on the RMB100 Banknote. The cats' image is very comical, but experts said it was from Ancient China's the Warring States period (5th-3rd cent. BCE).

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China

China media project has translated journalism professor Zhan Jiang's article on the division between the “rightists” and the “leftists” in addressing the current political situation in China.

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6 February 2012

China

Weibo post about the Chinese Communist party's “Thankfulness Education” for Tibetans by a Chinese historian, Zhang Hongjie. (via China Media Project)

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3 February 2012

China: A Death Sentence to Hide Government Corruption?

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Wu Ying, named China's sixth richest woman in 2006, has lost her appeal against her death sentence at the Zhejiang Higher People's Court. The 30-year old was first arrested in March 2007, charged with illegal fund raising. Oiwan Lam reports.

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31 January 2012

China

Cam from Nanfang writes a review on the newly built high-speed rail service between Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The two train stations locate at the out skirt of the cities but the train ride takesless than 35 minutes.

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