About Oiwan Lam
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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Stories
October 28th, 2009
East Asia
Jean Min from Ohmynews! told the story of the restoration of “Olle”, a walking path, in Jeju island.
October 27th, 2009
East Asia
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a local report from Netease on a school bully incident and netizens' action in disclosing the girl's identity via human flesh search.
East Asia , Western Europe
berlintwitterwall is a project organized by the city of Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin wall. The wall is now filled up with messages from Chinese twitterers against the Chinese Great Fire Wall which blocks Chinese Internet user from connecting with the outside world.
Hong Kong: Property market bubbles bursted into public outrage
Earlier in October, an apartment in Hong Kong was sold for USD$57 million, a recording breaking price, locally and globally. The 6,158 square foot duplex apartment is in a building called "Conduit Road 39" located at the western mid-levels of Hong Kong Island. The unidentified buyer is from Mainland China.
Recording ...
October 23rd, 2009
East Asia
A foreign man who spent the last seven months in the Beijing No. 1 Detention Center sent DANWEI a detailed account of his daily life in Jail.
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Funding drive
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