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August 16, 2004

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Hong Kong, Taiwan and China

  • Tom follows-up on the fate of Chinese dissident law professor Yuan Hongbing. He also has a further follow-up on Li Dan, a well-known Chinese AIDS activist, and reports on Roger Moore's visit to China and his scolding of hotels that refused to put up AIDS orphans in Beijing recently. As he points out, there is no funding to help AIDS orphans in China and when people like Li Dan try to help they are punished for their efforts.

  • ESWN talks about sales training in China, the begging way. He also highlights two very different approaches to reporting the same event. There's additional commentary on this from ALN and CSR Asia.

  • Chris has a look at Hong Kong's alleged paper of record: the South China Morning Post.

  • Stephen says when the US releases Uygurs from Guatanamo Bay, they won't be going back to China. There are good reasons why.

  • Wayne has found a fake Chinese document with interesting contents.

  • Another interesting case of Chinese corruption and someone doing the complaining via the press. ESWN translates a letter about corruption in Fujian Which is just as well, because the next day the Central Propaganda Department banned it from websites and had the Fujian authorities rebuttal instead. However there are 3 things you can never get back: the spent arrow, a missed opportunity and the spoken (or in this case written) word. ESWN rightly summarises this as now a case of one word against another. What it highlights, though, is how difficult it can be to fight corruption in China.

  • ACB looks at Taiwan's likely futile attempt to get a seat in the UN. ACB also says Hong Kong is to get a TV series that won't impress.

  • Via Mad Minerva comes this Cox and Forkum cartoon on China and Taiwan's relative efforts at the Olympics.

  • Which would you rather: working in rice paddies or rubbing feet?

  • Glutter talks about one people, two systems, three countries.

  • Adam returns to China (congrats, by the way) but isn't quite sure where he is.

  • Fons is starting a project, Connecting China. He describes it as telling the world about China's internet users and how the net is helping to change their lives. He's already had some feedback but is looking for more. He also talks about spammers banning spammers.

  • Via LiC I came across this survey of differences in attitudes between Chinese and American students on a range of issues. Also via LiC is this article by Shelley Timmins on the differences between Chinese people and Chinese tourists. And while on Chinese tourism there's a report on Jiuzhaigou National Park, China's most expensive and beautiful tourist attraction (his words, not mine). Meanwhile Dan Washburn's travels continue, this time in Hubei. He even meets the ticket Nazi on the way to the Three Gorges Dam.

  • Interestingly Joseph Bosco is going to start teaching a course on journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University. The topic: American (read free) journalism. Fingers crossed it is the start of something grand, although I fear that like much that is taught in university, in the real (working) world the theory will not match the practice.

  • I had a post on Hong Kong's newly-sober barristers.

    • Korea and Japan

  • Kevin says the Korean blog block continues in part, as does FY.

  • Marmot has more on the ongoing Koguryo flap between Korea and China (although from what I can see it getting next to no attention in China).

  • Coinciding with Liberation Day in Korea (FY has the historical details) Kimchee GI translates an article that says South Korea's economy is being dragged down by left wing values.

  • Oranckay tells us a little too much about Korean women.

  • The Marmot wants people to stop eating people. And he says Korea is becoming like Quebec.

  • BTM says Japan is edging towards the Apocalypse the sexless way.

    • SE Asia

  • The Sassy Lawyer says prostitutes are not always victims and looks at the Philippine law that assumes they are. That said ALN details a case in Singapore where clearly there is a victim.

  • Nicholas looks at the Singaporean blogging of its National Day and isn't impressed; instead he gives a dose of realism instead. Without being patronising, he's a wise head on young shoulders and he writes damn well. While on Singapore, Mr. Brown asks is Singapore a country or a child-care centre? (also at Andrea)

  • The Swanker says another crook in Indonesia's military got away with it. Jodi also takes an insightful look at the mess.

    • Miscellany

  • ALN looks at the results of the ILO report on youth unemployment, with an emphasis on the results in Asia.

  • Spirit Fingers has the results of HK's beauty pageant. There's also the new series of lesser-known brands to shop for and the "fashion road-kill" series continues.

  • Far Outliers reports on the Asian variations of baseball. Some may even be true.

    •  posted by Simon on 08.16.04 at 04:44 PM in the Asia by blog category.




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