Oiwan Lam

Contributor profile · 109 posts · joined 4 October 2007

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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7 June 2011

China: Netizen sentenced to one year labour education for mocking at leader

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

According to local media report, a Chongqing city resident Fang Hung was sentenced to labour education camp in April 2011 for posting a microblog that mocked at the city's party leader Bo Xilai, the son of a Chinese Communist Party revolutionary elder Bo Yibo.

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28 May 2011

Hong Kong: Legal Harassment

Written by Oiwan Lam · Hong Kong

Under the principle of One Country, Two Systems, Hong Kong enjoys information and speech freedom away from the tyranny of Great Firewall and political prosecution in China. However, legal harassment...

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13 May 2011

China: Cracking down circumvention tools

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

A number of Chinese netizens report that since May 6 2011 visiting overseas website via China Telecom and China Unicom has become highly unstable. This time the disruption mainly affected...

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4 May 2011

China: Political Spam in Twitter

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

The tag system in Twitter is an effective way in distributing information beyond a user's social network. However, the system can easily be contaminated by spam messages. In western countries,...

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2 May 2011

China: Exposing Internet Surveillance Abroad

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

The U.S-China Human Rights Dialogue did not have any concrete consensus last week. While the U.S government questioned Chinese government's crackdown on dissent, oppression of religion and expression freedom, Chinese...

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9 April 2011

China: A Typical Online Political Harassment

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

Not only do Chinese dissidents and human rights activists face political prosecution from the government, they are also subjected to daily harassment from the so-called 50 cent party. Tsering Woser...

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23 March 2011

China: 130 thousand Internet cafes shut down in six years

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

According to the “2010 China Internet Cafe Market Report” released by the Ministry of Culture on March 17 2011, more than 130 thousand unlicensed Internet cafes had been shut down...

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