Category Archives: Awaiting a Democratic HK

Awaiting a democratic Hong Kong. The other day I was in a book shop, I picked up a book called post colonial theories. I looked at it. I read through some of the ideas and put it back. This is one thing I know, which I never really mention and I guess it’s such aContinue reading “Post Colonial, Post Colonial, Post Colonial Hong Kong”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong Today, I was eating ice cream with a friend by the harbour. I showed him where the water line used to be when I was growing up and how the land we were standing on at that point all used to be water. I said, “over there too.” Pointing atContinue reading “One People, Two Systems, Three Countries”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong. Today I bumped into Martin Lee while he was out campaigning. I shook his hands. What I wanted to say was “Thank you for speaking out all those years, thank you for so tirelessly reminding us of our rights and what we don’t have, thank you for insisting for aContinue reading “What I didn’t Say to Martin Lee”

Du Daobin’s sentence confirmed on appeal Reporters Without Borders protested today against the recent confirmationnof a three-year prison sentence suspended for four years imposed on cyber-dissident Du Daobin on 11 June. “Placing him under house arrest for that time is a subtle punishment because he risks being thrown in jail if he starts criticising theContinue reading “Du Daobin’s sentence confirmed on appeal”

It’s not just google and Yahoo! that has helped China censor news, other US companies such as Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Inc. and Websense have done so too. Google – Yahoo market battle threatens freedom of _expression Reporters Without Borders calls on US officials to impose code of conduct onContinue reading “News: Google and Yahoo Censors Search in China”

China frees dissident physician Jiang exposed governmen coverup of SARS epidemic Jiang Yanyong in February By Philip P. Pan Updated: 11:31 p.m. ET July 20, 2004 BEIJING, July 20 – China has released the dissident physician who became a national hero for exposing the government’s coverup of the SARS epidemic, sending him home Monday nightContinue reading “China frees dissident physician Jiang”

My newest column in popmatters.com is now up. Dear Bono, Björk and the Beasties: Free Tibet is great. But Tibet is only a fraction of the population of people who are also deserving of your celebrity activism. Why Just a Free Tibet? Why Not a Free China?

Okkkaaay, now China is going after mobile phones. I think I am going to read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish to brush up on the panopticon (the idea that you are being watched therefore you behave whether the someone is actually watching you or not) along with Orwell’s 1984 again, just to feel that I liveContinue reading “News: Mobile Messages Screened in China”

Today is the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Tibetan Spiritual and Political Leader’s 69th Birthday. The reason I am putting this up is because I can. Partly because I am currently in Australia, but also because I live in Hong Kong and unlike the people in what was the once independent country of Tibet,Continue reading “His Holiness Dalai Lama’s 69th Birthday”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong When I read “Life and Death in Shanghai” as a teenager, it seemed a historical story. Something that happenned in China in a darker period during the cultural revolution. And then sometimes you read a news story that reminds you that maybe those days and those tactics isn’t so farContinue reading “News: Dissident Physician Jailed For Indoctrination”