On the last trip to China, I remember there was a big story about CCTV remaking Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼梦. The last Dream of Red Chamber made by CCTV is in 1987. For those who don’t know, Dream of the Red Chamber is like Romeo and Juliet for Chinese. It is a Chinese […]
Month: June 2007
Internet & Media Advisory Committee
This is probably a good time to disclose that I was recently asked to serve on Internet & Media Advisory Committee (INMAC*) under MDA. INMAC is the new committee formed in April 2007 to advise MDA on ongoing media literacy initatives, industry co-regulation policies and other regulatory operational issues. Chaired by Stephen Yeo, the other […]
Citizen Journalism in Singapore
Happy is when I receive a call from a reporter who wanted to do a story on Citizen Journalism a few weeks ago. Excited is when I see a Special Edition on today Straits Times titled. “For the People, By the People“. I even bought a copy for the first time this month! Shock is […]
A Time for Sharing
SharedCopy.com is in the news again, this time on Wall Street Journal Now, eight years on, another Singaporean is back doing much the same thing. James Seng has set up a service called SharedCopy, which allows users to take a snapshot of a Web page and add and share comments and even doodles on it. […]
Be smart or be nice
Lately, I have been meeting with a lot of young entrepreneurs. As for why so, it is a story for another day. Anyway, I met one gentlemen for lunch yesterday and I said: “I know people who are more successful than me at my age. They are not necessary smarter than me but they are […]
Chinese Standard
Yesterday, I was talking to a Chinese reporter. At the end of the phone call, she suddenly complimented my Chinese, as she is surprised. This also happens a few months ago, while I was doing a Chinese radio show. Now, I am not trying to boost here. I being to China and Taiwan enough to […]