Thursday, February 10, 2011
Opinions Salvaged from the World Wide Web Gutter
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Certain Hong Kong Lamestream Medium Sinks To New Low
Certain Hong Kong lamestream news outlet sinks to a new low, and obviously stinks to a new high. We already know nobody is reading their crap (except for their unintended entertainment value), now we know not even the person who pens it nor the editors, if any, read their own crap. Wow, this piece of turd speaks for itself.
UPDATE
No wonder not too long ago a crazy environmental group, here mental group for short, demands some student journalist to take out the garbage and clean the bathroom (OKAY, voluntary work) in exchange for granting an interview. The mental group just knows for a fact that Hong Kong journalism is by and large bullshit (see above turd for proof) and hence deserves no respect or maintain any independence from its source. According to the mental group, the source and reporter should have a beneficiary relationship--a ground breaking yet unsurprising new guideline for Hong Kong lamestream news organizations.
Snowdrops said ...
I'm more of the view of this lecturer from Baptist University: "浸会大学新闻系助理教授杜耀明说：「可能该机构过往有痛苦的采访经验，所以需要记者参与服务，深入了解其环保的工作，才有信心接受采访。」他建议记者可说服对方，自己对议题已有一定的认识，又道：「学生经常遇到这些情况，采访过程亦不会如此顺利。学生只能加强说服力。」
不过，杜耀明认为，机构若有「服务换访问」的做法，应一视同仁。杜称：「有时全职记者都未必熟悉他所采访的有关议题。如果机构只向学生记者提出此要求，那就有问题。」"
It is definitely wrong to exact quid pro quo for a news interview, yet I don't think the issue is with "bias" or "lack of neutrality" per se in this instance, not only because there is no suggestion that the organisation could influence the interview agenda that the student reporter had in mind, but also because the student reporter probably could turn this to his/her advantage and have a better chance to uncover even more potentially damaging materials to the organisation if s/he was given a chance to work-shadow or participate within the organisation itself. (In fact, I think lots of investigative reporters pretend to be volunteers at these organisations to get an expos/e of the real workings behind the scenes, and their access gained under false pretenses in these instances did not render their accounts automatically biased).
So I can't help but feel that the student reporter somehow missed a trick there -- not only could s/he gain an interview by saying yes to "forced labour", but s/he could then report about being forced into doing so and also give an account of what voluntary work is like for this "mental group", as you called it. And getting bad press by the student reporter precisely because they have exacted unfair labour out of him/her, the organisation would probably think twice before offering such "beneficiary relationship" to future reporters again.
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Why didn't I think of that? I think the j student is just a lazy bum. He didn't do the reciprocity thing probably out of laziness rather than concerns on independence and neutrality. Instead of investigative reporting, he probably just wants to be spoon fed whatever the interviewer says. (I am totally and irresponsibly speculating here) I think investigative reporting will be far more exciting and better than becoming the news itself like now.
Anonymous said ...
What is certain is 大公报 is not hiring any local graduates. No one in his right mind in Hong Kong would have confused 人流 with 堕胎。
VL2011
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Abortion in China maybe viewed as a totally medical procedure without any pro-life or pro-choice kind of moral dimension. But to cheerfully report that on New Year Day and totally out of context? My conclusion can only be: nobody reads the damn piece. The person who pens it has no brain whether he's from China, Hong Kong or Mars. It's just appalling the total lack of journalistic standard.
Anonymous said ...
They have a different set of morals. Now you heard it here first. It just transpired that the couple, who raised hell with a tourist guide in Hong Kong over the lunar New Year holiday, had been 'compensated' for hkd 120k (or usd 15k) by none other than the tour company. No wonder the couple from Anhui said it was just one big misunderstanding before leaving town.
VL2011
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Isn't that only "allegedly?" Does it amount to obstruction of justice? There goes the Hong Kong judicial system.
Anonymous said ...
First, they have jounalism outsourced to Beijing, then some thugs from Northen China masqueraded as tourists in Hong Kong and showed to the whole of China that the streets of Hong Kong are indeed paved with money.
VL2011
Sidney Sweet said ...
People have been making a big deal out of "voluntary" work student reporters were asked to do. The same way an insane woman in the UK asked a news organisation regulatory authority to order newspapers to treat her opinions on Twitter as personal information. What a world of absurdity we're living in! I mean why can't students be asked to help out in environmental protection even if they are "reporters". It'd take a Martian to think something published on Twitter, or Blogspot for that matter, to be private and confidential.
Sidney Sweet said ...
VL2011:
The tourist operator in Hong Kong was not forced to pay the Mainlander. They paid him to cover up their own mistakes or irregularities -- hush money to be precise or "their balls are in his grasp" or "they shit their pants" in Cantonese vulgarism. If the tour operator were Evergloss or Hong Thai or Wing On or even China Travel Services, do you think it would still pay up when it didn't shit itself?
LAICHUNGLEUNG:
This is not obstruction of justice. The rule of law is still robust here in HK. The three defendants are dealt with "in a summary way" or summarily with a binding over order [on their own recognisance] from a magistrate in order to save the court's time [and, most importantly, our breath]. This is common in HK when people are themselves both prosecution witness and defendant in the same case [even if they're tried separately on different occasions], particularly if they are family members or husband & wife. After all, when the emotion and anger or grievances were long gone on the trial day, conviction are usually difficult to secure when people don't want to talk. The courts of law in Hong Kong and their interpreters have better and more meaningful things to do on a daily basis.
VL2011 said ...
The two thugs originally asked for hkd 700,000. They knew how to play the game. After much negotiation, the tour operator 'voluntarily' paid them hkd 150,000 to make them go away so that it could continue to operate the way it has been operating - subcontracting tour groups below cost, hiring tough tourist guides to 'strongarm' the under-paying tourists to shop at selected stores in Hong Kong....
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Boo boo boo, so the prey turns the table, the predator becomes the prey and the hunter becomes the hunted. What's wrong with the Hong Kong tour operators? Can't they beat up the guy and make him disappear on the face of the Earth? Shame on them. Round two: Motherlander won.
VL2011 said ...
One more inside scoop. The Oriental Daily, part and parcel of this Hong Kong Lamestream Media, promptly had a reporter tailing this 张勇 faimily back to Anhui. I am sure the Apple Daily is not far behind. They are going to dig up some dirt about those two thugs. It's gonna be interesting. Could be the next major news item come March.
Sidney Sweet said ...
Basically, tour operators in Hong Kong receiving Mainlanders are not allowed by their regulatory authority to buy these tourists per head below cost. That's what they'd done wrong and they wanted to cover their ass by silencing that Mainlander from Anhui with hush money.
What happened is this. A, B are Mainland tour operators while C is the tour operator in Hong Kong. The three Mainlanders from Anhui paid A in Shenzhen RMB1,700 per head for a three-day package tour to HK. Through a series of subcontracting, B in Shenzhen received the three Mainlanders from A getting RMB1,500 per head and then sold them to C in Hong Kong. C only got HK$1,200 per head which is not enough to pay for board and lodge plus transport for three days in Hong Kong. So C alleged all Mainland tourists knew they had to shop like crazy so C and the tour guide could recover their costs and earn a living by receiving kickbacks or rebates.
Remember the tour guide in question is not their usual tour guide. She is known as the 刀手 in their trade who kinda specializes in strong-arming Mainland tourists to shop. Having two tour guides, one of them a 刀手 who ONLY accompanies their herd to do shopping in those Tokwawan or Hunghom 黑店 shops, is one thorny issues that the tourism authority or council in Hong Kong needs to resolve.
Back to their usual tour guide, this poor woman or man had to pay money out of pocket upfront per head for his/her herd's expenses in Hong Kong to act as their guide. That's why 阿珍 in the last incidence said to her herd: "我給你吃；我給你住 ..." The guide also hopes to get kickbacks and rebates from those 黑店 in Tokwawan or Hunghom to recover her own cost and make a profit. They are usually self-employed and not the employees of tour operator C. It goes without saying that the "specialist" or 刀手 takes a bigger cut.
What do you guys think of such arrangements of operating package tours for Mainlanders below cost, so called 零團費，in Hong Kong?
Sidney Sweet said ...
"Can't they beat up the guy and make him disappear on the face of the Earth?"
Maybe not 'cause the motive is a bit too obvious.
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Aren't they supposed to do something after the Ah Chun incident not too long ago. What happened to all those celebrity spokepersons who champion Hong Kong as a tourist hot spot? What did Andy Lau or Jackie Chan think? Somebody should ask them.
Certain Hong Kong Lamestream Medium Sinks To New Low
Certain Hong Kong lamestream news outlet sinks to a new low, and obviously stinks to a new high. We already know nobody is reading their crap (except for their unintended entertainment value), now we know not even the person who pens it nor the editors, if any, read their own crap. Wow, this piece of turd speaks for itself.
UPDATE
No wonder not too long ago a crazy environmental group, here mental group for short, demands some student journalist to take out the garbage and clean the bathroom (OKAY, voluntary work) in exchange for granting an interview. The mental group just knows for a fact that Hong Kong journalism is by and large bullshit (see above turd for proof) and hence deserves no respect or maintain any independence from its source. According to the mental group, the source and reporter should have a beneficiary relationship--a ground breaking yet unsurprising new guideline for Hong Kong lamestream news organizations.
Snowdrops said ...
I'm more of the view of this lecturer from Baptist University: "浸会大学新闻系助理教授杜耀明说：「可能该机构过往有痛苦的采访经验，所以需要记者参与服务，深入了解其环保的工作，才有信心接受采访。」他建议记者可说服对方，自己对议题已有一定的认识，又道：「学生经常遇到这些情况，采访过程亦不会如此顺利。学生只能加强说服力。」
不过，杜耀明认为，机构若有「服务换访问」的做法，应一视同仁。杜称：「有时全职记者都未必熟悉他所采访的有关议题。如果机构只向学生记者提出此要求，那就有问题。」"
It is definitely wrong to exact quid pro quo for a news interview, yet I don't think the issue is with "bias" or "lack of neutrality" per se in this instance, not only because there is no suggestion that the organisation could influence the interview agenda that the student reporter had in mind, but also because the student reporter probably could turn this to his/her advantage and have a better chance to uncover even more potentially damaging materials to the organisation if s/he was given a chance to work-shadow or participate within the organisation itself. (In fact, I think lots of investigative reporters pretend to be volunteers at these organisations to get an expos/e of the real workings behind the scenes, and their access gained under false pretenses in these instances did not render their accounts automatically biased).
So I can't help but feel that the student reporter somehow missed a trick there -- not only could s/he gain an interview by saying yes to "forced labour", but s/he could then report about being forced into doing so and also give an account of what voluntary work is like for this "mental group", as you called it. And getting bad press by the student reporter precisely because they have exacted unfair labour out of him/her, the organisation would probably think twice before offering such "beneficiary relationship" to future reporters again.
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Why didn't I think of that? I think the j student is just a lazy bum. He didn't do the reciprocity thing probably out of laziness rather than concerns on independence and neutrality. Instead of investigative reporting, he probably just wants to be spoon fed whatever the interviewer says. (I am totally and irresponsibly speculating here) I think investigative reporting will be far more exciting and better than becoming the news itself like now.
Anonymous said ...
What is certain is 大公报 is not hiring any local graduates. No one in his right mind in Hong Kong would have confused 人流 with 堕胎。
VL2011
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Abortion in China maybe viewed as a totally medical procedure without any pro-life or pro-choice kind of moral dimension. But to cheerfully report that on New Year Day and totally out of context? My conclusion can only be: nobody reads the damn piece. The person who pens it has no brain whether he's from China, Hong Kong or Mars. It's just appalling the total lack of journalistic standard.
Anonymous said ...
They have a different set of morals. Now you heard it here first. It just transpired that the couple, who raised hell with a tourist guide in Hong Kong over the lunar New Year holiday, had been 'compensated' for hkd 120k (or usd 15k) by none other than the tour company. No wonder the couple from Anhui said it was just one big misunderstanding before leaving town.
VL2011
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Isn't that only "allegedly?" Does it amount to obstruction of justice? There goes the Hong Kong judicial system.
Anonymous said ...
First, they have jounalism outsourced to Beijing, then some thugs from Northen China masqueraded as tourists in Hong Kong and showed to the whole of China that the streets of Hong Kong are indeed paved with money.
VL2011
Sidney Sweet said ...
People have been making a big deal out of "voluntary" work student reporters were asked to do. The same way an insane woman in the UK asked a news organisation regulatory authority to order newspapers to treat her opinions on Twitter as personal information. What a world of absurdity we're living in! I mean why can't students be asked to help out in environmental protection even if they are "reporters". It'd take a Martian to think something published on Twitter, or Blogspot for that matter, to be private and confidential.
Sidney Sweet said ...
VL2011:
The tourist operator in Hong Kong was not forced to pay the Mainlander. They paid him to cover up their own mistakes or irregularities -- hush money to be precise or "their balls are in his grasp" or "they shit their pants" in Cantonese vulgarism. If the tour operator were Evergloss or Hong Thai or Wing On or even China Travel Services, do you think it would still pay up when it didn't shit itself?
LAICHUNGLEUNG:
This is not obstruction of justice. The rule of law is still robust here in HK. The three defendants are dealt with "in a summary way" or summarily with a binding over order [on their own recognisance] from a magistrate in order to save the court's time [and, most importantly, our breath]. This is common in HK when people are themselves both prosecution witness and defendant in the same case [even if they're tried separately on different occasions], particularly if they are family members or husband & wife. After all, when the emotion and anger or grievances were long gone on the trial day, conviction are usually difficult to secure when people don't want to talk. The courts of law in Hong Kong and their interpreters have better and more meaningful things to do on a daily basis.
VL2011 said ...
The two thugs originally asked for hkd 700,000. They knew how to play the game. After much negotiation, the tour operator 'voluntarily' paid them hkd 150,000 to make them go away so that it could continue to operate the way it has been operating - subcontracting tour groups below cost, hiring tough tourist guides to 'strongarm' the under-paying tourists to shop at selected stores in Hong Kong....
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Boo boo boo, so the prey turns the table, the predator becomes the prey and the hunter becomes the hunted. What's wrong with the Hong Kong tour operators? Can't they beat up the guy and make him disappear on the face of the Earth? Shame on them. Round two: Motherlander won.
VL2011 said ...
One more inside scoop. The Oriental Daily, part and parcel of this Hong Kong Lamestream Media, promptly had a reporter tailing this 张勇 faimily back to Anhui. I am sure the Apple Daily is not far behind. They are going to dig up some dirt about those two thugs. It's gonna be interesting. Could be the next major news item come March.
Sidney Sweet said ...
Basically, tour operators in Hong Kong receiving Mainlanders are not allowed by their regulatory authority to buy these tourists per head below cost. That's what they'd done wrong and they wanted to cover their ass by silencing that Mainlander from Anhui with hush money.
What happened is this. A, B are Mainland tour operators while C is the tour operator in Hong Kong. The three Mainlanders from Anhui paid A in Shenzhen RMB1,700 per head for a three-day package tour to HK. Through a series of subcontracting, B in Shenzhen received the three Mainlanders from A getting RMB1,500 per head and then sold them to C in Hong Kong. C only got HK$1,200 per head which is not enough to pay for board and lodge plus transport for three days in Hong Kong. So C alleged all Mainland tourists knew they had to shop like crazy so C and the tour guide could recover their costs and earn a living by receiving kickbacks or rebates.
Remember the tour guide in question is not their usual tour guide. She is known as the 刀手 in their trade who kinda specializes in strong-arming Mainland tourists to shop. Having two tour guides, one of them a 刀手 who ONLY accompanies their herd to do shopping in those Tokwawan or Hunghom 黑店 shops, is one thorny issues that the tourism authority or council in Hong Kong needs to resolve.
Back to their usual tour guide, this poor woman or man had to pay money out of pocket upfront per head for his/her herd's expenses in Hong Kong to act as their guide. That's why 阿珍 in the last incidence said to her herd: "我給你吃；我給你住 ..." The guide also hopes to get kickbacks and rebates from those 黑店 in Tokwawan or Hunghom to recover her own cost and make a profit. They are usually self-employed and not the employees of tour operator C. It goes without saying that the "specialist" or 刀手 takes a bigger cut.
What do you guys think of such arrangements of operating package tours for Mainlanders below cost, so called 零團費，in Hong Kong?
Sidney Sweet said ...
"Can't they beat up the guy and make him disappear on the face of the Earth?"
Maybe not 'cause the motive is a bit too obvious.
LAICHUNGLEUNG said ...
Aren't they supposed to do something after the Ah Chun incident not too long ago. What happened to all those celebrity spokepersons who champion Hong Kong as a tourist hot spot? What did Andy Lau or Jackie Chan think? Somebody should ask them.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
甘棠下
My historian friend told me that my ancestor 甘棠下 probably moved South to 江門 棠下鎮 from 南雄珠磯巷 in Northern 廣東 during 1265-1275 when the Mongols crossed the Yangtze River.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Teacher Doubles up as Pornstar
I think this is only possible in Western societies such as Italy. It sometimes makes one wonder where this is going to stop if it was allowed to go on. The true identity of the pornstar in fact was blown back in 2002 by her students. She travelled to Germany last month to attend an international porn fair there. She's also posted stark naked on YouTube.
If a teacher can double up as a pornstar on the Web, why can't he/she double up as a prostitute after school?
If a teacher can double up as a pornstar on the Web, why can't he/she double up as a prostitute after school?
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Lost in Translation
I've decided not to trust the Chinese translation of English books any more.
I tried to read Chapter 1 of the Chinese translation of Tim Harford's The Undercover Economist first and found it very difficult to follow.
I then decided to check the English original and discovered some blatant errors in translation. They reflect on the quality of Chinese translators.
Example One:
"... It's easy to see the difference between nineteenth-century farming and twenty-first-century frothing, but not so easy to see the similarity before it is pointed out to us. Economics is partly about modelling, about articulating basic principles and patterns that operate behind seemingly complex subjects like the rent on farms or coffee bars."
Here the author is making use of David Ricardo's rent theory for farmlands to explain the high price of a cup of Starbucks coffee and the scarcity of prime spots for coffee shops and thus their high rent.
The Chinese translation《卧底经济学》translated by 赵恒 published by 中信出版社 tranlated the first sentence as:
"… 19世纪的农业生产和21世纪的经济泡沫之间的差别是显而已见的，但在未言明之前，两者之间的相似性却难以察觉。…"
Frothing as in "twenty-first-century frothing" means coffee-making but it was translated as 经济泡沫。 What an imagination!
Example Two:
"... Ricardo treated the whole agricultural sector as if it were one vast farm with a single landlord. A unified agricultural sector had nothing to gain from improving the land's productivity with roads or irrigation, because those improvements would also reduce the scarcity of good land. But an individual landlord in competition with the others would have plenty of incentive to make improvements. ... Ricardo failed to realise that thousands of landlords competing with each other would make different decisions than a single one."
Here the Chinese translator came up with a translation that's the very opposite of what the author means. The translator failed to understand that by REDUCING the SCARCITY of good land, MORE good land will become available. Instead it's translated that good land will DECREASE as a result of better roads or irrigation.
So the Chinese translation goes:
"… 如果农业部门是统一的，那么提高土地生产率（如改进道路或灌溉系统）就不能增加收益，因为这些改进措施还会减少本已稀缺的优质土地。…"
This kind of shoddy translations do not help Chinese readers orstudents at all. 这类急就章中文翻译不知害了多少中文读者和学生。
I tried to read Chapter 1 of the Chinese translation of Tim Harford's The Undercover Economist first and found it very difficult to follow.
I then decided to check the English original and discovered some blatant errors in translation. They reflect on the quality of Chinese translators.
Example One:
"... It's easy to see the difference between nineteenth-century farming and twenty-first-century frothing, but not so easy to see the similarity before it is pointed out to us. Economics is partly about modelling, about articulating basic principles and patterns that operate behind seemingly complex subjects like the rent on farms or coffee bars."
Here the author is making use of David Ricardo's rent theory for farmlands to explain the high price of a cup of Starbucks coffee and the scarcity of prime spots for coffee shops and thus their high rent.
The Chinese translation《卧底经济学》translated by 赵恒 published by 中信出版社 tranlated the first sentence as:
"… 19世纪的农业生产和21世纪的经济泡沫之间的差别是显而已见的，但在未言明之前，两者之间的相似性却难以察觉。…"
Frothing as in "twenty-first-century frothing" means coffee-making but it was translated as 经济泡沫。 What an imagination!
Example Two:
"... Ricardo treated the whole agricultural sector as if it were one vast farm with a single landlord. A unified agricultural sector had nothing to gain from improving the land's productivity with roads or irrigation, because those improvements would also reduce the scarcity of good land. But an individual landlord in competition with the others would have plenty of incentive to make improvements. ... Ricardo failed to realise that thousands of landlords competing with each other would make different decisions than a single one."
Here the Chinese translator came up with a translation that's the very opposite of what the author means. The translator failed to understand that by REDUCING the SCARCITY of good land, MORE good land will become available. Instead it's translated that good land will DECREASE as a result of better roads or irrigation.
So the Chinese translation goes:
"… 如果农业部门是统一的，那么提高土地生产率（如改进道路或灌溉系统）就不能增加收益，因为这些改进措施还会减少本已稀缺的优质土地。…"
This kind of shoddy translations do not help Chinese readers orstudents at all. 这类急就章中文翻译不知害了多少中文读者和学生。
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
"Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?"
The Internet and pornography have been going hand in hand ever since the advent of the World Wide Web.
Enter the Webcam and YouTube. Everybody started to dance or strip in front of their PC's.
As always, like everything else, the World Wide Web is a double-edged sword. It cuts both ways.
Enter the Webcam and YouTube. Everybody started to dance or strip in front of their PC's.
As always, like everything else, the World Wide Web is a double-edged sword. It cuts both ways.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Our Tiny Ancestor
Copyright - The Times, May 15, 2007Let's take a hard look at our family tree. We're Africans, after all.
PS: I think there's a typo in The Times article: "Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of New World monkeys and apes, lived about 29 million years ago." The correct version ought to be: "Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of Old World monkeys and apes, ..."
Monday, May 14, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
Goddess of Mercy aka Avalokiteśvara
I'm trying to post a photo here. Isn't that obvious?
It's Bodhisattva Guan Yin in Mount Pu Tuo in China.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
NATO Air Raid Killed 21 in Southern Afghanistan
An air strike commissioned by NATO killed 21 civilians, including women and children, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan on 8 May 2007.
"The air strike late on Tuesday night hit houses in a village of the Sangin district, where NATO forces have been hunting Taliban militants in recent weeks." (Reuters)
Smart bombs aren't that smart, after all. These unarmed people were sitting ducks awaiting their doom.
"The air strike late on Tuesday night hit houses in a village of the Sangin district, where NATO forces have been hunting Taliban militants in recent weeks." (Reuters)
Smart bombs aren't that smart, after all. These unarmed people were sitting ducks awaiting their doom.
Graffiti with a Mission
"I want to be a non-comformist. Just like everybody else." (Banksy)
I wonder the graffiti of Banksy can still be called "graffiti". At least they're graffito with a message.
I certainly don't mind Banksy doing his graffiti in the streets of Hong Kong.
More Banksy's work on the New Yorker.
I wonder the graffiti of Banksy can still be called "graffiti". At least they're graffito with a message.
I certainly don't mind Banksy doing his graffiti in the streets of Hong Kong.
More Banksy's work on the New Yorker.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Gangsters in Voluntary Dissolution
Can you believe this? A bunch of gangsters in Japan went to a police station to tell the cops there that they've decided to dissolve their own branch of an infamous underworld organisation because their boss had murdered Mayor Iccho Ito of Nagasaki, Japan, and they did not approved of what he did.
Police said the gunman was Tetsuya Shiroo, 59, head of an underworld faction that is part of a national criminal syndicate called the Yamaguchi-gumi. The gunman was tackled by bystanders and police after firing the shots. Japanese crime syndicates have ties to some nationalist political organistions, and there was immediate speculation that the shooting may have been politically motivated.
I don't think this is going to happen anywhere in the world other than Japan.
Police said the gunman was Tetsuya Shiroo, 59, head of an underworld faction that is part of a national criminal syndicate called the Yamaguchi-gumi. The gunman was tackled by bystanders and police after firing the shots. Japanese crime syndicates have ties to some nationalist political organistions, and there was immediate speculation that the shooting may have been politically motivated.
I don't think this is going to happen anywhere in the world other than Japan.
Virginia Tech Massacre
The thing that amazes me most is that a mental patient (Cho was institutionalised in a mental institution for a short period of time) was able to buy guns and ammo (500 rounds) so easily in Virginia.
If you haven't seen Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, I think it's worth watching if you can get hold of a copy.
Virginia is one of the states in the US where one can buy guns in a most convenient way. One bank put up an ad that said come and open an account with us and we'll give you a rifle of your choice for free. Guns there are like credit card gifts in Hong Kong.
I think the politicians in the US should give that some thoughts.
If you haven't seen Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, I think it's worth watching if you can get hold of a copy.
Virginia is one of the states in the US where one can buy guns in a most convenient way. One bank put up an ad that said come and open an account with us and we'll give you a rifle of your choice for free. Guns there are like credit card gifts in Hong Kong.
I think the politicians in the US should give that some thoughts.
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