Written by John Kennedy

This post is part of our special coverage Japan Earthquake 2011.

Written by Portnoy Zheng

Taiwan's indigenous population are often flattered by politicians as being the country's “real masters” or “original inhabitants”; they have been used to promote Taiwan tourism in television commercials around the world.

Written by Gilad Lotan

In this post, we reflect on Egyptian blogger Hani Morsi's writing about technology driven activism and the role social media plays in providing incremental societal change. Hani's core argument focuses on the long term effects of social media. Rather than looking at it as a cathartic outlet for the oppressed, he stresses its value in making an otherwise impossible popular political discourse possible.

By Maria Grabowski Kjær

Recently Beijing launched a new anti-vulgarity campaign for sanitizing the Internet. On August 3, China Daily and people.com.cn jointly organized a seminar on “boycotting banality, cliche and debased culture, improving the new media cultural quality” to set the principles and figure out strategies for the new moral campaign. Below is a summary of People's Daily's report on the seminar.

Definition of vulgarity