Virtual China

The Bus Uncle is still very much alive in the minds of the Hong Kong media. EastSouthWestNorth speaks of several incidents:

• Oriental Sunday magazine cover: "Bus Uncle Calls Whores." [ESWN link]
• Bus Uncle gets beat up by four at a restaurant. [ESWN link]
• The Wall Street Journal rants about it. [via ESWN]
• Bus Uncle is parodied for a World Cup commercial. [ESWN link]

And according to the WSJ:

"The government plans to use Bus Uncle as a ‘teaching example’ for a Web site on moral and civic education where the incident can be discussed ‘from multiple perspectives,’ says Cheung Wing-hung, the chief curriculum-development officer for the city’s Education and Manpower Bureau."

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