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amy wu

India retreats from Australian study - 0 views

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foreign student safety Australia racism Indians

shared by amy wu on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • AUSTRALIA’S elite universities are set to pay a high price for the foreign student crisis, as middle-class Indian parents concerned for the safety of their children opt for universities in Britain, New Zealand and North America instead of Australia.
  • The agents have experienced falls of up to 50 per cent in inquiries by students wanting to study at Australia’s top tertiary institutions since the controversy began.
  • amy wu on 27 Aug 09
     
    AUSTRALIA'S elite universities are set to pay a high price for the foreign student crisis, as middle-class Indian parents concerned for the safety of their children opt for universities in Britain, New Zealand and North America instead of Australia.
Blaze Yau

Stirring tale of dancer who emerged from Mao's shadow - Film - Entertainment - 1 views

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Australian movie China Dance

shared by Blaze Yau on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • This image was imprinted in our minds
  • This was my bible
  • this was the book that my life should have been following. This man was our god who had saved us from hell! But when I went to America everything contained in this thing - the beliefs, the ideologies - all crumbled right in front of me. I realised I was really the victim of an incredible cultural brainwashing
  • Blaze Yau on 02 Oct 09
     
    A very good Australian film 'Mao's Last Dancer'. The main character(real one) is now living in Melbourne as a stockbroker. I think the film successfully highlights the contradiction between Communist China and America. Should go and see it.
  • fina ramlee on 04 Oct 09
     
    have you seen it Blaze? Anna said it was brilliant.
  • xuejiao lin on 05 Oct 09
     
    Personally, i appreciate this movie so much. Mao's Last Dancer was opened on the same day in Melbourne as another movie called The Founding of A Republic. That was an obvious ideological confrontation. Though the two movies are telling story in the same country. Compared with the Singapore Girl TV Commercial, which was made by Asian for showing oriental spirit to the western in a western way, Mao's Last Dancer was made by Australia for showing their understanding of the age of ideological confrontation. I think for many western audience, there are a lot of languages and ideology during that special years could not be understood forever. But i appreciate the director and adaptor so much. Because sometimes we need others to help us grow.
Chaya Seewoonarain

BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil TV host 'ordered killings' - 0 views

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shared by Chaya Seewoonarain on 13 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Chaya Seewoonarain on 13 Aug 09
     
    Police in Brazil accuse a TV presenter of ordering killings to get rid of drug trafficking rivals and boost his show's ratings.
Yu Cao

During Visit by Bill Clinton, North Korea Releases American Journalists - washingtonpos... - 0 views

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N. Korea America journalist

shared by Yu Cao on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • was on a "private humanitarian mission,"
  • North Korea rejected the administration's first choice for the trip -- former vice president Al Gore, who co-founded the television channel that employs the journalists --
  • special pardon
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  • Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists," KCNA reported.
  • U.S. officials denied late Tuesday night that any apology was offered.
  • North Korea had long made it clear that it expected a high-profile visit on behalf of the journalists, but Gore may not have been acceptable because he was viewed as their boss and thus not an appropriate symbol of the United States.
Yu Cao

Roy Greenslade: US journalists pardoned after Clinton visits North Korea | Media | guar... - 0 views

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north korea america journalists

shared by Yu Cao on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Yu Cao on 05 Aug 09
     
    two American journalists detained in North Korea have been released after Bill Cliton's meet with Kim Jong II
Christoph Zed

War Profiteers?: Study Reveals Germany Is World's Third Largest Defense Exporter - SPIE... - 0 views

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economics germany export defense military EU Europe globalisation markets

shared by Christoph Zed on 30 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Germany Is World's Third Largest Defense Exporter
  • Once one of the world's most aggressive powers, Germany today likes to project a pacifist image
  • a report released yesterday by the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), a German think tank, reveals a different side of Germany's relationship to war.
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  • Germany, it turns out, exports nearly a billion euros worth of military goods each year ($1.55 billion) to developing countries.
  • That makes Germany the European Union's biggest military goods exporter, and worldwide it's behind only the US and Russia,
  • The BICC's annual report, guest-authored by former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, focused on the rise of military spending all over the world, a development that the end of the Cold War was supposed to reverse. Instead, global spending on weapons and armies rose by 15 percent between 2001 and 2006. Today it tops €650 billion ($1.1 trillion). A third of that is spent by the US.
  • "We see a revival of Cold War politics without the Cold War -- a Cold Peace, if you will."
  • "Apart from America there are a number of fast-growing countries -- like China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, not to mention Russia -- where the global trend towards militarization is showing itself most clearly,"
xinning ji

Singapore: Multiculturalism or the melting pot? | geraldgiam.sg - 0 views

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shared by xinning ji on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Multiculturalism can be defined as a demographic make-up of a country where various cultural divisions are accepted for the sake of diversity. A melting pot, on the other hand, is a society where all of the people blend together to form one basic cultural norm based on the dominant culture.
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 11 Aug 09
       
      we always define Multiculturalism as the country with diverse cultures , but it seems hard to achieve in many multicultural countries, like Singapore, Australia, America etc. I think reasons could relate to politics, one particular/dominant culture and social bias. they all bring imbalance and unequal norms that against the value of multiculture, and so that to strength one main culture and igore others.
xinning ji

American Thinker Blog: South Korean drama hits America - 0 views

www.americanthinker.com/..._korean_drama_hits_americ.html

shared by xinning ji on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • South Korea's television soap operas are finding big audiences overseas, including here in the Bay Area, as well as other major American cities with large Asian populations.
  • South Korean studios invested heavily in state—of—the—art production facilities, embodying the latest digital technology. Today, many Japanese films are shot in Korea, to take advantage of lower costs and better facilities there. And studio tours for tourists have become a big business.
Christoph Zed

AFP: Kadhafi calls for 'NATO of the south' at Venezuela summit - 0 views

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nato politics power-play

shared by Christoph Zed on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • pushing for the creation of a "NATO of the South" by 2011 to counter the military bloc of the United States and European powers.
  • Energy infrastructure development and joint oil project cooperation were the central topics of the meeting,
  • Libya is the gateway to Africa for us because it is a country well-known for its socialist policies that plays an important and strategic role for us
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  • no global challenge in the 21st Century that cannot be tackled by Africa and South America, and there is no challenge that can be addressed without
Christoph Zed

Gaddafi proposes 'Nato of the South' at South America-Africa summit - Times Online - 0 views

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nato power-play politics

shared by Christoph Zed on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Colonel Gaddafi proposed an African-Latin American defence alliance yesterday at an intercontinental summit hosted by Venezuela.
  • President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and President Zuma of South Africa were among almost 30 leaders from across the two continents present as Mr Chávez sought to promote his socialist policies abroad, urging a new world order that would confront Western dominance
  • “The world’s powers want to continue to hold on to their power,” said Mr Gaddafi, who had a white limousine flown to Venezuela to meet him at the airport.
shi chen

A lot of Melburnians have been to Dali, too - 0 views

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Dali arts

shared by shi chen on 06 Oct 09 - Cached
  • One in 10 people in Melbourne managed to see the blockbuster exhibition Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire at the National Gallery of Victoria
  • Because of media exposure, the whole state was at some stage talking about Dali.
  • The NGV seems to know how to do it, judiciously using the trams and the media.
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  • Though not without its critics, the blockbuster concept has huge social and ecological benefits. Exposure to international art such as that in the Dali exhibition would come at enormous cost for Australians. Air tickets for hundreds of thousands of people to go to Spain and America would be costly. And don't even think of the damage to the environment.
  • shi chen on 06 Oct 09
     
    interesting analysis about Dali
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