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Rika Ninomiya

Twenty thousand apply to be 'Best Job in the World' Ben Southall's buddy - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...-bens-buddy-20090924-g3f8.html

shared by Rika Ninomiya on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Rika Ninomiya
      Rika Ninomiya on 25 Sep 09
       
      Just wondering.... I don't understand why they hire someone from Hampshire, UK instead of taking someone from Australia? I don't know the detail story but doesn't this sound a little odd?
  • Christoph Zed on 26 Sep 09
     
    It's a simple "marketing coup for Tourism Queensland ... to help sell the state to the world."
Christoph Zed

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

www.timesonline.co.uk/...article6851632.ece

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.
Christoph Zed

Can India's economy overtake China? - 0 views

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markets india china economy globalisation

shared by Christoph Zed on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Can the lumbering elephant overtake the hyperactive dragon?
  • In 2010, the Indian economy may grow faster than that of China.
  • China and India, accounting for roughly 40% of the 6.5bn plus people on Planet Earth, are not merely the two fastest growing major economies in the world at present, but are among the few countries that have continued to expand at a time when the economies of most countries have contracted
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  • Economists argue that one reason why India's economy can grow faster than that of China in the near future is simply on account of what statisticians describe as a "base effect"
  • China's economy is roughly three and a half times bigger than that of India - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measured in US dollars in 2008 for the two countries stood at $4.2 trillion and $1.2 trillion respectively.
  • Two years ago, China overtook the US as India's largest trading partner.
  • World Bank in its Global Development Finance 2009 report projected that in 2010, the rate of growth of India's economy at 8% would be faster than that of China, expected to be 7.7%
  • developing countries could "become a key driving force" in reviving the world's economy
  • it was no longer improbable that India could grow faster than China or that South Asia would expand at a faster pace than East and South-East Asia
glen donnar

Melbourne's $240,000 makeover - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...00-makeover-20090722-dt0o.html

communication tourism brand melbourne

shared by glen donnar on 22 Jul 09 - Cached
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      glen donnar on 22 Jul 09
       
      Communicating 'Melbourne' to/for Melburnians, for Australians, for the world?
Wye Keen Wong

UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: Changing Images of the Global - 0 views

www.international.ucla.edu/...article.asp

shared by Wye Keen Wong on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • They have come to recognize that the modern world is always changing, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, sometimes suddenly.
  • assessing China's future place in the multidimensional global carefully because the consequences of bad mistakes could be disastrous.
  • He has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China, because it is inaccurate and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat."
    • Wye Keen Wong
      Wye Keen Wong on 05 Aug 09
       
      I accept the term diaspora as is, though this statement has now thrown certain ideas I had into new lights. Clearly a issue of the politics of terminology - this demonstrates the need to define your interpretation of the teminology you use in statements/arguments. I wonder sometimes whether debate over the use of words and terminology themselves can detract from the 'real' issue - or perhaps they are inseparable?
glen donnar

The TV Watch - Ultimate Media Moment - Michael Jackson's Memorial Service - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...08watch.html

mass media communication

shared by glen donnar on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
  • most everybody around the world stopped what they were doing — on television, on the Internet and on the street — to look and listen.
  • as the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, showed in 1997, communal sorrow is moving, public frenzy is alarming, but the two together make for irresistible television.
  • Brian Williams of NBC, who sat on a special platform outside the Staples Center, told his colleague Lester Holt that the public had a way of deciding for itself what matters, “despite, at some times, the news media’s better wishes.” He added ruefully, “And this is an event because it is.”
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  • Most anchors tried to define Mr. Jackson’s place in pop culture and American history. His popularity is universal, but his death was commandeered to mark a milestone in African-American history. Nancy Giles, an actress and CBS News commentator, said on MSNBC that he was “a trailblazer in the same way President Obama is.”
  • That homage, as much as the music, was the measure of the event’s success: for at least one day, the Jackson camp managed to take command of the coverage, setting the agenda for the news media as well as the mourners.
glen donnar

Social Networks Spread Defiance Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...16media.html

social networks communication new media

shared by glen donnar on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
  • new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.
  • But it appears they are finding ways around Big Brother.
    • glen donnar
      glen donnar on 21 Jul 09
       
      This is a test for me... and a test also for the Iranian regime!
jung moon

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea - 0 views

english.chosun.com/...200703260027.html

korean wave japanese pop culture drama

shared by jung moon on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The success of these and other Japanese works in Korea is raising concerns that Japanese pop culture could once again dominate Korea.
  • Experts say the Korean entertainment industry's dependence on Japanese pop culture will increase because the Japanese novel and manga markets are popular around the world. According to the Korean Publishing Research Institute, as of 2006 the size of the Korean novel market was no more than W203 billion, while that of Japanese market stood at W724.3 billion. The gap for the manga markets was even greater, with the Japanese market (W4 trillion) some 40 times bigger than the Korean market (W124.2 billion).
  • Bae Won-keun, a researcher at the KPRI, says it is a shame that Korean entertainment companies scramble to snap up Japanese stories for quick returns rather than working to strengthen their creative power. "The entertainment industry should make more effort to cultivate young writers with fresh ideas," he adds.
Christoph Zed

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

www.spiegel.de/...0,1518,553755,00.html

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

Modern Japan - Entertainment - Popular Music - 0 views

www.japan-zone.com/...pop.shtml

shared by xinning ji on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Japan has the sixth-largest population in the world; the music industry generates billions and billions of dollars worldwide every year.
  • Japanese popular music is all commercialism and void of any artistic merit
  • The late 90's also saw some more western-style artists, such as Dragon Ash and Utada Hikaru explode onto the scene.
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  • Born in New York, the 16-year old Utada debuted in 1999 and though she looked just like another idol, she was clearly something completely new. She wrote and sang her own songs with a soulfulness beyond her years.
Yair Frid

YouTube - Food Fight - 0 views

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Food nationalism history war

shared by Yair Frid on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • xinning ji on 24 Aug 09
     
    it is a quite funny animation. Also, in an interesting way, it uses symbolic languages to represent the modern world, pop culture and globalization. In my point of view, there is a global war in which sushi represents Asia and hanburg and chips play as West. they fight with each other in order to prove which one is more dominant and powerful.
  • Yair Frid on 25 Aug 09
     
    Its the recent history of war:Go here to see which country is represented by which food, its quite cool http://www.touristpictures.com/foodfight/cheat.htm
Yair Frid

World Military Strength Ranking - 0 views

www.globalfirepower.com/index.asp

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  • Yair Frid on 17 Sep 09
     
    Very cool and interesting page. Enjoy!!!
  • Christoph Zed on 19 Sep 09
     
    Interesting to see that 10 of the 30 are European states. No wonder Russia wasn't to happy about the US-Proposed Missile Defence Shield. (which will now not be built in Poland btw). Russia also wouldn't be happy about being ranked lower than China (and prbbly contest it) India's ranking could be seen as a surprise - at least compared to its media coverage in the west - and then of course Egypt is very interesting as well. These would help to explain the US's continued and long-standing commitment to these two countries especially.
Christoph Zed

China's Broken Olympic Promises: Detained Activist's Kafkaesque Nightmare - SPIEGEL ONL... - 0 views

www.spiegel.de/...0,1518,640109,00.html

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  • Charter 08
  • He feels a deep bond with people who are treated unjustly, he says, and he advocates on their behalf on the Internet, in police stations and in courtrooms, for which he has earned a reputation with the powers that be.
  • It revolves around his fifth, and most prominent, client in Fujian, the man who disappeared during the Olympic Games in Beijing almost a year ago, all because he had applied for a permit to protest in one of the "protest parks" the government had designated for that purpose.
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  • What has Ji been charged with? For wanting to protest? For being a regime critic? For seeking to harm China's national image at a time -- the Beijing Olympics -- when preserving its image was paramount?
  • It also exposes how naïve and deceitful it was for the IOC to have claimed that China would open itself up for the Olympic Games, and that the games would open up China.
  • In fact, it is so laughable that one could almost presume that the IOC was in league with the government and party leadership in Beijing from the start and consistently kept both eyes tightly shut
  • They had no case. No crime had been committed, not even a minor offence
glen donnar

Chinese hackers circulate email on how to sabotage film website - Film - 0 views

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china miff australia protest global culture international relations

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  • Instructions educating Chinese citizens on how to sabotage the Melbourne International Film Festival are being circulated around the world, organisers say.
  • Hackers replaced festival information with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans soon after the launch of the 2009 festival.
  • Six Chinese-language movies have also been pulled out of the festival, leaving organisers with a logistical headache and the fear that Chinese film-makers will boycott the festival in future.
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  • "It's a very, very concerted and pointed attack," Mr Moore said. "Everyone's watching this - it's totally global." The email provides instructions for loading tickets into "shopping carts" from the festival's website, and Chinese are being urged to teach others how to "purchase" MIFF tickets online.
Wye Keen Wong

Chinese film directors' withdrawal from Melbourne festival supported at home_English_Xi... - 0 views

news.xinhuanet.com/...content_11760493.htm

shared by Wye Keen Wong on 29 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Jia Zhangke and Zhao Liang, had withdrawn their films from the festival in protest at the inclusion of a documentary about Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the World Uygur Congress (WUC), which the Chinese believed to be behind the deadly July 5 riot in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 30 Jul 09
       
      It is the hot topic during these days, not only in Australia but also in China. This Xinhua News is governed by Chinese government. Basically, it serves for government.
    • Wye Keen Wong
      Wye Keen Wong on 05 Aug 09
       
      Article in today's AGE on apge 3 about Rebiya Kadeer who is in Melbourne to attend the film's opening
  • had attracted more than 4,000 comments. Almost all of the postings were in support of the two directors.
  • Only a couple said Jia was trying to earn publicity, but they were immediately criticized by others, defending Jia as a talented director who had always been low-key .
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 30 Jul 09
       
      It is a kind of strategy the press used in PR. It is trying to convince the publics what is the right decision Jia made. Also the word "only" it used is trying to say that nearly all Chinese support Jia, and no one has disagreed.
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  •    Jia said in a letter to festival organizers that the Urumqi riot had caused many deaths and many people believed the WUC headed by Rebiya Kadeer had unavoidable responsibility for the violence
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 30 Jul 09
       
      I would like to believe it is the truth. What Jia did was not imposed by the government, because I watched this riot on TV, and it made every Chinese upset and hurt. It was terrible to see the violence, in which innocent people were killed and beat on the street, many shops and restaurants were robbery, and cars were burned. What they did was not going in an appropriate way to ask the government for the independence. they really made social disorder and ruthless
  •  "However, the Melbourne film festival organizers have turned it into a political drama by inviting Rebiya Kadeer, a political liar," he said.
    • Wye Keen Wong
      Wye Keen Wong on 05 Aug 09
       
      Is a separation beween art and politics ever possible?
glen donnar

China Puts Online Games That Glorify Mafia on Its Hit List - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...29china.html

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  • This year more than a thousand Web sites have been shut down for “vulgar” content, although some critics complain that academic or public service sites that deal with sexually transmitted diseases have also been swept up in the juggernaut.
  • Industry experts say that at least 90 percent of all online games in China have some form of violence, whether they involve homicidal kung-fu masters, sword-wielding hobbits or monsters with a taste for human flesh
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 29 Jul 09
       
      the only thing CHinese government should do is to classify the level of games and also films. it can make people choosing approriate type of game depending on their ages, and avoid young people to reach the voilence and strong sexual behaviour.
  • There are summer camps for teenagers who spend too much online,
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  • more than 10 percent of the country’s young people are “addicted” to the Internet
  • the definition includes children who spend more than six hours a day staring at a computer screen while avoiding sleep, social interaction and schoolwork
  • 70 percent of all juvenile crimes were “induced by Internet addiction
    • glen donnar
      glen donnar on 30 Jul 09
       
      Great work, Jenny! Perhaps Sticky Notes would be good to ask a question of fellow students or for agreement on your comment.
  • Whether it is religion, environmentalism or nonprofit charities, the Chinese government has always been wary of any organized activity it cannot directly control.
  • xinning ji on 29 Jul 09
     
    even though Chinese government try the best to govern the mass media but sometimes it is hard to give the restriction on online information because of its fast speed of spread and a large amount of information.
Chaya Seewoonarain

Should a Muslim Mother Be Caned for Drinking a Beer? - TIME - 0 views

www.time.com/...0,8599,1918424,00.html

feminism oppression islam nation

shared by Chaya Seewoonarain on 26 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Chaya Seewoonarain on 26 Aug 09
     
    The possible caning of a Muslim woman for drinking beer tests Malaysia's image
Lucy Rechnitzer

Twitter taken down to silence one man - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...nce-one-man-20090808-edml.html

shared by Lucy Rechnitzer on 16 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Twitter taken down to silence one man New York August 9, 2009 CYBER attacks on Twitter and other popular web services last week disrupted the lives of millions of internet users, but the real target was one man: a 34-year-old economics professor from the republic of Georgia.
  • The attacks were ''the equivalent of bombing a TV station because you don't like one of the newscasters'', said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at internet security company F-Secure.
  • The hackers used a botnet, a network of thousands of infected personal computers, to direct massive amounts of junk traffic to Cyxymu's pages on Twitter, LiveJournal, YouTube and Facebook in an attempt to disable them.The millions that were affected were, in a sense, simply bystanders, experiencing shrapnel from an internet blitzkrieg that took aim at one person and knocked out an entire community.
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