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BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | New hope for China's migrant workers - 0 views

  • Twenty million migrant workers from China's countryside had lost their jobs in factories in the last year, because of the global downturn.
  • The new recruits were needed, he said, because things were starting to pick up. But their key export business had been hit badly.
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australia 'uranium' dust concerns - 0 views

  • David Bradbury, a renowned filmmaker and activist, claims the haze that engulfed some of the country's biggest cities in the past week contains radioactive grains - or tailings - carried on gale force winds from a mine in the South Australian desert.
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      it is a disaster. I've never seen Australian weather like that since I lived here. It is a beautiful country and beautiful environment, why there is dust storm? it looks like the end of the world.
  • "In a big dust storm, the dust is not going to come from one isolated site, it is going to be mixed in with dust from a [wide] area and diluted considerably,"
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No leave, no life? No interest | Australian domestic tourism slump - 1 views

  • “People are concerned about job security and are a little reluctant to take leave and spend money,"
  • Cheap international travel deals in response to the global financial crisis might also be reducing the effectiveness of the domestic campaign.
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Indian student visa requests decline - 0 views

  • a decline in student visa applications from India compared with last year.
  • The department was unable to provide the figures last night because they are still being compiled.
  • Education is Australia's third-largest export, after coal and iron ore. Universities have come to depend on international student fees to cover the shortfall created by chronic underfunding from government.
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  • there had been a drop in inquiries from prospective students in India, but interest from China, Australia's No. 1 source of international students, remained strong.
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | A new India emerges at the movies - 0 views

  • Western filmmakers are increasingly tapping India for inspiration and locations and perceiving it in a new light.
  • The film raises many ethical and emotional questions without being judgmental.
  • Indeed, regeneration, spiritual and otherwise, seems to be the new buzzword driving the Western gaze on India.
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  • With the culturally condescending, poverty-fixated, cliché-ridden Western vision of a populous nation of a million contradictions undergoing marked dilution, a new India is beginning to emerge in the cinema of the world.
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Modern Japan - Entertainment - Popular Music - 0 views

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

  • 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.
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Slumdog child actors in new movie - 0 views

  • I will do it if my parents ask me to do it. I had a good time acting in the previous film. I would like to act in this new film also
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    he is a lucky slumdog child. I like that movie after I watched it. I found it is not easy to a person from a poor man to be rich. Also he has to make an hard effort to fulfil the dream. so best wishes to Azhar.
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Fiesta Malaysia in Melbourne on Sept 27 - 0 views

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  • We have also invited the Mayor of Melbourne and the Victorian State Minister for Multiculturalism
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    Malaysia and Australia have some similarities for multiculturalism. a country with diverse cultural backgrounds will face up to challenges and difficulties on the mutual understanding and social equality. So communication and learning from each other is important and necessary.
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Facebook blocked 'to increase productivity' | Herald Sun - 0 views

  • The Surabaya administration has blocked access to Facebook
  • He said the ban was introduced because many civil servants wasted too much time on the services during office hours.
  • We're still evaluating the idea that we should block Facebook permanently in all levels of government," Buchari said.
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  • In May, a meeting of hundreds of Islamic scholars from Java and Bali islands warned that using social networking sites such as Facebook could lead to pornography and "obscenity".
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Rudd's new vision for Asia-Pacific | The Australian - 0 views

  • Australians have grown too cynical about Asian institutions and regional diplomacy.
  • the great English poet Francis Thompson: "Our hearts, with many schemes so flawed, have grown cynical and bored."
  • This is Rudd's most ambitious statement for the G20 yet. The organisation was founded because of the Asian financial crisis a decade ago. It is small enough to be manageable but big enough to have the clout to affect all parts of the globe.
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  • Although I think Rudd in this essay focuses too much on China, at the expense say of India, he makes his usual sound case that China should have a more prominent role in global governance institutions. However, his balanced view on China is explicit. Rudd writes that he is "neither naive nor idealistic about China's nationalist ambitions".
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War and Family Left Behind, Lone Afghan Youths Seek a Life in Europe - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “I want to go to school,” he said in English. “I would like it if I could be — it sounds like a lot to ask — an engineer of computing.”
  • Although some are as young as 12, most are teenagers seeking an education and a future that is not possible in their own country, which is still struggling with poverty and violence eight years after the end of Taliban rule.
  • Once in France, the boys face more hardship. The Paris police have started conducting nightly searches to prevent Afghan migrants from sleeping in Villemin Square. The 15-year-old was placed in a cheap hotel, while others were put in temporary shelter in an unused subway station. Others find their own shelter under bridges and beside a canal
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  • “How should I make a future?” he asked. “I’m 15 already. I’m on my own. What can I do?”
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China Concubines Return Thanks To Increasing Capitalism - 0 views

  • Concubines are no longer kept hidden away behind closed doors. In modern China's far more open society, concubines can be seen in the shopping malls and cafes of the cities, especially in the south, where there are thousands of what are known as "er nai" or "second breast".
  • "China's future will be undermined in those corrupt officials' hands," wrote one outraged citizen. Another described the corrupt cadres who keep concubines as "absolutely superfluous, vampires, corrupt scum. They deserve to be killed".
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    I don't know if concubines should be moral issue or not. in traditional China, man had right to re-marry and lived with more than two wivies. today, even though the law doesn't allow re-marry, many men still can find lover outside without marital relationship.
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Sudan Court Fines Woman for Wearing Trousers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • A Sudanese woman who wore pants in public was fined the equivalent of $200
  • “I will not pay a penny,” she told The Associated Press.
  • The judge had threatened to jail her for one month if she did not pay the fine.
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  • Sudan is partly governed by Islamic law, which calls for women to dress modestly. But the law is vague. According to Article 152 of Sudan’s penal code, anyone “who commits an indecent act which violates public morality or wears indecent clothing” can be fined and lashed up to 40 times.
  • She was arrested in July, along with 12 other women, who were caught at a cafe wearing trousers. “I am Muslim; I understand Muslim law,” Mrs. Hussein said in an interview on Friday. “But I ask: What passage in the Koran says women can’t wear pants? This is not nice.”
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China still interested in Asia-Pacific plan | The Australian - 0 views

  • China understood the proposal was a multilateral issue that would be considered separately from the present difficulties besetting the Sino-Australian relationship .
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      I think what the decision China made is rational and considerable. this is because when the emergence of globalization, China begun to face up to criticizes from foreign countries, like human rights, democrcy, one party domination... finally, national issues quickly became international business. among these criticizes, some are honest but some are fake. With these pressures, nevertheless, China has changed even if it is slowly. During these days we can explore the tension on the relationship between China and Australia due to several issues. however, this article makes me happy to see the growth of China. the reason is that China learned to how to communicate to the world. although China would like to participate into the multilateral issue, it does not mean its compromise on other issues. As Chiese ambassador stated that a multilateral issue and the present difficulties are two different things. in other words, China still insists its own right on national sovereignty. what I trying to say is that every country has an obligation to build up a peaceful and mutual respect and understanding world. we can hold our own right, we respect each other, and we live together in one world.
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Disney is Unfaithful: 1/4/09 - 1/11/09 - 0 views

  • Ironically Mickey Mouse, a global symbol of American capitalism, will don a new Mao-inspired outfit in Hong Kong
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      when one culture accesses into another culture, it is no long the original culture. Rather, the culture is loclized and has tried to serve for local people.
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Globalization - 0 views

  • Cases of Globalization explore the various manifestations of interconnectedness in the world, noting how globalization affects real people and places.
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      the influence of globalization could be either beneficial or harmful. on the one hand, through the Internet, we view the world, travel to the world, and experice the world. on the other hand, however, like the image on the left hand side, the improvement of technology made a gap between rich and poor bigger and bigger. even though developed countries try to help developing countries, such as Africa, the unequal distince between each other is obvious and hard to reach in a fair position because the poor nations are far more behind the rich.
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Beijing bites back over Kadeer visa and iron ore prices | The Australian - 0 views

  • We regret that the Chinese government has felt obliged to take these steps, since the government's position on the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is clear
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      I think what Chinese government insists is that XInjiang is part of CHina. Like Melbourne, it is part of Australia. if someone or a small group said independence of Melbourne, how would AUstralian government think? it is about a national sovereignty that cannot be changed.
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China to appeal WTO ruling on book, movie imports - 0 views

  • Beijing is boosting demand for pirated products by limiting access to legitimate goods
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      it is the biggest issue in China. copyright is illegal in West but the law in CHina is not strict and not enough to exhibit it. Also pirated products are everywhere in CHina, not only in capital city. THe government tried to exterminate them but the copyright market is large, so it is a difficult thing to work out.
  • The WTO said Beijing should allow foreign companies to import and distribute master copies of books, magazines and newspapers and to receive the same conditions and charges as Chinese companies for distributing reading materials.
  • The WTO said Beijing should allow foreign companies to import and distribute master copies of books, magazines and newspapers and to receive the same conditions and charges as Chinese companies for distributing reading materials.
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