I can't believe that viewers would agree or even accept comments of a supposed news anchor who poses topless for mens magazines! Has she even looked into the reasoning behind the culling of feral animals that are harming natural Australian habitat or is she to busy thinking about cute stuffed toys and her image to bother?
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."
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?
Jia Zhangke and Zhao Liang, had withdrawn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
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.
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
.
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.
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
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.
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 --
U.S. officials denied late Tuesday night that any apology was offered.
Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists," KCNA reported.
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.
The forms are harmless, containing standard information such as a client's name, age, address and marital status, and they were all stamped to indicate that they had been received by the judicial authority.
It will probably take some time before we have liberated ourselves from thousands of years of tradition.
And he must have believed the promises of his government and the Olympic family, the promises that the time had finally come when he could speak his mind freely, for all the world to hear, and with no fear of repercussions. On the morning of his arrest, on Aug. 11, 2008, he said: "There are great powers that oppose me. But I am not alone. We are many.
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.
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
more than one in four Europeans had never used a PC
People above the age of 65 and the unemployed were the least active online
Nearly 70% of people under the age of 24 use the internet every day, compared to the EU average of 43%. But this same group is reluctant to pay to download or use online content, such as music or video, with 33% saying that they would not pay anything at all.
There are a lot more similarities than differences between the U.S. and China. But some of the differences are substantial.
Americans confronted with business disputes expect to turn to lawyers and courts. That isn't done nearly as often in China. Companies, especially smaller private ones, turn instead to relationships. If they don't have relationships to turn to, they sometimes fall back on threats and physical fighting. But you see many more paper tigers than real ones.
Use relationships rather than legalese whenever possible to solve problems.
Many Americans have heard of guanxi, but it's often translated wrongly to mean relationships with powerful people
Guanxi means something very different from the American concept of connections.
It means being in a social circle where you can let your guard down a little, because there is deep trust, perhaps from generations of coexistence, living in the same neighborhoods or even with interwoven family relations.
Long-term perspective is very important in China. A defaulting borrower should avoid saying he won't pay and instead pay a little right away and explain that he is hurting but will make good in the future. You cannot rely on bankruptcy to absolve debts.
ou need to know that relying on the law to avoid making payments to Chinese businesses doesn't usually work
To be successful long term, your company must have strong contracts and good legal advice, but it also needs to understand the importance of relationships, and nurture those as well.
Didn t know Japanese are looked like this.
but yeah, i feel like we have this tendency.
What is the difference between tendency, stereotype and fact, by the way.. I always get confused.
the documentary The 10 Conditions of Love, about Ms Kadeer
Ms Kadeer will take part in the screening of the documentary next Saturday.She will also meet members of Australia’s 2000-strong Uighur community.
Her involvement in the festival led to seven Chinese-language films — from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan — being withdrawn.
‘‘This latest attack is just extraordinary,’’ the festival director said. ‘‘What’s happened is that this has become a question of Chinese nationalism where it has almost become people’s official duty to register a protest.’’
THE Melbourne International Film Festival has it all: dramas
involving officials from foreign governments, larger than life
characters sticking to matters of principles whatever the
consequences and the struggles for liberation.
The role of political actors, and the nation state in
particular, in the film industry is enormous.
the film appears as the product of an
individual visionary. This view of filmmaking is about as realistic
as the standard Hollywood happy ending. The reality is that films
are rarely, if ever, the personal, unadulterated vision of a
director. They are influenced or, depending on your point of view,
compromised from the start by those who bankroll the films.
what gets far less
attention is the extensive role played by political actors in the
filmmaking process.
In some respects, the most surprising thing about these
kerfuffles is not that they have happened, but that they don't
happen more often. While most of us think of film festivals as
cultural events, the truth is that they are also deeply political
events.
most films would not be
made were it not for generous state subsidies.
And in spite of
nice-sounding claims about facilitating cultural dialogue, nation
states don't fund films because they love a good story. They do so
because film can be a highly effective means of spreading
influence. Since they're footing the bill, it's understandable that
they want a say in the content of the film and how it is
positioned.
films and film festivals
are the continuation of politics by other means. It shouldn't be
imagined that this applies only to authoritarian states such as
China or political organisations with clear political objectives.
Nearly every Australian film is made with some public money, and so
filmmakers are subject to similar, if far more sophisticated and
subtle, forms of state influence.
China has miscalculated the extent of its reach and, in the
process, provided both the Kadeer documentary and the film festival
an avalanche of publicity. And Ken Loach, in remarkably poor
political judgment, has effectively silenced himself by withdrawing
his film.
The screening of the documentary The 10 Conditions of
Love, about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, has been the
cause of controversy ever since the Chinese Government demanded
that the film be withdrawn.
MIFF refused to withdraw The 10 Conditions of Love. In
response, films from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan were
pulled from the festival, and the MIFF website was hacked.
including a
short from leading director Jia Zhangke and a film produced by Wong
Kar-wai’s Jet Tone company.
The controversy brought a wave of local and international
publicity. MIFF has been a fixture in the news pages and on the
radio. The overseas coverage included mentions in The New
Yorker, a live interview with CNN and coverage on the BBC.
The attention, Mr Moore hopes, might have a flow-on effect, a
reminder to people that this is an important festival.
The festival had already become the subject of news stories when
director Ken Loach withdrew his feature film, Looking for
Eric, because of MIFF sponsorship by the Israeli Government.
Instructions educating Chinese citizens on how to sabotage the
Melbourne International Film Festival are being circulated around
the world, organisers say.
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.
Hackers replaced festival information with the Chinese flag and
anti-Kadeer slogans soon after the launch of the 2009 festival.
"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.
For South Koreans, efforts to replace credit cards and cash hit their stride in 2004, when banks began issuing integrated circuit chips that slot into the mobile phones and allow them to work like credit cards at A.T.M.’s.
Mobile payment has been adopted in many parts of Europe and Asia, especially in Japan. Still, phones have a long way to go before replacing plastic.
For Kim Hee-young, her mobile is the Swiss Army knife of the digital era. When she wants ice cream, she just asks her phone, and it shows a list of ice cream shops — complete with their menus and customer reviews — and the shortest way to get there.
how do we foster a sense of community for international students in the short time they are here? And in turn, how do we bridge the often unintentional divide that underpins their experiences?
High-density housing is deliberately geared towards the international student market, at the expense of a broader mix. Orientation programs for international students and local students often run at different times. International students pay the full cost for transport, while domestic students get half-price concessions. And at some institutions, separate queues and counters even exist.
With their proximity to Melbourne and RMIT, they give students few opportunities to venture out of their comfort zone, explore the rest of the city, and perhaps build new connections. Some have few communal spaces - not exactly conducive to interacting with life beyond the campus zone.
"We need to understand different cultures and perspectives as part of how we do business and relate," says Mr Campbell. "So there's actually a public good in all of this."
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
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,
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
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.
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.
And so, to the surprise of buyers, Amazon erased the two books -- which had been paid for and delivered -- from the electronic reader.
In the age of networked digital devices, it seems that values such as the sanctity of the private sphere, the protection of our private property and the inviolability of our correspondence no longer count for very much
All of these devices can be remotely modified at any time through software updates. So you could say that an iPhone doesn't really belong to you -- at least not in quite the same way that your refrigerator or bicycle does.
Hence Apple -- like Amazon -- reserves the right to remotely meddle with your iPhone at any time and without the consent of the user, in order to delete objectionable applications. All with the best of intentions, of course
A shift to tethered applicances also entails a sea change in the regulability of the Internet" (author's emphasis). The "dangers of excess" will no longer come from viruses or hackers anymore, "but from the much more predictable interventions by regulators
We will need to get used to the fact that these "curious technological hybrids" will never fully belong to us -- even if we have paid a lot of money for them.
Sorry, I don't use the word media. I don't use the word news. I don't think that those words mean anything anymore
But the problem is not that the traditional way of writing articles isn't valuable anymore. The problem is that this is now in the minority. It used to be a monopoly, it used to be the only way to distribute news
Newspapers are not important. It may be that their physical, printed form no longer works.
Yes. It's all about attention. That is the most valuable commodity. If you have attention and reputation, you can figure out how to monetize it. However, money is not the No. 1 factor anymore.
maybe the media is going to be a part time job. Maybe media won't be a job at all, but will instead be a hobby
The question is can people get the information they want, the way they want it?
The online economy is about the size of the German economy. And it's based on a default price of zero. Most things online are available in a free form. We have never seen an economy this big with a default price of zero. I realized that we needed an economic model to explain how an economy could be based on "free." And we need to understand the psychology of that. We have the psychology of free, we're drawn to it, but we feel cheated by it. If something used to be paid for and then it becomes free, we think the quality is lower. But if something has always been free, and remains free, we don't think that.
