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meeting point of the east and the west; debates and enquires of labouring minds; hindsight as well as vision; voice against prejudices

Thursday, 2 April 2009

Band of Brothers, an American monologue

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I have had little interest in watching this piece of work from the famed American directors and actors. They worked hard on this, perhaps in...
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Sunday, 22 February 2009

Red Guards and old Chinese treasures

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To a small boy, the grounds of this institute in Beijing was a paradise, especially the centre strips of large gardens, fountains, endless r...
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Monday, 16 February 2009

Life in early Cultural Revolution

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The years between 1966 and 1976 are a period in China defined by a special term “the Culture Revolution”. The country ran through a turbulen...
Sunday, 15 February 2009

The Age's news reports from Beijing

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It is only natural that readers in western countries rely on foreign correspondents of their local papers to get some glimpses of life in ot...
Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Bush Fires and Marysville

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It is shocking to learn the sad news of bush fires raging in hills around Melbourne these days. Death tolls rose to the levels Aussies have ...
Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Election 2007, Rudd the winner!

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Election 2007, Rudd the winner! It was Rudd’s turn in 2006 to turn Labour around and unseat the Coalition government. He completed these ...
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Tuesday, 6 November 2007

wild goose chase by Victorian police

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Dear Sir, One of the Sunday Age pieces on Victoria's stolen construction vehicles written by Mark Russel "Made in China (from good...
Thursday, 18 October 2007

Dalai and the White House farce

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It is that hunting time again, a China-bashing season with a new twist. An elder Buddhist monk was dragged out of his fox cell to be put up ...
Monday, 10 September 2007

Rudd rubs shoulders with Hu and sweet talks in Putonghua

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At the Sydney APEC summit, Kevin Rudd, though not a government minister but opposition leader so that counts, presented himself very well at...
Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Australia's experience and development issues

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An extension of enquire can be made from this self-fulfilling Australian experience of a well balanced place of development. All major deve...
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A Melbourne local, an Australian overseas, and a Chinese mind out of birth, writing here to provide a meeting point of the east and the west; for debates and enquires of labouring minds; for hindsight as well as vision; and for voice against prejudices
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