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Australasia / Oceania Topic: Emissions trading debate show two party circus
orange blossom
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:06 am
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The destructiveness of the two party system is clear from the victorious takeover of the opposition Liberal coalition by the belligerent leadership replaces the moderate who was willing to reach a consensus on the carbon trading bill. Rudd does not have the mandate now to take an offer to Copenhagen...
Family and Relationships Topic: Don't Drug the Kids - Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:32 am
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ADHD drugs only for severe cases: advice FEWER children will be prescribed drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder after draft guidelines recommended medication for only the most severe cases. The guidelines, which were the first in 12 years and were made public yesterday, represent a bi...
Southeast Asia Topic: Ugly Singaporean!
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:14 am
Replies: 16 178
My recent encounter with "ugly Singaporean" behaviour in Australia was quite unexpected. One notable but unflattering trait of Singaporean is queue jumping. I was at this function with people of various nationalities and age groups though majority were from Asia or had some links with Sing...
Strategic Relations Topic: Democracy is good if it serves the west - pressure on Fiji
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:03 am
Replies: 1 4
The freeze is not working, so what about a thaw? December 1, 2009 GLEEFUL that Australian tourism is "up 27 per cent" despite Canberra's harsh rhetoric against the regime in which he serves as Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, is urging the Rudd Government to back down on Fiji. "...
Strategic Relations Topic: Democracy is good if it serves the west - pressure on Fiji
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:54 am
Replies: 1 4
Pressure on Fiji fails Despite Bainimarama's emasculation of their civil rights, Fijians have opted to get on with their lives with barely a whimper. But among those who oppose the regime, there is a sense of injury that the rest of the world has not done enough to restore their democracy. Washingt...
Australasia / Oceania Topic: Premature deaths due to lack of access to radiotherapy
orange blossom
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:01 am
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Those who need cancer treatment can't get it Radiotherapy is an essential cancer treatment needed by half of all cancer patients, according to national benchmarks, yet in NSW from 1996 to 2006 only about a third of newly diagnosed cancer patients were treated with it. More than 50,000 cancer patien...
Great Eating Places Topic: Controversies whipped up by Chinese Aussie chef Kylie Kwong
orange blossom
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:28 am
Replies: 2 6
Kylie Kwong got it wrong? What else could she have mistaken in her habit to make claims without checking the facts. Large pork suppliers claiming organic status for factory-bred produce are undercutting the price of the real article and high-end restaurants and gourmet butchers have become the main ...
Great Eating Places Topic: Controversies whipped up by Chinese Aussie chef Kylie Kwong
orange blossom
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:25 am
Replies: 2 6
Kylie Kwong has inadvertently been caught in a bind, to put it kindly. While she can't deny her Chinese cultural heritage, especially recognising that there are benefits from the business angle, she tries vey hard to project an image of being more Australian than she really is by opposing the Chines...
Australasia / Oceania Topic: Big White Lie that Chinese Australians did not belong
orange blossom
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:31 am
Replies: 0 3
How the Chinese became Australians John Fitzgerald, Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, Sydney , UNSW Press, 2007 (289 pp). ISBN 9-78086840-870-5 (paperback) RRP $44.95. Politicians often use the discourse of ‘Australian values’ to question the ability of some minority groups to ...
Great Eating Places Topic: Michelin for humble noodle canteen in Hong Kong
orange blossom
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:12 am
Replies: 0 7
Tim Ho Wan which means Add Good Luck is a hole in the wall canteen in Hong Kong that has become the world's cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant. Good food need not come with a high price tag. Hitherto snobbish Michelin now recognises that you don't need to be a fine dining restaurant to win stars. ...
Friendship and Social Networking Topic: Seasons greetings and parties - stay sober
orange blossom
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:53 am
Replies: 0 3
Thanksgiving leads up to a festive season with year end parties, Christmas parties, commercialised buying, gifts exchange and feasting and New Year Eve parties. Let us be mindful that there could be some people who push boundaries on the pretext of merry making. Crazy behaviour such as not showing r...
Social Issues Topic: Nursing skills & cash wasted on paperwork - Aus worry sick
orange blossom
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:28 am
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A well-known surgeon once wrote that the best nurses were the old schooled, hospital trained for patient care, not administrators who only care about writing reports. The elderly and sick in Australia have much to worry about if the government does not overhaul the system to provide better healthcar...
Cuisines and Recipes Topic: Sino-Thai cuisine - Chinese dishes from central Thailand
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:37 am
Replies: 3 12
From the Indochinese enclave of Cabramatta in Liverpool, about 35 km from Sydney CBD, one could buy all sorts of Thai snacks and street food. A Thai Chinese food stall at BKK shopping centre sells prawn roll (hay chor), soon kueh and perng kueh which are very popular among ethnic Chinese Sydneysider...
Beijing Olympics 2008 and Tibet issues Topic: Can you decipher the Dalai Lama's riddles and prophecies?
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:10 am
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In a lengthy interview with the Dalai Lama, Amanda Hooton highlighted some quotes from the Dalai Lama. (Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 November 2009) It will give us some insight of the Holiness thinking and personality. How do these utterances measure up to peace and serenity that he claim...
Beijing Olympics 2008 and Tibet issues Topic: Research on Tibet - questions and answers about Tibet links
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:59 am
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Thanks, XP12, for the useful links.
Beijing Olympics 2008 and Tibet issues Topic: Obama articulates Tibet as part of China - end covert aid?
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:55 am
Replies: 3 16
US envoy hits out at media for Obama China visit November 24, 2009 U.S. ambassador to China hit out at negative U.S. media coverage of American President Barack Obama's recent visit to Shanghai and Beijing, saying it failed to take into account significant progress on many important issues. Althoug...
World Cultures - General Topic: English as first language - AU multiculturalism challenge
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:49 am
Replies: 2 4
Here's more evidence to support bilingualism as the main education policy as it tends to benefit majority of the students. While few would disagree with these findings, it does make a difference on how the advantages can be reaped by providing a conducive learning environment. Most children can pick...
World Cultures - General Topic: English as first language - AU multiculturalism challenge
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:37 am
Replies: 2 4
It sounds good if the world is an ideal place but that is not to be. Would the aboriginal children be falling further behind economically if children do not get a headstart in learning English? Family support and schools play key roles in motivating students to do well in their native and first lang...
Philosophy, Stories, Experiences Topic: Australia's JK Rowling - targeting the teens book market
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:25 am
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Watch out for Australia's new J.K. Rowling. A failed business forced mum to become a novelist aimed at teenagers. Another story about princess bitch face or nice girl unmasked? Quote : With their kitchen business on its last legs, Rebecca James, her partner, Hilary Hudson, and their four children we...
Education and Academic Issues Topic: Mentor and Friend - Geoff & Bilel featured again
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:13 am
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The original story : Bill : "I had no idea what he was on about, with his talk of books. All my mates ever talked about were cars and girls - it was my prime ambition then to get into a gang, the Auburn Boys. "Geoff was just so persistent, in a very nice way. He would talk to me about wha...
Education and Academic Issues Topic: Mentor and Friend - Geoff & Bilel featured again
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:08 am
Replies: 2 10
Difference makers who could change your life forever is what this remarkable story is all about. It has been revisited many times over and never fails to inspire and tear jerk. Geoffrey Lee is a persistent, kind and generous mentor who helps children in the impoverished neighbourhood to achieve the...
World Cultures - General Topic: Prominent Sino-Thais : ethnic Chinese ex PM Samak dies
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:52 am
Replies: 5 38
From my conversations with Thais of Chinese descent, I get a mixed response. Some retain Chinese heritage but majority do not speak Chinese or think of themselves as Chinese nor do they retain any of the cultural traits of most overseas Chinese. Some Thai friends I know who have Chinese ancestral li...
Global Concerns Topic: Australia's climate change story - hot summer
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:46 am
Replies: 0 2
In a country highly dependent on agriculture and tourism, I find it appalling there are still many politicians defending the climate change fairy tale to cajole and lull the public into supporting their resistance to environmental protection, costly and inconvenient it may seem in the short term. Th...
Research and Information on Sciences Topic: Telomerase tests to speed up war on cancer
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:38 am
Replies: 0 3
Test may speed up war on cancer SYDNEY scientists have developed a world-first test for a technique that cancer cells use to make themselves immortal, an advance that could speed up development of new types of anti-cancer drugs. It could also lead to blood screening for early detection of some aggr...
Strategic Relations Topic: Afghan revenues growing along with China's influence
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:34 am
Replies: 1 6
We don't read in the news of western oil companies paying bribes and governments acting in cahoots with corrupt regimes. Only decades after these hushed up reports surface when classified documents are released. For eight years, foreign military interference has not helped to anchor western interest...
Global Concerns Topic: Climate change increase risks to public health
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:54 pm
Replies: 0 5
Ostrich like conservative rightist politicians and irresponsible industrialists who continue to reject and deny the negative consequences of climate change, here's one more to add to the score. Alert : climate change can increase risks to health. Illness rises with heat Kidney stones, malaria, Lyme ...
Travellers' Tales and Pictures Topic: Qinghai Tibet Railway
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:46 am
Replies: 14 304
A writeup on 24 hours in Lhasa by Louise Southerden was published in today's Sydney paper. Does the description fit a modern day Shangri-la? A charming and eclectic mix of old and new. Buddhist temples and rituals, monks and monasteries occupy a central place in the lives of most Tibetans. That's no...
Business, Economics, Money and Macro issues Topic: Uneven recovery : worlds apart among economies
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:38 am
Replies: 0 5
Worlds apart on the road to recovery November 21, 2009 A SYNCHRONISED downturn is not being followed by a synchronised recovery, as regions experience divergent trends, according to the latest analysis. This was reflected in the fact Australia raised interest rates last month and could do so again ...
General : The World and Foreign Policy Topic: APEC in Singapore : cooperative effort in econ recovery
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:30 am
Replies: 3 13
Unfortunately, cooperation is not what some malicious politicians and journalists hope for. They are disappointed at the absence of fiery attacks and finger pointing. They continue to deny responsibilities for the financial crisis and deflect criticisms by putting the blame on the undervalued yuan. ...
Computers, Electronics, Gadgets, Cars, Machines Topic: Computer Jokes - technology intruding into our lives
orange blossom
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:01 am
Replies: 1 8
Our dependence on computers can be mindlessly efficient at times ... but it's funny! Starting young http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xs13o69wYGs/SwXYTyG3i0I/AAAAAAAABLw/cjs7W1Eol78/s320/icon+children.gif http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xs13o69wYGs/SwXX5rFuVLI/AAAAAAAABLA/CPMpi...
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