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Peranakan, Eurasian, Diaspora and Cross Cultural Influences Topic: New face of Australia : Eurasian?
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:56 am
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Mix and Match : model Michelle Lee, whose Eurasian features are of the type rated attractive by Westerners and Asians. Philippine, Spanish, Australian and Scottish ancestry http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/06/24/michellalee_wideweb__430x288.jpg Eurasian features have been asso...
Australasia / Oceania Topic: Australia's migrant source : China 1st displaces Britain, NZ
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:48 am
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The "face" of Australia is changing to take on a more Asia Pacific appearance, in line with Australia's aspirations capitalising on its unique and advantageous geographic position. However, the change was not sudden but a gradual development over the last few years. In keeping with an immi...
Wholesome Food, Healthy Living Topic: Natural Fruit & Seed Remedy for Cough & Cold : TCM
orange blossom
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:16 am
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Doctors often advice not to take acidic food as it will worsen a cough. This is similar to the commonly held belief by mothers that oranges and grapes should be avoided when one has a flu and cough. However, a tried and tested formula of double-boiled orange with rock sugar shows that the same fruit...
Australasia / Oceania Topic: Australia house size tops the world - mansions are common
orange blossom
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:02 am
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The appearance of McMasions or oversized houses in the last few years which altered the landscape of Australian suburbs was initially criticised by city folks who are accustomed to small plots and modest sized homes. Now, many seem to have been won over by the advantages of having more living space ...
Beijing Olympics 2008 and Tibet issues Topic: Can you decipher the Dalai Lama's riddles and prophecies?
orange blossom
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:00 am
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The new Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott, a smooth talking reptile who thrives on turbulent politicking, at play with a political monk - what an amusing picture! Tony Abbott a "spiritual leader" - that must be the biggest joke presented as the year draws to a close. A consistent trait of t...
World Cultures - General Topic: Europe's intolerance of Islam? balanced account by Eltahawy
orange blossom
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:03 pm
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Europe's call to intolerance By Mona Eltahawy My question for Switzerland and other European countries enthralled by the right wing: When did Saudi Arabia become your role model? Even before 57.5 percent of Swiss voters cast ballots on Sunday to ban the building of minarets by Muslims, it was obvio...
Australasia / Oceania Topic: Female and American born NSW premier - real change?
orange blossom
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:48 am
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NSW has its first female premier and its fourth leader in as many years with Kristina Keneally overthrowing Nathan Rees. Four premiers in four years! Let's hope there won't be any more upheavals until the state government gets healthcare, transport and other public services in order. Ms Keneally is ...
Peranakan, Eurasian, Diaspora and Cross Cultural Influences Topic: Is the Thai Monarchy Chinese? Past, present, future of Kings
orange blossom
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:35 am
Replies: 3 14
Thanks for the informative and interesting discussion. Somehow I feel that chauvinists and bigots on both sides of the spectrum might be making too much out of one's ethnicity. We have to work hard and earn our own credentials and respect regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, religion, wealth and c...
Beijing Olympics 2008 and Tibet issues Topic: Can you decipher the Dalai Lama's riddles and prophecies?
orange blossom
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:09 am
Replies: 3 14
The Dalai Lama has questioned the relevance of the institution that he has been fighting for? How do you reconcile the contradictions? Maybe holy man are supposed to speak equivocally because they want you to think and he has no influence over the future? Needless to say, the Dalai Lama and his foll...
Cuisines and Recipes Topic: Sino-Thai cuisine - Chinese dishes from central Thailand
orange blossom
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:56 am
Replies: 8 25
You may have come across different versions of the prawn roll, some with more meat, or seafood, or fish paste. The Hokkiens, Hainanese and Southeast Asian Teochews will add different coloured vegetables and chilli to the filling. It is sometimes named "ngoh hiang" because five spice powder...
Cuisines and Recipes Topic: Sino-Thai cuisine - Chinese dishes from central Thailand
orange blossom
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:50 am
Replies: 8 25
Hi Expression , welcome to the forum. Hope you could share with us some recipes and your reflection of global issues of concern and developments in your country. I found this recipe of Thai Chinese prawn roll. You may substitute some of the ingredients with what is available. Hope you'll like it &am...
Education and Academic Issues Topic: Studying Chinese too hard cited as reason for migration
orange blossom
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:22 am
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In every policy, one has to weigh the pros and cons. One man's meat is another man's poison. Public policies are imperfect and could not hope to satisfy and meet the needs of everyone targeted. It is easy to take pot shots at LKY. Some of my white Aussie clients admire the efficiency and policies of...
Australasia / Oceania Topic: Emissions trading debate show parties circus in Australia
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
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My recent encounter with "ugly Singaporean" behaviour in Australia was quite unexpected but no less exasperating. 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...
Strategic Relations Topic: Democracy is good if it serves the west - pressure on Fiji
orange blossom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:03 am
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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 7
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
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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
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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
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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
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:12 am
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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
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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: 8 25
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
Replies: 3 14
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 17
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 7
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 7
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...
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