Keywords: Chinese Government
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AUSTRALIA
- James M. Dorsey
- 19 April 2010
5 Comments
Boosted by technologies that facilitate mass
distribution without government control, the heavy metal and hip-hop music scene in the Middle East recalls the role
music played in the velvet revolution that toppled regimes in Eastern
Europe and Indonesia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vin Maskell
- 31 March 2010
12 Comments
The Chinese couple had kept the shop going for ten years at a time when
milk bars have been disappearing off the map.
In my two decades in this suburb about eight corner shops have closed.
And in the past three years Peter's milk bar, like his wife, was just
hanging on.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 03 March 2010
6 Comments
In June last year a solitary Uighur from Xinjiang province arrived in Phnom Penh seeking asylum. On 18 December he and 21 other Uighur asylum seekers were praying when Cambodian police entered their safe house and abducted them at gunpoint.
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MEDIA
- Peter Hodge
- 27 January 2010
14 Comments
When western campaigners used the Beijing Olympics to promote
the Tibet issue, the Chinese felt the attention was sensationalist and unfair. So it's no surprise the Chinese media took notice when violence against foreign students in Australia came to prominence.
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AUSTRALIA
- Thomas Bartlett
- 22 January 2010
7 Comments
Did Google really think their entering China could exert a force for China's
'opening up'? If so, they have deceived
themselves.
First and foremost, Chinese government is about control, and the more it changes, the more it stays the same.
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AUSTRALIA
- Deborah Singerman
- 26 November 2009
1 Comment
Just as architecture plays a role in community building,
community building is important to architects
looking to develop as creative
innovators. A new breed of public spaces is helping put the flesh and blood back into 'community'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Simon Roughneen
- 01 September 2009
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Shariah law in Malaysia has seen Muslims banned from attending a Black Eyed Peas RnB concert, and a woman sentenced to be caned for drinking beer in public. All's not what it seems in this slickly-marketed, 'moderate
Islamic' tourist magnet.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 14 August 2009
4 Comments
Attempts by the Chinese Government to stop a documentary about Uighur activist and leader Rebiya Kadeer from screening in Melbourne remind us that China is a vast country governed by very different values to our own.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 13 July 2009
10 Comments
Assumptions that detained businessman Stern Hu could not be guilty because he is Australian show how national pride can cloud perceptions. Something similar was at play in calls for Kevin Rudd to lobby the Pope for the canonisation of Mary MacKillop.
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AUSTRALIA
It is hard to imagine any solution to the discontent in Xinjiang without a general change in the political
culture of China. That seems a distant prospect indeed. For Australia's part, a soft and friendly voice may do more than condemnation or contention.
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AUSTRALIA
It is enouraging that the Government's Defence White Paper de-emphasises the US alliance in favour of self-reliance. However, we still desperately need community debate about the ways in which a military force can be used morally.
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INTERNATIONAL
- David Holdcroft
- 21 April 2009
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During the Indochinese crisis, the Fraser Government engaged in a policy of cooperation with other countries in the region. More than a million people were moved, and the boat people phenomenon in Australia ceased for nearly ten years.
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