By: puyi
6 days ago (Saturday, 10:44 am) Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
RICHARD BLACKBURN, The Age
October 29, 2009
Asian carmakers shine in big US quality survey
US and European car makers have again been humbled in an annual vehicle reliability study.
Asian car makers have once again outshone US and European brands in an influential reliability survey released in the United States.
The top seven brands in the 2009 Consumer Reports Annual Car Reliability Survey were taken by J apanese brands. Eighth spot went to Korean car maker Hyundai, ahead of several German luxury car brands. |
|
By: puyi
30/10/2009
12:24 pm |
Message deleted. Reason: Breach of terms of service |
|
By: puyi
30/10/2009
12:20 pm |
Message deleted. Reason: Breach of terms of service |
|
By: puyi
30/10/2009
12:18 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
The Age
October 28, 2009
The emergence of China as a global economic power is one of the most important developments in recent world economic history and is fast becoming one of the most significant influencing factors on the performance of our economy. The global financial crisis was largely a product of the developed world’s failure to adapt the economic rise of China.
China is becoming Australia’s largest trading partner. Annual trade between the two countries has gone from less than $1billion, to approximately $75 billion (close to 13 per cent of Australia’s total trade) in the 30-odd years since China’s economic reforms began.
With work continuing on a comprehensive free-trade agreement between the two countries the potential of the economic relationship between Australia and China is limitless.
Any large country that averages economic growth of 10 per cent over a period of 10 years - as China has in the first decade of this century - is going to present some significant opportunities to countries in its region.
And of course at the core of our relationship are rapidly expanding people-to-people ties with a growing number of Chinese tourists visiting Australian shores and vice versa, in addition to the 100,000 Chinese students currently studying in Australia.
When dealing across cultures there will always be differences, but those who claim such differences are cause to diminish ties must recognise that our different approaches reflect our different histories, political systems, and ideals.
It is vital for Australia’s future prosperity and security that we look beyond those differences and strengthen our links with China. As a trading nation, the relationship we enjoy with our number one trading partner is absolutely fundamental. |
|
By: puyi
30/10/2009
9:44 am Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
October 28, 2009
Source: Xinhua
Australia's Secretary for Trade Anthony Byrne said on Wednesday there is tremendous opportunity for Australian food exports in Asia.
"Australia's food, beverage and grocery industries turn over 100 billion dollars (91 billion U.S. dollars), employ 315,000 Australians and export 25 billion dollars (23 billion U.S. dollars) worth of goods each year, representing 25 percent of total manufactured exports," Byrne was speaking at the Australian Food and Grocery Council Industry Leaders Conference. |
|
By: puyi
30/10/2009
8:59 am Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
SYDNEY, Oct. 29 (Xinhua)
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang arrived here Thursday night to start a three-day official visit at the invitation of the Australian government.
Upon his arrival at Sydney International Airport, Li said in a written statement that both China and Australia were major countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
"We have extensive and important common interests in safeguarding and promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region," said Li.
He pointed out that, during the 37 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties, China-Australia relations had maintained a sound momentum of growth thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides.
Remarkable achievements have been made in bilateral cooperation and exchanges in trade and other areas, bringing tangible benefits to the peoples of both countries, said Li. |
|
By: puyi
30/10/2009
8:33 am Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
By Colin Brinsden,
AAP
October 30, 2009
Australia has avoided a recession due to its "timely and forceful" policy response and strong commodity exports to China, the IMF says.
"Over the medium term, policymakers will need to find a momentum to return to sustained, rapid growth in a new global environment to likely softer G7 demand."
In this "new world", policymakers will need to find ways to drive their own domestic economies, rather than relying on the western world. |
|
By: puyi
27/10/2009
6:14 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
ANDREW DOWDELL, MICHAEL MILNES, DOUG ROBERTSON
Adelaide Now, October 26, 2009
POLICE are questioning two men over the stabbing murder of a Sudanese man at Ottoway, which friends and family of the victim believe was a racist attack.
Akol Ngong Akok , 23, died in hospital after being stabbed in the neck at the Wingfield Sports and Social Club oval on Eastern Parade just after 4.30pm yesterday, while another of his friends suffered a stab wound to the back.
Mr Akok was drinking and playing cards with a group of young Sudanese men including his cousin Bol Deng and friend Nuar Ruy when the violent attack happened.
Mr Deng said a man - who was bleeding from an apparent wound to his stomach - approached his friends and asked for a smoke, then left without saying thankyou after one man rolled him a cigarette.
"Then he came back with about ten people and they all had red bandanas around their mouths and then they came up to us with a baseball bat and we tried to run but my cousin Akol was caught by them ... there were four people on him so he couldn't get away," Mr Deng said. |
|
By: puyi
27/10/2009
6:07 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
JOSHUA HOEY, Brisbane Times
October 27, 2009
Coles spokesman Jim Cooper said the name of the "You'll Love Coles" brand of chocolate and vanilla biscuits, called Creole Creams, will be changed as part of the company-wide rebranding of Coles products.
Sam Watson, the deputy director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland, told brisbanetimes.com.au yesterday: "The word Creole comes from a period when people's humanity was measured by the amount of white blood they had in their bloodstream. This is the same kind of thought that underpinned horrific regimes like the N azis."
But Mr Cooper today disputed the racist claims and said the name Creole Creams referred to the "well-known Creole cuisine style that originated in the US"..
Mr Watson said yesterday the use of a racially loaded word for a chocolate and vanilla biscuit was thoughtless.
"People need to exercise their intellect. This so-called blending was actually the institutionalised rape of black women. They were victims of brutal regimes of rape and victimisation."
Mr Watson described the biscuit name as deeply insensitive and indicative of a "deep undercurrent of racism in white Australian society".
"It virtually infects every level of Australia's consciousness, language, culture and history," he said.
"Why the need to use that sort of language to market a confectionery?"
Creole cuisine is a style of spicy cooking originating in Louisiana.
Coles' Creole Cream is a chocolate and vanilla biscuit similar to Arnott’s Delta Creams and Oreos. |
|
By: jonaldeguzman
13/10/2009
10:13 am Yahoo! Profile:
jonaldeguzman Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| I don't believe that being intoxicated will get you out of a murder case, you deserves to rot in jail accompanied by Yakuza convicts. |
|
By: puyi
12/10/2009
12:30 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Lisa Davies and Gemma Jones
The Daily Telegraph
October 12, 2009
A YOUNG builder out celebrating his 23rd birthday allegedly bashed an elderly man to death in a drunken race-hate crime.
James Anthony Dean-Willco cks, from Illawong, in New South Wales was yesterday charged with the murder of 67-year-old Magno Alvarado, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Residents of Elouera Rd, Cronulla, told police of being woken about 5.30am (AEDT) on Saturday to a male yelling: "F--k off back to J apan."
According to a statement tendered by police to Parramatta Bail Court a man was heard to cry: "Help, help." One witness said he went out to his balcony and allegedly saw a man "fling the victim on to the footpath, pick up the victim, shake him and throw him to the ground."
The accused then allegedly punched Mr Alvarado to the head and body up to 10 times.
Another witness told police he saw the victim thrown on to the road, with Mr Dean-Willco cks seen "on top of the victim punching him".
"He (Mr Dean-Willco cks) was heard to yell out 'ya J ap ' and "Azza, Azza, Azza," police will allege.
Another described seeing Mr Alvarado tackled, "body slammed" and punched many times.
One witness told police he yelled at Mr Dean-Willco cks to stop, asking what he was doing.
"Mate, he is J apanese and he deserves it," the accused allegedly answered. |
|
By: jaymarcel
12/10/2009
11:46 am Yahoo! Profile:
jaymarcel Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| You are correct akdoc & my thinking is most racists or rednecks are uneducated, not open-minded & untravelled people. This does cover a large portion of the world population but most of the money is in a minority of the world population who are usually well educated, open minded, well travelled individuals & so racism will have no effect on business with asia or anywhere else in the world. |
|
By: akdoc1
12/10/2009
8:46 am Yahoo! Profile:
akdoc1 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| Every country has Red Necks and racial humour and although the Red Necks are easy to pick out racial humour depends on the political correctness of the dominant part of society and group sensitivity within the society. Every society see things differently; so will racism effect business with Asia? The answer is no. Profits are much more important to business than racism and Asian people are no different to people else where. Only the minority of Red Necks put importance on the media's racial hype most people foreget about it when the media dropps it. |
|
By: jaymarcel
12/10/2009
8:09 am Yahoo! Profile:
jaymarcel Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Very unfortunate that the world (in particular USA) is going so over the top about this, the only time you know a country has a discrimination problem is when the majority gets upset when a joke is made in relation to what is wrong within that country.
The muslims getting upset in europe with a cartoon was done in relation to their religion, jokes on other religions are made regularly but nobody gets upset, in the USA we have the race issue, many countries have a sexist issue where a joke can not be made in the office about men or women without offense being taken & lawsuits going ahead.
People are just so touchy these days & unfortunatly the courts & the public are getting sucked in & involved when much bigger issues are out there. |
|
By: almurrie1@y7mail.com
11/10/2009
11:48 am Yahoo! Profile:
almurrie1@y7mail.com Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Yeah, how dare a dark skinned Indian put on a WHITE face and impersonate a black man trying to impersonate a white man!! How ridiculous this all is and just to get some publicity for Harry. He is about as two faced as you can be. Even the Jacksons have said they take no offence, as it was never intended to be more than a bit of fun. Julia is right, so stop blowing the trumpet that she is racist.
Al |
|
By: qitulong
11/10/2009
9:24 am Yahoo! Profile:
qitulong Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| And.. I want to say, (I am not European person).. I liked what was on that show and see no harm was doine anyone.. Just funny and not bad.. It was just piece of fun.. I think most people think so. Buut small group looking to make trouble and get political attention from making silly fuss about others colouring their faces black and pretending to be couloured people when they are not really coloured. I think we just ignore the silly people and have laugh at the good comedy. |
|
By: qitulong
11/10/2009
9:22 am Yahoo! Profile:
qitulong Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| Always be racists in every place in this big world. Even in my own country of birth one group look down on others or make fun of them just for reason they look different or have appearance of colour which is not the same. Here I have also not got job I think because I look not like most of European migrants. But I still did well and now am retiredd happily living with everyone in this great country. Maybe one day more people will see that hard work and open mind is best. No need to look at how person look or what colour they are .. Just need to know quality of that person and treat everyone fair and same. |
|
By: rrtt76
11/10/2009
7:52 am Yahoo! Profile:
rrtt76 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| It don't matter what they were, they were educated individuals who should have known better, 20 years ago yes, not nymore, even today the healing process continues and will probably never ever cease...... |
|
By: rrtt76
11/10/2009
7:45 am Yahoo! Profile:
rrtt76 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| It'll never happen as one side has more sense than the other, if you know what I mean? |
|
By: puyi
11/10/2009
1:43 am Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
By Lisa Mayoh
From: The Sunday Telegraph October 10, 2009
THE men behind the masks at the centre of the Hey Hey It's Saturday race furore have hired a crisis public relations firm to manage the global fallout from the controversy.
Earlier this week, Dr da Silva said the same skit was met with great acclaim 20 years ago when they were first on Hey Hey, and even a few months ago when they performed at the University of Sydney Medical Revue. |
|
By: puyi
10/10/2009
2:09 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
By Stan Grant
CNN
9 Oct 09
That Australia is once again defending itself against claims of racism is not surprising. Australian popular culture has a long held an often embarrassing tradition of wrapping racism in supposed humor.
In the 1950s a popular song lampooned a 'misfit' Aborigine whose 'boomerang won't come back.' Popular entertainer Rolf Harris was even less sensitive in a verse of his song "Tie me kangaroo down sport" proclaiming that on his death one of his friends could free his captive Aborigines: "Let my Abos go loose, they're of no further use, so let my Abos go loose."
After World War II a new wave of immigrants arrived from southern Europe. Australians unused to such foreigners with odd sounding languages and strange smelling food quickly labeled the new comers 'wogs.'
It was not until 1967 -- almost 200 years after European settlement -- that the law was changed to officially count Aborigines in the census as human beings and no longer included amongst the flora and fauna!
Despite being geographically in Asia, Australians generally viewed Asian people with suspicion dubbing them the 'yellow peril.'
Immigrants, Holt conceded, "offered much" and in return they must simply "become Australian." For many that too often meant being forced to laugh along with jokes at their own expense.
Humor, in the right spirit p ricks our pomposity, makes a virtue of our differences and reveals our common humanity.
The ham-fisted 'Jackson Jive' routine achieved none of that. Appearing in blackface belongs in Australia's own dark past, back there, with the 'White Australia Policy', silly songs about Aborigines and Joliffe cartoons.
Connick's homeland America,is itself not free of racial issues, but in this case it took an American to tell those Australians who still find such offensive skits funny: "The Joke is on you!" |
|
By: packofnutters
10/10/2009
1:58 pm Yahoo! Profile:
packofnutters Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Ms Gillard is probably the whitest person in Australia!
How could any one expect her to have the remotest understanding of the black skit.
She has done white australians a favour though, eg ,emphasized even more for all the world to see ,how blind and biggoted and arrogant and dense most white Australians are,to the point where she now sees any form of racism as a 'joke'!
It just shows how even the most 'educated' people in positions of power sometimes just havent got a clue.
I think maybe she needs to do something 'real' to bring herself down to earth,like eg,dress as a muslim woman for a day and put on some olive makeup and brown eye contacts,then walk around town with a chid in a pram.
Lets have a talk to her after shes had that experience and ask her if she still sees a racism skit as a 'joke'
I doubt she would have the guts to do it because I think ,like a lot of politicians shes all talk and no do,and if she had harboured ideas of one day becoming Australias first woman prime minister which anyone with half a brain can see she has up her sleeve,well she's pretty much just destroyed her chances.
Its true that if you wait long enough a leopard will show its spots and she is defintely a product of a white Australian household.
< |
|
By: puyi
10/10/2009
1:29 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
AAP
October 9, 2009
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Obama was honoured "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjoern Jagland said.
"In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself," said the outgoing director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). |
|
By: puyi
10/10/2009
1:17 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Racial skit sickens America
From: The Daily Telegraph October 09, 2009
As Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard also entered the fray today, defending the Hey Hey's intent, on one of America's top-rating morning TV talkshows, The View, it was labelled "demeaning".
"We are in what people like to call post-racial America right now with (Barack) Obama in office," The View co-host, Joy Behar, said on air.
"I'm not saying that it (racism) is gone, but we are trying to grow as a country and that's kind of a demeaning sketch that we would never do here anymore."
"The Aborigines, they don't treat them very well," Behar said.
Another host on the show, Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg, added: "That's absolutely true.''
But Ms Gillard said the skit was meant to be good humoured.
"Thanks Harry Connick Jr, for showing the world that all whites are NOT racist buffoons," a Newsweek reader wrote.
"As a college-educated, African-American professional who confronts racism daily from cradle to grave, for no other reason than the colour of my skin; it is clear to me now more than ever, that racism against black people will never disappear but continue to be tolerated under various guises." |
|
By: packofnutters
10/10/2009
12:59 am Yahoo! Profile:
packofnutters Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
AND the good news keeps coming...
Jobless rate will have others green with envy
The latest employment data is not only a stunning result, but it suggests the Australian economy has executed another critical turning point. And it is a surprise double act that will have other...
ABC Business News - Thursday October 8, 2009, 4:20 pm
/ |
|
