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A FURORE has erupted over a new mini-series about the deadliest sniper at Gallipoli, Chinese-Australian Billy Sing, who is played by a white.

This portrayal in the The Legend of Billy Sing has been attacked by Australians of Chinese ancestry as a betrayal of their heritage, robbing them of a rare historic hero.

Director Geoff Davis has cast his son Josh in the lead role, while Sing's Chinese father is played by the veteran actor Tony Bonner, who came to prominence as a blond-haired helicopter pilot in the Skippy TV series.

Sing, born in 1886 at Clermont, Queensland, to a Shanghainese father and an English mother, moved as a young man to the canefields of Proserpine, where he became a keen cricketer, kangaroo hunter and a crack member of the local rifle club.

The Moustache Brothers Burmese comedy troop, a tribute to Asian American activist Chris Ijima, Taiwan’s ”foreign brides,” America’s Next Top Immigrant, a mock game show and a fresh look at eyelid surgery, a rite of passage for Korean American women are among the subjects realized by filmmakers at the 32nd Asian American International Film Festival 2009 (AAIFF09).
Asian CineVision proudly presents the 2009/10 National Festival Tour featuring the year’s best independent cinema - narrative and documentary features and shorts - from AAIFF09. The National Festival Tour offers institutions and organizations the rare opportunity to bring many Asian and Asian American films to local communities across the country.

In this new year of 2010 I hope everyone can continue to be optimistic as this ever struggling economy still has a heart beat, although we have been told our economies have recovered our wages are still just as terrible ( I think not ). There is still no excuse for not making the best of what we have and we should continue to strive for new heights.

In the past, this website had primarily worked on with publishing Asian related content, intelligent opinions, informative articles and any positive Asian media.

This year there will be a slight adjustment to the style of posting, usually we would publish news without actual commentary but as of today we will be adding in our 2 cents worth to everything post. Ideally would like to throw topics in the air and have people take it upon themselves to think about issues. 

We'll try to remain objective about each issue.

The first fear mongering article I've come across since the beginning of this new year sums up all the forecasts of "experts" panic stricken and fear mongering media who can only see this world burning in hell.

Here is another sad story from Australia and again so if you are wondering where this country is currently at in terms of racism and a multiculturalism then I assure you then it still rather backwards.

'White Australia' still has problems with Asian people socializing and gathering, apparently they feel threatened by it they have managed to use a bit of their imagination to link Asians gatherings with crime in such a way that would give them the right to ban Asians from social events would stop Gang violence.

Hello, someone sound the Asian civil rights violation alarms, wait a minute... what civil rights? this doesn't exist in Australia since racism is still wide spread where ethnic people are still treated like second class citizens socially and politically. It's just taking far too long for someone to recognize this problem.

Japanese film Looking For Anne, directed by Takako Miyahira, took the top honours of Best Film and Best Director, the AFFF said in its press release.

The movie tells the story of a 17-year-old Japanese girl with a secret mission to find her recently deceased grandmother's first love.

First-time producer Sona Jain bagged four awards - including Best Producer - for her film, For Real, a story about a family seen through the eyes of a child.

Last Friday's event was the fifth instalment of the AFFF.

To the people who thought racism was a thing of the past and no longer exists in the 21st century.... you are dead wrong. Some of us probably live in the nicer places in the country with some good multicultural friends but the people in the next town/city may not be so friendly.

To all my other dearest Asian Brothers, Sisters, Families, Civil Rights Advocacy groups, Asian Activists in western countries. We know racism is very much alive and it comes in all shapes and forms in mainstream society.

While we continue to experience it's reoccurring unpleasantness and Deja Vu's, I am all convinced we are still living as second class citizens and are still sunjected to different forms of  racial oppression.

Ancient Taoist once believed the driving universal life principles are found in Yin and Yang, nature will seek neutrality and find balance between interchangeable opposing forces. Though my analogy might sound a little ancient in the philosophical works but you would eventually understand my point in our society at present.

When Indian students arrive in Australia, probably the last thing they think they will end up doing is taking to the streets in a series of boisterous protests.

First, they were voicing anger over a spate of muggings and attacks in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Police confirm there have been 97 attacks since late-May, although the true figure is probably much higher since many assaults go unreported.

ChosunNews - It was a memorable day for a Korean New Zealander Melissa Lee. In the general election that day, Lee became the first Korean immigrant to get into parliament on the ruling National Party list.

"I had never been as happy as that day except when I gave birth to my baby," Lee, in Seoul to attend the 2009 Future Leaders Conference hosted by the Overseas Koreans Foundation, recalled Monday. "It was the day when my old dream came true. In elementary school in Korea, I always wrote down 'president' when we had to fill in surveys asking what our future dreams are."

She moved to Malaysia with her family when as a fifth grader, and to Australia when in her first year of high school for better prospects for university. After she graduated from university in 1988, she relocated to New Zealand with her family.

THE DPP is reviewing the sentence handed down to the callous leader of a gang which kicked a man to death for fun.

John Caratozzolo laughed as he and six other youths bashed and kicked Dr Zhongjun Cao, 41, to death in a Footscray street in January last year.

But victims' groups said today they were disgusted that Caratozzolo had been jailed for 15 years with a 10-year minimum for the murder.

The gang of youths had planned to go "curry bashing" and rob an Indian student for a mobile phone.

But instead they came across Dr Cao as he walked home from Victoria University, where he was a research fellow.

He was left for dead after the bashing while the gang moved on to its next target, another man they had mistaken for an Indian student but who was in fact Mauritian.

Dr Cao's family and Melbourne's Chinese community have called on the public to protest the sentences handed down to other members of the gang.

Several of other the young perpetrators were sentenced to youth detention last year.

Asianweek - San Francisco - CYC’s (Community Youth Center of San Francisco) top-ranked high school dragon boat team arrived in Vancouver full of excitement and anticipation for their first international race outside of the United States at the 21st annual Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver, B.C., held on Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21. The team joined other teams from across Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and the Philippines to compete in the Junior Division.

The team of 22 paddlers, accompanied by four coaches and one staff person from CYC, placed second and first in the first two heats of Saturday’s race, which qualified them for the next day’s semi-finals. On race day Sunday, the CYC team came in second in the semi-final heat, and placed second overall in the Division A Championship race, besting their semi-final time by more than 10 seconds!

From NAM - Him Mark Lai, the internationally noted scholar, writer, and “Dean of Chinese American History” was born on November 1, 1925 in San Francisco’s Chinatown. His ten books, more than 100 essays, and research in English and Chinese on all aspects of Chinese American life are published and cited in the U.S., the Americas, China, Southeast Asia, and Australia. He obtained a high profiency and fluency in English and Chinese languages, impressively having knowledge of ancient Chinese.

Lai was a member of Amerasia Journal’s editorial board for more than 30 years and a contributing writer. Among his works published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press are: A History Reclaimed: An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the Chinese of America (1986); in 2000 Amerasia Journal published his autobiographical essay: “Musings of a Chinese American Historian.”

 According to Ruthanne Lum McCunn:

Hegemonic Harvard and omnipersent Oxford: Western Dominance in the Global Organization of Higher Education

JAMES JF FOREST , P H.D. Assistant Dean, Academic Assessment and Assistant Professor, Political Science United States Military Academy West Point, NY 10996 james.

A Paper For Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association Montreal, Canada March 17-20, 2004

The views expressed are those of the author and not of the Department of the Army, the U.S. Military Academy, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.

The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Strategic Studies Institute in funding research for this paper Abstract Universities worldwide stem from a common model. Even in India and China, which have their own rich traditions of advanced learning, modern universities are Western in origin.

Yes and coincidently another (frequent) racist mob break out happened again, perhaps a colonialist mentality? but what is it about these 'bogans' behaving like idiots parading  around like half evolved rednecks bringing all the shame to the rest of the better few people.

Article:

Violence mars Australia's national day celebrations

Co-editors: Jacqueline Lo, School of Humanities, The Australian National University
Tseen Khoo, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
Dean Chan, School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University

Amerasia Journal Editors:
Russell C. Leong, Editor, University of California, Los Angeles

Stephanie Santos, Assistant Editor, University of California, Los Angeles

This special issue of Amerasia Journal on Asian Australia situates sociocultural analysis of Asian diasporas within a broader transnational framework, deploying comparisons with the U.S. to illuminate the ways in which localized concepts of belonging and nation are intricately and inextricably influenced by global forces.

Despite all the anti-Chinese coverage my western media theres a country down that under thats a little more friendlier towards asians, it's not Australia but in fact their neighbour New Zealand.

A survey showed that NZ like asians! Not your average yellow feverish or asianphile types  we usually weed out but they legitimately like asians. NZ like most western countries also went through the xenophobic phases after the early europeans colonization. However unlike some of their western cousins their attitude seems to have changed since after imigration when a sizeable asian minority had represented themselves well and reputable in one of the key contributors for their economy. In other words, they are appreciated.