Australia as an international student destination is quite affordable compared with other large western countries. To study and live in Australia is more economical than UK, USA, Japan and Europe especially in terms of housing, travel, healthcare, entertainment and food, even in the major capital cities. And if you choose a university in one of the many regional universities on offer, it is even more affordable and very friendly.
Posting here in the ShadowLands has been a little patchy lately because our computer is busted and we are relying, as ever, on the kindness of strangers. In the meantime, how about you bastards try some self-improvement?
Six pro-democracy activists vowed Thursday to fight their arrests for protesting at Chinese government offices in Hong Kong — a case critics say is part of larger crackdown on dissent in the former British colony. "Weprotest political oppression," the activists shouted outside a courthouse before entering innocent pleas to charges of unlawful assembly and public disorder. The Hong Kong government pressed the charges after the six protested at the Chinese government's liaison office on Christmas Day, demanding Beijing release a prominent dissident. The protesters scuffled with security guards after sneaking into the grounds of the liaison office when its gates opened for a car.
Yeoh Siew Hoon reckons that we will no longer have anything left to share because we’ve done all the sharing. I predict that soon we won’t need to talk to each other anymore to find out how we are, where we are and what we are doing. Think about it. In the old days, when we called someone, we asked, “How are you?” We were concerned about a person’s well-being. Then it became “Where are you?” We were curious about a person’s whereabouts. But with geo-location devices and geo-location social networks – Foursquare, for example, the new darling of social networks that enables you to “check-in” at your exact locations in your mobile – you can dispense with the where part of the equation.
More than 600 delegates, representing 55 countries, will be on the Gold Coast from April 14 to 16 for the Asia Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) 2010 Conference and Exhibition. This conference and exhibition will welcome representatives from major universities in the Asia Pacific region, to discuss the theme – 'Educating for Extremes: Educating for global challenges in a rapidly changing world'.
Salvation or Folly for Newspapers? writes Asia SentinelThere was a time in the quite recent past – within the last 15 years – when Hong Kong's South China Morning Post was the richest newspaper on the planet, with profit margins over 50 percent. The paper had a distinct edge on China reporting and analysis in the 1980s and early 1990s when there was feverish interest in economic opportunities there.
Usually monopolies, friendly deals with government get them to the top, writes Asia Sentinel. There has been much crowing in the media around Asia over the rapid advance of Asians into the ranks of global billionaires. Chinese are now second only to Americans in the top 1,000 and India has eight in the super rich top 100 category.
High population density equals less waste, fewer emissions and more efficient use of resources. In short, urban living is more environmentally friendly than rural or suburban lifestyles. This is the argument of David Owen, author of the book Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability.
Hindsight is a great thing, but Hong-listed BYD Auto certainly looked like a winner: a green Chinese company backed to the hilt by investment guru Warren Buffet. And its shares have returned a whopping 363 percent in a year, and there's better news on the horizon.
Victoria Park in Causeway Bay may be an oasis to many people. Its presence in the middle of a crowded city is a brief reprieve from the seemingly endless blocks of tall buildings and narrow streets of Hong Kong island. But you don’t need to be a jogger to notice the signs conspicuously placed at the edge of jogging tracks: This track is for jogging only. Please follow the directional signs while jogging. If you need to take a rest, please leave the jogging track or walk by keeping left to avoid causing obstruction to other joggers.
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