January 11, 2010
The story revolves around Hainan Island, China’s southern most province, which is currently experiencing a golf course construction boom; the only concern is that the government in Beijing recently passed a law making golf course construction illegal.
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The Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies received funding from the Faculty of Arts and Science to send its ASI400Y students to Indonesia over Reading Week. Spaces are available for additional A&S students to apply.
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During the Prime Minister’s visit to Hong Kong earlier in December, a MOU was signed between Hong Kong and Canada to firm up the establishment of a bilateral “Working Holiday Arrangement” to take effect from March 1, 2010.
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Ten undergraduate students travel to Taiwan for eight days in December to meet Taiwan leaders in government, civil society and industry. Student blogs of the trip is posted at the Asia Pacific Reader.
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This collection, translated and edited by Chelva Kanaganayakam, brings together seventy-five poems by three internationally known Tamil poets, whose works, over the last three decades, have dealt with issues ranging from
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New book by Asian Institute scholar Janet Salaff, Siu-lun Wong, and Arent Greve provides an intimate account of what migration means to Hong Kong families.
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Dr. Neville Poy has made a gift of 21 photos from his collection, “Photographic Expressions of Asia”, to the RCL-Canada Hong Kong Library. The director of the library, Dr. Jack Leong, will organize a benefit sale of the photos for interested collectors.
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Professors Joshua Barker and Tania Li from the Department of Anthropology are offering a field course and a joint research opportunity in Indonesia this summer for undergraduate students, in collaboration with the Asian Institute. Some funding will be available. Read...
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The multi-year Chinese Turkistan project has been making exciting progression in both the disciplines of anthropology and photography, in an attempt to emulate the methodology of the great documentary photographers of the past century.
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East Asian development deeply impacts our global future. Invited film directors and panelists discuss the emerging social and culture changes that we face, and in particular look at how film plays a role in understanding these changes.
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