Chinese Forum: Forum helps charities
ByJOHN RYGIELTHE Queensland Chinese Forum has raised more than $40,000, to be shared equally between Australian Red Cross and World Vision, for the Asian tsunami appeal. Forum president Peter Low said an eight-course Chinese banquet held last week at the Landmark restaurant at Sunnybank Plaza was attended by 400 members.``We sold tickets to guests who easily filled the available 43 tables, making a capacity crowd at the restaurant,'' Mr Low said. ``We had to turn...
Chinese Forum: Arab League chief, Chinese foreign minister hold talks in Cairo
Cairo, 13 September: Arab League Secretary-General Amr Musa held here Monday [13 September] a session of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, at the Arab League HQ.The talks covered the latest developments on the regional and international arenas and means to boost Arab-Chinese relations in the various domains, within the framework of the Arab-Chinese Forum, Husam Zaki, the spokesman for the chief said....
Chinese Forum: 2000-2001; It's The Real Millennium
Col Elliott, infamous comedian: I'll go on a new diet. That means giving away my old one. Tony Percuoco, restaurateur and owner of Fellini's: I'd like to give up smoking, after 15 years.Regina King, celebrity photographer and columnist: I promise to tell the truth.James Tan, Queensland Chinese Forum: I hope to see the spectre of Pauline Hanson fade.Chris Fydler, Olympic gold medallist: I want to be home a bit more in the new year.Bianca...
Chinese Forum: In competition for Central Asia
China wants the oil. Russia wants ex-Soviet states under its wing. For the U.S., the war on terror is at stake.
In the early 19th Century, czarist Russia and the British Empire shadowboxed over Central Asia in an exercise of diplomatic brinkmanship that historians would later dub the Great Game. The U.S. insists it has no designs on replaying that game."We do not look at Central Asia as an object in a Great Game," Daniel Fried, a top State Department envoy for Eurasian affairs, said recently in Washington. "We do not look at this as a zero-sum contest between the...
