one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
An Australian mining company with a majority holding in China’s second-largest gold mine has been the focus of a scathing attack on Chinese state television. The claims have shocked the firm, and voiced a none-too-hidden view that foreign investment in Chinese mining could be unwelcome.
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Indonesia is facing several weeks of economic uncertainty and a set of potentially damaging price increases to the president’s re-election campaign next year.
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MELBOURNE–Mrs Connors and I are back ‘on the radar’ as of today, having returned from our soiree in Vanuatu. We’ve had a week to collect our thoughts, and wedding pictures, which can be viewed in entirety in my much-neglected pics section. There will be more to come as others roll in. Enjoy.
PORT VILA–There’s a mystery couple devouring our (grandparents, take this with a grain of mirth!) childrens’ college fund. Food and Bev, if you’re out there watching, stay off the Iririki Sunset cocktails please. We’re still off the radar here in Vanuatu, returning to Googlable surrounds near the end of April. ‘Wifey, where’s the sunscreen…’
WILLIAMSTOWN–The cake is baked, the bubbles chilled, the rings polished, the shoes deodorised, the ties windsored, the nails trimmed… could only mean one thing – and no, not a court appearance. A wedding. My email contact is sketchy, so any last minute queries should be directed to me by phone 0415 497 229. Yikes!
MELBOURNE–Very close to the big day… and I don’t mean taking the new sections of this site out of beta as Mr Adam is getting married on Friday April 18, 2008, in a wee park in Williamstown, Melbourne. Very good friends from Tokyo to Perth, Hong Kong to Kangaroo Island, Brisbane to Waroona, and Sydney too will be in town to partake. Look forward to generous lashings of pics and giggles soon.
[draft] More than enough commentators have pointed out the success of community cross-referencing in today’s new town square, Facebook. There is little more to add to the argument that Facebook, Google Ad Sense, Wikipedia and the whole citizen contributor-driven nature of web 2-point-something is where it’s at. A given.
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Three skateboarders from the Australian city of Melbourne have big plans for a cool new skatepark. This isn’t particularly new… except this skatepark is to be built in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and the locals don’t even have a word for “skateboard” in the most common language of the area, Dari.
Indonesia is currently experiencing a movie phenomenon not seen since the theatre-filled days of Titanic. That film sold more than three million tickets in Indonesia during its three-month run in 1997. But the locally-written and produced Ayat-Ayat Cinta is set to eclipse the box office any day now – and in under a month. The difference, this time, is that a very Islamic love story is front-and-centre of this new blockbuster.
Up until early last week, the two major parties contesting Taiwan’s presidential election were singing a very similar tune when it came to closer economic ties to mainland China. But in election rallies over the weekend, it became clear that the impact of China’s crackdown in Tibet is reverberating across the Taiwan Strait, possibly destablising the China-friendly opposition frontrunner.
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