Chinese Forum: Chinese adoption scheme embraced
QUEENSLAND adoption groups have welcomed reports that families soon may be able to adopt Chinese babies, but remain sceptical about the programme's implementation. Chinese children could be made available to couples as soon as next month if an agreement between the Australian and Chinese governments is signed at a Beijing meeting.The move would mean as many as a million orphaned children _ mostly girls because of China's one-child policy _ could find new homes....
Chinese Forum: Egyptian, Sudanese leaders to meet in "coming few days" - Sudanese minister
Khartoum, 17 Dec: Foreign Minister Dr Mustafa Uthman Isma'il unveiled arrangements for a meeting to be held between [Egyptian] President Husni Mubarak and [Sudanese] President Umar al-Bashir.Replying to queries by reporters at Khartoum airport Tuesday night on his return home from Addis Ababa where he attended the African-Chinese Forum, Ismail said the Foreign Ministry declared in a statement Tuesday night [16 December] that preparations are under way to hold a meeting between...
Chinese Forum: Australian professor condemned for racist comments
Sydney (dpa) - A law professor at a leading university was fighting to keep his job Wednesday after saying that African immigrants were too stupid and those from China too clever to fit into Australian society.Sydney's Macquarie University said it had offered to buy out the contract of Andrew Fraser after he publicly opposed non-white immigration.Fraser said that Africans were a crime risk because they had low intelligence quotients and high testosterone levels, while the...
Chinese Forum: CHINESE LASH LIBS
THE Chinese community will campaign against the Liberal Party's Taiwanese-born candidate for the State seat of Sunnybank Stephen Huang.In a strongly-worded statement on Monday, the Queensland Chinese Forum, based at Sunnybank, condemned the Party's attempt to ``woo'' One Nation with election preferences. The Chinese Forum, comprised of 11 major Chinese associations, announced it would campaign against all Liberal...
Chinese Forum: Features
Chinese community strikes a New Year balance CHINESE New Year is in full swing. Several hundred guests descended on a lawn of Parliament House last night for the Premier's annual Chinese New Year bash. Spied soaking up the ambience were Yellow Cabs' Mal Hartley, Queensland Chinese Forum president Peter Low OAM and the so-called father of China Town, Eddie Liu OBE OAM. Liu, pictured, who has been nominated as a state finalist in the Australian of the Year, awarded the...
