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Mr Van Cuong Truong (MBE) Mr Wing Yip (OBE) from the UK Chinese community are recognised for their contributions to British society in the 2010 Queen’s new years honours

Two ordinary men who have made an exceptional contribution to British society have been rewarded for their vision and hard work by being acknowledged in the 2010 New Year’s Queen’s honours.

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Global Links Initiative has published a new book about social entrepreneurship in China.

“Do social entrepreneurs exist in China? If so, who are they?” The answer to the first question is a resounding YES, and these questions led to the idea to put together this book, the first of its kind to introduce the exciting development of social entrepreneurship in China.

The book features ten stories that cover 13 social entrepreneurs. They came from very different backgrounds: ‘China Rabbit King’, REN Xuping, left school when he was just 14 years old because of poverty; the two young founders of Venture in Development, Marie and Carol, first got to know ‘social entrepreneurism’ at the Kennedy School in Harvard; the founders of Wu Qi Training School, 1kg More and Love Farms were once urban white-collar workers; LV Zhao (founder of NPI) and SHEN Dongshu (CEO of Fu Ping) were very successful businessmen before they decided to devote themselves to the nonprofit world.

For more about the book, table of contents, and how to purchase the book, please visit Global Links Initiative.

 

Event: Chinese New Year 2010 – Year of the Tiger
Date: Sunday 21 February 2010
Time: 12 to 6pm
Venue: Central London (Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Chinatown)

FREE EVENT All welcome

The capital’s Chinese New Year celebrations are set to transform central London on Sunday 21 February 2010. Visitors to Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square and London Chinatown will be able to welcome in the Year of the Tiger in spectacular style – with Chinese arts and entertainment from international and home-grown artists, and food, firecrackers and fireworks.

In Trafalgar Square, two groups from China (Sichuan Art Troupe and Central Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble) will perform world-class dance, music and acrobatics after an official opening ceremony. There will also be firecrackers, Chinese dragons, lions and Chinese acrobatics.

Meanwhile, in a specially decorated Chinatown there will be cultural stalls, food and lion dance displays. Shaftesbury Avenue will become “Hong Kong in London Chinatown” with a stage featuring performances by local Chinese artists.

A colourful fireworks display in Leicester Square will close the celebrations.

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The London Chinatown Chinese Association (LCCA) arranged for the Taiwanese students from Shih Chien University to perform their award winning Song Jiang Battle Array, in front of the stone lions on Gerrard Street at 2pm on Tuesday 18th August, and in view of the Taiwan “8.8 Tyhoon Disaster” used the event as a fund raiser within the local Chinese Community.

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It is my great pleasure to invite you to London in September 12-13, 2009 to participate in the 15th annual Meeting of Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK (CLSS-UK). After the extremely successful CLSS-UK 2008 annual meeting in Oxford, CLSS-UK committee has decided to hold the 2009 annual meeting with outstanding scientific quality in University College London (UCL). The meeting will take place in the Life Science Building in UCL main campus. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for Chinese life scientists in UK to exchange ideas, share experience and establish collaborations with each other and also with life scientists in China.

The Organising Committee is already working in order to ensure a wide choice of lectures covering the various aspects under the theme of Life Science and Medicine. In 2009, we are planning to invite some high profile professors and senior scientists from UK and China to give lectures in this meeting. We particularly encourage young investigators and PhD students to join the meeting by offering a number of travel grants and prizes for the best oral and poster presentations. In addition, National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Academy of Science and some High-technique Districts from China will be invited to join our meeting which provides bridges to China for our members who would develop their careers in our motherland. The full scientific program can be found in this link.

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Guardian’s Robert Booth reports that 77 Chinese children have been lost from the care home operated by Hillingdon Council near Heathrow Airport, feared being trafficked and exploited.

Organised criminal gangs have exploited a children’s home beside Heathrow airport for the systematic trafficking of Chinese children to work in prostitution and the drugs trade across Britain, a secret immigration document reveals.

The intelligence report from the Border and Immigration Agency, obtained by the Guardian, shows how a 59-bed local authority block has been used as a clearing house for a trade in children that stretches across four continents.

At least 77 Chinese children have gone missing since March 2006 from the home, operated by the London borough of Hillingdon.

Only four have been found. Two girls returned after a year of exploitation in brothels in the Midlands. One was pregnant while the other had been surgically fitted with a contraceptive device in her arm. Others are coerced with physical threats to work as street-sellers of counterfeit goods. It is thought that many work in cannabis farms.

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The Chinese community in the UK is urged to each donating one pound to fund the ambitious bid of Steven Cheung for the European Election this summer.

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By Pin Lu

So the Chinese collector Cai Mingchao refused to pay the 28 million euro he bid for the two bronze heads at the Christie’s. Intentionally or not, this is an effective publicity stunt, forcing the story of disputed auctioning back to the news agenda. A point has been made again that no matter how legitimately Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge acquired and owned the sculptures, the fact remains that they are war plunders, looted from China’s imperial palace.

Incidently, the 8th Earl of Elgin, James Bruce, who ordered the destruction of Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, where the bronze heads were looted from, is the son of 7th Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, who removed the marbles from Acropolis and shipped them to Britain. The Greek government, like Chinese government, is asking for the return of the national treasures.
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Sichuan Province Architectural Design Institute and WE Design now launched the second stage of the Sichuan project, inviting you to join Sichuan School International Conceptual Design Competition. In this competition, the project in question is a famous high school in Chengdu. The submission deadline is 08 March 2009.

The objectives of the conceptual competition are as follows: to gather design ideas to support the after earthquake recovery development for a high school in Sichuan; to encourage critical review of historic development and present state of school design; and to provoke discussion of ideas and direction regarding design intervention in contemporary school development.

We ask participants to critically review one (or more) of the questions below and present your views in the submission.
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By Pin Lu, from WaterInk.

So, here we are. If you like a pun, then Happy Niu Year! If you prefer irony, then good luck in the Year of Bull.

It looks even the noise from all the unauthorized firecrackers in China couldn’t make us not hearing the gloomy news. Guardian’s Tania Branigan did a video reporting piece from Beijing’s main railway station before the Chinese new year to interview the migrant workers, part of the great annual people movement. They were worried about whether they can get their job back when they come back to the city after the festival. At least this year they didn’t have to get stuck in the station for days like last year. A Chinese blogger, after went to the same station, suggested that this year the Chinese new year rush is actually much smoother than previous years. The suspicion is that many migrant workers had already left for home, being laid off at the end of last year.

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