On Air Highlights
Archive for September, 2011
30 September 2011
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Hong Kong’s High Court has ruled that a law banning foreign domestic workers from permanent residency in the city is unconstitutional.
30 September 2011
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The High Court ruling is being hailed as a landmark decision for the nearly 300,000 foreign maids, known a locally as domestic helpers, who are employed in Hong Kong. Most are from the Philippines and Indonesia.
30 September 2011
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Marion Grasby didn’t win the TV competition Masterchef Australia but she did win many fans in Australia and the Asian region with her fusion of flavours in the kitchen.
30 September 2011
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Traditional water music from the Northern tropical islands of Vanuatu will feature at the International Indigenous People’s Village this weekend at the Bellingen Global Carnival on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia.
30 September 2011
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The former managing director of the Shipping Corporation of Polynesia, John Jonesse, has been freed from prison.
30 September 2011
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This week Australian Prime Minsister Julia Gillard delivered a major foreign policy speech emphasising the importance of Asia in the next hundred years.
30 September 2011
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Researchers at Australia’s University of Adelaide have found that immune cells in your brain may contribute to how you respond to alcohol.
29 September 2011
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Samoa’s churches will be overflowing today for solemn services marking the second anniversary of a tsunami that devastated the nation.
29 September 2011
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The largest exhibition of Chinese art to be displayed in Australia goes on show at Australia’s National Museum in Canberra, only days prior to Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1949 declaration of the People’s Republic of China.
29 September 2011
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Los Angeles based Chamorro film-maker, Alex Munoz heads off to the Guam International Film Festival where his latest works will be showcased at the ‘Visions’ event, a special tribute to independent film-making.
