Vancouver doesn’t have the world’s second most unaffordable housing: The art of selling a crisis
One Pacific News Editor October 8, 2015 1 COMMENTBy NG WENG HOONG, October 8 2015, Thursday Every city has its own urban legend: Vancouver’s fantasy over the last few years is that it has the world’s second most unaffordable housing. On the back of this piece of unchallenged, unverified scare story, Canadian opinion makers and media have been portraying a city pushed to […]
READ MORETwo views of the Chinese stock market crash: Willy Lam vs Chen Bo
One Pacific News Editor July 17, 2015 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, July 17, 2015, Friday Two China scholars were in Vancouver the past week to share their contrasting perspectives of developments in the country. Given the country’s rise and the expansive global ambitions of President Xi Jingping, the focus on China today is no longer just for the academia. Starting out as a journalist, Hong […]
READ MOREChina’s stock market blow-up: the beginning of the collapse or just another speed bump?
One Pacific News Editor July 9, 2015 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, July 8, 2015, Wednesday According to Bloomberg, the Shanghai Composite Index lost nearly 32% of its value over the past month, wiping out more than US$3.3 trillion in shareholder value on its way down from 5,132 points on June 8 to 3,507 points on July 8. Add this to the unfolding problems in Greece, […]
READ MOREUS vs China: At least they’re still talking to each other, and playing football
One Pacific News Editor June 26, 2015 0 COMMENTSPhoto source: FIFA OnePacificNews, June 25 2015 It’s USA vs China all week, starting with the 7th US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington DC from Monday, June 22 to Wednesday, and ending in Ottawa June 26, Friday with their women’s national soccer teams squaring off for a semi-final place in the World Cup. Hundreds […]
READ MOREWhat if Canada succeeds as a major Renminbi clearing hub?
One Pacific News Editor June 25, 2015 0 COMMENTSPhoto source: www.MildChina.com Canadians face choice to welcome or oppose China’s growing influence and investment funds By NG WENG HOONG OnePacificNews, June 25, 2015, Thursday Amid the growing debate over China’s influence in Canada, an estimated 200 delegates attended the June 16 inaugural Pacific Finance & Trade Summit in Vancouver to promote Canada as a […]
READ MOREHate crime against Chinese realtors in Nanaimo. A spillover from Vancouver’s housing problems?
One Pacific News Editor June 23, 2015 0 COMMENTSNanaimo City. Photo source: Coast Realty Group OnePacificNews, June 23 2015, Tuesday Check out the excerpts from two stories below from the Nanaimo Daily. Over the last two years, Vancouver’s mainstream media has taken to blaming Chinese demand for singlehandedly creating the city’s housing problems. Lacking balance and shorn of detailed investigative reporting to […]
READ MOREUBC professor calls out Globe and Mail’s ‘disgraceful’ attack on Michael Chan while Chinese community leaders stay silent
One Pacific News Editor June 19, 2015 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, June 19 2015, Friday Three days after the Globe and Mail reported that Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan remains under investigation for his allegedly close ties to the Chinese government, Canada’s Chinese community and its leaders have largely remained silent. There has been no report in the mainstream English language press of comment or […]
READ MOREChinese migration to North America and the Magna Carta
One Pacific News Editor June 16, 2015 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, June 16 2015, Tuesday According to Migration Policy Institute, a total of nearly three million Chinese nationals migrated to the US and Canada between 1980 and 2013. More than two million chose the US and nearly 900,000 went to Canada over that 33-year period which roughly coincides with the opening up of modern China. […]
READ MORERohingya Genocide: The case of the missing stakeholders
One Pacific News Editor June 10, 2015 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, June 10 2015, Wednesday The suffering and humiliation of probably the world’s most oppressed people today provide a disgraceful moral reminder of what Asia still needs to do to try match its many material achievements. Depending on whom you ask, the Rohingya population living in southeastern Myanmar numbers anything between 700,00 and 1.5 million. […]
READ MOREBC’s LNG Memorandum May Help Premier Deflect Blame As Petronas Struggles
One Pacific News Editor June 8, 2015 0 COMMENTSMichael Culbert and Christy Clark sign the MoU. Behind them, from left to right: Mike De Jong, Canada’s Industry Minister James Moore and Rich Coleman. Photo by OnePacificNews. http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/Opinion+Uncertainty+grows+over+deal/11112497/story.html Opinion: Uncertainty grows over LNG deal ‘Conditional’ final investment decision expected from Petronas by June BY NG WENG HOONG, SPECIAL TO THE VANCOUVER SUN JUNE 5, […]
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