MEDIA BIAS, Part 1: Protests against Global News’s anti-Chinese Canadian reporting
admin June 1, 2020 0 COMMENTSBy Ng Weng Hoong, OnePacificNews, June 1, 2020, Monday This two-part series examines the bias of the Canadian mainstream media in refusing to recognise the complaints of Chinese Canadians that Global News had published a false and misleading story with implications for the diaspora and the country’s race relations. Part 2 is here Canada’s mainstream […]
READ MOREBy Ng Weng HoongOnePacificNews, May 27, 2020, Wednesday, updated May 31, 2020 Race relations in Metro Vancouver face difficult challenges ahead amid a worrying surge in anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racist attacks with the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith rejected an invitation to be interviewed on the popular MetroVancouver podcast, ThisIsVanColour (1). […]
READ MOREFrom: Chris Bassett <Chris.Bassett@globalnews.ca>Date: Friday, May 15, 2020 at 2:57 PMTo: Weng <weng@energyasia.com>Cc: Jill Krop, Christopher Pang, Chethan P. LakshmanSubject: RE: Letter of Protest: Globals News, April 30, 2020 story on United Front groups, by Sam Cooper Dear Mr. Ng, This letter was forward to myself for a response. Please find this attached. Sincerely, Chris […]
READ MOREMay 19, 2020, Tuesday Chris BassettNational Director, Content & Editorial StandardsGlobal News | Corus Entertainment Dear Chris, Thank you for replying to my Open Letter of Complaint of May 5, 2020. Your letter affirms Global News’s support for Sam Cooper’s portrayal of Canada’s ethnic Chinese people as traitors. The portrayal, presented in the form of […]
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OPEN LETTER, May 5 2020 To: Jill KropBC Regional Director, Global News George Browne Director, News Content, Global News Copy:Chethan LakshmanShaw Communications Inc. VP, External Affairs From: Ng Weng Hoong, Writer * Global News: “United Front groups in Canada helped Beijing stockpile coronavirus safety supplies” Dear Ms Krop and Mr Browne I am registering my protest and complaint against […]
READ MOREBy Ng Weng HoongOnePacificNews, April 6 2020, MondayWord count, minus headline and footnotes: 2,200. Updated April 7. There is little doubt that China’s Wuhan city with a population of 11 million was the main platform for the global spread of the new deadly Covid-19 disease. Located in the strategic centre of the country, Wuhan is […]
READ MOREThe dark symptoms in Daniel Kalla’s medical thriller are showing up in the world’s COVID-19 crisis
admin March 10, 2020 0 COMMENTSBy Ng Weng Hoong, March 9, 2020, Monday Word count: 1,728, minus headline and footnotes This has the feel of an opening scene from a novel by medical thriller writer Daniel Kalla himself: a gathering of book club members on a chilly Vancouver evening to focus on deadly contagious diseases. As they await his arrival, […]
READ MOREBy Ng Weng Hoong, January 28, 2020, Tuesday. Updated February 10, 2020. Its cover finally blown by major document leaks in late 2019, the Chinese government no longer denies that it has built a high-tech surveillance state to control the Muslim Uyghur population living in the country’s far western region of Xinjiang. Thanks to the […]
READ MORECanada’s Far Right, China and immigration loom over car park dispute
admin September 10, 2019 0 COMMENTSNg Weng Hoong, September 9, 2019, Monday Word count minus headline and footnotes: 2,040 A seemingly innocuous parking dispute between a young Chinese mother and an elderly white woman in a Richmond, British Columbia mall recently sparked a bizarre episode in Canadian race relations. Amy Xu captured part of the August 23 incident (1) on […]
READ MOREBy Ng Weng Hoong, August 13, 2019Word count minus headline and footnotes: 2,008 British Columbia (BC)’s emerging liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry may have just shone a small light into the long dark tunnel enveloping the bilateral relations between Canada and China. Amid the continuing outpouring of bad news and bad blood between the two […]
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