US 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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BC’s LNG Memorandum May Help Premier Deflect Blame As Petronas Struggles
admin June 5, 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 In signing a much-awaited memorandum of understanding and two major […]
READ MORECanada to Chinese business migrants and investments: We don’t want you!
One Pacific News Editor June 4, 2015 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, June 3 2015, Wednesday Forget about the recession and rising unemployment, Canada wants to curtail the influx of Chinese business migrants and their investments that might help the flagging Canadian economy which just shrank 0.6% in the first quarter. Complementing Ottawa’s wariness towards Beijing, ordinary Canadians and the mainstream media are souring on new […]
READ MOREChinese business migrants question BC’s plan on official languages requirement
One Pacific News Editor June 1, 2015 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, June 1 2015, Monday Entrepreneurs from China hoping to migrate to Canada are protesting the BC government’s plan to require them to demonstrate working knowledge of at least one of the country’s two official languages or it won’t support their application for permanent residency. With Ottawa already imposing the minimum language requirement under the […]
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