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Post by Randy on Jul 23, 2012 22:48:50 GMT -5
Michael, not to be nosey, but do you plan to live there on a permanent basis? or is there a place that will call you home someday?
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Jul 24, 2012 2:50:49 GMT -5
Randy,
not nosy at all. We are looking at the medium term - 5 to 10 years. I lived in China before (2001-4), and my wife was born in Jiangxi Province.
We plan to return to New Zealand after that.
Ron, some of the photoswere taken here in Guangdong Province, in Macau and in Hong Kong. The skyline shot of the apartment towers in the distance is Shanghai, however.
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Post by Randy on Jul 24, 2012 12:08:43 GMT -5
That's cool. I think New Zealand is where the World's Fastest Indian originated. I just watched a tv show with Barry McGuire called Car Crazy. I never realized how many Hot Rodders there were in New Zealand. There were over 1000 cars there, and there were quite a few people with film cameras hanging around their necks also.
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Post by daveh on Jul 24, 2012 14:22:22 GMT -5
Perhaps in New Zealand they don't believe they are on the eve of destruction.
Interesting video.
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Post by Berndt on Jul 25, 2012 4:57:29 GMT -5
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Post by grenouille on Aug 1, 2012 15:36:06 GMT -5
Michael, Being away for quite a while, here's further info, The Prime Minister of Singapore is a Hakka, he is now been succeeded by his Son but still holds the position of Minister Mentor, I'm not sure if he has retired himself from that title.
In Malaysia there is a good concentration of Hakkas in and around Ipoh, a tin mining town. Apart from such pockets, most of the Chinese in South East Asia are of Hokkien, Cantonese and Hainan descent.
Up to the 1990s without any new waves of Migrants from China, most of the Chinese in SEA became at least 4th generation and upwards in these part of the world and have taken the nationality of these countries, In Thailand the Chinese have even taken Thai names and in Indonesia likewise they have taken Indonesian names. Even in Burma, the Chinese have Burmese names.
After 2000, the PM of Singapore opened the floodgates to the Mainland Chinese and they now almost outnumber the decendents of the Chinese who came more than a century ago and who have broken all ties with the mainland in the distant past.
To a certain extent the leaders of Singapore base their salaries on GDP, so more people better GDP. Hope you w'ont be shocked, the salary of the Singapore PM is approx 5 times that of the Presedent of the United States, his father the ex-PM has the same salary as him, food for thought, Cheers
Hye
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