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Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Dunedin's Willie McWong was one of only two Chinese men to earn their wings and serve as pilots in the Royal New Zealand Airforce during World War Two.

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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

In the 1870s a large scale gold dredge created by Choie Sew Hoy revolutionized gold mining across the world and revitalized Dunedin as a city.

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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Professor Manying Ip is an academic of great standing in New Zealand, and one of the first researchers to help uncover a buried history concerning our Chinese New Zealand community.  

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Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Educator Sook Hua Lee has selflessly served the diverse and growing Asian communities of Hawke's Bay for the last four decades

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Tuesday, 1 October 2013

New Zealand’s resettled refugee youth have often been overlooked and their talents underestimated within employment. Now the Refugee Youth Action Network (RYAN) is making a positive difference.

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Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Three decades ago the first Cambodian refugees arrived in New Zealand and now, a generation later, their children have finally begun to tell their stories.

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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

The current crisis in Syria may see two million Syrians being displaced before the end of 2013. What does this mean for New Zealand's refugee quota of 750 per annum? How does New Zealand compare internationally as far as refugee resettlement goes? Lynda Chanwai-Earle learns more from the team at Refugees as Survivors New Zealand (RASNZ).

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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Lynda Chanwai-Earle joins Dame Susan Devoy and members of Wellington's multi-ethnic and inter-faith communities in Wellington for an after-sundown meal during Ramadan

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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets Muslim youth keen to break down negative stereotypes about their faith and way of life, at the launch of Islam Awareness Week in Wellington

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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Lisa Thompson discovers why Auckland Airport is laying out the welcome mat to its Chinese visitors.

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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Lynda Chanwai-Earle finds out how a multicultural playgroup in Auckland is a godsend for refugee and new migrant families.

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Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets the team behind a TV documentary series profiling pan-ethnic youth in New Zealand.

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Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Lynda Chanwai-Earle hears from researchers uncovering the cost of problem gambling to our Asian communities and asks Sky City Casino for a response to this investigation.

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Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Gambling and the superstitious belief in "luck" is an ancient and cultural inheritance for many of our Pan-Asian communities.

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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Suzanne Chan On recalls a hard working but colourful childhood in Auckland’s Chinatown of the '50s. 'Chinese People’s Street' - or 'Tong Yan Gaai' as it was known to the Cantonese locals of the time - covered an area from Karangahape Road and Greys Avenue to Queen Street in Auckland’s CBD.

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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Suzanne Chan On recalls a hard working but colourful childhood in Auckland’s Chinatown of the '50s. 'Tong Yan Gaai', or 'Chinese People’s Street' as it was known to the Cantonese locals of the time, covered an area from Karangahape Road and Greys Avenue to Queen Street in Auckland’s CBD.

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Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Michael practised law in Wellington, before becoming High Commissioner to several Pacific countries and Ambassador to Indonesia and China. Subsequently he was Human Rights Commissioner and recently a writer and lecturer on Asian and Pacific issues.

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Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Wen’s first diplomatic posting was to Beijing on the eve of the events at Tiananmen Square. Just six months later in 1990, Michael arrived in Beijing as New Zealand’s Ambassador to China.

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A weekly report that highlights Asians in New Zealand, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of Asian New Zealanders.

Tuesdays at 3:30 pm. Repeated at 5:10 am on Sundays.

Produced by Lynda Chanwai-Earle

The programme features Asians from Iraq to India to Indonesia, and East Asia too. Local-born and immigrant Asian New Zealanders, Asians on short stays, visiting Asians, and anyone working with Asians in New Zealand.

What have we talked about? Individual and organisational achievements, issues, problems experienced, problems caused, culture, lifestyle, politics, religion, arts, music and more - a mix of light and shade.