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Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Virginia Woolf has a successful career as a photojournalist based in Nelson and explores her Chinese New Zealand heritage within her images.

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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

A project that sees pre-loved and expensive designer dresses resold at bargain rates for all our penniless students out there.

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Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Chinese New Zealander Michelle Ang’s irreverent new play Chopstick pokes fun at stereotypes.

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Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Born in South Korea, multi-talented David Lee gained an MBA and worked for broadcasting as well as running his family business, a metal recycling factory. However David’s love of music dominated, so he became an opera singer.

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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Visions and realities of New Zealand and Asia.

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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

The project, inspired by the art of the Burmese children themselves sees prominent New Zealand artists and musicians donating their art, music and time to raise funds to sustainably educate, feed and help the refugee children of Burma to play.

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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

The first New Zealand Sri Lankan play to hit the main-stage.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Lynda travels to Auckland to find out more about the little heard from Shia Muslim community.

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Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Lynda travels to Auckland to find out more about the little heard from Shia Muslim community.

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Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets a group of performers over a four hour period in preparation for marathon performances of some Chinese classics.

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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Korean New Zealander Graci Kim chats to Lynda Chanwai-Earle about life as a diplomat in training in one of the friendliest Asian cities on the globe.

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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Where can people from our diverse Pan-Asian population read up on stories from their own communities?

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Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Lynda meets five writers in Auckland, who won’t let cultural or language barriers get in their way.

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Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Today’s story involves around 240 young secondary students from all around New Zealand and young diplomat in the making Elizabeth Chan, a Kiwi Chinese who was a finalist earlier this year for the Young New Zealander of the Year Awards.

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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Lynda Chanwai-Earle talks to Paul Bayliss, general manager of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington and Joan Buchanan, convenor, Religious Communities Leadership Forum.

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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Many productions in China are banned and all theatre must be government sanctioned, so what does it take to make theatre there?

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Tuesday, 14 August 2012

A fictionalised interpretation of the tragic murder of a young overseas Chinese student in 2006, whose body was found dumped in a suitcase floating in the Waitmata Harbour.

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Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Medhi Angot has gathered Chinese members of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, together with some of New Zealand’s finest singers including Ivy Padilla, to create a special fundraising event aptly named Breathe.

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Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Mental health and the way Western countries view ethnicity.

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Tuesday, 24 July 2012

In this week’s Asian Report there’s a focus on the post-traumatic stress refugees often struggle with and questions around the nature of detainment for many asylum seekers and their children.

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Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Lynda goes to Auckland to catch up with the founder and managing director of Radio Tarana, Robert Khan.

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Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Lynda Chanwai-Earle is in Auckland meeting veterans Commander D.B. Herlihy  (Royal New Zealand Navy, Retired), Lieutenant Colin Stanbridge (163 Battery, Command Post Team, Commonwealth Division) and president of the Korean Supporters Group of the NZKVA, Korean-born David Lee.

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Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Lynda is in Auckland meeting the international team at ARMS, to find out how this organisation assists our fast growin pan-ethnic communities.

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Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Lynda Chanwai-Earle chases the quirkily named An Indian, a Chinaman and a White Guy Productions from start to finish as they frantically race to create a short film over one weekend.

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Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Lynda Chanwai-Earle is treated to a personal tour through the High Court with law clerk Elizabeth Chan.

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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.