Li Cunxin named Australia's top dad

 

Congratulations to Li Cunxin who has received an award for being the Top Dad in Australia by the Shepherd Centre.  Li's currently on a roll.   In addition to the award, the movie version of his book (directed by Bruce Beresford) gets released next month.

HE is known worldwide as Mao's last dancer and now international ballet dancer turned stockbroker Li Cunxin is Australia's top dad.

Mr Cunxin, who now lives in Melbourne with his wife and three children, has been named the 2009 Shepherd Centre Australian Father of the Year.

"This is indeed a great privilege," he said on receiving his award at a ceremony at NSW Parliament House in Sydney.

Read in full at News

Update: Audio The women behind 'Mao's Last Dancer'  Interview with Li's wife Mary and daughter Sophie.

Next 100 Emerging Leaders

The Weekend Australian Magazine's Next 100 Emerging Leaders.  I went through all the nominees and found the ones below.  I can't find a 'normal' pic of Yiying, maybe there isn't one cos she definitely doesn't seem normal but hey, that's the way we like her!

Culture

Nam Le

When award-winning writer Nam Le's first book, The Boat, was published last year it was an astounding critical and commercial success. "I hope to keep writing," says Le. "In different genres as well. And travelling. Other than that, I'm not sure. I'd love to give other (non-writing) things a go as well." The former lawyer and Vietnamese refugee grew up in Melbourne, graduating with a BA (honours) and LLB (honours) from Melbourne University. His first job was a toss-up between "working at a Doc Marten shop in the city or a Yellow Pages Direct call centre". Now living in the UK and working as writer-in-residence at the University of East Anglia, Le is also fiction editor of the US Harvard Review. Like many writers, he finds inspiration in everyday events:"Music, movies, real-life stories. I'm constantly amazed by the things people do to bet by, to be of use to each other."


Thinking

Dorjee Sun

Dorjee Sun lists homes as "Sydney, Singapore, Indonesia, USA, Suriname, planes, airports and hotels", a taste of the frequent flyer points he has racked up while brokering carobn offset deals in developing nations. After graduating in commerce and law from UNSW, Sydney-born Sun found success in online recruitment and web-media startups before his passion for the environment took him to the jungles of Indonesia. In 2007, the governors of Aceh, Papua and Papua Barat signed an agreement giving Sun rights to seek carbon credits to minimise deforestation across 50 million hectares of their land; he then jetted to the US to sell the credits to companies such as Merril Lynch. The deal won an award from Environmental Finance magazine and is the subject of The Burning Season, which opens in Australian cinemas in July(passed).

Innovation

Gail Sorronda

Winning the 2004 Qld Mercedes-Benz Start-Up Awards with her debut collection,"Angel at My Table", marked the start of a beautiful career for Gail Sorronda (formerly Gail Reid). "The award enabled me to show at Australian Fashion Week," she says. "It was the catalyst moment that launched me into a career as a fashion designer." Since then, the QUT Fine Arts (Fashion) graduate has opened her own store in Brisbane and been invited to be a part of the Designers For Target line. Her bold black and white designs have won international praise for their bold structure and drama, appearing in fashion magazines and worn by celebrities. Sorronda, who recently presented at AFW, is now living in Paris where she says she's developing a capsule winter collection between Paris and Italy".

Yiying Lu

In 2008, an image of a whale held aloft by birds became an overnight sensation on online social networking site Twitter. The illustration had been created by Sydney artist Yiying Lu for an electronic birthday card and was picked up from a stock photo site by Twitter founder Biz Stone. Almost instantly the "Fail Whale", as it became known, was adopted by the Twitter community as an icon. Lu became as popular as her creation, winning first place in the Design category of New York's Shorty Awards. Born in Shanghai, Lu got her degree from the University of Technology, Sydney, with a year of exchange study at London's Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. She has since worked as a design tutor at UTS, as well as establishing an art and design studio. "The next step will be developing 'Yiying Lu' into a brand," she says.

Raymond Choo

Fighting cyber crime was a natural progression for Singapore-born Dr Kim Kwang (Raymond) Choo, who started his working life as an officer in the Singapore Police Force. "I always knew that I would be in some form of public service as I like to help people," says Choo, who has a PhD in IP from Queensland of Technology. Choo spends his days hunting cyber criminals as a research analyst of high tech crime and money laundering at the Australian Institute of Criminology in Canberra. He was recently awarded a Fulbright Professional Scholarship tountertake a three-month study at Rutgers University's School of Criminal Justic and the Palo Alto Research Centre, in the United States. "My research aims to contribute to neutralising crime opportunities before they arise," he says.
The Australian

A panel comprising Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey, ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb, former Olympics swimming champion, Lisa Forrest, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations secratary Lisa Paul, demographer Bernard Salt, Australian Industry Group chief Heather Ridout and cancer researcher and Australian of the Year, Professor Ian Frazer, selected the winners.

Unfortunately none of the above won, but with emerging leaders like these I'm sure we will be well represented in the future and hopefully we can also get some nominees in the other categories.

New Zealand's 1st Korean MP

"Nov. 8, 2008 was a memorable day for a Korean New Zealander Melissa Lee. In the general election that day, Lee became the first Korean immigrant to get into parliament on the ruling National Party list.

"I had never been as happy as that day except when I gave birth to my baby," Lee, in Seoul to attend the 2009 Future Leaders Conference hosted by the Overseas Koreans Foundation, recalled Monday. "It was the day when my old dream came true. In elementary school in Korea, I always wrote down 'president' when we had to fill in surveys asking what our future dreams are."

She moved to Malaysia with her family when as a fifth grader, and to Australia when in her first year of high school for better prospects for university. After she graduated from university in 1988, she relocated to New Zealand with her family.

Her first job in New Zealand was as a newspaper reporter. Five years later, she found a job with New Zealand's state-run broadcaster TVNZ. As an anchor, she was involved in making programs dealing with issues on ethnic minorities. In 1996, she set up her own company Asia Vision, producing and presenting shows.

She received the first courting calls from the NP 10 years ago, but declined the offer at the time. "I had my son in 1998, and I thought it wouldn't be ideal to enter politics with a baby at home. Was it 2006? I had an offer from the NP again before the 2008 general election and accepted as my boy had quite grown up," she said.

In June, Lee took another challenge. She ran for the Mount Albert by-election when the constituency became vacant after former prime minister Helen Clark left to take up the position of the head of the UN Development Programme. In the end, Lee lost to David Shearer of the Labour Party, but under New Zealand law, Lee was able to keep her parliamentary seat. "It was a big experience for my future career," said Lee.

"I would like to be a political bridge between Korea and New Zealand during my three-year term," she said, "First of all, I want to work toward the signing of the Korea-New Zealand free trade agreement. My dream is also nurturing future Korean-New Zealander politicians. I would like the 35,000 or so Korean New Zealanders to find hope in me." What would be the end goal of her political ambitions? "Since I started it, at least shouldn't I be a minister?” she asked. "

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The show that Melissa works on is called Asia Downunder and has been described as being about "Asia and Asians in New Zealand. Stories about Asian Kiwis, young and old, from topics as diverse as art, business, sport, music, fashion, culture, lifestyle, food and many more." I think the show airs twice a week if you are in New Zealand, otherwise they have a channel on Youtube. Some really good and diverse topics on there, I'm still waiting for the day when Asian Australians can be as organised and have their own channel on AA stuff! If the Kiwis can do it so can we. And seeing as she spent 6yrs in Oz we should be claiming her as our own....

Youtube link: Asia Downunder

Aliqua Mao on Australian Idol

Watched idol tonight for the first time in years and noticed a chick called Aliqua (I keep thinking Aquila-dyslexic or just not used to the name?). What a voice! And she's only 16 so plenty of time to develop her style. I was thinking is she Asian, is she Pacific Islander? Then at the end of the song they showed her full name, Aliqua Mao. Hmm Mao's generally an Asian name, wicked. But she does look mixed, can't find anymore info on her background atm but no doubt more info will pop up in the future.

Some Q&A about her here

So good to see a good singer after viewing Vinh Bui's audition on youtube - hope he's not related to Thanh.

Update 4/09/09

Okay she's definitely asian, Cambodian I think.

To watch the full episodes click here.

Some random info

In 2006 I won the search for a star competition in Adelaide which took 7 months to reach the Grand Finals. I was one of the youngest contestant.

In 2007 I won Mix102.3 fm Talent Quest and had the opportunity to work with Beat records. Had my debut single aired on Mix 102.3 Fm radio station.

Wonder Boy

Was shown earlier this yr but what an positive and uplifitniaoidsnfodsanf

http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=259361

http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=797232

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Man Saves Drowning Dog

The feel good story of the week. Part-time model Raden Soemawinata jumps into water to save a dog that had been blown into the water (where was the dog's leash?).

AS galeforce winds ripped across Victoria yesterday, Maltese-shitzu cross Bi Bi was blown off Brighton Pier.

Owner Sue Drummond looked on helplessly as Bi Bi was tossed into the surging waves. "I thought he was going to sink and then maybe I wouldn't be able to find him," she said. "But I didn't really want to hop in the water either because I wasn't quite sure if I could make it to shore with a struggling dog."

Luckily for Bi Bi, Raden Soemawinata stripped down to shirt, jocks and socks, and dived in after the dog, the Herald Sun reports.
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Brenda's Story on Sixty Minutes

"It really is beyond belief. One night last month in a quiet and respectable Sydney neighbourhood, five members of the Lin family were murdered.

How could it happen? They were just a normal family. Fairly typical suburban shopkeepers, friendly, well-liked and they didn't seem to have an enemy in the world.

Yet someone, for some reason, wanted them all dead. And the police, their friends, their neighbours - all of us - are still asking, why?

More than anyone, that question must haunt the sole survivor of the Lin family tragedy, 15-year-old Brenda. As you'll see though, she's an astonishingly calm, composed, and mature young woman. "

In case you missed it, the link to her interview is here.

If you would like to make a donation to Brenda (through her aunty and uncle's account)

Commonwealth Bank
Account Name: Y Lin, F Zhu
BSB: 062006
Account Number: 11139323

I thought she may have been on drugs(medical), she seemed so subdued and numb throughout the whole interview. No progress has been made on identifying/capturing her family's murderers yet. Rumour has it the newsagency makes over a million dollars a year.

Backpackers Beware

TWO backpackers who were sleeping in their car at Darwin's waterfront crashed the vehicle trying to get away from two men they feared were trying to rape them.

Police said the two backpackers, aged 24 and 25, had parked their Mitsubishi Magna station wagon on Kitchener Dr near the World War II oil storage tunnels and gone to sleep.

But they woke the next morning to find two men trying to get into their car.

Police said one of the men managed to get into the back of the vehicle and indecently assaulted one of the women.

The other woman started the car and drove off, but crashed into another vehicle parked outside the Medina Vibe Hotel.

The two alleged offenders fled the scene in a Nissan Navara dual cab ute driven by a third man.
Police are calling for witnesses to the attack on the two Korean backpackers which happened about 5am on Wednesday.

Both of the alleged offenders are white and aged in their early 20s, clean shaven with short dark hair.

One is described as of a solid build, about 175cm tall. The other is 185cm tall, of thin build, clean shaven with short dark hair.

Duty Superintendent Dean Moloney said it seemed to be common for backpackers to park and sleep around the city during the dry season.

"They seek out isolated areas around the fringes of town to do that and it does have its inherent dangers," he said.

The Northern Territory News reported last month that backpackers were parking and sleeping in suburban streets after being fined for camping at spots such as East Point and Mindil Beach.
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Two men were arrested.
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Justice for Cynthia Ching on the Cards

Cynthia Ching (Canadian) died after she was splashed with aviation fluid at a party in Kings Creek Station in the NT in 2004. Due a a series of bungles, the perpetrator managed to escape to his native NZ and the Australian government could not extradite him because there was no equivalent charge in NZ. The Australian government dropped the charges to the dismay of Cynthia's family. The stupid f*ckwit thinking that things had quietened down tried to slip into the country recently and was arrested. Details of the original incident here and some other details here. A transcript of when Cynthia's dad Ralph went to the station to try to get some answers here .

The report of the perpetrator's arrest, which interestingly enough does not name names is here. Maybe he's finally had enough and wants to defend himself or he was trying to be a sneaky bugger coming over here to find a job. Either way, Cynthia's family will finally get some closure and justice, something they never thought they would get.

Lecturer 'solicited' sex, cash for marks

Andrew Trounson August 14, 2009
Article from: The Australian
MELBOURNE'S Victoria University has been rocked by allegations that a law lecturer solicited and received bribes in the form of sexual favours and money from some female Asian international students, offering in return to improve their marks.

Before police could interview him the 46-year-old is believed to have taken his own life, apparently overdosing on prescription drugs at his home at Footscray in Melbourne's inner west.

The Australian understands police were preparing a brief including 10 bribery charges when they contacted the man in early May. They asked him to go to a police station and recommended he take a lawyer. Two days after the call he was found dead.

His death and the bribery allegations have shocked colleagues at the university, where he had taught for several years.

There are suggestions that the man, who is said to have been divorced, had suffered severe financial losses in the fallout from the global financial crisis.

"I was shocked and bewildered," a former colleague told The Australian. "He was a great colleague."

It is believed the university uncovered the allegations in December and immediately referred them to police. The man was immediately stood down but staff were merely told he had resigned. They were later told he had died.

It is understood the Asian students themselves were never considered suspects in the investigation, instead being treated as victims.

The man was a subject co-ordinator in the Faculty of Business and Law and was based at the university's Footscray campus, where he taught law subjects to students studying accountancy and business -- subjects in high demand among international students.

The university has refused to comment, citing privacy reasons.

"The university has processes in place that ensure that any allegations that are made, that could constitute criminal conduct, are referred to the police," the university's senior deputy vice-chancellor, John McCallum, said in a statement.

Police are preparing a brief for the coroner.

"At this stage we have received a report of his death, an investigation is under way, but there has yet to be a determination," said a spokeswoman for the State Coroner's Office.

The revelation comes at a sensitive time for Australia's university sector, which is already bracing for a downturn in international student demand next year following sensationalised reporting in India of assaults against Indian students.

Ongoing reports of instances of student exploitation and fraud in the visa-driven training sector are also tarnishing Australia's education reputation.

International student representatives yesterday said there was no evidence that solicitation of bribes was a problem at Australian universities, given a lack of complaints.

"I've never heard of any such complaints," said Douglas Tsoi, executive officer at the Australian Federation of International Students. Gautam Gupta, of the Federation of Indian Students of Australia, said while he had heard complaints of some private training colleges trying to solicit bribes from students to upgrade marks or falsify attendance records, no such complaints had been aimed at universities.

Sally Varnham, an associate professor of law at University of Technology Sydney, said bribery had not figured in a research project into student complaints she had worked on earlier this year for the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. "As far as I am aware there hasn't been any problem," she said.

Link Here

Bribery is part of the issue but isn't the lecturer also taking advantage of his students?

Men jailed for brutal bashing of Chinese pair

A MAN draped in an Australian flag has been jailed for his part in "a savage, unprovoked attack" on a couple of Chinese men riding home on their bicycles.

Michael Gulliford, 21, and Christopher David Owen, 20, were told by South Australian District Court Judge Rauf Soulio they were lucky not to have killed one of their victims in March last year.

Judge Soulio said the Chinese pair had been riding home after playing gaming machines at a northern Adelaide tavern.

Gulliford, of Brooklyn Park, and Owen, of Salisbury Plains, had been outside another hotel when they attacked the Chinese men, repeatedly kicking and punching them.

One of the victims suffered life-threatening internal injuries, Judge Soulio said.

"The assault would have been fatal had the victim not been found and taken to hospital," he said.
The other victim suffered facial injuries.

The attackers stole wallets, mobile phones and watches from both victims before continuing drinking at the tavern where the Chinese men had been gambling.

Gulliford had draped himself in an Australian flag during the attack but his lawyer had previously told the court both men were at first unaware that their victims were Asian.

Judge Soulio noted submissions that the attack wasn't racially motivated.

Gulliford and Owen each pleaded guilty to six counts of aggravated assault and theft, with Judge Soulio saying they could offer no explanation for the attack.

He sentenced both to four years and nine months jail with a non-parole period of one year and nine months.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,25891956-1246,00.html

Miss Tattoo NSW

Tattoo queen ... May Cheung took out the crown of Miss Tattoo NSW. With a win under her belt and $2000 in prizes she'll go onto to face the other state champions in the grand final in Melbourne in May 2010.
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Teen avoids jail over fatal $10 dare

A 19-year-old man involved in a $10 dare that caused the death of a Chinese student has avoided jail.

Aaron Toal was out with friends on the night of July 7 last year when they targeted Yuxiong Han, 21, who was walking home in the dark from work.

The Victorian Supreme Court heard Toal dared one of his friends $10 to hit Han.

His teenage co-accused threw a punch, causing Han to run into the path of an oncoming car at Forest Hill, in Melbourne's east.

He was struck by the car, suffering massive head injuries and died in hospital.

Toal pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Han, who had only arrived in Australia 12 weeks earlier to study here.

Toal was today ordered to undertake a two-year community-based order with 500 hours of unpaid work.

Justice Stephen Kaye told Toal his conduct was disgraceful and cowardly.

He said he was lucky to escape jail.

"You are fortunate. Make sure you take advantage of the opportunity afforded to you,'' he said.

But Victims of Crime Association president Noel McNamara said the sentence was inadequate and put little value on human life.

"It's an absolute outrage. He should've got at least 10 years in jail.

"It's just too merciful and we will certainly write to the DPP about it.

"It's just not good enough.''

The court heard after the incident Toal and his co-accused quickly walked away from the scene.

They later returned and asked onlookers what happened to give a false impression they had just arrived.

Toal initially lied to police about his involvement but later admitted to it when his version of events conflicted with other witnesses.

The judge described victim impact statements from Mr Han's parents as heart-rending.

"By your actions, you have not only cost a decent young man his life, but you have taken from his parents their only and much beloved son, and deprived his sister of her only sibling,'' he said.

The judge said he was satisfied the attack was the result of a thoughtless prank.

He also accepted race was not a factor in the crime and that Toal was deeply remorseful.

Justice Kaye took into account Toal's youth and otherwise good character.

He said his rehabilitation prospects were good and this could be jeopardised by a term of imprisonment.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25876382-29277,00.html

Chinese migrants work in 'slave labour' conditions

Joe Spagnolo, chief political reporter

August 01, 2009 06:00pm
EXCLUSIVE: CHINESE migrant workers employed by a Perth construction firm have been ripped off in one of the worst cases of under-payment in Australia.

Federal investigators said the five tradesmen were paid less than $3 an hour, sometimes working 11 hours a day, seven days a week.

It was alleged they also had to wait several months to see a cent of their earnings.

The five were put to work on construction projects in Perth, a Chinese garden of remembrance in Kalgoorlie and a Chinese temple at the Springvale Cemetery in Melbourne.

The individual amounts paid ranged from $7502 to $12,405 for between nine and 14 months work.

The revelations by the Fair Work Ombudsman have emerged in the same week that WA Premier Colin Barnett foreshadowed importing Chinese labour to help with resource projects in the North-West.

``Situations akin to slave labour and Third World working conditions will not be tolerated,'' Fair Work Ombudsman executive-director Michael Campbell said.

``Want-to-be slave merchants will be rooted out and prosecuted.''

The Ombudsman yesterday alleged Kentwood Industries Pty Ltd deliberately underpaid the five Chinese tradesmen $250,000.

The agency has initiated legal proceedings against Kentwood and company director Jian Yang Zhang, of Dianella, claiming he was the mastermind behind the underpayments.

The men, who worked as labourers, carpenters, joiners, tilers, bricklayers, renderers and welders, were recruited on 457 visas under the skilled migration program.

Prosecution documents lodged in the Federal Court also allege:

Soon after the Fair Work Ombudsman first contacted Kentwood, three of the workers were asked to enter Mr Zhang's vehicle separately and sign a statement that they had worked no more than 40 hours a week. They refused.

Regardless of hours worked, the Chinese employees received a monthly wage equivalent to $A600 in their Chinese bank accounts.

One worker did not receive his first pay for five months. Three others had to wait three months before being paid.

The workers paid up to $2500 each to agents of Mr Zhang to secure jobs with Kentwood and have their 457 visas arranged.

A statement provided by solicitors for Kentwood and Mr Zhang claimed deductions of $18,360 to $21,090 a worker were made from their wages to cover accommodation, food, utility, transport, management and visa-application costs.

But it's alleged these deductions were unlawful.

In addition to seeking penalties against Kentwood and Mr Zhang, the Fair Work Ombudsman is seeking a court order for Kentwood to repay the individual accounts from $28,000 to $69,000, plus interest.

The Fair Work Ombudsman and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship started investigating Kentwood and Mr Zhang in February 2007 after one of worker complained about his pay conditions.

Federal Immigration Minister Chris Evans said yesterday that on July 20, 2007, the Department of Immigration had cancelled Kentwood's sponsorship agreement and a five-year bar was imposed.

This prevents the company sponsoring overseas workers, as a result of failing to pay visa-holders at least the gazetted minimum salary level and for not co-operating with the department's monitoring requirements.

In February 2008, the Ombudsman revealed the plight of one of the Chinese workers and investigators widened the scope of their inquiry.

After his return to WA from China, Mr Barnett this week pushed the case for bringing Chinese workers to the North-West of WA to overcome anticipated labour shortages on a number of multibillion-dollar resource projects.

These include two huge LNG projects -- the proposed Gorgon development on Barrow Island and the Brecknock and Scott Reef project.

A new deepwater port and rail project in Oakajee is also proposed and Chinese steelmaker Ansteel is also looking to develop the state's first steel mill.

``The first priority is to fill these jobs with Australian workers,'' Mr Barnett said yesterday.

``If we can't, then we may face a skills shortage during the construction phase.

``I don't think anyone should get the view there's going to be mass Chinese importation of labour and anyone who does come would be paid under Australian wages and conditions.

``We are not talking about cheap overseas labour.''

Mr Evans said overseas workers had to be protected.

He said worker protection laws that come into effect next month would strengthen the integrity of the temporary skilled working visa program, help improve workplace safety and ensure overseas workers would not be exploited.

Opposition Leader Eric Ripper said employing temporary workers from overseas should be a last resort. If they were employed, Australian wages and conditions had to apply, he said.

It is alleged Kentwood and Mr Zhang committed 10 breaches of workplace law.

The case is listed for mention on August 18.

At Mr Zhang's Malaga headquarters a Chinese worker told The Sunday Times his boss was an infrequent visitor to the site and he didn't know where he was.

The property listed by the Fair Work Ombudsman as Mr Zhang's address is up for sale for $839,000.

The agent selling the house said the property was listed in Mr Zhang's wife's name and it had been empty for two months.

The agent said he wasn't sure where the Zhangs lived.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,27574,25867802-2761,00.html

Asians exploting Asians in Australia. We all know about the restaurant industry and their dodgy pay but this takes the cake. Unless there is an increased vigilance to monitor employers, there's no point in employing more foreign workers. The workers don't speak the language and a lot of the time don't know their rights.

Pumpkin's father to appeal life sentence

This week has been such a busy week.

NAI Yin Xue, the father of the abandoned toddler nicknamed "Pumpkin", will appeal his life sentence for the brutal murder of his young wife, his lawyer says.

Xue, a newspaper publisher and self-styled martial arts expert, was sentenced to life with a minimum non-parole period of 12 years for strangling An An Liu, 27, and dumping her body in the boot of his car in Auckland in September 2007.

He then left the couple's daughter Qian Xun Xue, nicknamed "Pumpkin" by the media, at Melbourne's Southern Cross Station before fleeing to the United States.

Unlike his guilty verdict last month, when Xue punched the air and yelled "unfair unfair" from the dock, the 56-year-old remained stony-faced today as Justice Hugh Williams read out his fate.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25861171-401,00.html

To all the students out there planning on marrying psychos to gain citizenship, it's not worth it.

Stern Hu named over role in Tiananmen Square protest

DETAINED Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu was reportedly part of the Tiananmen Square uprising that preceded the 1989 massacre - a protest that cost him a career with China's biggest state-owned investment company and led him to join Australia's AWA.

While a million people are estimated to have taken part in the 1989 protests, Mr Hu's profile was lifted when a clearly identifiable photo of him taking part in the demonstrations was placed in a Western publication, The New York Times reported.
"It was easy to recognise his face," said a friend of Hu quoted by the paper. "After that he had a bitter time."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25855643-601,00.html

I have tried doing a search for the photo on Google but haven't found anything. Coincidentally it's actually been 20yrs since the massacre. I must admit this guy has balls to go back to China in such a high profile position. Failing to find the pic, I can only post the following photo which sums up the whole Tiananmen fiasco: