Punggol beach used to be one of the Japanese killing fields during the Second World War.

History:

During World War II, on Feb 28, 1942, about 1,000 Chinese were rounded up by the Japanese as part of the "Sook Ching" or "mopping-up" operation. All were executed at this beach as punishment for their resistance activities.

 

PUNGGOL beach is now on the National Heritage Board's list of historical sites.

The marking of the Punggol beach massacre site was part of a series organised in 1995 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the end of World War II. Source – AsiaOne

 

pp: Merged from 2 images from my archives and rendered with Topazlab Adjust

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Aquarium hit by unidentified problem causes death to fish.

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I finally finished Batman: White Knight, what a great story. I would also appreciate it if you'll comment more, I'd love to hear everyone's feedback. Anyway, let's get to it...

 

From L-R:

 

The Maker (Earth-1610): I think I did great on this fig overall, I think Thor's torso works really well. The helmet idea is from HaphazardPanda, I felt like it worked really well.

 

Triton (Uncanny Inhumans): A bit hard to make Triton without an official LEGO mohawk but I think Joker's hair from The Lego Batman Movie makes a great replacement.

 

Spider-Man (Pavitr Prabhakar: Earth-50101): I don't know much about him but I'm thinking about reading the comic series, overall though I think the design works really well.

 

Worm (Hospice): I believe I'm the first person ever to make Worm, I recently watched Deadpool again, and seeing the MCU's version of Worm inspired me to make the comic book version of him. I think the classic Cyborg helmet from the DC Super Heroes Series CMF works way better than the other one.

 

Makeshift Armor (Marvel's Avengers): When I first played this game I knew exactly how I was going to make him and I think it looks exactly just like the game's design.

 

Ultimatum (Miles Morales: Earth-616): I don't know much about Ultimatum, just that he's a clone of Miles Morales. I think the combos on him are pretty great.

 

Slayback: Again first person to make him. Another fig from the origin of Deadpool, I think I did pretty good.

 

Pestilence (First Horsemen of Apocalypse): I don't know much about her either except that she's a member of Apocalypse's Horsemen of Apocalypse.

 

Baron Zemo (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Updated): Another Falcon and the Winter Soldier fig. I haven't gotten around to watching it yet but I think I'll watch it today.

 

Design inspirations below:

 

The Maker (Earth-1610) - (i.pinimg.com/736x/8b/cc/9e/8bcc9ef811a2ca8e2e7818eb0f3656...)

 

Triton (Uncanny Inhumans) - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/d/dc/Trit...)

 

Spider-Man (Pavitr Prabhakar: Earth-50101 - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/spiderman/images/0/04/Pavitr_Pr...)

 

Worm (Hospice) - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/d/da/Worm...)

 

Makeshift Armor (Marvel's Avengers) - (gamewith-en.akamaized.net/img/d87cf16cea04f310501977e9a1c...)

 

Ultimatum (Miles Morales: Earth-616) - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/5/5d/Mile...)

 

Slayback - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/3/35/Greg...)

 

Pestilence (First Horsemen of Apocalypse) - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/2/20/Pest...)

 

Baron Zemo (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) - (www.asiaone.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/2021020...)

 

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Punggol – The Massacre Beach in Singapore during World War II

An unusual discovery at Punggol beach dug up a slice of history that many Singaporeans are not aware of. Punggol beach used to be one of the Japanese killing fields during the Second World War.

 

History of Punggol:

During World War II, on Feb 28, 1942, about 1,000 Chinese from the area around Upper Serangoon Road were rounded up by the Japanese as part of the Sook Ching or mopping-up operation.

All were executed at this beach as punishment for their resistance activities.

 

Punggol Beach is now on the National Heritage Board's list of historical sites.

The marking of the Punggol beach massacre site was part of a series organised in 1995 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the end of World War II. Source – AsiaOne

An aerial view of the Kallang River from the Singapore Flyer

Now that Marina Bay is exploding with entertainment, this quiet part of the river is starting to glow with exciting plans in the very near future.

Giant spaceships to attack Earth in 2012? Yahoo News - Article

 

SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) — an independent non-commercial organisation in the United States — released a shocking statement last week that three giant spaceships are heading towards Earth, according to AsiaOne News.

 

The largest one of them is reported to be 240 kilometres wide, and the two others are smaller.

 

The spaceships were detected by the Alaska-based High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) search system, which is designed to study the phenomenon of northern lights. The system is also used by the US Air Force for missile detection.

 

Moreover, the report claims that the spaceships, which are currently beyond the orbit of Pluto, will reach Earth in December 2012.

 

blah blah blah......

 

Some scholar interested in astronomy, and he dismissed the spaceship reports as wild speculation.

 

He gave fews reasons why this strange phenomenon will not occur.

 

Firstly, why would aliens wait until after we have developed nuclear weapons capable of mass destruction? They could have set their invasion schedule to early 20th century and met no resistance from the human race.

 

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WHY NOT?

If UFOs do exist, they can travel from their planet to earth, what technology they have??? Do they give a damn your nuclear weapons of mass destruction??? mass destruction killing your own people??? scholar???

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Steven, u shouldn't let E.T go, what have u done?? E.T is a spy.

 

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Montblanc Hommage à A. Carnegie - Limited Edition Patron of Arts 2002.

 

The stylish and elegant Patron of Art Edition Hommage à Andrew Carnegie recalls the artistic style that Carnegie supported so enthusiastically: art nouveau. The clip of the pen is a graceful female figure, whose wings wrap around the cap of the pen like a butterfly’s. The black of the barrel of Edition 4810 provides a striking contrast to this delicate fretwork effect in 925 sterling silver.

 

The barrel and cap of Edition 888 are made of mother-of-pearl lacquer and covered with a 750 white gold weave. The Montblanc star in this edition is made of fine mother-of-pearl. A delicately engraved lily – a popular art nouveau motif – decorates the rhodium-plated 18-karat gold nib.

 

Montblanc Hommage à Andrew Carnegie 888 Limited Edition Fountain Pen 7277

Andrew Carnegie is still considered one of the greatest patrons of culture in the modern world. A Steel tycoon who emigrated from Scotland to the USA, he was firmly convinced that wealthy people were morally obliged to dedicate themselves to charitable works. So he spent more than 350 million dollars - almost his whole fortune - on cultural foundations, public libraries and cultural programs, and on fostering talented art nouveau artists, the most fashionable artists of the day.

 

The stylish and elegant Patron of Art Edition Hommage a Andrew Carnegie recalls the artistic style that Carnegie supported so enthusiastically: art nouveau. the Clip of the pen is a graceful female figure , whose wings wrap around the cap of the pen like a butterfly's. The black of the barrel of Edition 4810 provides a striking contrast to this delicate fretwork effect in 925 sterling silver. The barrel and cap of Edition 888 are made of mother-of-peral lacquer and covered with a 750 white gold weave. The Montblanc star in this edition is made of fine mother-of-pearl. A delicately engraved lily - popular art nouveau motif - decorates the rhodium-plated 18 carat gold nib.

 

Industrialist and philanthropist extraordinaire, Andrew Carnegie personifies the American dream and the idea that man does not live by bread alone. Overcoming poverty to become one of the richest men of his time, he rejected an elitist lifestyle to patron the arts and champion the common man. His legacy still enriches the world today and his crowning work, the Carnegie Hall, has become a temple of culture and one of the most important stages in

the world.

 

Echoing the style he loved, the Montblanc Andrew Carnegie is an art nouveau tribute to the man and his legacy. Its exquisitely carved, 18-carat gold nib and pitch-black barrel set a graceful scene for the dramatic crown of a sterling silver clip in the sensual form of a winged feminine figure.

 

Features:

 

Launch: 2002

Limitation: 888 Fountain Pens

Mother-of-pearl lacquer

750 white gold fretwork

Rhodium-plated 18-karat gold nib 7277

The stylish and elegant Patron of Art Edition Hommage Andrew Carnegie recalls the artistic style that Carnegie supported so enthusiastically: art nouveau. The clip of the pen is a graceful female figure, whose wings wrap around the cap of the pen like a butterfly's.

 

The barrel and cap of Edition 888 are made of mother-of-pearl lacquer and covered with a 750 white gold weave.

Andrew Carnegie is still considered one of the greatest patrons of culture in the modern world. A steel tycoon who emigrated from Scotland to the USA, he was firmly convinced that wealthy people were morally obliged to dedicate themselves to charitable works. So he spent more than 350 million dollars almost his whole fortune on cultural foundations, public libraries and cultural programmes, and on fostering talented art nouveau artists, the most fashionable artists of the day.

 

Bluma Appel - Canada. Shortened from Applebaum, her husband’s former name. According to my long time friend Bernie she owned close to 3 or 4% of Seagram's stock which provided her with very deep pockets. He also shared the evolution of her family surname.

 

As a Member of the Order of Canada she often volunteered to preside at Canadian citizenship ceremonies at 55 St. Clair Avenue East Toronto. Other than wearing the snow flake, that is the only perk/ honour bestowed upon recipients. I clerked many of her ceremonies and enjoyed talking with her ever present young male assistant who was a classical pianist. I took photos of dozens of volunteer presiders but lost 99% of those images when my first IBM desktop computer froze.

 

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluma_Appel

 

Bluma Appel, OC, O.Ont (September 4, 1919 – July 15, 2007) was a Canadian philanthropist and patron of the arts. She was born the daughter of Russian émigrés who left Czarist Russia around 1905. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, she was the founder of CANFAR, the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research. Bluma married the Montreal chartered accountant Bram Appel on July 11, 1940. It was Bram's subsequent success in business which afforded Bluma the opportunity to engage in serious philanthropic activity: in 1946 he co-founded Pall Corporation. In 1979, she ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Nepean—Carleton. She lost to Walter Baker. She was a major supporter of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, which named one of its theatres in her honour in March 1983 after she made a donation to help renovate the 876-seat theatre where the Canadian Stage Company (CanStage) performs. She was also a significant force behind Opera Atelier. In June 2005, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts gave Ms. Appel an honorary Dora Mavor Moore Award "for her exceptional and lifelong dedication" to the performing arts in Canada. She is memorialized at The Canadian Stage Company's Bluma Appel Theatre in perpetuity. Four days after celebrating her 67th wedding anniversary, Appel lost her brief battle with lung cancer and died in a hospital in Toronto, aged 86. She was buried at Pardes Shalom Cemetery, north of Toronto. Bram Appel died October 8, 2007. They are survived by their two sons David (born 1941) and Mark (born 1944), and five grandchildren.

 

Her honours and awards include:

In 1988, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for being one of a few people "as active in such a broad range of community services as she".

In 1998, she was awarded an Order of Ontario.

In 2001, she was elevated to Officer of the Order of Canada for continuing "her outstanding volunteer work on behalf of numerous cultural, social and health care organizations".

In 2005, she was awarded an honorary Dora Mavor Moore Award for her lifelong support of Canadian arts and culture, an honour given to only two other individuals, William Hutt and Urjo Kareda.

In 2006, she was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto.

In 2007, she was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from Brock University.

The Bluma Appel Theatre in the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto is named in her honour for the use of The Canadian Stage Company.

 

Corinne Ricard - France. I found little on the internet about her.

MADAME CORINNE RICARDO (CORINNE COIFFURE)

25 Rue Sainte Catherine 27200 Vernon France.

SIREN: 401-905-476.

 

Irene Schulte-Hillen - Germany

Her Wiki pages were only in German. Her husband had a small English Wiki page mentioning her.

wikispooks.com/wiki/Gerd_Schulte-Hillen

 

Michelle Yeoh - Hong Kong

 

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, PSM (/ˈjoʊ/; born 6 August 1962)[1] is a Malaysian actress. She rose to fame in 1990s Hong Kong action films, and is best known internationally for her roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), along with recent international English films and series.

 

Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dato' Seri

Michelle Yeoh

PSM, SPMP

杨紫琼

Michelle Yeoh Cannes 2017.jpg

Yeoh in 2017

Born: Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng. 6 August 1962 (age 57). Ipoh, Federation of Malaya

Education: Royal Academy of Dance (BA)

Occupation: Actress

Years active: 1980–present

Spouse(s): Dickson Poon. (m. 1988; div. 1992)

Partner(s): Jean Todt (2004–present)

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Awards:

Full list

Chinese name

Traditional Chinese

楊紫瓊

Simplified Chinese

杨紫琼

Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin

Hanyu PinyinYáng Zǐqióng

IPA[jáŋ tsɹ̩̀.tɕʰjʊ́ŋ]

Yue: Cantonese

Yale RomanizationYèuhng Jíkìhng

JyutpingJoeng4 Zi2-king4

IPA[jœ̏ːŋ tsǐː.kʰȅŋ]

Southern Min

Hokkien POJIôⁿ Chú-khêng

Tâi-lôIônn Tsú-khîng

 

Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she won the Miss Malaysia pageant of 1983 at the age of 20. She later achieved fame in the early 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films in which she performed her own stunts, such as Yes, Madam (1985), Police Story 3: Supercop (1992) and Holy Weapon (1993). She was credited as Michelle Khan in her early Hollywood films. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her work in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

 

She has appeared in many English, Mandarin and Cantonese language films. Her other works include Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Reign of Assassins (2010), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), Star Trek: Discovery (2017) and The Lady (2011), in which she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2018, she starred in the American romantic comedy-drama film, Crazy Rich Asians. She has also co-starred in the 2019 films Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy and Last Christmas.

 

The film review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time in 2008.[2] In 1997, she was chosen by People as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World", and in 2009 the same magazine listed her as one of the "35 All-Time Screen Beauties"—the only Asian actress to make the list.[3]

 

Early life and education:

 

She was born in Ipoh, Malaysia, to a local ethnic Malaysian Chinese family of Hokkien and Cantonese descent.[4] Her parents are Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian Teik (died on 5 November 2014), a lawyer and MCA politician,[5] as well as the man behind the popular express bus service, Sri Maju.[6]

 

She was keen on dance from an early age, beginning ballet at the age of four. She studied at Convent Ipoh (Main Convent) as a primary student. At the age of 15, she moved with her parents to the United Kingdom, where she was enrolled in a boarding school. Yeoh later studied at the UK's Royal Academy of Dance in London, majoring in ballet. However, a spinal injury prevented her from becoming a professional ballet dancer, and she transferred her attention to choreography and other arts. She later received a BA degree in Creative Arts with a minor in Drama.

 

Career:

 

Main article: List of Michelle Yeoh performances

In 1983, at the age of 20, Yeoh won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant.[7] She represented Malaysia at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant which was held in Australia and won the crown. While in Melbourne, she also won the Miss Moomba title.[8] She was also Malaysia's representative at the Miss World 1983 pageant in London. From there, she appeared in a television commercial with Jackie Chan which caught the attention of a fledgling Hong Kong film production company, D&B Films.

 

Yeoh started her film career acting in action and martial arts films such as Yes, Madam in 1985, after which she did most of her own stunts.[9] She was credited as Michelle Khan in these earlier films. This alias was chosen by D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to international and western audiences. Yeoh later preferred using her real name.[7]

 

The D&B Group in Hong Kong was run by the businessman Dickson Poon. Yeoh married Poon in 1987 and retired from acting.

 

Yeoh at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

In 1992, Yeoh and Dickson Poon divorced and Yeoh returned to acting.[7] Yeoh's performance in Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992) marked her comeback to film. She acted in The Heroic Trio in 1993, and the Yuen Woo-ping films Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun in 1994.

 

She played Wai Lin in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Brosnan was impressed, describing her as a "wonderful actress" who was "serious and committed about her work".[10] He referred to her as a "female James Bond" in reference to her combat abilities. She wanted to perform her own stunts but was prevented because director Roger Spottiswoode considered it too dangerous. Nevertheless, she performed all of her own fighting scenes.[11][12]

 

Yeoh was then recruited by Ang Lee to star as Yu Shu Lien in the Chinese language martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film was shot in various provinces around China. Yeoh had grown up speaking English and Malay, before learning Cantonese. She spoke little Mandarin, and learned the Mandarin lines for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon phonetically.[13] The film was an international success, and earned Yeoh a BAFTA 2000 nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

 

Thereafter, she was offered the role of Seraph in the two sequels to The Matrix, but she could not accept due to a scheduling conflict (the Matrix writers then changed Seraph into a male character and cast Collin Chou in the role).[14] In 2002, she produced her first English film, The Touch, through her own production company, Mythical Films.

 

In 2005, Yeoh starred as the graceful Mameha in the film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, and she continued her English-language work in 2007 with Sunshine. In 2008, Michelle Yeoh also starred in fantasy action film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with Brendan Fraser and Jet Li.[15]

 

In October 2011, she was chosen by Guerlain to be its skincare ambassador.[16] Yeoh will play a role in strengthening the French cosmetics company's relationship with Asia.[17] Apart from action films, she is famous for playing nationalists in two biopics. In 1997, she played Soong Ai-ling in the award-winning The Soong Sisters. In 2011, she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson's The Lady.[18] Yeoh was blacklisted by the Burmese government allegedly because of her participation in The Lady; she was refused entry to Myanmar on 22 June 2011 and was deported on the same day.[19]

 

Yeoh has also recently branched out into television, as it was announced in September 2014 that she had accepted her first television role on the fifth and final season of Strike Back.[20] Yeoh plays the role of Mei Foster, wife to the British Ambassador to Thailand, and who is secretly a North Korean spy named Li-Na.[21]

 

In 2016, Yeoh was cast as Federation Captain Philippa Georgiou of the starship USS Shenzhou in the series Star Trek: Discovery, and recurs as Georgiou's "mirror" doppelganger in the second season.[22][23] In 2018, she played family matriarch Eleanor Young in Jon M. Chu's Crazy Rich Asians, a film adaptation of Kevin Kwan's book of the same name, opposite Constance Wu and Henry Golding.[24]

 

In 2019, she played Christmas themed-store owner "Santa" in Last Christmas, opposite Henry Golding and Emilia Clarke. The film was released on 8 November 2019.

 

Personal life:

 

Yeoh was married to Hong Kong entrepreneur Dickson Poon, owner of businesses such as Harvey Nichols and Charles Jourdan,[25] from 1988 to 1992. In 1998, Yeoh was engaged to Alan Heldman, an American cardiologist.[26] In 2004, she started dating Jean Todt,[27] a leading figure in motor racing, and in July 2008 she confirmed her engagement to him during an interview with Craig Ferguson on CBS's The Late Late Show.[citation needed][28]

 

Yeoh is a Buddhist.[29][30] In March 2008, she visited Vietnam to film a documentary for the Asian Injury Prevention Foundation (AIPF).[31] Yeoh is also a patron of the Save China's Tigers project committed to protect the endangered South China tiger.[32]

 

Awards, honors and styles:

 

Michelle Yeoh's handprints on the "Avenue of Stars" in Hong Kong

In 1999, she was a member of the jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.[33]

 

On 19 April 2001, Yeoh was awarded the Darjah Datuk Paduka Mahkota Perak (DPMP), which carries the title Dato', by Sultan Azlan Shah, the Sultan of Perak, her home state, in recognition of the fame she brought to the state.[34]

 

On 25 November 2002, she was honoured as The Outstanding Young People of the World (TOYP) (Cultural Achievement) by JCI (Junior Chamber International).[35]

 

On 23 April 2007, French President Jacques Chirac awarded Yeoh as Knight of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur). The decoration was presented to her in a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on 3 October 2007.[36] She was promoted to Officer of the same French Order (Officier de la Légion d'honneur) by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 14 March 2012. The decoration was presented to her at a ceremony held at the president's official residence, the Élysée Palace on that day.[37] She was promoted to Commander of the same French Order (Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur) by French President François Hollande on 28 March 2017. The decoration was presented to her at a ceremony held at the president's official residence, the Élysée Palace on that day.

 

In 2011, she received a special award for her contribution to Malaysian cinema at Malaysian Film Festival (FFM 24).

 

On 22 May 2012, she was awarded the Darjah Seri Paduka Mahkota Perak (SPMP) which carries the title Dato' Seri during the investiture ceremony in conjunction with the Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah's birthday.[38]

 

Michelle Yeoh received the Excellence in Asian Cinema award during the seventh annual Asian Film Awards on March 2013 in Hong Kong.

 

On 1 June 2013, she was awarded the Panglima Setia Mahkota (PSM) which carries the title Tan Sri during the investiture ceremony in conjunction with the birthday of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah.[39][40]

 

On 30 November 2013, she presided as the Chief Guest at the International Film Festival of India.[41]

 

On 12 February 2016 she was conferred France's Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres award by the French government in Kuala Lumpur.

 

Honours of Malaysia:

 

Malaysia :

Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia - PSM.svg Commander of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (PSM) - Tan Sri (2013)[42][43]

Perak :

MY-PERA Order of the Perak State Crown - lower classes.svg Knight Commander of the Order of the Perak State Crown (DPMP) - Dato' (2001)[42][44]

MY-PERA Order of the Perak State Crown - Kn Grd Commander - SPMP.svg Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Perak State Crown (SPMP) - Dato' Seri (2012)[42]

 

International Honours:

 

France :

Legion Honneur Chevalier ribbon.svg Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (2007)[45]

Legion Honneur Officier ribbon.svg Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (2012)[46]

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officier ribbon.svg Officier of the National Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2016)[47]

Legion Honneur Commandeur ribbon.svg Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (2017)[48]

Awards and nominations:

 

Year Nominated Work Award:

 

1986Yes, MadamHong Kong Film Award for Best New PerformerNominated

1998Tomorrow Never DiesMTV Movie Award for Best FightNominated

1998The Soong SistersHong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated

2000Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonTFCA Award for Best Performance, FemaleNominated

2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonSaturn Award for Best ActressNominated

2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonBAFTA Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading RoleNominated

2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonBlockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Action TeamNominated

2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonGolden Horse Award for Best ActressNominated

2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonHong Kong Film Award for Best ActressNominated

2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonVFCC Award for Best ActressNominated

2011Reign of AssassinsAsian Film Award for Best ActressNominated

2011Reign of AssassinsPeople's Choice Award for Favorite ActressNominated

2011Reign of AssassinsHuabiao Film Award for Outstanding Abroad ActressNominated

2018Star Trek: DiscoverySaturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on TelevisionNominated[49]

2019Crazy Rich AsiansThe Asian Awards for Outstanding Achievement in CinemaWon[50]

 

Special Awards:

Year Award

1998Asian Media Award Won

2001ShoWest Award for International Star of the YearW on

2013Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema Won

 

References:

 

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^ "Awards & Recognitions / Achievements". jciklm.org. Archived from the original on 6 December 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2013.

^ "Yeoh receives France's top honour". BBC News. 4 October 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2011.

^ "Michelle Yeoh receives Legion of Honour from France". Bernama via mysinchew.com. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2012.

^ "Datuk Michelle Yeoh now 'Datuk Seri'". Yahoo News. Retrieved 3 June 2012.

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^ "Semakan Penerima Darjah Kebesaran, Bintang dan Pingat".

^ "Actress Michelle Yeoh to be Chief Guest at IFFI Closing Ceremony". Biharprabha News. Retrieved 1 December 2013.

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^ Hammond, Pete (27 June 2018). "'Black Panther' Tops 44th Saturn Awards With Five; 'Blade Runner 2049' , 'Shape Of Water', 'Get Out' Also Score". Deadline. Retrieved 28 June 2018.

^ "Outstanding Achievement in Cinema – CRAZY RICH ASIANS". The Asian Awards. Retrieved 28 October 2019.

 

Further reading:

 

Kho Tong Guan: Yeoh Chu Kheng, Michelle. In: Leo Suryadinata (ed.): Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume I & II. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012, ISBN 9789814345217, pp. 1347–1350

Ken E. Hall: Michelle Yeoh. In: Garry Bettinson: Directory of World Cinema: CHINA 2. Intellect Books, 2015, ISBN 9781783204007, pp. 71–73

Lisa Funnell: Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star. Suny Press, 2014, ISBN 9781438452494, pp. 31–57 (chapter Transnational Chinse Mothers: The Heroic Identities of Michelle Yeoh and Pei Pei Cheng)

Rikke Schubart: Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970–2006. McFarland, 2012, ISBN 9780786482849 , pp. 123–143 (chapter Beautiful Vase Made of Iron and Steel Michelle Yeoh).

 

Franca Coin - Italy

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Yutaka Sado - Japan

 

Yutaka Sado (佐渡 裕, Sado Yutaka, born 13 May 1961 in Kyoto) is a Japanese conductor.

 

Yutaka Sado, 2016

While still in school, Sado obtained a position in the Kansai Nikikai, a Japanese school of opera, where he had the opportunity to work with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, learning operatic repertoire. In 1987, he traveled to the United States to attend the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he studied with Seiji Ozawa. Later he won the Davidoff Special Prize for a competition in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He returned to Japan as an assistant to Ozawa and made his debut with the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo with a Haydn symphony series. He later studied with Charles Dutoit, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Leonard Bernstein,[1] with whom he toured the Soviet Union and Germany.

 

Sado won first prize and became the third Japanese winner (after Seiji Ozawa in 1959 and Yoko Matsuo in 1982) at the 39th annual International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon, France in 1989. In 1990, he became a regular participant in the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, along with Christoph Eschenbach and Michael Tilson Thomas. Sado also serves as Artistic Director and Artistic Advisor of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center and principal conductor of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra which he helped establish in 2005. Sado also is chief conductor of the Siena Wind Orchestra in Japan.

 

Outside Japan, Sado was Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Lamoureux from 1993 to 2011. He recorded with the Orchestre Lamoureux for such labels as Erato.[2] In October 1995, Sado was named the winner of the first Leonard Bernstein Jerusalem International Music Competition.[3] In 2011, he conducted Beethoven's 9th symphony, with 10,000 Japanese people, for the victims of the 2011 Japanese earthquake. He conducted 10,000 people, previously in 2007 and another time too (the date is unknown). In November 2013, the Tonkünstler Orchestra announced the appointment of Sado as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2015–2016 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.[4][5]

 

References:

 

^ Allan Kozinn (19 January 1990). "Bernstein and Thomas Head New Pacific Music Festival". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 March 2009.

^ Roger Nichols (August 2000). "Hommage à l'Orchestre Lamoureux". Gramophone. Retrieved 1 October 2015.

^ "Japanese Wins Bernstein Competition". The New York Times. 13 October 1995. Retrieved 29 March 2009.

^ "Yutaka Sado wird Chefdirigent des Tonkünstler-Orchesters" (PDF) (Press release). Tonkünstler Orchestra. November 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2013.

^ "Yutaka Sado wird neuer Tonkünstler-Chefdirigent". Der Standard. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2013.

 

External links;

 

Official website of Yutaka Sado

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Digital Concert Hall, interview with Yutaka Sado

Preceded by:

Valentin KojinPrincipal Conductor, Lamoureux Orchestra

1993–2011Succeeded by:

Fayçal Karoui

Preceded by:

Andrés Orozco-EstradaPrincipal Conductor, Tonkünstler Orchestra

2015–presentSucceeded by: incumbent.

 

Tan Siah Kwee - Singapore

www.esplanade.com/offstage/arts/tan-siah-kwee

 

“Before writing, a calligrapher has to gather his concentration in order to perfect his technique on brush and ink, and watch the paper absorb his ink. Through these movements, many different kinds of enjoyment can be produced.”

 

Tan Siah Kwee was born in Guangdong, China, on 6 Oct 1948, and moved to Singapore in the 1950s, where he began developing an interest in Chinese calligraphy. As founder of the Chinese Calligraphy Society of Singapore, he has been one of the key promoters of the art form over the past four decades. He has worked tirelessly and taught many, spreading interest in the genre across the island. Tan is also well known for his public calligraphy demonstrations and workshops, and counts important Singapore politicians among his students. In 2000, Tan Received the Cultural Medallion for his contributions to visual arts in Singapore.

 

Tan Siah Kwee was introduced to Chinese calligraphy while he was a student in Kong Hwa School. Weekly lessons involved calligraphy exercises, and he soon found an interest in the art form. During his time in Chung Cheng High School, he joined the Chinese calligraphy club. And under the guidance of the club’s teachers who saw his potential, his passion and skill in calligraphy grew. Later, he would regard Pan Shou as the person who influenced his calligraphy the most.

 

Tan credits the art form with teaching him patience and instilling in him an ethos of hard work. His years of determined practice and study has resulted in a calligraphic style that is marked by a bold engagement with paper, clearly defined characters, considered composition and bravura brushwork.

 

Tan founded the nation’s premiere organisation for calligraphy—the Chinese Calligraphy Society of Singapore. His perseverance towards the cause of promoting Chinese calligraphy saw the society through its difficult times when membership dropped to only 12 members. Today, the Chinese Calligraphic Society has over 600 members, Tan serving as its president.

 

Over his illustrious career, he also gave several hundred public and private calligraphic demonstrations, and participated in numerous Singaporean diplomatic missions as a cultural ambassador and performing calligrapher.

 

Tan has taught calligraphy at his own society and also at the National University of Singapore, the National Institute of Education and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, among other tertiary institutions. Besides students of all ages and races, he also counts former president of Singapore, S. R. Nathan, among his list of distinguished politician-students. Inspired by one of his calligraphy teachers who would give calligraphic prints to his students for reference and practice, Tan continues to provide quality calligraphic materials and equipment for free to his dedicated students.

 

In 2000, Tan Received the Cultural Medallion for his contributions to visual arts in Singapore.

 

Today, Tan continues to practise calligraphy, teach—often for free—and contribute his expertise on the subject as advisor and consultant to arts institutions in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China.

 

6 Oct 1948. Born in Swatow, Guangdong, Republic of China.

15 Mar 1955. Moved to Singapore.

1956. Enrolled in Kong Hwa Primary.

 

Carlos Zurita - Spain

 

Carlos Emilio Juan Zurita y Delgado, Duke of Soria and Hernani (born 9 October 1943 in Antequera), is the husband of Infanta Margarita and uncle of King Felipe VI of Spain.

 

Carlos Zurita

Duke of Soria and Hernani

The Duchess and Duke of Soria

Born: 9 October 1943 (age 76). Antequera, Málaga, Spain

Spouse: Infanta Margarita, 2nd Duchess of Hernani (m. 1972)

Issue:

Don Alfonso Zurita y de Borbón

Doña María Zurita y de Borbón

Full name: Carlos Emilio Juan Zurita y Delgado

Father: Carlos Zurita y González-Vidalte

Mother: María del Carmen Delgado y Fernández de Santaella

He was born to Carlos Zurita y González-Vidalte[1] and wife María del Carmen Delgado y Fernández de Santaella[2] in Antequera, Málaga, Spain.

 

The Duke of Soria is a retired medical doctor and was, as his father, a specialist in the respiratory and circulatory system. He studied at the medical faculty of the University of Seville, where he obtained a licentiate in medicine with accompanying award "Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura" for extraordinary merit in 1967.[3] He received his doctorate with a scholarship at the Spanish College in Bologna, Italy. In 1971, the duke gained the position of teacher service manager of the Spanish National College of the Thorax Illness.[4]

 

He married Infanta Margarita, on 12 October 1972 in Estoril at St. Anthony's Church. They have two children:

 

Don Alfonso Juan Carlos Zurita y de Borbón (b. Madrid, 9 August 1973).

Doña María Sofía Emilia Carmen Zurita y de Borbón (b. Madrid, 16 September 1975). She has a son, Carlos, born on 28 April 2018 in Madrid.[5]

In 1989, the Duke and the Duchess of Soria created the Fundación Cultural Duques de Soria (The Duke and Duchess of Soria Cultural Foundation), its objective is to stimulate the Spanish language and culture. The Foundation cooperates with universities and Spanish cultural institutions to contribute the cultural and scientific development in Spain.[6]

 

The Duke of Soria is President of the Spanish Federation of the Museums Friends Associations and President of the Friends of Prado Museum Foundation. He also is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine.[4]

 

Titles, styles, honours and arms.

 

Titles:

 

9 October 1943 – 1967: Mr. Carlos Zurita y Delgado

1967 – 12 October 1972: Dr. Carlos Zurita y Delgado

12 October 1972 – 27 May 1981: His Excellency Don Carlos Zurita y Delgado

27 May – 23 June 1981: His Excellency The Duke of Hernani

23 June 1981 – present: His Excellency The Duke of Soria and Hernani

The Duke's style and title in full: His Excellency Don Carlos Emilio Juan Zurita y Delgado de Borbón, Duke of Soria, Duke of Hernani, Grandee of Spain.

 

Honours:

 

See also: List of honours of the Spanish Royal Family by country

In 2003, the Duke and Duchess of Soria were appointed Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise of Spain.[7]

 

References:

 

^ Obituary of his father

^ (in Spanish) www.geneall.net (accessed 2 November 2008)

^ Los títulos de la familia del Rey - website of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo

^ a b (in Spanish) Anales de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina Archived January 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Duke of Soria’s laudatio in his appointment as member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine by Hipólito Durán Sacristán, 235-242. (accessed 2 November 2008)

^ Vanitatis

^ (in Spanish) The Duke and Duchess of Soria Cultural Foundation website. (accessed 2 November 2008)

^ (in Spanish) Royal Decree 484/2003 The Duke of Soria member of the Spanish Royal Order of Alfonso X. BOE, Spanish Official Journal. (accessed 2 November 2008).

 

Griff Rhys Jones - United Kingdom

 

This British surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Rhys Jones, not Jones.

Griffith Rhys Jones OBE (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner, Mel Smith.

 

Griff Rhys Jones: OBE

 

Rhys Jones in March 2014

Birth name: Griff Rhys Jones

Born: 16 November 1953 (age 66)[1]. Cardiff, Wales

Medium: Film, television

Years active: 1979–present

Genres: Improvisational comedy, sketch comedy

Spouse: Jo Jones

Rhys Jones came to national attention in the 1980s for his work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones. With Smith, he founded television production company Talkback Productions, now part of RTL Group and later in 2005, he started the production company Modern Television.[2]

 

He went on to develop a career as a television presenter and writer, as well as continuing with acting work. From 2008 until 2016, he presented the television bloopers show It'll be Alright on the Night for ITV, having replaced Denis Norden who hosted the show for almost 30 years. Rhys Jones was himself replaced on the show in 2018 by David Walliams.[3]

 

Early life and education:

 

Rhys Jones was born in Cardiff, the son of Gwynneth Margaret (née Jones) and Elwyn Rhys Jones,[4] a medical doctor. The family moved because of his father's occupation to West Sussex when he was 6 months old.[5] Rhys Jones attended Conifers Primary School in Midhurst, West Sussex, junior school in Epping, Essex, and Brentwood School, also in Essex.[6]

 

After a short spell working as a petrol pump attendant, Rhys Jones gained a gap year job on the P&O ship Uganda, working for a company organising school trips. In his autobiography, Semi-Detached, he describes how he was charged with helping to look after 600 Canadian schoolgirls, followed by a similar number of younger Scottish schoolchildren, and refers to the experience as being like "St Trinians at sea".[7] He wrote to eight of the Canadians afterwards.[8]

 

Rhys Jones read History and English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with a 2:1.[9]

 

Career:

 

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After Cambridge, Rhys Jones then joined BBC Radio Light Entertainment as a trainee producer, with his output including the satirical show Week Ending and Brain of Britain.[10]

 

An evening planned to spend watching his hero Frankie Howerd at the invitation of friends Clive Anderson and Rory McGrath, who were writing the show at the time, resulted in Rhys Jones replacing the show's producer, who had suffered from a stress-related illness from dealing with the comedian. He later produced Rowan Atkinson's show The Atkinson People for the BBC and has appeared twice on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

 

Rhys Jones filled in several minor roles in the first series of Not the Nine O'Clock News, and was brought in as a regular cast member from the second series onwards, replacing Chris Langham. Rhys Jones says that the reason he got the part was not due to his appearance in the initial shows, or his talent, but because producer John Lloyd was going out with his sister at the time. Rhys Jones became a regular from the commissioned second series.

 

Rhys Jones was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1984 (1983 season) for Best Comedy Performance in Charley's Aunt and in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Comedy Performance for his performance in An Absolute Turkey. He also played Toad in The Wind in the Willows at the National Theatre in 1990, as well as a number of other theatre roles. He provided the voices on the series of short cartoons Funnybones, for which he also sang the theme tune.

 

Rhys Jones has continued his acting career, having roles in Casualty and Agatha Christie's Marple as well as starring in Russell T Davies' drama series Mine All Mine on ITV. It'll be Alright on the Night returned with Rhys Jones as the new presenter, taking over from Denis Norden. The first programme starring Rhys Jones aired in 2008.

 

In January 2012, Rhys Jones returned to sketch comedy at the BBC alongside "some of the biggest names in TV", including Hugh Bonneville, Tom Hollander and Larry Lamb, for one of a three episode series in which comedy legends take to the stage for a mix of stand-up and sketches. It also featured a special guest appearance by former comedy partner Mel Smith in a new Head to Head sketch, referring many times to it having been 16 years since their last.[11]

 

Partnership with Mel Smith:

 

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After Not the Nine O'Clock News, Mel Smith and Rhys Jones decided to create and write more material together, and to start a management company. From 1984, Smith and Rhys Jones appeared in the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones (the show's title being a pun on the American television series Alias Smith and Jones). After the first series, the pair appeared on the big screen in Mike Hodges' sci fi comedy movie Morons from Outer Space and then in 1989, the LWT production Wilt.

 

Smith and Rhys Jones were reunited in March 2005, for a Comic Relief sketch, which led to a revival of their previous television series in The Smith and Jones Sketchbook, recorded that same year but aired over twelve months later. Their final television appearance together was a Head To Head routine for the special of 2012 The One Griff Rhys-Jones.

 

When Smith died in the summer of 2013, Rhys Jones wrote a moving piece about his comedy partner in the Radio Times, saying it was "sheer bliss" to perform with Mel.[12]

 

Production companies:

 

In 1981, Rhys Jones along with Mel Smith founded Talkback, a production company which produced many of the most popular British comedy series of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge, They Think It's All Over, QI and Big Train. They eventually sold the company to Pearson for £62 million.

 

In 2005, Rhys Jones created his own production company 'Modern Television',[13] which has since made a number of productions with Rhys Jones as presenter[14] and executive producer.

 

Documentaries:

 

Rhys Jones has developed a career as a television presenter, beginning as the co-host on several Comic Relief programmes. He presented Bookworm from 1994 to 2000, was the presenter of the BBC's Restoration programme and has done a considerable amount of fundraising work for the Hackney Empire theatre conservation project. In 2004, he led a demonstration at the Senate House in Cambridge University for the purpose of saving architecture as a degree in Cambridge.

 

Since 2006, Rhys Jones has starred in the BBC's Three Men in a Boat series, alongside Dara Ó Briain and Rory McGrath.[15] The series has included the trio rowing the River Thames, as in the 1889 novel, sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing boat race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly.

 

In more recent adventures, the three took to the Irish Canals and Rivers on a trip from Dublin to Limerick (Dara's Greyhound Snip Nua also tagged along for the trip), went to Scotland, and sailed along the Balkan coast ending up in Venice for a gondola race. His documentary series Mountain, for which he climbed 15 British peaks during 2006,[16] was broadcast on BBC One 29 July–26 August 2007.

 

Rhys Jones fronted Greatest Cities of the World, which saw him visiting a different city each week. The first series, featuring London, New York and Paris, aired on primetime ITV in October 2008. A second series featuring Rome, Sydney and Hong Kong was broadcast in April and May 2010.

 

He presented a seasonal documentary, Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas, which was broadcast on 23 December 2007 on BBC One.[17]

 

Rhys Jones has also created and presented programmes about Arthur Ransome,[18] Thomas Hardy,[19] John Betjeman[20] and Rudyard Kipling.[21]

 

During July to August 2009, Rhys Jones presented the BBC programme Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones.[22] which featured on the cover of Radio Times[23]

 

In 2010, Rhys Jones presented a programme called The Prince's Welsh Village that featured Prince Charles.[24]

 

In 2011, he presented the series Hidden Treasures of Art, which examined the art of Australia, India and Africa over the course of three episodes.[25]

 

Rhys Jones presented Britain's Lost Routes with Griff Rhys Jones[26] on BBC One from 30 May to 20 June 2012. The show looked at lesser known routes around Great Britain. On 29 April 2012, Rhys Jones guest presented an episode of Perspectives on ITV, his chosen subject being Wind in the Willows.[citation needed]

 

In 2013, Rhys Jones presented a documentary about his father's service as a medical officer with the Gold Coast Regiment and the war in Burma,[27] Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army, was broadcast on BBC Two on 7 July.[28]

 

In 2014, Rhys Jones fronted an eight-part ITV documentary series entitled A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones.[29]

 

From 10 April 2015, he introduced a five-part documentary series for ITV, Slow Train Through Africa, taking in life on and off trains from Morocco to South Africa, by way of Algeria, Tunisia, Kenya and Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia.[30]

 

In December 2015, it was announced that Rhys Jones would present Griff's Great Britain, a new eight-part series for ITV.[31] The show began airing in January 2016.

 

Radio:

 

In 2002, Rhys Jones starred in a series of adaptations of comedic stories by Nikolai Gogol broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7 and BBC Radio 4 Extra) under the umbrella title of Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat.[citation needed]

 

Stage:

 

Rhys Jones won Olivier awards for best comedy performance in Charley's Aunt (1984) and An Absolute Turkey (1994), and appeared at the National Theatre as Toad in The Wind in the Willows in 1990. He starred as Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed production of Oliver! in London's West End from 14 December 2009 until 8 January 2011.[citation needed]

 

Writing:

 

Rhys Jones has written or co-written many of the programmes he has appeared in, and a number of spin-off books. In 2002, he started writing a book called To the Baltic with Bob, describing his adventures on the high seas with his sailing friend Bob, as they make their way to Saint Petersburg, port by port.[32]

 

Rhys Jones released the book in 2003, saying of the experience: "As a child you go out and play and you lose all track of time and space. It's harder and harder to attain that blissful state of absorption as you get older. I did a six-month sailing trip to St Petersburg with some mates just to get it back."[8]

 

His early life has been captured in his autobiography, Semi-Detached, published in 2006 by Penguin Books. His book to accompany the BBC One series Mountain was published in July 2007.[33]

 

Other work:

 

During 1999 to 2001, Rhys Jones featured in television adverts for the Vauxhall range of cars, as a "boffin". In April 2001, he was dismissed by Vauxhall, after an embarrassing advert for the Vauxhall VX220.[34] He officially signed the deal in May 1999.[35]

 

Rhys Jones provided the voice over for Brentwood School's 450th anniversary DVD, reading a script written by fellow Old Brentwoodian Jonathan Ruffle.[36]

 

Rhys Jones is a Vice President of the Victorian Society and has done much to publicise their Top Ten Endangered Buildings.[37] Since 2007, he has been a Vice President of the River Stour Trust, a registered charity led by volunteers who are dedicated to the restoration and conservation of the River Stour Navigation for the benefit and enjoyment of the public. Rhys Jones says, "I am a strong supporter of the River Stour Trust and everything to do with it. The riverway is so beautiful and unspoilt, especially with the wildlife and water-lilies and bullrushes, it is just terrific. It is a great example of why rivers should be open to people...I salute the River Stour Trust for opening the locks...it is supposed to be a river that traffic travels on."[citation needed]

 

In June 2008, it was announced that Rhys Jones was to become the President of Civic Voice, the nationwide charity that campaigns for better places in the built and green environment.[38]

 

In May 2014, Rhys Jones was executive producer on his production company's debut BBC drama A Poet in New York starring Tom Hollander as Dylan Thomas.[39]

 

Filmography:

 

YearTitleRoleNotes

1979–82Not the Nine O'Clock NewsVarious

1984–98Alas Smith and JonesVarious

1984The Young OnesHost of University ChallengeEpisode – "Bambi"

1985Morons from Outer SpaceGraham Sweetley

1989WiltHenry Wilt

1992FunnybonesAll voices

1994–2000BookwormPresenter

1994Monty the DogAll voices

1994Staggered (film)Graham

2003–09RestorationPresenter

2004Mine All MineMax Vivaldi

2006–11Three Men in a BoatPresenter

2007MountainPresenter

2008–16It'll be Alright on the NightPresenter

2008–10Greatest Cities of the WorldPresenter

2009Rivers with Griff Rhys JonesPresenter

2010The Prince's Welsh VillagePresenter

2012Britain's Lost Routes with Griff Rhys JonesPresenter

2014A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys JonesPresenter

2013Burma, My Father and the Forgotten ArmyPresenter

2015Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys JonesPresenter

2015The QuizeumPresenter

2016Griff's Great BritainPresenter

2017Murder on the Blackpool ExpressDavid

2019Griff's Great Kiwi Road TripPresenter

 

Personal life:

 

Rhys Jones met his wife, Jo, a graphic designer, while working at the BBC. He has described their first meeting by saying "The day we met, I was semi naked and she was throwing water over me." The couple have two children, and live between homes in London (previously in Islington, now in a Grade I listed house in London's Fitzrovia in the West End) and Holbrook in Suffolk.[40][41] Rhys Jones owned Undina, the 45-foot (14 m), fifty year old wooden sailing yacht which was used in Three Men in Another Boat; he spent £500,000 on her restoration and in 2013 stated she was for sale for £195,000, "probably less".[42]

 

Around 2011, he bought a 1948 57-foot (17 m) wooden yacht, Argyll, which he races at various regattas, including the Fastnet Race.[42][43] He and Jo are keen gardeners, and he discussed their extensive garden in an October 2015 episode of BBC Gardeners' World, part of which was filmed there.[44]

 

A former heavy drinker, Rhys Jones is a teetotaller: "I don't drink so going to a party can become very tedious. By about 11 o'clock, everybody goes to another planet and you're not there with them, so I tend to avoid that sort of thing."[40] He started running as a leisure pursuit in his early forties. In 2008, he presented two programmes called Losing It which were shown on BBC Two, in which he discussed his own problems with anger management.[citation needed]

 

An active conservationist, Rhys Jones is the president of Civic Voice, the national organisation representing Britain's civic societies. He also owns a small pack of alpacas.[45]

 

In August 2014, Rhys Jones was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.[46]

 

A resident of East Anglia, Rhys Jones was awarded an honorary degree by the University of East Anglia in 2002.[32]

 

He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Glamorgan, the University of Essex[6] and an honorary D.Litt from Anglia Ruskin University.[47] He is also a Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,[48] the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of his alma mater, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[49] In 2009 he was honoured by his father's former university, the University of Wales College of Medicine (now part of Cardiff University).[9]

 

Rhys Jones was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the National Civic Society Movement, charity and entertainment.[50][51]

 

Family:

 

Rhys Jones returned to his mother's roots in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taff for the purposes of an episode of the BBC One series Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast on 20 September 2007. In the episode, he detailed early memories and stories of his grandparents' fruit and vegetable shop on the high street and his mother's childhood concert performances at Trerhondda Chapel.[citation needed]

 

See also:

 

Grouted roof, a building technique that Jones employed when restoring Trehilyn farmhouse, causing controversy in the process.

 

References:

 

^ "Rhys Jones, Griff (1953–)". Retrieved 11 December 2017.

^ "Griffith Rhys Jones biography". Modern Television. Archived from the original on 18 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

^ Reynolds, Simon Rhys Jones to host 'Alright On The Night'. Digital Spy, 15 August 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2017

^ "Griffith Rhys Jones biography". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 21 June 2011.

^ Matthew Stadlen "Griff Rhys Jones: 'I’m greedy for life – I do too many things'", The Daily Telegraph, 3 November 2014.

^ a b "Essex announces honorary graduands". essex.ac.uk. 4 May 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.

^ Semi-Detached, Griff Rhys Jones' autobiography, Penguin, 2006

^ a b Michael Odell, "This much I know: Griff Rhys Jones", The Guardian, 5 November 2006. Retrieved 3 March 2007.

^ a b "Degree for Griff Rhys Jones from father's old university". South Wales Echo. 14 July 2009.

^ "Griff Rhys Jones profile". Screenonline.org.uk. 16 November 1953. Retrieved 21 June 2011.

^ BBC series: The Ones, BBC. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

^ "Griff Rhys Jones on his comedy soul mate Mel Smith". Radio Times. 3 August 2013.

^ "Modern TV". Archived from the original on 18 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

^ "Griff Presenter Burma". Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

^ "Interview: Griff Rhys Jones". The Tab. 3 May 2012.

^ Rhys Jones, Griff (2007). Mountain: Exploring Britain's High Places (1st ed.). Michael Joseph Ltd. ISBN 0-7181-4989-0.

^ Radio Times, 22 December 2007 – 4 January 2008.

^ "The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome", BBC.

^ Serena Davies, "The Heart of Thomas Hardy", The Telegraph, 3 September 2008.

^ Helen Brown, "A tribute to the poet of privet hedges", The Telegraph, 19 August 2006.

^ Kipling: A Remembrance Tale, BBC, 12 November 2006.

^ "Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones – BBC One". BBC.

^ "Radio Times Cover July 2009".

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^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B12.

 

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Preceded by

Simon LeveneFootlights Vice President

1975–1976Succeeded by

Nicholas Hytner.

 

Rosie O’Donnell - USA

 

Roseann O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962)[2] is an American comedian, producer, actress, author, and television personality. She began her comedy career as a teenager and received her breakthrough on the television series Star Search in 1984. After a series of television and film roles that introduced her to a larger national audience, O'Donnell hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, between 1996 and 2002, which won several Daytime Emmy Awards. During this period, she developed the nickname "Queen of Nice", as well as a reputation for philanthropy.

 

O'Donnell at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival

Born: Roseann O'Donnell[1]. March 21, 1962 (age 57). Commack, New York, U.S.

Occupation: Television personality, comedian, actress, author producer

Years active: 1979–present

Spouse(s): Kelli Carpenter (m. 2004; annul. 2004), Michelle Rounds (m. 2012; div. 2015)

Children: 5

Relatives: Daniel J. O'Donnell (brother)

 

Website:

 

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From 2006 to 2007, O'Donnell endured a controversial run as the moderator on the daytime talk show The View, which included a public feud with Donald Trump and on-air disputes regarding the Bush administration's policies with the Iraq War. She hosted Rosie Radio on Sirius XM Radio between 2009 and 2011, and from 2011 to 2012 hosted a second, short-lived daytime talk show on OWN, The Rosie Show. O'Donnell returned to The View in 2014, leaving after a brief five-month run due to personal issues. From 2017 to 2019, she starred on the Showtime comedy series SMILF.

 

In addition to comedy, film, and television, O'Donnell has also been a magazine editor, celebrity blogger, and author of several memoirs, including Find Me (2002) and Celebrity Detox (2007). She used the Find Me $3 million advance to establish her For All foundation and promote other charity projects, encouraging celebrities on her show to take part.

 

She has also been an outspoken advocate for lesbian rights and gay adoption issues. O'Donnell is a foster and adoptive mother. She was named The Advocate's 2002 Person of the Year; in May 2003, she became a regular contributor to the magazine. O'Donnell also continues to be a television producer and a collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company, R Family Vacations.

 

Early life:

 

O'Donnell, the third of five children, was born and raised in Commack, Long Island, New York.[3][4] She is the daughter of homemaker Roseann Teresa (née Murtha; 1934–1973) and Edward Joseph O'Donnell (1933–2015), an electrical engineer who worked in the defense industry.[4] O'Donnell's father had immigrated from County Donegal, Ireland during his childhood, and her mother was Irish American; O'Donnell was raised Roman Catholic.[1][5] Her older brother is Daniel J. O'Donnell, now a member of the New York State Assembly.[6] On March 17, 1973, four days before her 11th birthday, O'Donnell lost her mother to breast cancer.[2] While she attended Commack High School, O'Donnell was voted homecoming queen, prom queen, senior class president, and class clown.[3] During high school, she began exploring her interest in comedy, beginning with a skit performed in front of the school in which she imitated Gilda Radner's character Roseanne Roseannadanna.[2] After graduating in 1980, O'Donnell briefly attended Dickinson College, later transferring to Boston University before ultimately dropping out of college.[3]

 

Career:

 

Early work:

 

O'Donnell toured as a stand-up comedian in clubs from 1979 to 1984.[7] She got her first big break on Star Search, explaining on Larry King Live:[8].

Took this for a competition and it is currently open for voting.

 

Success of every individual is based on their own merit and distinctions.

 

Do help me cast a vote here if you're from Singapore and like this photo!~

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Thankss!

Conséquence de la Révolution volée... dite du jasmin!

 

Perdu dans les cultures importées, perdu dans la bataille des différentes tendances politiques, ces pauvres gosses que je considère comme marionnettes entre les mains de différents metteurs en scènes étrangers à notre culture longtemps considérée comme modérée et disciplinée. Mes enfants je vous dis que LE LYCÉE EST NI UNE BOITE DE NUIT POUR DANSER AVEC CES TENUS NI UNE MOSQUÉE POUR PRÊCHER NI LE JOUR NI LA NUIT....

    

NI SALAFISMES... NI HARLEM SHAKE dans nos lycées

    

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Consequence of the stolen Revolution... said jasmine revolution!

 

Lost in the imported cultures, lost in the battle of the different political tendencies, these childlike poor ones that I consider as puppets between the hands of different strange directors to our a long time considered culture as moderate and disciplined. My children I say you that THE HIGH SCHOOL IS NEITHER A NIGHT CLUB TO DANCE WITH THESE HELDS NOR A MOSQUE TO PREACH NEITHER THE DAY NOR THE NIGHT. ...

NEITHER SALAFISM .... NOR HARLEM SHAKE In our high shcool

    

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People's choice in Iran: Tehran Time suggests only 10K Iraqi soldiers death, but 600K civilian casualties in Iraq war,

 

Consequences of US withdrawal from Iraq

 

Teheran Time: "The loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), "MAINLY civilians." "

 

People's choice in Iran: The statement suggests only 10K Iraqi soldiers death, but 600K civilian casualties in Iraq War. It also suggests that every muslim killed by infidel is innocent except the Saddam family.

 

2002: Bush called Iran, Iraq, and North Korea Axis of Evil.

 

"In his State of the Union address, Bush focused his speech on the continuing war against terror -- which, he said, "is only beginning."

 

Illustrating the widening scope of that conflict, he singled out North Korea, Iran and Iraq as states he said were allying themselves with terrorists to form "an axis of evil."

 

With these states seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction, Bush called on the "civilized world" to act against them, saying "the price of indifference would be catastrophic." "..........CNN

 

January 30, 2002 Posted: 10:46 AM EST (1546 GMT)

 

22:00 The death of Alexander the Great and the cost of casualties in blood and life, a tragedy of greed, self-destruction, betrayal and treason.

 

Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years — (cut off by McCain) ... Just wondering, how does McCain plan to pay for our 100 year occupation of Iraq? ...

 

The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two ...

 

"Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran."

Senior Bush Official, May 2003

 

January 17, 2006

Did al-Qaeda's Gambit Work? Have They Baited Bush into Disastrous Missteps in the Middle East?

Real Men Go to Tehran

By M. SHAHID ALAM

 

FIRST POSTED SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

"Real men don't go to Baghdad, they go to Tehran."

 

Quotation from internet:

 

Release statements concerning Lee and Leung in English and Chinese.

Release statements concerning racial relation with the West and in North America.

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=213504

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=200306

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_View.asp?code=202559

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=10858

www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=214532

www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=214545

 

"Most amazing of all was that Blair declined an invitation to express any regret. He couldn’t even bring himself to say he regretted the loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), "mainly civilians." To my way of thinking that makes him less than fully human.

 

Blair described Saddam Hussein as “a monster who threatened the world.” There’s an old English saying, “It takes one to know one.”" ..................By Alan Hart

 

"TEHRAN -- Photographer Mehdi Monem is convinced that his pictorial book “War Victims,” portraying the victims of 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, conveys a message of peace to the world." ......................Tehran Times Culture Desk

 

If you and your people were exploited for hundreds of years, you don't ask for a dinner. You ask for a NATION!!!

 

Quebec has every right to defend himself my all means necessary. The international community should provide all the assistance including manpower to the people of Quebec for their struggle of national identity and justice.

 

中東不同日本, 美國沒有在中東建立永久性的軍事基地, 當地人民的戰鬥意志和民族性是關鍵.

 

日本是日美安保條約下的奴才, 沒有一個自強不息的民族會相信奴才. 如果美國的貴族一定以擁有美國國產汽車自豪, 為了國家的尊嚴, 一個中國武術宗師冒些險, 靠空手奪白刃和皮帶打敗日本劍道高手又算什麼, 這是民族性的問題.

 

十年前, 一名加拿大人曾警告我不該對敵人的小孩太好. 我冒生命危險保護過很多人, 其中包括敵人的小孩, 一名加拿大人說我死得不值, 我的血白流了......保護過敵人的小孩或許這是我一生中唯一的錯誤.

 

Fan of Lee and Leung repeatedly woke me up at night and broadcasted voice recording on how they gang raping women in public street for the past several years. At the same time, they repeatedly asked me my role as professional boxer, diplomat, and military advisor during the Cold War between year 1988 and 1992, although they never have the courage to talk to me in person and in public during these period for possible casualties resulted from confrontation. They are simply coward and disgusting. Lee and Leung also use method of torture, drug, violence, sleep deprivation, and beating on other key individuals in order to understand more about major events happened during the Cold War between 1989 and 1992

 

In several occasions, Lee and Leung suddenly woke me up at night with loud noise and said “Yu Fung Liu overthrow the USSR.” In other occasions, Lee and Leung woke me up at night again with noise in lower frequency and said “Yu Fung Liu is a sympathizer of leftist.”

 

During my stay in Canada, Lee and Leung told me several times that the KGB kidnapped me to USSR and Japan. However, Lee and Leung told me that the Taiwanese spy network was behind the kidnapping during my stay in Asia. In either case, Lee and Leung refused to testify their statements and back up their claims in public and in writing. It appears that the KGB does not care about Lee and Leung at all. Lee and Leung have to rely on drug, poison, and criminal fans to get their point across.

 

Lee and Leung employed different tactics of sleep deprivation on me for almost ten years whenever they had a chance. Their harassment intensified after they learnt about my injury in a car accident in Canada between 2002 and 2005, although they still do not have the courage to show up in front of me and settle their claims.

 

Other Lee and Leung insist that the gulf war never happened. They, posing as other, threaten to kidnap friends and family members of those participated in American veterans to Gulf States where camels are native species over the phone.

 

Credible evidences suggested that fan of Bruce Lee and several prominent members of Liang's family are involved in the blackmail

 

They poisoned me for more than 10 years so that I forgot my contribution, family, and in part tried to weaken my physical strength over time. However, I was able to accomplished most objectives and defeated many assassinators despite of aging and the lack of exercise for more than 8 years.

 

During my 12 years stay in the USA, someone tried to poison me many times; but it never turn into a mess until I moved to Canada where under British sphere of influence after year 2000.

 

Blair the British neo-con

By Alan Hart

 

Putting Tony Blair on trial would be much too cruel. The man is ill, delusional, quite possibly to the point of madness. What he needs most of all is psychiatric help. Any doubts I might have had about that diagnosis were removed by his six-hour presentation to the Chilcot Inquiry of his reasons for joining the neo-conned “Dubya” Bush in the war on Iraq.

 

Without understanding why, I never thought Blair was Bush’s puppet. Now, thanks to the access Blair gave us to the workings of his mind for six hours, I do understand. He was ahead of Bush in the war on terrorism game because he is a neo-con, the real thing, whereas Bush had to be won over, conned, by America’s mad men. Blair didn’t. He was always with them in spirit. After 9/11, immediately after it, probably while the towers were still collapsing, their agenda was his agenda.

 

Though the Chilcot Inquiry is concerned only with Iraq – how Blair’s government made the decision to go to war and what lessons should be learned – Blair could not resist beating the drum for war on Iran. He did that four times. One might have been listening to John Bolton or any of America’s or Israel’s lunatics.

 

When he was going on about terrorism being a threat to all, he threw in: “It’s a constant problem for Israel. They get attacked.” That there is a cause-and-effect relationship between Israeli occupation and Israel’s frequent demonstrations of state terrorism and a degree of violence directed at the Zionist regime from time to time is not something Blair the neo-con can, or ever will, get his deluded minded around.

 

At one point during his display of insufferable, Zionist-like self-righteousness, Blair denied he had said in an interview with the BBC’s Fern Britton that he favored regime change in Iraq. “I didn’t use the words regime change in that interview,” he said to the Chilcot Inquiry. He was telling the truth in that he did not use those actual words. What then did he say on camera to Fern Britton on 13 December 2009? She asked him if knowing what we all know today (that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction) would he still have gone to war. Blair replied, “I would still have thought it right to remove him. If that is not regime change, what is?!

 

Blair still insists that the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein has “made the world a safer place”. The reality is that Blair and Bush together were the best recruiting sergeants for violent Islamic fundamentalism in many manifestations, not only the Al-Qaeda franchise.

 

Most amazing of all was that Blair declined an invitation to express any regret. He couldn’t even bring himself to say he regretted the loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), mainly civilians. To my way of thinking that makes him less than fully human.

 

Blair described Saddam Hussein as “a monster who threatened the world.” There’s an old English saying, “It takes one to know one.”

 

(Source: Alanhart.net)

 

“War Victims” transmits message of peace to world: photographer

Tehran Times Culture Desk

 

TEHRAN -- Photographer Mehdi Monem is convinced that his pictorial book “War Victims,” portraying the victims of 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, conveys a message of peace to the world.

 

All the photos feature the non-combatant citizens who were injured during the war, said Monem whose book will be introduced during a ceremony on Wednesday at Tehran’s Laleh Hotel.

 

The 120-page book contains 96 black and white photos. An exhibition is also being arranged in the hotel where a selection of photos will go on display.

 

“The photos are divided in three categories; the first depicts victims of mine explosions, the second features victims of residential area bombardments and the third features victims of chemical weapons,” said Monem.

 

“All the years that I was working as the photographer for IRNA on war fronts, I kept this idea in my mind to follow people whose lives were unwillingly caught in the war and suffered irreparable injuries as a result.

 

“I spent all these years in close contact with the victims and took their photos. I really intended to remind those who initiated the wars of their consequences. I hope this book would be a reminder to all of the necessity to preserve peace,” he explained.

 

He also noted that the introduction of the book bears signatures of 10 Iranian photographers including Nasrollah Kasraian, Mahmud Kalari, Seifolah Samadian, and Maryam Zandi, aiming to introduce this book as a statement in support of the war victims.

 

Monem expressed hope that photographers would help to spread the message of peace to the world.

 

Toyota says hybrid sales reach two-million mark

 

TOKYO (Asiaone) - Toyota Motor said Friday that global sales of its hybrid vehicles had topped the two-million mark since their launch in 1997, led by the Prius - Japan's top-selling car for the past four months.

 

Toyota passed the new milestone just two years and three months after its hybrid sales reached the one-million mark, helped by brisk demand for its re-modelled Prius which was launched in mid-May.

 

The company said that as of August 31 it had sold about 2,016,900 hybrids, which run on a combination of petrol and electricity and are in strong demand because of concerns about high fuel prices and global warming.

 

Toyota sold 21,669 Prius vehicles in Japan in August, keeping the top rank in the car market that it has held since May, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said.

 

With government tax breaks and subsidies spurring growing interest in fuel-efficient vehicles, rival Honda sold 7,900 of its Insight hybrid in August.

 

Automakers hope that the popularity of fuel-efficient cars will breathe new life into the ailing market, which was battered by the global recession.

 

Japan's domestic vehicle sales showed the first year-on-year increase in 13 months in August, the same association reported earlier in the week.

 

Toyota and Honda are going head-to-head in the fast growing market. The Insight was the best-selling hybrid in April in Japan before being overtaken by the Prius.

 

The Insight sells at 1.89 million yen (S$29,484) while the Prius has a price tag starting from 2.05 million yen.

 

Rival Nissan is staking its future on pure electric vehicles and plans to start selling its first such car in late 2010.

 

Aqazadeh: Iran Does Not Intend to Produce Nuclear Weapons

 

MOSCOW The visiting Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Gholam Reza Aqazadeh here Monday stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran has no intention of producing nuclear weapons. Speaking to reporters, he dismissed baseless U.S. claims. Aqazadeh said that Washington has been assisting the Zionist regime to expand its nuclear weapons programs and therefore its policies on non-proliferation of atomic weapons is nothing but a deceit Resort of the Zionist regime to nuclear weapons poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability, he said.

 

Iran will produce nuclear fuel plates in four months

Tehran Times Political Desk

 

TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has announced that Iran will produce plate type nuclear fuel in four months.

 

“Those who claim that Iran is not capable of producing nuclear fuel plates should wait, because they will see the results of our work in four months,” he told the IRNA news agency on Saturday.

 

Russia will honor Iran missile deal: minister

 

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia will honor a contract to deliver advanced air defense missiles to Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said Friday.

 

""There is a contract on the delivery of these systems to Iran and we will honor it,"" the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.

 

Origins

In February 1948, the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah announced:

 

“ The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it.[7][8] ”

 

In 1974, in response to India's Smiling Buddha nuclear tests, Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto announced:

 

“ If India builds the bomb, we will eat grass and leaves for a thousand years, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own. The Christians have the bomb, the Jews have the bomb and now the Hindus have the bomb. Why not the Muslims too have the bomb?[9][10]

 

Indian "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive",

 

On 7 September 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave verbal authorization to the scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to manufacture the nuclear device they had designed and prepare it for a test. Throughout its development, the device was formally called the "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive", but it was usually referred to as the Smiling Buddha.

 

Aqazadeh: Iran Does Not Intend to Produce Nuclear Weapons

 

Iran will produce nuclear fuel plates in four months

 

Zionist regime to nuclear weapons poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability

 

it was the last day of Singapore's oldest flea market at it's original location.

www.asiaone.com/singapore/7-things-you-ought-know-about-s...

People's choice in Iran: Tehran Time suggests only 10K Iraqi soldiers death, but 600K civilian casualties in Iraq war,

 

Consequences of US withdrawal from Iraq

 

Teheran Time: "The loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), "MAINLY civilians." "

 

People's choice in Iran: The statement suggests only 10K Iraqi soldiers death, but 600K civilian casualties in Iraq War. It also suggests that every muslim killed by infidel is innocent except the Saddam family.

 

2002: Bush called Iran, Iraq, and North Korea Axis of Evil.

 

"In his State of the Union address, Bush focused his speech on the continuing war against terror -- which, he said, "is only beginning."

 

Illustrating the widening scope of that conflict, he singled out North Korea, Iran and Iraq as states he said were allying themselves with terrorists to form "an axis of evil."

 

With these states seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction, Bush called on the "civilized world" to act against them, saying "the price of indifference would be catastrophic." "..........CNN

 

January 30, 2002 Posted: 10:46 AM EST (1546 GMT)

 

22:00 The death of Alexander the Great and the cost of casualties in blood and life, a tragedy of greed, self-destruction, betrayal and treason.

 

Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years — (cut off by McCain) ... Just wondering, how does McCain plan to pay for our 100 year occupation of Iraq? ...

 

The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two ...

 

"Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran."

Senior Bush Official, May 2003

 

January 17, 2006

Did al-Qaeda's Gambit Work? Have They Baited Bush into Disastrous Missteps in the Middle East?

Real Men Go to Tehran

By M. SHAHID ALAM

 

FIRST POSTED SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

"Real men don't go to Baghdad, they go to Tehran."

 

Quotation from internet:

 

Release statements concerning Lee and Leung in English and Chinese.

Release statements concerning racial relation with the West and in North America.

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=213504

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=200306

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_View.asp?code=202559

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=10858

www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=214532

www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=214545

 

"Most amazing of all was that Blair declined an invitation to express any regret. He couldn’t even bring himself to say he regretted the loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), "mainly civilians." To my way of thinking that makes him less than fully human.

 

Blair described Saddam Hussein as “a monster who threatened the world.” There’s an old English saying, “It takes one to know one.”" ..................By Alan Hart

 

"TEHRAN -- Photographer Mehdi Monem is convinced that his pictorial book “War Victims,” portraying the victims of 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, conveys a message of peace to the world." ......................Tehran Times Culture Desk

 

If you and your people were exploited for hundreds of years, you don't ask for a dinner. You ask for a NATION!!!

 

Quebec has every right to defend himself my all means necessary. The international community should provide all the assistance including manpower to the people of Quebec for their struggle of national identity and justice.

 

中東不同日本, 美國沒有在中東建立永久性的軍事基地, 當地人民的戰鬥意志和民族性是關鍵.

 

日本是日美安保條約下的奴才, 沒有一個自強不息的民族會相信奴才. 如果美國的貴族一定以擁有美國國產汽車自豪, 為了國家的尊嚴, 一個中國武術宗師冒些險, 靠空手奪白刃和皮帶打敗日本劍道高手又算什麼, 這是民族性的問題.

 

十年前, 一名加拿大人曾警告我不該對敵人的小孩太好. 我冒生命危險保護過很多人, 其中包括敵人的小孩, 一名加拿大人說我死得不值, 我的血白流了......保護過敵人的小孩或許這是我一生中唯一的錯誤.

 

Fan of Lee and Leung repeatedly woke me up at night and broadcasted voice recording on how they gang raping women in public street for the past several years. At the same time, they repeatedly asked me my role as professional boxer, diplomat, and military advisor during the Cold War between year 1988 and 1992, although they never have the courage to talk to me in person and in public during these period for possible casualties resulted from confrontation. They are simply coward and disgusting. Lee and Leung also use method of torture, drug, violence, sleep deprivation, and beating on other key individuals in order to understand more about major events happened during the Cold War between 1989 and 1992

 

In several occasions, Lee and Leung suddenly woke me up at night with loud noise and said “Yu Fung Liu overthrow the USSR.” In other occasions, Lee and Leung woke me up at night again with noise in lower frequency and said “Yu Fung Liu is a sympathizer of leftist.”

 

During my stay in Canada, Lee and Leung told me several times that the KGB kidnapped me to USSR and Japan. However, Lee and Leung told me that the Taiwanese spy network was behind the kidnapping during my stay in Asia. In either case, Lee and Leung refused to testify their statements and back up their claims in public and in writing. It appears that the KGB does not care about Lee and Leung at all. Lee and Leung have to rely on drug, poison, and criminal fans to get their point across.

 

Lee and Leung employed different tactics of sleep deprivation on me for almost ten years whenever they had a chance. Their harassment intensified after they learnt about my injury in a car accident in Canada between 2002 and 2005, although they still do not have the courage to show up in front of me and settle their claims.

 

Other Lee and Leung insist that the gulf war never happened. They, posing as other, threaten to kidnap friends and family members of those participated in American veterans to Gulf States where camels are native species over the phone.

 

Credible evidences suggested that fan of Bruce Lee and several prominent members of Liang's family are involved in the blackmail

 

They poisoned me for more than 10 years so that I forgot my contribution, family, and in part tried to weaken my physical strength over time. However, I was able to accomplished most objectives and defeated many assassinators despite of aging and the lack of exercise for more than 8 years.

 

During my 12 years stay in the USA, someone tried to poison me many times; but it never turn into a mess until I moved to Canada where under British sphere of influence after year 2000.

 

Blair the British neo-con

By Alan Hart

 

Putting Tony Blair on trial would be much too cruel. The man is ill, delusional, quite possibly to the point of madness. What he needs most of all is psychiatric help. Any doubts I might have had about that diagnosis were removed by his six-hour presentation to the Chilcot Inquiry of his reasons for joining the neo-conned “Dubya” Bush in the war on Iraq.

 

Without understanding why, I never thought Blair was Bush’s puppet. Now, thanks to the access Blair gave us to the workings of his mind for six hours, I do understand. He was ahead of Bush in the war on terrorism game because he is a neo-con, the real thing, whereas Bush had to be won over, conned, by America’s mad men. Blair didn’t. He was always with them in spirit. After 9/11, immediately after it, probably while the towers were still collapsing, their agenda was his agenda.

 

Though the Chilcot Inquiry is concerned only with Iraq – how Blair’s government made the decision to go to war and what lessons should be learned – Blair could not resist beating the drum for war on Iran. He did that four times. One might have been listening to John Bolton or any of America’s or Israel’s lunatics.

 

When he was going on about terrorism being a threat to all, he threw in: “It’s a constant problem for Israel. They get attacked.” That there is a cause-and-effect relationship between Israeli occupation and Israel’s frequent demonstrations of state terrorism and a degree of violence directed at the Zionist regime from time to time is not something Blair the neo-con can, or ever will, get his deluded minded around.

 

At one point during his display of insufferable, Zionist-like self-righteousness, Blair denied he had said in an interview with the BBC’s Fern Britton that he favored regime change in Iraq. “I didn’t use the words regime change in that interview,” he said to the Chilcot Inquiry. He was telling the truth in that he did not use those actual words. What then did he say on camera to Fern Britton on 13 December 2009? She asked him if knowing what we all know today (that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction) would he still have gone to war. Blair replied, “I would still have thought it right to remove him. If that is not regime change, what is?!

 

Blair still insists that the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein has “made the world a safer place”. The reality is that Blair and Bush together were the best recruiting sergeants for violent Islamic fundamentalism in many manifestations, not only the Al-Qaeda franchise.

 

Most amazing of all was that Blair declined an invitation to express any regret. He couldn’t even bring himself to say he regretted the loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), mainly civilians. To my way of thinking that makes him less than fully human.

 

Blair described Saddam Hussein as “a monster who threatened the world.” There’s an old English saying, “It takes one to know one.”

 

(Source: Alanhart.net)

 

“War Victims” transmits message of peace to world: photographer

Tehran Times Culture Desk

 

TEHRAN -- Photographer Mehdi Monem is convinced that his pictorial book “War Victims,” portraying the victims of 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, conveys a message of peace to the world.

 

All the photos feature the non-combatant citizens who were injured during the war, said Monem whose book will be introduced during a ceremony on Wednesday at Tehran’s Laleh Hotel.

 

The 120-page book contains 96 black and white photos. An exhibition is also being arranged in the hotel where a selection of photos will go on display.

 

“The photos are divided in three categories; the first depicts victims of mine explosions, the second features victims of residential area bombardments and the third features victims of chemical weapons,” said Monem.

 

“All the years that I was working as the photographer for IRNA on war fronts, I kept this idea in my mind to follow people whose lives were unwillingly caught in the war and suffered irreparable injuries as a result.

 

“I spent all these years in close contact with the victims and took their photos. I really intended to remind those who initiated the wars of their consequences. I hope this book would be a reminder to all of the necessity to preserve peace,” he explained.

 

He also noted that the introduction of the book bears signatures of 10 Iranian photographers including Nasrollah Kasraian, Mahmud Kalari, Seifolah Samadian, and Maryam Zandi, aiming to introduce this book as a statement in support of the war victims.

 

Monem expressed hope that photographers would help to spread the message of peace to the world.

 

Toyota says hybrid sales reach two-million mark

 

TOKYO (Asiaone) - Toyota Motor said Friday that global sales of its hybrid vehicles had topped the two-million mark since their launch in 1997, led by the Prius - Japan's top-selling car for the past four months.

 

Toyota passed the new milestone just two years and three months after its hybrid sales reached the one-million mark, helped by brisk demand for its re-modelled Prius which was launched in mid-May.

 

The company said that as of August 31 it had sold about 2,016,900 hybrids, which run on a combination of petrol and electricity and are in strong demand because of concerns about high fuel prices and global warming.

 

Toyota sold 21,669 Prius vehicles in Japan in August, keeping the top rank in the car market that it has held since May, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said.

 

With government tax breaks and subsidies spurring growing interest in fuel-efficient vehicles, rival Honda sold 7,900 of its Insight hybrid in August.

 

Automakers hope that the popularity of fuel-efficient cars will breathe new life into the ailing market, which was battered by the global recession.

 

Japan's domestic vehicle sales showed the first year-on-year increase in 13 months in August, the same association reported earlier in the week.

 

Toyota and Honda are going head-to-head in the fast growing market. The Insight was the best-selling hybrid in April in Japan before being overtaken by the Prius.

 

The Insight sells at 1.89 million yen (S$29,484) while the Prius has a price tag starting from 2.05 million yen.

 

Rival Nissan is staking its future on pure electric vehicles and plans to start selling its first such car in late 2010.

 

Aqazadeh: Iran Does Not Intend to Produce Nuclear Weapons

 

MOSCOW The visiting Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Gholam Reza Aqazadeh here Monday stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran has no intention of producing nuclear weapons. Speaking to reporters, he dismissed baseless U.S. claims. Aqazadeh said that Washington has been assisting the Zionist regime to expand its nuclear weapons programs and therefore its policies on non-proliferation of atomic weapons is nothing but a deceit Resort of the Zionist regime to nuclear weapons poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability, he said.

 

Iran will produce nuclear fuel plates in four months

Tehran Times Political Desk

 

TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has announced that Iran will produce plate type nuclear fuel in four months.

 

“Those who claim that Iran is not capable of producing nuclear fuel plates should wait, because they will see the results of our work in four months,” he told the IRNA news agency on Saturday.

 

Russia will honor Iran missile deal: minister

 

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia will honor a contract to deliver advanced air defense missiles to Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said Friday.

 

""There is a contract on the delivery of these systems to Iran and we will honor it,"" the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.

 

Origins

In February 1948, the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah announced:

 

“ The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it.[7][8] ”

 

In 1974, in response to India's Smiling Buddha nuclear tests, Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto announced:

 

“ If India builds the bomb, we will eat grass and leaves for a thousand years, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own. The Christians have the bomb, the Jews have the bomb and now the Hindus have the bomb. Why not the Muslims too have the bomb?[9][10]

 

Indian "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive",

 

On 7 September 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave verbal authorization to the scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to manufacture the nuclear device they had designed and prepare it for a test. Throughout its development, the device was formally called the "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive", but it was usually referred to as the Smiling Buddha.

 

Aqazadeh: Iran Does Not Intend to Produce Nuclear Weapons

 

Iran will produce nuclear fuel plates in four months

 

Zionist regime to nuclear weapons poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability

 

Poison butterfly Leung for Wellington, Lee, Kato, Jap and Jan fan in Asia keep saying: "Only little Jap and Jap fan attacked Liu; Big Jap already tried his best to stop little Jap from doing more damage." Jap are very kind to Liu and offer him a very nice room and no one ever treat liu better in the world.

 

People's choice in Iran: Tehran Time suggests only 10K Iraqi soldiers death, but 600K civilian casualties in Iraq war,

 

Consequences of US withdrawal from Iraq

 

Teheran Time: "The loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), "MAINLY civilians." "

 

People's choice in Iran: The statement suggests only 10K Iraqi soldiers death, but 600K civilian casualties in Iraq War. It also suggests that every muslim killed by infidel is innocent except the Saddam family.

 

2002: Bush called Iran, Iraq, and North Korea Axis of Evil.

 

"In his State of the Union address, Bush focused his speech on the continuing war against terror -- which, he said, "is only beginning."

 

Illustrating the widening scope of that conflict, he singled out North Korea, Iran and Iraq as states he said were allying themselves with terrorists to form "an axis of evil."

 

With these states seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction, Bush called on the "civilized world" to act against them, saying "the price of indifference would be catastrophic." "..........CNN

 

January 30, 2002 Posted: 10:46 AM EST (1546 GMT)

 

22:00 The death of Alexander the Great and the cost of casualties in blood and life, a tragedy of greed, self-destruction, betrayal and treason.

 

Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years — (cut off by McCain) ... Just wondering, how does McCain plan to pay for our 100 year occupation of Iraq? ...

 

The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two ...

 

"Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran."

Senior Bush Official, May 2003

 

January 17, 2006

Did al-Qaeda's Gambit Work? Have They Baited Bush into Disastrous Missteps in the Middle East?

Real Men Go to Tehran

By M. SHAHID ALAM

 

FIRST POSTED SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

"Real men don't go to Baghdad, they go to Tehran."

 

Quotation from internet:

 

Release statements concerning Lee and Leung in English and Chinese.

Release statements concerning racial relation with the West and in North America.

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=213504

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=200306

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_View.asp?code=202559

www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=10858

www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=214532

www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=214545

 

"Most amazing of all was that Blair declined an invitation to express any regret. He couldn’t even bring himself to say he regretted the loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), "mainly civilians." To my way of thinking that makes him less than fully human.

 

Blair described Saddam Hussein as “a monster who threatened the world.” There’s an old English saying, “It takes one to know one.”" ..................By Alan Hart

 

"TEHRAN -- Photographer Mehdi Monem is convinced that his pictorial book “War Victims,” portraying the victims of 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, conveys a message of peace to the world." ......................Tehran Times Culture Desk

 

If you and your people were exploited for hundreds of years, you don't ask for a dinner. You ask for a NATION!!!

 

Quebec has every right to defend himself my all means necessary. The international community should provide all the assistance including manpower to the people of Quebec for their struggle of national identity and justice.

 

中東不同日本, 美國沒有在中東建立永久性的軍事基地, 當地人民的戰鬥意志和民族性是關鍵.

 

日本是日美安保條約下的奴才, 沒有一個自強不息的民族會相信奴才. 如果美國的貴族一定以擁有美國國產汽車自豪, 為了國家的尊嚴, 一個中國武術宗師冒些險, 靠空手奪白刃和皮帶打敗日本劍道高手又算什麼, 這是民族性的問題.

 

十年前, 一名加拿大人曾警告我不該對敵人的小孩太好. 我冒生命危險保護過很多人, 其中包括敵人的小孩, 一名加拿大人說我死得不值, 我的血白流了......保護過敵人的小孩或許這是我一生中唯一的錯誤.

 

Fan of Lee and Leung repeatedly woke me up at night and broadcasted voice recording on how they gang raping women in public street for the past several years. At the same time, they repeatedly asked me my role as professional boxer, diplomat, and military advisor during the Cold War between year 1988 and 1992, although they never have the courage to talk to me in person and in public during these period for possible casualties resulted from confrontation. They are simply coward and disgusting. Lee and Leung also use method of torture, drug, violence, sleep deprivation, and beating on other key individuals in order to understand more about major events happened during the Cold War between 1989 and 1992

 

In several occasions, Lee and Leung suddenly woke me up at night with loud noise and said “Yu Fung Liu overthrow the USSR.” In other occasions, Lee and Leung woke me up at night again with noise in lower frequency and said “Yu Fung Liu is a sympathizer of leftist.”

 

During my stay in Canada, Lee and Leung told me several times that the KGB kidnapped me to USSR and Japan. However, Lee and Leung told me that the Taiwanese spy network was behind the kidnapping during my stay in Asia. In either case, Lee and Leung refused to testify their statements and back up their claims in public and in writing. It appears that the KGB does not care about Lee and Leung at all. Lee and Leung have to rely on drug, poison, and criminal fans to get their point across.

 

Lee and Leung employed different tactics of sleep deprivation on me for almost ten years whenever they had a chance. Their harassment intensified after they learnt about my injury in a car accident in Canada between 2002 and 2005, although they still do not have the courage to show up in front of me and settle their claims.

 

Other Lee and Leung insist that the gulf war never happened. They, posing as other, threaten to kidnap friends and family members of those participated in American veterans to Gulf States where camels are native species over the phone.

 

Credible evidences suggested that fan of Bruce Lee and several prominent members of Liang's family are involved in the blackmail

 

They poisoned me for more than 10 years so that I forgot my contribution, family, and in part tried to weaken my physical strength over time. However, I was able to accomplished most objectives and defeated many assassinators despite of aging and the lack of exercise for more than 8 years.

 

During my 12 years stay in the USA, someone tried to poison me many times; but it never turn into a mess until I moved to Canada where under British sphere of influence after year 2000.

 

Blair the British neo-con

By Alan Hart

 

Putting Tony Blair on trial would be much too cruel. The man is ill, delusional, quite possibly to the point of madness. What he needs most of all is psychiatric help. Any doubts I might have had about that diagnosis were removed by his six-hour presentation to the Chilcot Inquiry of his reasons for joining the neo-conned “Dubya” Bush in the war on Iraq.

 

Without understanding why, I never thought Blair was Bush’s puppet. Now, thanks to the access Blair gave us to the workings of his mind for six hours, I do understand. He was ahead of Bush in the war on terrorism game because he is a neo-con, the real thing, whereas Bush had to be won over, conned, by America’s mad men. Blair didn’t. He was always with them in spirit. After 9/11, immediately after it, probably while the towers were still collapsing, their agenda was his agenda.

 

Though the Chilcot Inquiry is concerned only with Iraq – how Blair’s government made the decision to go to war and what lessons should be learned – Blair could not resist beating the drum for war on Iran. He did that four times. One might have been listening to John Bolton or any of America’s or Israel’s lunatics.

 

When he was going on about terrorism being a threat to all, he threw in: “It’s a constant problem for Israel. They get attacked.” That there is a cause-and-effect relationship between Israeli occupation and Israel’s frequent demonstrations of state terrorism and a degree of violence directed at the Zionist regime from time to time is not something Blair the neo-con can, or ever will, get his deluded minded around.

 

At one point during his display of insufferable, Zionist-like self-righteousness, Blair denied he had said in an interview with the BBC’s Fern Britton that he favored regime change in Iraq. “I didn’t use the words regime change in that interview,” he said to the Chilcot Inquiry. He was telling the truth in that he did not use those actual words. What then did he say on camera to Fern Britton on 13 December 2009? She asked him if knowing what we all know today (that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction) would he still have gone to war. Blair replied, “I would still have thought it right to remove him. If that is not regime change, what is?!

 

Blair still insists that the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein has “made the world a safer place”. The reality is that Blair and Bush together were the best recruiting sergeants for violent Islamic fundamentalism in many manifestations, not only the Al-Qaeda franchise.

 

Most amazing of all was that Blair declined an invitation to express any regret. He couldn’t even bring himself to say he regretted the loss of the lives of British soldiers and a great number of Iraqis (somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000), mainly civilians. To my way of thinking that makes him less than fully human.

 

Blair described Saddam Hussein as “a monster who threatened the world.” There’s an old English saying, “It takes one to know one.”

 

(Source: Alanhart.net)

 

“War Victims” transmits message of peace to world: photographer

Tehran Times Culture Desk

 

TEHRAN -- Photographer Mehdi Monem is convinced that his pictorial book “War Victims,” portraying the victims of 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, conveys a message of peace to the world.

 

All the photos feature the non-combatant citizens who were injured during the war, said Monem whose book will be introduced during a ceremony on Wednesday at Tehran’s Laleh Hotel.

 

The 120-page book contains 96 black and white photos. An exhibition is also being arranged in the hotel where a selection of photos will go on display.

 

“The photos are divided in three categories; the first depicts victims of mine explosions, the second features victims of residential area bombardments and the third features victims of chemical weapons,” said Monem.

 

“All the years that I was working as the photographer for IRNA on war fronts, I kept this idea in my mind to follow people whose lives were unwillingly caught in the war and suffered irreparable injuries as a result.

 

“I spent all these years in close contact with the victims and took their photos. I really intended to remind those who initiated the wars of their consequences. I hope this book would be a reminder to all of the necessity to preserve peace,” he explained.

 

He also noted that the introduction of the book bears signatures of 10 Iranian photographers including Nasrollah Kasraian, Mahmud Kalari, Seifolah Samadian, and Maryam Zandi, aiming to introduce this book as a statement in support of the war victims.

 

Monem expressed hope that photographers would help to spread the message of peace to the world.

 

Toyota says hybrid sales reach two-million mark

 

TOKYO (Asiaone) - Toyota Motor said Friday that global sales of its hybrid vehicles had topped the two-million mark since their launch in 1997, led by the Prius - Japan's top-selling car for the past four months.

 

Toyota passed the new milestone just two years and three months after its hybrid sales reached the one-million mark, helped by brisk demand for its re-modelled Prius which was launched in mid-May.

 

The company said that as of August 31 it had sold about 2,016,900 hybrids, which run on a combination of petrol and electricity and are in strong demand because of concerns about high fuel prices and global warming.

 

Toyota sold 21,669 Prius vehicles in Japan in August, keeping the top rank in the car market that it has held since May, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said.

 

With government tax breaks and subsidies spurring growing interest in fuel-efficient vehicles, rival Honda sold 7,900 of its Insight hybrid in August.

 

Automakers hope that the popularity of fuel-efficient cars will breathe new life into the ailing market, which was battered by the global recession.

 

Japan's domestic vehicle sales showed the first year-on-year increase in 13 months in August, the same association reported earlier in the week.

 

Toyota and Honda are going head-to-head in the fast growing market. The Insight was the best-selling hybrid in April in Japan before being overtaken by the Prius.

 

The Insight sells at 1.89 million yen (S$29,484) while the Prius has a price tag starting from 2.05 million yen.

 

Rival Nissan is staking its future on pure electric vehicles and plans to start selling its first such car in late 2010.

 

Aqazadeh: Iran Does Not Intend to Produce Nuclear Weapons

 

MOSCOW The visiting Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Gholam Reza Aqazadeh here Monday stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran has no intention of producing nuclear weapons. Speaking to reporters, he dismissed baseless U.S. claims. Aqazadeh said that Washington has been assisting the Zionist regime to expand its nuclear weapons programs and therefore its policies on non-proliferation of atomic weapons is nothing but a deceit Resort of the Zionist regime to nuclear weapons poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability, he said.

 

Iran will produce nuclear fuel plates in four months

Tehran Times Political Desk

 

TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has announced that Iran will produce plate type nuclear fuel in four months.

 

“Those who claim that Iran is not capable of producing nuclear fuel plates should wait, because they will see the results of our work in four months,” he told the IRNA news agency on Saturday.

 

Russia will honor Iran missile deal: minister

 

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia will honor a contract to deliver advanced air defense missiles to Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said Friday.

 

""There is a contract on the delivery of these systems to Iran and we will honor it,"" the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.

 

Origins

In February 1948, the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah announced:

 

“ The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it.[7][8] ”

 

In 1974, in response to India's Smiling Buddha nuclear tests, Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto announced:

 

“ If India builds the bomb, we will eat grass and leaves for a thousand years, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own. The Christians have the bomb, the Jews have the bomb and now the Hindus have the bomb. Why not the Muslims too have the bomb?[9][10]

 

Indian "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive",

 

On 7 September 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave verbal authorization to the scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to manufacture the nuclear device they had designed and prepare it for a test. Throughout its development, the device was formally called the "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive", but it was usually referred to as the Smiling Buddha.

 

Aqazadeh: Iran Does Not Intend to Produce Nuclear Weapons

 

Iran will produce nuclear fuel plates in four months

 

Zionist regime to nuclear weapons poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability

 

AsiaOne

Sunday, Mar 18, 2012

SINGAPORE - The McDonald's outlet at Marine Cove in East Coast Park will close its doors at the stroke of midnight today.

 

The much loved hang-out place for old and young alike is closing due to its landlord, the National Parks Board, redevelopment plans in the area, a local news channel reported.

 

It is moving to another location some 1.5km away, to East Coast Seafood Centre, said a McDonald's spokesperson.

 

To mark its closure and more than 30 years of service to over 25 million customers, the branch held a fun walk for customers and staff at 8.45am.

 

Games and other activities will also be played later today.

 

In a thank you gesture to their supporters over the years, McDonald's is giving a free Blueberry Melts with every Extra Value Meal.

 

The offer is only available at McDonald's East Coast Park branch, and will be valid from March 12 to 18, after breakfast hours.

 

Opened on Jan 20, 1982, the Marine Cove outlet was the first McDonald’s in Singapore to offer a drive-in service counter, and operate round-the-clock.

 

The outlet is popular with many East Coast residents who go there for morning breakast or a drink after jogging or cycyling.

 

National Parks will be developing the area as a recreational green lung and providing easy access to the beach. It is part of its overall plan to expand and improve park facilities throughout Singapore.

 

Offering a scenic coastline that stretches over 15km, East Coast Park is one of Singapore's most popular getaways, attracting more than 7.5 million visitors a year.

 

Singaporeans have been reacting with much dismay over the news.

 

"Why don't we have a say in trying to conserve this place that brought so much memories!" lamented AsiaOne reader Luqman Hakeem.

 

McDonald's Singapore's Facebook page was flooded with farewell messages, as Singaporeans posted their fondest memories of the iconic landmark.

 

"Played at the playground when I was a toddler, had family meals when I was younger, when bbq food at the chalet was dire.. The list goes on.. An icon in my heart for sure.. You will be missed!" posted Facebook user Derrick Chan.

 

"So sad to see it go. I grew up in Marine Parade and even got to see the area in ECP being developed. I spent almost every weekend at the beach with my sisters," said Niz Abd.

 

Fans of the branch have even banded together to shoot a short documentary and tribute piece on the place.

 

Organised by Colourbars Media, the group is calling for fans to share their most memorable stories of the East Coast McDonald's with them on their Facebook page.

 

yamadak@sph.com.sg

it was the last day of Singapore's oldest flea market at it's original location.

www.asiaone.com/singapore/7-things-you-ought-know-about-s...

Unnecessarily opulent mooncakes (a gift from someone) from St. Regis, Singapore. It's that time of year again to eat cake that's loaded with thousands of calories.

 

[Back to Greece in a while]

Lali Baba at "Harishchandra Ghat" which is the second cremation ghat at Benares. He supposedly was a businessman from Bengal and left everything to embrace the path to the divine. I don't know how much truth is in that. One thing that makes me skeptical of such Sadhus is that almost all of them barring a select few claim to have been prosperous prior to becoming sanyasis and claim that they have a brother who works for India's prestigious civil services. Perhaps they were and and they do actually, but seems more like oneupmanship to me.

 

My remarks were quoted in a news story published here:

www.asiaone.com/News/The%2BNew%2BPaper/Story/A1Story20090...

 

It appears my hunch was right on, the man supposedly has a dark past, so if you are in Benares and are intrigued enough to approach this man in the spooky ghat, do that with caution. But again let not people like him deter you to interact with people and enjoy India fully, just remember to be prudent.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium

  

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**French**

Domaine des Cèdres, ancienne résidence de S.M. Léopold II

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**Anglais**

Cedar compound, former residence of H.M. Leopold II

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Vue d'en haut :

www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/43.69220/7.32874

 

Un autre point de vue (croix centrale) :

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Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Built: c.1895

 

Sadly, these ruins are all that remains (in Batu Gajah) of the former residence of Charles Alma Baker - a suryevor, miner and planter from New Zealand.

 

More information about Charles Alma Baker: www.ipohworld.org/blog/?p=797

 

In 2004 the residence was bought by a lawyer who had it dismantled piece by piece and transported to Terengganu. It was then reassembled in Kampung Telaga Papan in Setiu.

 

A more detailed account can be found on the following web page:

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The 2015 Bangkok bombing took place inside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand on 17 August 2015. Twenty people died and 125 were injured. Surveillance footage showed a suspect leaving a backpack at the scene shortly before the explosion. To date, the suspect in the surveillance footage has not been arrested.

 

Prior incidents

Prior to this bombing incident, there were two other bombings in Thailand in the same year. In February 2015, two bombs exploded on the Ratchaprasong Skywalk outside the nearby Siam Paragon shopping mall, injuring three people. The attack was believed to have been politically motivated. In April 2015, a car bomb exploded in Ko Samui, injuring seven.

 

Attack

On 17 August 2015, at 18:55 ICT (11:55 UTC), a bomb exploded inside the grounds of the Erawan Shrine, near the busy Ratchaprasong Intersection in Bangkok's city centre. The Royal Thai Police said that 3 kilograms (6.6 lb) of TNT had been stuffed in a pipe and left under a bench near the outer rim of the grounds surrounding the shrine, and that an electronic circuit suspected to have been used in the attack was found 30 metres (98 ft) from the scene.

 

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. The attacks are thought to have been targeting Thailand's tourism and economy.

 

Second incident

In a separate attack in Bangkok, an explosive device was thrown from a bridge near a boat pier shortly after 13:00 ICT on 18 August 2015, but it caused no injuries. The device, possibly a grenade, appeared to have been thrown at the busy Sathon pier in Bangkok but landed in water where it exploded. The district's deputy police chief said, "If it did not fall in the water then it certainly would have caused injuries." Some damage was done to the bridge.

 

Victims

Most of the victims of the explosion were tourists visiting the shrine. The Royal Thai Police reported that 20 people died and 125 had been injured. The dead included six Thais, five Malaysians, four mainland Chinese, two Hong Kongers (including one British national resident in Hong Kong), one Indonesian, and one Singaporean. In addition, citizens of Japan, Malaysia, the Maldives, Oman, the Philippines, Qatar and Taiwan were among those injured.

 

Suspects

Investigators said they were "certain" that a man shown leaving a backpack at the scene of the explosion was responsible for the blast. The security camera footage, which has been broadcast internationally, shows the man in shorts and a yellow t-shirt taking off a dark-coloured backpack while sitting on a bench and then standing up, putting the backpack underneath the bench and walking away while looking at his phone. The suspect likely had arrived by tuk-tuk from an alley near Hua Lamphong.

 

Thailand's chief of police said the attack was carried out by a network and issued a sketch of the suspect. Police are also saying that two other people seen in the same footage were being treated as suspects. The Thai government has said that it was "unlikely" to have been the work of an international terror group. Police said that at least 10 people are suspected of involvement in the attack.

 

Later on, a taxi driver confirmed that he picked up the suspect, however the suspect was "not in a hurry. He seemed to be calm, like a regular customer, and not Thai. He also spoke in an unclear language on the way.

 

Reaction

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha called it the "worst-ever attack" on his country, saying, "there have been minor bombs or just noise, but this time they aim for innocent lives. They want to destroy our economy, our tourism.

 

- Unquote Wikipedia

 

Photos: Erawan Shrine, Rajaprasong, Bangkok, Thailand

19-21. August 2015

© Andy Zingo Photography​

Contact: AndyZingoPhotography@gmail.com

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

it was the last day of Singapore's oldest flea market at it's original location.

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It is interesting to see his bust in Singapore and more interesting to see burn-out cigarettes butts (quasi-incense) at the foot of his bust as a sign of commemorating him... heavily done up in LR5 to just show mainly his face and the quasi-incense... i found more info here: news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Stor...

(Confirmed by the presiding officer on 8 May 2011 at 2:12 am) Many sources have mentioned that Aljunied GRC has been won by the Workers' Party. If this were true, it would have been the first GRC that has been won by an opposition since GRCs have been created in 1988. That is a total of 23 full years. GRCs have grown in size since they were started. GRCs started off with 3 men each. Currently, in this election, there are two 6-men GRCs. George Yeo, our Foreign Affairs Minister, from the PAP, first stood for elections in 1988 and has been voted in as a Minister for Aljunied GRC since but has lost his seat in this election. Another Cabinet Minister and a potential Speaker of Parliament also did not manage to get any seats.

However, sources mentioned that the other opposition party which have represented us in the Parliament since 1997, Singapore People's Party, did not win any seats this time round. (confirmed)

 

Other notable contests:

1. Potong Pasir SMC: SPP (50.36%) lost to PAP (49.64%) by just 0.72%, 114 votes. There are 242 spoilt votes.

2. Joo Chiat SMC: WP (51.01%) lost to PAP (48.99%) by just 2.02%, 382 votes. There are 314 spoilt votes.

3. East Coast GRC: WP (45.17%) lost to PAP (54.83%) by just 9.66%, 10553 votes. There are 1847 spoilt votes.

 

In 2006, in Aljunied GRC, WP (43.9%) lost to PAP (56.1%) by 12.2%. In 2011, WP won by 9.42% over PAP in Aljunied GRC.

 

2011 almost could have been remembered as the year when all seats were contested too if not for 35 seconds.

 

Now, Punggol-Pasir Ris GRC + Punggol East SMC will have one town council as what the PAP has mentioned or what the opposition call a super GRC. www.straitstimes.com/GeneralElection/News/Story/STIStory_...

Aljunied GRC + Hougang SMC can now adopt the same strategy.

 

Other possible super GRCs (possible oppositions):

1. Bishan Toa Payoh GRC + Potong Pasir SMC *** (SPP)

2. East Coast GRC + Joo Chiat SMC ** (WP)

3. Marine Parade GRC + Mountbatten SMC * (NSP)

4. Holland Bukit Timah GRC + Bukit Panjang SMC (SDP)

5. Jurong GRC + Yuhua SMC

6. Chua Chu Kang GRC + Hong Kah North SMC

7. Ang Mo Kio GRC+ Sengkang West SMC

8. West Coast GRC + Pioneer SMC

9. Moulmein Kallang GRC + Whompoa SMC

10. Tanjong Pagar GRC + Radin Mas SMC

 

GRCs which are not super GRCs:

1. Nee Soon GRC

2. Sembawang GRC

3. Tampines GRC

 

Hope that 3 more SMCs can be carved out from the above 3 GRCs to bring the number of SMCs seats to 15.

The number of SMCs when GRCs were first implemented started out as 42, then to 21, then to 9 and finally back to 12.

 

2011 electorate map:

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Update: 17 May 2011... A super Town Council!

1. Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC + Punggol East SMC www.prpg-tc.org.sg/cms/people.php

  

Other super Town Councils:

2. East Coast GRC + Joo Chiat SMC www.ectc.org.sg/mps.html

3. Marine Parade GRC + Mountbatten SMC www.mptc.org.sg/6_Meet_the_ppl_session.htm

4. Holland Bukit Timah GRC + Bukit Panjang SMC www.hbptc.org.sg/

5, Choa Chu Kang GRC + Hong Kah North SMC www.hktc.org.sg/about_mp.htm

6. West Coast GRC + Pioneer SMC www.wctc.org.sg/wctc.html

7. Tanjong Pagar GRC + Radin Mas SMC www.tptc.org.sg/meetmp.html

 

Updated: 21 May 2011

8. Hougang and Aljunied Town Councils finally merged officially.

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Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.

 

Some wall paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall (e.g., with marouflage). Whether these works can be accurately called "murals" is a subject of some controversy in the art world, but the technique has been in common use since the late 19th century.

 

Source: Wikipedia

 

By Walter Sim

The Straits Times

Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013

SINGAPORE - The writing was on the wall for Kampong Glam when it made the news last September for flouting guidelines by having graffiti artwork on its shophouses.

 

Now the area's business association is in talks with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to allow more artwork in a "mural arts programme".

 

The Straits Times understands the National Arts Council is also involved in discussions, in tandem with the launch of the Aliwal Arts Centre in the vicinity.

 

Six months ago, the URA said that an eclectic colourful graffiti artwork at Blu Jaz Cafe - a live music and independent art space - had flouted its conservation guidelines, which were released in January last year.

 

These suggest the use, for example, of "traditional paint schemes" such as pastel hues, with strong colours to only accentuate decorative details.

 

Blu Jaz owner Aileen Tan commissioned the work in 2010 and the URA took no action.

 

URA guidelines also say key architectural features such as facade tiles should not be painted over. Four other owners were told to remove the paint covering the original facade tiles of their shophouses, The Straits Times reported last year.

 

But the URA clarified later that it will allow graffiti art on the side walls of selected conserved shophouses on a case-by-case basis.

 

In a reply to The Straits Times on Saturday, a URA spokesman said that "not all conserved buildings have mandated colour schemes", and that only certain old buildings such as Gedung Kuning, a yellow mansion in Kampong Glam, the former Red House bakery in East Coast Road, and black and white bungalows must adhere to these schemes.

 

For others, there are no mandated colours to follow but owners are still urged to follow the guidelines, which are now being revised to account for "more recent developments and engagement with stakeholders".

 

The spokesman said guidelines for murals on shophouses are kept "very broad, as it is not practical to prescribe guidelines for artistic creativity".

 

Source: news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Sto...

 

photo credit on: stateofbuildings.sg/places/haji-lane-mural

 

NB:

Waterway@Punggol won the Grand Prize for Excellence in Environmental Engineering in the environmental sustainability category

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Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

这些单位将被拆除......并尽快建立一个新的南北高速公路..

Rochor residents have to move ...see press reports...

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ASIAONE Jan 23, 2014

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SINGAPORE - The Waterfall Aviary at Jurong Bird Park, home to the world's first man-made waterfall, was re-launched today in a ceremony officiated by Mr Desmond Lee Ti-Seng, Minister of State, Ministry of National Development.

 

Since the 1970s, visitors to Jurong Bird Park have enjoyed the immersive experience of marvelling at birds that fly freely in the Waterfall Aviary.

 

Standing at 30 metres, it was the world's first and tallest man-made waterfall, and is still the tallest waterfall inside an aviary.

 

Jurong Bird Park and the Waterfall Aviary have played host to foreign dignitaries such as Queen Elizabeth II, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and Mr Li Rui Huan, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee from the Republic of China.

 

"Waterfall Aviary is a place that holds fond memories for many visitors who now have children and grandchildren of their own," said Mr Lee Meng Tat, CEO, Wildlife Reserves Singapore.

 

"With the re-launch of Waterfall Aviary today, we invite these parents and grandparents to take their children here to bond and relive those wonderful times."

 

The world's largest walk-in aviary houses more than 50 species of birds, including the endangered sun conures, the vulnerable common crowned pigeons, pied imperial pigeons, and Von der Decken's hornbills.

 

Visitors will get a chance to get see them, as well as other resident birds like the starlings, rollers, guineafowls and parrots, up close during the keeper-led feeding sessions at 10.30am and 2.30pm daily.

 

To attract more families to visit the Bird Park, Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) and the People's Association will be rolling out a series of customised packages for residents in the heartlands.

 

At the re-launch on Thursday morning, Minister of State, Mr Desmond Lee Ti-Seng, released some endangered sun conures into the two hectare aviary, bringing the total number of birds there to more than 600.

 

In addition to the main attraction, the Waterfall Aviary Terrace has also been developed as an event venue to provide corporate guests with an alternative to run-of-the-mill event settings.

 

Set in a lush avian sanctuary, the Waterfall Aviary Terrace is ideal for team-buildings, retreats and cocktail receptions.

 

Source: www.asiaone.com/news/relax/jurong-bird-parks-waterfall-av...

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

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Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

A brand new mall in Clementi Central .... , which will also house two blocks of 40-storey HDB residential flats

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Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

This guy calls rainbow cakes 'gay cakes' - are we really in 2017?

By Joey Lee

ASIAONE Jun 02, 2017

 

Where's the eye-rolling emoji when you need one?

 

On Tuesday (May 30), irate netizen Peng Jia Rong (彭嘉荣) went on a tirade against rainbow cakes, and posted his rant on the "We are against Pinkdot in Singapore" Facebook group.

 

According to the post, he was at a "young punk" cafe in Singapore when he spotted a "rainbow cake".

 

Triggered by the multi-layered gateau, he wrote that "these are not rainbow cakes. (A) rainbow has 7 colours".

 

"These are gay cakes. Nothing wrong with a gay cake, sure, but please call a spade a spade. Stop covering up gay agenda. Now."

 

So if we're to follow his line of reasoning correctly, a rainbow has seven colours and this cake has six. The missing colour was not an "unknowing" mistake on the part of the baker.

 

Therefore, it's only logical that the six-coloured dessert he spotted supports what he calls the "gay agenda".

 

Well… there's a spurious argument if there ever was one.

 

Or is it?

 

An online media outlet suggested that Mr Peng might have likened the rainbow cake to the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) pride flag which also has six colours.

 

"The flag was designed with six colours after the assassination of San Francisco commissioner Harvey Milk so that an even number of colours could be distributed evenly between parade marchers as they demonstrated solidarity."

 

But the article conceded that Mr Peng's argument might be "stretching it" and the baker might have decided to combine indigo and violet into one layer for convenience sake.

 

Reactions to the original post have been a mix of hilarious and tongue-in-cheek.

 

Like-minded members of the group seem to support his dubious claim.

 

See more at source: www.asiaone.com/singapore/guy-calls-rainbow-cakes-gay-cak...

  

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.

Somewhere in City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

 

Since i was in high school, i had addicted the joy of riding. The feeling just amazing and not words can be described. I still remember, almost twice and thrice a week i rode evening from 5pm- 730pm when sun is setting. I always heading to a place called Pertak" where the place filled with rivers and chilling waterfalls. This placed has now replaced with higher Damn in Malaysia which located at Kuala Kubu Bahru, Hulu Selangor, a small town that i grown up.

 

A place where you can listen to the water flow, the fresh air, the bird singing, and the warm wind covering your sweating body, i never could to define freedom inside of me. While the riding had already given the strength to climb when I faced uphill, speeding when it was downhill. It reminds me that everything come with challenge for a reason. Just the epiphany how to balance and adjust it, by means climbing uphill represent challenge always coupled hardship, more effort, thoughts to put in. While speeding at downhill indicates do not be dazzled when strike the achievement, should take adjustable speed, it can be harmful if can't sense the danger ahead.

 

Yesterday, enjoyed myself in the OCBC Cycling biggest event in Singapore. It was my first time after 10 years working overseas, slowly bringing piece and pieces memory when i was in high school. Though crowded with all riders, and got injured twice halfway because some riders just didn't know the rules how to slow down and do emergency break. Overall, i still enjoyed.

  

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This shot taken at the Melbourne Central, somewhere near State Library of Victoria, always wanted to take this kinda panning shot on the street. Thanks to wifey get me company for the last detour before we headed to airport.

 

You must see this on large View On White and View On Black

 

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P/s : This is new Lightroom 4 editing parts can be seen in the commentary too.

Genevieve Chua, born in 1984 in work Raised As a Pack of Wolves was Residency Programme at the Gyeonggi

Singapore, graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2004. Her works span a variety of mediums including drawing, photography and installation. Genevieve’s works possess distinctive aesthetic and recurring motifs of nature and female figures in dim light. Genevieve’s art explores the fear of the unknown.

For a young artist, Genevieve has exhibited extensively. Her solo exhibitions include As Brutal As (La Liberia Gallery, Singapore, 2007), Lost in the City: Full Moon and Foxes (National Museum of Singapore, 2009) and Child and the Beast (Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 2011). Genevieve has also exhibited overseas at ArtHK 2011 (AsiaOne ChanHampe Galleries, Hong Kong, 2011).

Genevieve was also selected to exhibit at the Singapore Biennale 2011 where she showcased Adinandra Belukar at the Old Kallang Airport. In 2009, her digital

commissioned for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Other group exhibitions in which she has participated include CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009), Next Wave Time Lapse (Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) and Cross-Scape (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju; Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea, 2011). Her work, After the Flood (2010), was sold by international auction house Sotheby’s and was exhibited at The Singapore Show: Future Proof (8Q Singapore Art Museum, 2012).

Genevieve constantly seeks to expand her practice and this has led her to participate in numerous residences locally and abroad. In 2010, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. In 2011, she took part in the GCC Creative

Creation Centre in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and The Art Incubator at the Centre for Creative Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.