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A tiny rural school goes global
A tiny school in Rotorua (new entrant to senior students) has a total immersion approach to learning te Reo Maori and Mandarin but they are also going global. With their Mandarin teacher being one of…
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The Mooncake and the Kūmura
The Mooncake and the Kūmura is a debut play from award winning new playwright Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen. It first performed at the Loft, Q Theatre as part of the Auckland Arts Festival earlier this year…
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Total Immersion - A tiny rural school goes global
Preparing 1200 Chinese dumplings and traditional soup for guests, Te Kura Kaupapa Motuhake O Tawhiuau - a tiny rural school in Murupara south of Rotorua - is hosting its cultural day. They might be…
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Millennial poets inspire
11 May 2015Ya-Wen Ho and Liang Yujing are two talented millennial poets who make bilingualism look easy. Internationally published they're performing their work in English and Chinese, shuttling between…
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Unknown Anzacs - Cook Islanders at war
Hundreds of Cook Islands soldiers enlisted for the First World War but their contribution has never been officially recognised by the New Zealand government they worked for. Daniela Maoate-Cox…
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Chow Brothers - Divide and Rule?
The Chow Brothers, infamous for their rags to riches life as property magnates and brothel owners made news during their on-going court battles with their competitors in the sex industry. They also…
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Cycling for Cambodia
20 Apr 2015Solary Ha came to NZ as a baby from a Cambodian refugee camp on the border of Thailand. She's now a successful HR Adviser, but wants to give back by taking part in a Red Cross fundraiser, a 270km…
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Mandarin fastest growing language
13 Apr 2015It's the largest group so far – 104 Mandarin language assistants are heading to primary and secondary schools across the country. Sponsored by the Confucius Institute at Victoria University and the…
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Rainbow Pacific
30 Mar 2015Pacific people are often portrayed in the media as homophobic Christians but the reality for some is quite different. A group of people in South Auckland believe religion and different types of…
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Confucius Classroom Opens
23 Mar 2015The students at Wellington Girls' College should be proud, the Minister of Education is launching the opening of their own Confucius Classroom as a result of their dedication to the learning of…
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Rendezvous with Guzheng
Xiyao Chen is a guzheng master, originally from Beijing and from a long family line of guzheng Masters. Together with Mongolian Throat singer Jonny Marks and acoustic guitarist Jack hooker they're…
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Ancient New Chinese Comedy
9 Mar 2015"Ancient and new" Chinese stand-up comedy is featured at a Gala Festival in Lower Hutt celebrating Chinese New Year. A popular visiting comedian from Hunan, China meets Lynda Chanwai-Earle so she can…
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Sourcing African Ingredients
6 Mar 2015What you're used to eating - and what you like to eat - will largely depend on where you grew up. And while an increasingly wide variety of foods are available in NZ, African immigrants sometimes…
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Dancing to Good Vibrations
2 Mar 2015How is music therapy helping new migrants settle into our largest city?
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Sister City collaboration opens Chinese New Year
23 Feb 2015A renowned visiting Chinese dancer from Wellington's sister city Xiamen is collaborating with renowned New Zealand choreographer Diedre Tarrant (Footnote Dance) to open Chinese New Year at the…
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Under the same moon - a new play launches Chinese New Year
16 Feb 2015Lynda hears from the creators of "Under the same moon" - a heartfelt comedy about daughters and their wayward mothers, premiering as part of the Chinese New Year festival in Wellington. Region…
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Life saving new safe-house - Shakti Women's Refuge
It's taken over a decade of campaigning the cause, but finally Shakti Ethnic Women's Refuge are able to open their new refuge in Wellington for women and their children desperately seeking shelter…
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Our Aquanauts - Saturation Diver Chris Fabish
4 Feb 2015Ever heard of the term aquanaut? There are as few as 100 New Zealanders working as aquanauts or saturation divers around the globe, maintaining deep-sea oil wells and pipelines in the most extreme…
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How to be dead - Writer Chris Tse
2 Feb 2015Interviewing ghosts to redress an injustice; 110 years on writer Chris Tse takes Lynda Chanwai-Earle to the scene of the racially motivated murder of Chinese Gold miner Joe Kum Yung in Wellington's…
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White Ghosts, Yellow Peril - a ground-breaking publication
26 Jan 2015Lynda Chanwai-Earle brings us a story about White Ghosts and Yellow Peril, a new non-fiction publication that reveals some surprising and sometimes unsavoury facts about New Zealand's first contact…
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Monkey Business - a tribute to the late Warwick Broadhead
19 Jan 2015Classic Chinese mythology is brought to life on Waiheke Island by the late legendary New Zealand performer Warwick Broadhead. Monkey - a solo theatre production might have been the world's longest…
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Sattriya Dance - The international language of gesture
13 Nov 2014Indian music, food and dance lit up Wellington recently when a renowned dance troupe from northeast India helped celebrate the annual Diwali Festival of Lights. Lynda meets award winning international…
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Fleeting Beauty - Rangoli Sand Art
3 Nov 2014The "Rows of Colours" - it's beautiful, intricate and only lasts a day. The Hindi word Rangoli is made up of two words; Rang - meaning "colour" and oli - meaning "rows", the rows of colours. This…
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Culturally Motivated Crime in New Zealand
13 Oct 2014Female genital mutilation (FGM): It's illegal in NZ but there are varying types of FGM that range from type 1 to type 3 and many women may regard this practice as part of their culture. Lynda…
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