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Indonesian Film Festival 2015
THIS year marks the ten year anniversary of the Indonesian Film Festival! Echo Chen offers her choice selections on what you should see. The Indonesian Film Festival (IFF) is back to celebrate its 10th...
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Outside China: Student shrugs off cultural inhibition to protest and advocate...
COMING from a society that discourages protesting, Chinese student Feifei Liao talks about her experience in organising advocacy campaigns as an international student in Melbourne. Echo Chen has the...
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The Weekender: April 10 – 12
STIMULATE your body, mind and soul this weekend by working up a sweat at the Women’s Bike Ride, reflecting on city life through a photography exhibition, and letting Asia’s best comedians tickle your...
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Students fear Chinese businesses selling fake degrees will devalue genuine...
STUDENTS say businesses offering fake degrees and verifications that would pass under the nose of the Chinese government could cost graduates their jobs and devalue their genuine qualifications back...
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Fake degrees easily identified, say universities
UNIVERSITIES say robust systems are in place to help employers identify degrees obtained fraudulently, but some students doubt it will work. Echo Chen reports. Universities are confident that inbuilt...
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What now for returning Chinese graduates? Employment and the ‘seaweed’ syndrome
THE employability of Chinese graduates has been a hot topic of discussion, both in Australian and Chinese media. Speaking to employers, recruitment and education agencies in China, Echo Chen provides...
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Degrees of deception? Students and Chinese education agent tell a different...
WILL education agents and students resort to anything for a chance to study in Australia? Echo Chen offers a nuanced perspective on recruitment practices overseas and the dangers of negatively...
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Behind Melbourne’s Mekong: Pho and a decade of community giving through the...
CELEBRATING 10 years since the establishment of the Tertiary Scholarship Fund, Melbourne’s iconic Vietnamese restaurant Mekong founder Yin Choi Lam opens up to reporter Echo Chen and offers a rare...
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Documentary filmmaker Du Haibin talks Chinese patriotism in ‘A Young Patriot’
FASCINATED by what it means to be a young Chinese person with a strong sense of patriotism, director Du Haibin filmed one patriotic student who slowly begins to question his beliefs in his country....
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