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Dirt Star Walks The Indie Path Through Shenzhen, China

2009-11-26T00:06:59Z

By Eric de Fontenay (Founder & Publisher) (more articles from this author) 2009-11-19 Comment | Email | Print | RSS Subsequent to my trip to Hong Kong last June for Music Matters, Dirt Star (a musician based out of Shenzhen in southern Chi...

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Kenny Bloom: China's Music Mogul

2009-11-19T00:03:08Z

By Eric de Fontenay (Founder & Publisher) (more articles from this author) 2009-11-12 Comment | Email | Print | RSS The music industry in China has significantly changed over the past couple of decades, from a tightly government-controlled ...

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On telly this morning—link for overseas friends

2009-10-29T09:13:51Z

For overseas friends who would not have seen it live, here is the link to my TV3 appearance this morning on Sunrise. Props to Helen Baxter, to Ali Ikram and Carly Flynn on the programme itself, to Lars and Frankie at the Wellington studio, to Clau...

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Hong Kong retro ﬁlm moment: from Dick Emery to 最佳拍檔

2009-10-20T01:01:04Z

The stories are different enough that one could not accuse the Hong Kong ﬁlm-makers of outright copying, but there is clear inspiration between the English Ooh, You Are Awful (or Get Charlie Tully), starring Dick Emery, and the ﬁrst of the success...

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Yangtze Restaurant respects ‘no MSG’

2009-09-26T01:16:19Z

A smaller photo this time, since I know close-up stuff shot at night on a cell will look like crap. These are plastic chopsticks from the Yangtze Restaurant on Willis Street, which were obviously done many years ago: they feature a six-digit t...

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Balls of steel

2009-09-19T12:59:35Z

Surprisingly, I have never pasted this video on my blog before. About time that was redressed. The YouTube comments include one that reads, ‘Balls of steel’.

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Partition politics, the past is still present

2009-09-01T21:48:18Z

India's second largest party, "Bharatiya Janata Party" translated in English means People's Party has been front page news, by expelling one of their senior members Jaswant Singh. He is one of the few Indian politicians to have been the Minister...

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QotD: my very ﬁrst movie

2009-08-12T10:01:11Z

What is the ﬁrst movie you saw in the the theatre? Believe it or not, it was A Bridge Too Far. I hate war. As far as I can recall, we were new émigrés in New Zealand and with no one to look after me, my parents had to take me along to the cin...

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Industry Spotlight: Christine Wang, International Marketing at Sony Music Entertainment China

2009-08-10T16:44:33Z

During my recent trip to China for the Music Matters conference in Hong Kong, I met up with Christine Wang in Beijing. Ms. Wang started in the music business as a MusicDish intern in 2007 and went on to rise up the music ranks to Supervisor of I...

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Racist emails are bound to backﬁre

2009-07-27T10:54:55Z

A shocking series of racist emails attacking job applicant Julie Eru on the North Shore, which have been traced back to a Chinese-run company called Brightstar, has been exposed on 3 News. It was generally agreed by Brightstar that their comput...

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