Chinese Communities Worldwide

Huaren.org would like to take this opportunity to wish all Chinese/Huaren around the world
A happy, healthy,successful and prosperous Year of Tiger.

Global Times Forum

Dear Chinatownologists,
Chinese New Year is arriving in about 11 days time. When we talk about sights and sounds, what is the "sound" that comes to your mind?
Many will say it is the fire crackers. Although it is banned in many countries, firecrackers continue to exert a presence visually through designs on new year cards, and new year decorations.
The cracking sounds of fire crackers are also recorded and played during Chinese New Year.
With such resilience, we have prepared this article about fire crackers.
Not only that, we have also included a video clip of fire crackers. See how it gets lighted and how it explodes all the way; 30 seconds of it.
If you live in a country that fire crackers are banned,  you can play our clip as many times as you like. You will not get into trouble.
So here's the link: http://www.chinatownology.com/fire_crackers.html
Please also give us 3 mins to do our archway poll 2010.
Vote for the most beautiful, most traditional and your favourite archway: http://www.chinatownology.com/chinatown_archway_poll.html
Happy New Year
Chinatownology
www.chinatownology.com

Urgent help required

Dear All

Natural disasters come and go. Sichuan earthquake has settled not that long ago, We now has typhoon disasters hitting Taiwan and mainland China.

See news reports

If anyone wishes to help or donate, please do so. Your generosity for humanity will also be appreciated. Give and assist if you can and you shall feel good especially those who are able living in Taiwan and mainland China.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2009/08/15/2003451170

Huaren around the world please assist whatever you can through your network.

Our special condolence to those families who have lost their love one an dmay their suffering be alleviated soon.

With best wishes

Dr Ka Sing Chua

www.huaren.org

www.chineseworldnet.org

Since its inception it has been our objective at “Huaren” to network ethnic Chinese associations and professionals into an interactive entity.

Outside China, the nature of ethnic Chinese is complex. At “Huaren” we understand that some of us, for example those living in Indonesia or Thailand may not have a Chinese name. They were discouraged or legally banned from studying the Chinese language. We know that even in countries such as Europe, U.S., Australia or New Zealand not many second generation ethnic Chinese could speak Mandarin or a dialect. Furthermore ethnic Chinese do not share a common religion, we do not practice a prescribed set of customs or culture, and we certainly do not subscribe to a in a given set of political ideology.

Nevertheless that does not diminish our identity as ethnic Chinese, even though we are citizens or residents of countries we are born in or choose to reside in. Wherever we are, there is so much that we could contribute, individually or collectively to the society.

“Huaren” provides a forum for people from different parts of the World to exchange ideas. Networking provides the means whereby members could share their experience; liaise with each other, support or help one another, or just making friends.

The “Huaren Liaison Project” seeks to compile a database of associations, ethnic Chinese community or political leaders, student organisations, Chinese cultural troupes as well as specialists in various fields. We invite sinologists and other non-Chinese professionals in Chinese affairs to join us. We even include web-based “virtual” entities. The project is on-going, and we need our members world wide to help us with this interesting, rewarding, and enormously difficult task.

It is our vision that eventually we would be able to highlight ethnic Chinese communities in various countries, as well as profile local leaders. To a certain extent we hope be able to meet friends wherever we go.

This is a long term, ambitious project. As the proverb says, “The man puts in the efforts, but the Heaven makes it a success.” We can do our very best; the final outcome could be very circumstantial.

Let us hope that we could galvanise our collective intelligence, so that ethnic Chinese as a community could be better understood, more respected and successful in our own endeavours.

Please contacted us at Huaren.

Y. S. Yow  (Network Coordinator)

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