Mr Li was a student during the 六四天安門事件 (June 4th Tiananmen Incident) in Bejing. He was studying at a place 200 miles from Beijing and was told by his teachers not to go there. Some of the information of what happened to the students he knew, estimating that many hundreds of students were killed by the army with guns & tanks.
We wondered about those ‘military installations’ that we had been warned about. Our conclusion was, that we’d been hiking all over the military installation, ie. the Wall itself. It just hadn’t been declassified since the Ming Dynasty…
Staff writer GJ offers his opinions on the Wallabies dilemmas.
Over 3000 gathered in the spring weather at Norths Rugby Club on Shaw Road for an afternoon of rugby. Qudos to Rugby Australia for taking the NRC matches away from the traditional home of rugby in Brisbane, Ballymore, to play matches at suburban grounds such as Courtney Oval. Round 1 for the McInnes Wilson Lawyers…
We have been asked by the Kyushu prefectural governments to help promote their tourist areas, cultural aspects and historical sites to the Australian rugby community ahead of the 2019 Rugby World Cup being hosted by Japan. The first promotion will be on August 18 at Stadium Australia before the Bledisloe Cup #1 between the Wallabies…
Mountain bike ride from Shanghai to Nanjing in 1991年, two years after the Tienanmen Square Incident (六四天安門事件).
Before the proliferation of the World Wide Web, Google Maps and personal Global Positioning Systems (GPS), two intrepid, young travelers from Australia embarked on a journey of a lifetime from the port city of Yokohama (near Tokyo) to Shanghai in China.
The National Rugby Championship, NRC, started this weekend in Nausori with Fiji Drua hosting Melbourne Rising. In what promised to be an entertaining match it took 28 minutes for the first try to be posted when Tom English went over for Rising and only a minute later for the flying Fijians to respond. Highlights on YouTube…
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This Saturday St. Laurence’s College will host Marist Brothers Ashgrove in their annual rugby union match at SLC sporting facilities at Runcorn. The fields there are also celebrating a half century of operation. These two proud rugby schools that have been knocking on the door of the GPS competition for decades and the level of…
The script could not have been written better, after 6 weeks of international rugby the best two teams in the world meet in the final, Australia and New Zealand. It is not always the case in World Cups, but in 2015 that is the case. The final lived up to expectation in front of a…
Six weeks of intense international rugby competition concludes this Saturday (early Sunday morning in Australia and New Zealand) with two remaining teams to meet up in the Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham. As Antipodeans, it is a classic match up between the two Southern Hemisphere heavyweights, Australia and New Zealand, much anticipated since the Inception…
