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Matthew Ng’s “widow”

Matthew Ng and Nicki Chow. Photo: ABC.

A Chinese court has sentenced Chinese-born Australian businessman Matthew Ng （吳植輝） to 11½ years in jail for bribery and other charges. Ng’s travel company, Et-China (易網通旅行集團) competes with the state-owned Lingnan Group (嶺南集團), and some say that the case was orchestrated so that Lingnan could take over a lucrative subsidiary of Et-China.

After the verdict, Ng told his wife to take the family back to Australia:

Handcuffed and separated by a barrier, Ng told his wife, Niki Chow, to go home to Australia as soon as possible. He then reached for her hand and kissed it before collapsing in tears. “He thinks it [China] is too dangerous and not good for the children,” Ms Chow said later.

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From Phnom Penh to Philadelphia, Part V: Community leadership

How did Chiny Ky become a leader in the Cambodian community in Philadelphia? Hear how he learned English, got an engineering degree in Pittsburgh, and went back to Philadelphia to be a teacher. He also talks about the discrimination and racism that Cambodians face in Philadelphia, and how he mediates cultural conflicts between Cambodian students and parents and American schools.

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Wednesday link roundup: gender, sexualities, and relationships edition

In this week’s link roundup, we feature a Japanese-Australian transnational couple, a smart answer to a man with “yellow fever,” a Malaysian who ran away and married his husband in Ireland, and a reality show about Asian American male calendar models.

Australia


The sociolinguistics blog Language on the Move has a bilingual project called Japanese on the Move that profiles people who live transnationally between Japan and Australia. Above is the interview with Japanese artist Maiko Horita and her Australian partner Wil Loeng.

Ireland
Missing Malaysian Student Found After Marrying Irish Husband – The Advocate

Gay medical student Ariff Alfian Rosli, 28, had been reported as missing three years ago after ending regular contact with his family, according to Asia One news. He had a scholarship to study medicine at University College Dublin. His father, Rosli Haron, filed a missing persons report with police and the the Irish and Malaysian embassies in both countries before he and his wife made eight trips to Ireland in hopes of finding their son. Last week Rosli Haron encountered photos of Ariff in a civil partnership ceremony with his spouse, Jonathan. Ariff’s mother, Kamariah Hashim, has written a letter to her son, asking for him to return. A Malaysian politician who had been helping the family is set to hand deliver the letter on Friday.

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