(Reuters) - Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios will team up for doubles at next month's Australian Open, and the entertaining local duo is aiming to dazzle crowds at the Grand Slam again.
HONG KONG : Michelle Yeoh understood enough Cantonese when it mattered. Even though the name “Sing Lung” didn’t immediately ring a bell, she still accepted her first on-screen gig in 1980s Hong Kong – a commercial with, as it turned out, Jackie Chan – which would lead ultimately to her international film career.
That is how I came to have a perfect command of Mandarin, and to consider it more of a mother tongue than Cantonese. On the one hand, Taiwan offers scholarships to overseas Chinese students; on the other hand, Malaysia continues to give the Malay majority preferential access to resources from higher education to housing under the bumiputra or “sons of the soil” policy, in the name of tackling inequality.
This shiny new China only became highly visible during the Beijing 2008 Olympics, shortly before I graduated from secondary school. Amid intense international media coverage of China’s modernisation drive in the run-up to the sporting event, the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube stadiums were soon the coolest buildings in the region.
My first stop in China was Beijing. To see the Chinese capital’s modern prosperity up close was to believe it.
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