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Gnoikj

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Was thinking this may be a good place to migrate to. Anyone can confirm if the crime rate really up and targetting Asians?

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Boyboy

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hard to say.. local papers tend to like to publish news that deters pple from going to aussie n NZland.

 

maybe trying to stem the outflow of local talents [sly]

 

here, erp and inflation go up and target everybody. LPPL.

 

not saying that NZ is a better place to stay, but no place is perfect, certainly not even SG [rolleyes]

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David

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Your attachment is our local paper.

 

This attachment is their local paper, a further development to Peter Low's earlier remark. This cannot be bias.

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story....jectid=10520648

Chinese shun leader after triad remark 5:00AM Wednesday July 09, 2008

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Chinese community leader Ping Shi tells of his opposition to Asian Anti-crime Group head Peter Low yesterday. Photo / Kenny Rodger Your Views Do you approve of vigilante action?

Chinese community leaders met yesterday to discuss ways to distance their communities from Peter Low.

And the chief executive of a broadcasting station wants an apology from the man who suggested using triads to combat crime.

This follows the resignation of at least three committee members of the Asian Anti-crime Group (AAG) after Mr Low, the group's chairman, said it would use triad gangs and vigilante groups if the Government and police did not act on crime.

The list of the group's committee members was also removed from its website yesterday.

"We all feel that we have been cheated by Peter Low to support his personal objectives, and today we want to state publicly that we have nothing to do with him or the AAG," said Chong Bao Hu, head of the Central Auckland Chinese Association, one of 25 community leaders at the meeting in Balmoral.

"His ideas of doing things is not the New Zealand way, and it certainly is not the Chinese way.

"He does not represent us or the Asian community."

 

 

He added: "We went for the march organised by Mr Low, braving the cold and rain, to support the call for tougher sentences on crime - not to be manipulated by a man we don't even know."

Mr Chong said the group would also be releasing a collective statement "to make it very clear we are strongly against the involvement of triads, gangs, vigilantes and other unlawful groups".

Those at the meeting were among the 10,000 who took part in the group's march in Botany Downs calling on the Government to get tough on crime, but said they did not know Mr Low or had even heard of the AAG.

"Crime getting out of control is a central concern of the Asian community, so it didn't matter whether it is Mr Low or anyone else who organised a protest, we would have been there to support it," said Sun Lin Feng from the North East Chinese Society.

"But talking about using triads is ridiculous and takes the attention away from the message.

"No one in our community can support any group operating unlawfully in New Zealand."

Chu Zi Gang, representing the Panmure Chinese Association, said many in his group felt let down by the Chinese Voice radio station because promotions it for of the march did not "give the full picture".

But Charles Chan, a friend of Mr Low who was at the meeting, defended him,

"Peter may not have said things in the right way, but he was the one responsible for bringing the serious issue of crime on Asians on to the table, and into the media, which we are discussing today."

Gary Chang, chief executive of World Television, which operates Chinese Voice, went on air for an hour on Monday to clarify the station's position.

"We backed the protest march because we wanted to support the many talkback callers to our station who said they are victims of crime and feel very helpless because the police and Government are not doing anything" he said in Mandarin.

"We did not know anything about Mr Low's plans to use triads, a suggestion which I doubt he meant when he said it."

Mr Chang said he should retract the suggestion of bringing in the triads, and apologise for misleading the community.

Last night, Mr Low said he was not going to apologise and blamed politicians for "breaking the unity of the people".

"I never said I represented the Chinese people, they can do what they like, I am not too worried." He said the AAG was on track with its plans - and will be "coming up with results to show that in the near future".

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10520862 Ashton family complains about lawyer 8:56AM Thursday July 10, 2008

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Ted and Judy Ashton, the parents of Debbie Ashton. Photo / Mark Mitchell Related nzherald links:

The family of Nelson woman Debbie Ashton has made a complaint to the Nelson District Law Society about lawyer Mark Dollimore.

The family made the complaint on Tuesday, Radio New Zealand reported.

The issue to be considered is whether Mr Dollimore should have told Nelson District Court that the man he was representing had previous convictions under his real name.

Jonathan Barclay, a criminal with drug, dishonesty and driving convictions dating back to 1997 killed Debbie Ashton in a car accident in December 2006. He was treated as a first offender on driving charges by the court a month earlier when he used an identity given to him by a police witness programme.

"There can be little doubt that Mr Dollimore knew what the correct position was," a ministerial inquiry by Kristy McDonald QC released yesterday said.

"He appears to have made a conscious decision for whatever reason to allow the prosecution to proceed on an incorrect basis."

The report said the New Zealand Law Society Ethics Committee should consider its Rules of Professional Conduct for Barristers and Solicitors.

 

 

Under the rules defence counsel must not disclose a client's previous convictions without the client's authority but they also have a duty to the court.

"I have at all times correctly followed the rules, and advice given to me by senior counsel, including a QC, confirms that I have not breached my duty to the court or defendant client," The Nelson Mail reported Mr Dollimore as saying.

A former crown prosecutor, who declined to be named, told NZPA the obligation to the court was paramount and superseded that to client.

The lawyer could have withdrawn or passed the case to another lawyer who did not know the background.

Otago University law faculty dean Professor Mark Henaghan said Mr Dollimore did nothing wrong.

Lawyers could not disclose things without a client's permission. They could only breach client confidentiality in exceptional cases such as when they believed there was imminent risk of harm to someone else.

He said it was the prosecutor's job to pick the connection up.

"A defence lawyer's job is not to jump in there and volunteer things."

Client confidentiality was necessary so clients had faith in their lawyers.

The Department of Corrections and police have apologised to the Ashton family.

Barclay was sentenced to five years and six months for manslaughter in May 2007 for the death of Ms Ashton.

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Boyboy

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democratic country, dare to be fierce mah.

 

in SG, who dare to be fierce? [rolleyes]

 

too "fierce" kena label as "psychopath" [laugh][laugh]

 

interesting news, but in itself it doesn't make NZ such a horrible place to be in.

 

all countries have pros and cons. i don't believe new zealanders flock here in droves but i'm not sure about the other way around [sly]

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Tonicwater

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Not surprising that there's an element of truth to this statement. I've just come back from NZ (short trip), and based on my observations, I think there is some degree of underlying, unspoken "discomfort" towards the increasing number of asians there.

 

In fact, according to a friend who's a local there, by 2010 or so, there would be equal, if not more, asians there than Maori people there. Now... that may upset some folks there a bit isn't it?

 

But I do feel that NZ and AU is a wonderful destination for migration.

 

My 2 cents...

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Tarzan666

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I went there last dec..2 weeks tour of NZ..

okleh..no problem.

 

except my wife encountered a racist old lady who insult her in town.She never told me till we got back.. [:|]

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Gnoikj

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[:|] There seems to be this sense of animosity brewing in Aus and NZ against Asians...My bro was back recently from a working trip...says its no longer as freindly compared to 5 yrs back...

 

Asians have become the new Jew...

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