Wesa Chau
 
Melbourne - It’s a tragedy that international students are being killed on our streets – but it will become a scandal if Governments don’t act swiftly to protect them and the $15 billion industry they sustain.
 
Thursday’s high-profile police operation in Melbourne’s western suburbs is a good start and should be maintained. 
It shows authorities can act on the ground to protect the community against thugs like those who killed graduating Indian international student Nitin Garg.  This kind of active policing is to be applauded and encouraged.  However, it cannot end there.
 

By Setyo Budi

MELBOURNE -- Non-Government Organisations in East Timor are awaiting a reply from donor countries to their appeal for aid to allow the Dili government to push ahead with development plans to tackle the long-term causes of poverty and conflict in that country, according to reports reaching here.

By Akech Manyiel and Pamela Scriven*

  Melbourne - They come from Cambodia, China and the Philippines but the choristers of the Many Moons choir are united in song.

By Rosemary Kelada, CEO, Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre

  Melbourne - An opportunity is knocking for both employers and retrenched manufacturing workers, like the latest group from Pacific Brands. It is easy to become depressed about the global financial crisis and to consider the prospective unemployment of many of the manufacturing workers, many of them migrant men and women, as being a further layer of disadvantage for them. In our experience, however, migrants have much to offer potential employers.

 Melbourne -- Akoch Manheim, founder of the Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia (SLBAA), has been named Yarra Council’s Citizen of the Year. 

By Dan Garang Marrial
  Melbourne - Noel Surur and his wife Florence – an inspiring and hard-working Sudanese couple - took the plunge and set up a grocery business in Noble Park, south-east of Melbourne in 2006. They had a simple philosophy: “let’s try and see if it works”.

By Jehna Paigan

 MELBOURNE - The future for “Little India”- Melbourne’s acknowledged spice capital located in the outer suburb of Dandenong - is in the balance because of multi-million dollar plans to redevelop the area.

 Melbourne - Aspiring artist Cathy Fei may be just six-years-old, but she has her sights set on winning this year’s Tianjin International Children’s Painting Competition in China.

By Clovis Mwamba

 MELBOURNE - This article shows the importance of the names expressing the personality and destiny in the Congolese and African culture, below the Sahara. An example is the name of a singer of “Soukous”, famous among the Congolese and African immigrants, Madilu System, who passed away last year. Soon to perform to the public are the singers of Soukous in Australia, Leona and King Bell.