Comprising the territories of Malaya, Sarawak, and Sabah, Malaysia stretches from peninsular Malaysia to northeastern Borneo in Southeast Asia. Central mountains divide peninsular Malaysia (Malaya), separating the narrow eastern coast from the fertile western plains, with its sheltered beaches and bays. Sarawak and Sabah share the island of Borneo with Indonesia and Brunei, where swamps rise to jungle-covered mountains. Malays make up half the population, and almost all Malays are Muslims. Ethnic Chinese constitute a quarter of Malaysia's people, and Indians some 7 percent?both groups are concentrated on the peninsula's west coast.
Plus: genuine tropical wildlife is often very nearby or even on the beach, Malaysian facilities are efficient and sophisticated, it's fairly crime-free, and local cuisine is varied and excellent.
Minus: the humidity is energy-sapping, costs can be wallet-sapping and it's often very commercial. Most islands will require a potentially bouncy boat ride to get there, especially off-season.
Datai beach, Langkawi island [North-west]
The beaches on this well-developed island are regarded as some of the world's most secluded and picture-perfect hideaways by many travel specialists. Unfortunately most of the best coves are private, occupied by luxury resorts.
If you are independent, try Pantai Cenang, Pantai Tengah, or the beautiful crescent of Datai beach. Langkawi has also exquisite snorkelling sites, especially at Palau Payar Marine Park where Malaysia's best coral reefs are. The best season is Nov-May, when the sky is clear and the humidity is low, but rainfall here on the west coast is lower than in the east, so most of the year is OK. The worst time is Sept-Nov.
Chin ethnic nationalities from Burma organize peaceful celebrations of 59th National Day in New Delhi, India, attended by hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers. Sources in Rangoon said the celebration to mark the 59th Chin National Day was held at the Lion City restaurant hall in Kamayut Township . However, the celebration was labeled as "Zo Minam Ni", in one of the Chin dialects, which literally means Chin National Day, in order to avoid restrictions by the authorities.
Island Grown Initiative, a local food, culture and agriculture organization, joins local growers, the local Brazilian community and island restaurants in an effort to connect agriculture and local culture.
Taioba is a staple in many countries (known as tannia, inhame, and other names). By planting it here IGI will attract people to local farm produce and will expand the food choices available to islanders.
The Taioba pilot project is underway at Whippoorwill Farm and Norton Farm and is made possible by the Ethnic Crops program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. It is also made possible by local entrepreneur Elio Silva.
UMass Amherst has taken the lead to provide farmers with research-based information on market demand and production practices for vegetable and herbs used in the cuisine of growing immigrant groups in the state and region. Latinos, African-Americans and Asians now represent a strong and expanding market for farmers, including beginning farmers, who are constantly looking for new markets. The UMass Nutrition Education Team has produced culturally-appropriate, nutritionally-balanced recipes using these new crops for food stamp recipients of these immigrant communities.
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Here's an excerpt and the ending from a Bit of Yugoslavia on WCIU Channel
26 - another program catered to a specific ethnic community. Includes:
A bit of a Bit of Yugoslavia excerpt - featuring the star of Saturday Night Fever (Yugoslavian version) ;-)
Commercial: Black Forest Emporium Restaurant
Commercial: Oak Mill Mall in Niles
WCIU Station ID
Not sure when this aired, other than on a Sunday.
http://www.FuzzyMemories.TV -
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television - for more fun!
"Mela" means "festival" in various South Asian languages. For Granville Island's Canada Day celebrations, come join us for an exciting South Asian themed festival on July 1. From exciting dancers like Esha Singh and Kavhita to the classically trained sarod player Anupam, our South Asian performers will dazzle you throughout the day!
toledo epic race team 15. featuring: danielle briones, jim kirk, and john amato
purpose: to showcase what's great about northwest ohio and dispel the myth that there is 'nothing to do in toledo'.
site list:
1. donate blood
2. police officer, firefighter, or rescue worker
2. toledo humane society
4. elected official
5. senior living facility
6. cherry street mission
7. fight hunger
8. recycling station
9. recruit and epic member
10. tarta
11. local ethnic restaurant
12. view a live local band
13. toledo-lucas county public library
14. local art gallery
15. islamic center of greater toledo
16. toledo firefighteres museum
17. lourdes college
18. toledo museum of art
19. collingwood arts center
20. locally-owned record store
21. toledo ballet or ballet theater
22. toledo botanical garden
23. the valentine theatre
24. toledo mud hens
25. northwest ohio bike trails
26. bowling
27. local baseball/softball league game
28. raceway park
29. local golf course or driving range
30. frisbee golf course
31. devin vargas gym
32. ice skating
33. tennis
34. toledo maritime center
35. fox tv
36. jamieson's audio/video
37. whiskey ranch night club
38. billiards, pools or spa retailer
39. maumee indoor theater
40. orchards
41. new chamber member
42. toledo express airport
43. shopping
44. architectural artifacts
45. bowling green wind farm
46. inverness club
47. georgettes
48. the toledo zoo
49. metro parks of toledo
50. snooks dream cars
51. university of toledo
52. local wine tasting
53. festivals, festivals, festivals
54. perrysburg farmers market
55. the butterfly house
56. fort meigs
57. providence metro park/miami and erie canal
58. frog statues
59. 577 foundation
60. dotoledo
check out juplife.com for more on team 15 and the epic race.
video inspired by matt harding
(please forgive the video quality. i'm working on it.)
Here's a list of places you know to avoid or be prepared when you go.
List of places africans have been dumped Australia
Cairns
Darwin. Northern suburbs Casuarina getting attack by aborigines.
Townsville: A few restaurants and a few meat workers
Rockhampton: along with the aboriginal problem
Brisbane: Moorooka , Yeronga, yeerongipily, various parts.
Gatton
Toowoomba
QLD
NSW below
Coffs harbour
Maybe port Macquarie
Tamworth
Newcastle
Central coast Gosford
Sydney: blacktown Penrith especially. Kogarah. A few north beach ones.
Dorrigo NSW central coast.
Wagga wagga . 10 of them bashed a woman. There is about 500+ of them in wagga.
http://www.northernbeachesrefugees.o...ct_details.htm
Lismore
Armidale
Coffs Harbour
Colac
Blacktown (big time),
Auburn,
To a lesser extent, Bankstown
Mt Druitt
Perth: Mirrabooka, balga. African kings gang.
Hobart
Gippsland
Sunshine in Melbourne.
Launceston
Hobart
Coopers Plains Brisbane
There's a whole street in Wooloongabba full of em.
dandenong and flemington and Footscray Melbourne
Mirrabooka (Perth suburb) - where there's been big time clashes with local aboriginies.
Maitland Newcastle hunter region NSW
Sunshine
Braybrook
Wentworthville
Pendle Hill
Toongabbie
Melton Melbourne
Noble park dandenonn
Melbourne suburbs
Kilburn Adelaide
Footscray
Heidelberg
Sunshine
Altona Meadows
Newmarket
Flemington west Melbourne
Liverpool westfields Liverpool NSW
Adelaide in the Woodville area
Hamilton victoria
Werribee victoria.
Hobart Launceston Glenorchy north Hobart.
social network for people that love fine cuisine
http://restaurantlife.ning.com/
Restaurants range from unpretentious lunching or dining places catering to people working nearby, with simple food served in simple settings at low prices, to expensive establishments serving refined food and wines in a formal setting. In the former case, customers usually wear casual clothing. In the latter case, depending on culture and local traditions, customers might wear semi-casual, semi-formal, or even in rare cases formal wear.
Typically, customers sit at tables, their orders are taken by a waiter, who brings the food when it is ready, and the customers pay the bill before leaving. In finer restaurants there will be a host or hostess or even a ma?tre d'h?tel to welcome customers and to seat them. Other staff waiting on customers include busboys and sommeliers.
Restaurants often specialize in certain types of food or present a certain unifying, and often entertaining, theme. For example, there are seafood restaurants, vegetarian restaurants or ethnic restaurants. Generally speaking, restaurants selling "local" food are simply called restaurants, while restaurants selling food of foreign origin are called accordingly, for example, a Chinese restaurant and a French restaurant.
ANCHOR: Dragons, boats and athletes came together on Toronto waters, creating a one-of-a-kind cultural festival. Let's take a look at the TELUS International Dragon Boat Race Festival that was in Toronto during the weekend. Our Canadian correspondent has the story.
STORY:
It's a little rainy out here at Toronto's Centre Island, but people are still here at the TELUS Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival. Five thousand paddlers, 180 teams, and over 100 races will happen right here in the next two days. Athletes from all over the world are going to be arriving to race, so the competition is on.
Aside from the main featured races, the Dragon Boat Race Festival also offers attractions on land. A Multicultural Village will treat the eyes to displays of arts and crafts demonstrations, booths, and games for all ages.
Multi-cultural performances liven the festival with traditional dances, and live music from a variety of ethnic communities.
And of course, what's celebration without food? The International Food Pavillion features authentic food from more than 10 restaurants providing treats from Chinese, Filipino, Thai, Korean and Japanese cuisine.
As a significant cultural event, Toronto's Dragon Boat Festival is a proud display of Canada's cultural mosaic that promotes team building, entertainment, and refined taste.
Cindy Zhang, NTDTV, Toronto.
Greek Day in Vancouver was resuscitated a few years ago. I've attended every time. About 5 blocks of West Broadway, which traditionally was a very Greek area, are shut down for the day and all kinds of vendors set up stands.
I don't much appreciate the ones that have nothing to do with Greece but instead focus in on the food.
This video is my tribute to this year's event.
Macedonian Immigration to Canada
At the turn of the 19th century, one of the largest groups of non-British settlers to arrive in Canada were villagers from the Balkan mountains, then part of the Turkish Empire. These early residents (and their descendants) call themselves Macedonians. They speak Macedonian, and have their own social and economic institutions including churches, fraternal and self-help organizations, and community-based enterprise, mainly in Metropolitan Toronto and the southern Ontario region.
Migration and Settlement
The majority of Macedonians who migrated to Canada arrived in the aftermath of the Illinden Uprising of 1903 - a heroic but unsuccessful attempt by Macedonians to end Ottoman domination.
An internal group census in 1910 found about 1090 Macedonians in Toronto, principally from the provinces of Kostur (Kastoria) and Lerin (Florina), areas which were once important vilayets of the Ottoman Empire but are now identified as portions of northern Greece. By 1940 readers of various Macedonian political and nationalist almanacs were informed that there were upwards of 1200 families in Toronto.
The exodus of Macedonians from northern Greece was to continue in the aftermath of WWII and the Greek Civil War (1947-49). Immigration from Vardar (formerly Yugoslav) Macedonia and Pirin Macedonia in Bulgaria also began in the postwar period. This exodus gained momentum in the 1960s and continues to the present. Government indices of population are not helpful in determining the size of the community because Macedonians fell under the general heading of those from Turkey, Greece, Serbia (or Yugoslavia) and Bulgaria.
The most recent Canadian census (1996), which provides for self-declaration of ethnic origin records 30 915 Macedonians in Canada - the sum total of individuals making single- or multiple-group responses. Centered in Metropolitan Toronto, small groups of Macedonians could also be found elsewhere in Ontario in Cambridge, Guelph, Hamilton, Kitchener/Waterloo, Markham, Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara Falls, St Catharines, Thornhill, Thorold and Windsor. Community spokespersons believe that there are actually 100-150 000 Macedonians in Canada.
Many early Macedonian immigrants found industrial work in Toronto, either as factory hands or labourers in abattoirs, local sheet metal industries, or iron and steel foundries. From these jobs, they quickly progressed to the ownership of a great number of restaurants, grocery stores and butcher shops. Macedonian entrepreneurs and their descendants eventually employed their numerical strength within the food service industry as a catapult into a variety of larger and more sophisticated ventures. The majority of Macedonians today are employed in the professional, clerical and service sector of the economy.
www.macedonianhistory.ca
Pilsen has become quite a cultural center with over a dozen separate art galleries, community theaters, two museums, a cluster of independently owned shops, ethnic bakeries and delis, and numerous restaurants offering an international array of cuisine. Supporting a large population of Latin American families, Pilsen has evolved into a popular destination for authentic Mexican dining and celebrating the arts of South America and beyond.
Find out where to taste ethnic African food, try traditional German beer sausage and listen to local music in Frankfurt.
The Concierge at the InterContinental Frankfurt hotel will recommend the tastiest local spots. Go to http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ic/1/en/hotel/fraha