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Asia Cast for Sunday 30th March

In this Bulletin
- Zimbabwe’s Opposition Claims Win on Early Results
- Cities worldwide come together for Earth hour
- Dalai in his open letter to Chinese people stated: will never split-up

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Cities worldwide come together in a global campaign to highlight the waste of electricity and the threat of climate change.

The environmental group WWF has urged governments, businesses and households to turn back to candle power for at least 60 minutes Saturday starting at 8 p.m. wherever they were.

The campaign began last year in Australia and traveled this year from the South Pacific to Europe in cadence with the setting of the sun.

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Zimbabwe’s opposition claimed victory on Sunday based on early results from an election in which it is trying to unseat President Robert Mugabe after 28 years of power and end an economic collapse.

Tendai Biti, secretary general of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), told reporters, diplomats and observers at a briefing that this is a historic moment for Zimbabwe.

The opposition, headed by former trade unionist Morgan Tsangaris, has accused 84-year-old Mugabe of employing election-rigging tactics in an attempt to stay in power and African observers say they detected fraud in Saturday’s ballot.

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A rally that was billed as promoting “anti-violence” turned hostile on Saturday as flag-waving Chinese denounced Tibetans who they blamed for the recent turmoil in Tibet in which 100 are said to have died.

Close to 1000 Chinese were in Toronto’s Dundas Square for the afternoon event, many of them students.

Tibetans say the Chinese rally, which began orderly, was designed to incite hate against them.

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Italian mozzarella has been banned in China after Italy ordered a recall of the product because it may be contaminated with cancer-causing dioxins.

The Chinese Government agency that supervises product quality ordered importers to stop selling the cheese and to recall Italian mozzarella that has already been sold, the official Xinhua agency said.

The mailing or carrying of the cheese into China is also banned.

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On the 28th of March, Tibet’s spiritual leader in exile, Dalai Lama, called upon China to hold a “concrete talk” with him on the issues of Tibet.

According to a report by BBC on the 28th of March, the Dalai Lama in an open letter “To Chinese brothers and sisters” described himself as an “ordinary shaman”. He was only trying to preserve “Tibetans’ unique culture, language and identity”
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However, He warned, “lately Chinese media used distorting and cheating methods to describe Tibet.

This may have created the underlying racial tension, and could result in an unpredictable, long lasting affect.

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Today marks the last show in Melbourne, Australia, the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular has been getting rave reviews and standing praise.

Shop owners Elizabeth and Robert Conway bought their tickets to Saturday evenings’ Chinese Spectacular after a Chinese customer of theirs came in and personally told them about the show.

The couple enjoyed everything about the performances, and felt there was a clear message that “gets out.”

Having read about Buddhist religions, Mrs Conway said she could understand and relate to the meaning behind each performance “but to actually know the dance, the culture of the dance, she hadn’t known the dance actually epitomises their spirituality, that it’s different to ballet.

For show information please visit www.DivineShows.com

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