The First true Chinese Imperial arch of Europe, located in Manchester, is hoping to undergo restoration. The second largest Chinatown in the UK is to hold the Chinese Dragon Boat Race to raise awareness towards the China Town Regeneration project. Manchester Chinatown, photo by zimin175 By Duncan Wan – Assistant Editor With boats beautifully designed and […]
Nee Hao Magazine supports this campaign to get more British Chinese/East Asians on TV, film, theatre and radio. The first recorded Chinese in the UK, Shen Fu Tsong, was a celebrated guest at the court of James II in 1685. The British Chinese/East Asian (BC/EA) community grew during the 20th century & at 1% is […]
Ziwei Fan studies Mathematics at the University of Bristol. She became interested in microfinance and through research discovered Wokai, an American non-profit organisation that specialises in providing small loans to people who are in poverty to enable them to start a business. In 2010 she met and consulted with Mhairi Threlfall the entrepreneur in residence at the university […]
Stephen Moss recently conducted a UK-wide survey of 100 people on ‘What does being British mean to you?’ Not a single British Chinese/East Asian (BC/EA) person was interviewed. At 1.6% of the national population, this is an unacceptable oversight during London 2012, with the Olympic/Paralympic aspirations of inclusive diversity. This practice of rendering the UK’s third […]
This is a simple but genius invention where plastic bottles filled with filtered water are placed on a carefully cut hole in the roof of a building, creating a free energy light source equivalent to a 50 watt lightbulb. As the plastic bottles are cheap to acquire, it’s a brilliant 3rd world solution to a 3rd […]
The BC project is a non-partisan, voluntarily run organisation that seeks to elevate the presence of the UK Chinese community in the British political arena. Founded by Christine Lee, the BC Project was launched at the House of Lords on 31st Oct 2006 under the sponsorship of Lady Anelay, and was officially manifested at the House of Commons […]
This is a simple but genius invention where plastic bottles filled with filtered water are placed on a carefully cut hole in the roof of a building, creating a free energy light source equivalent to a 50 watt lightbulb. As the plastic bottles are cheap to acquire, it’s a brilliant 3rd world solution to a 3rd […]
Barcelona/Beijing 18th August 2011 – The world’s largest sportswear brand, Nike, has committed to the elimination of releases of all hazardous chemicals into Chinese rivers across its entire supply chain and life-cycle of its products by 2020, following a Greenpeace challenge to ‘Detox’. Nike’s promise to remove persistent, bio-accumulative and hormone disrupting substances from its […]