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...William Yang is intimately acquainted with the world of the outsider. Over the past 30 years, the award-winning photographer and performance artist has been quietly telling an alternate story of Australia, one inhabited by the displaced and marginalized - from AIDS victims to Aboriginal Outback tribes to the little-known Chinese settler communities dotting remote rural areas...
...Much of his art since has explored this cultural heritage, and it is among the key themes of perhaps his best-known work - 1992's critically acclaimed Sadness, one of seven dramatic monologues featuring photographic slide shows. His work strikes a chord with the wider Australian community because "Australians wonder about [displacement] a lot. For so many here, there's a homeland across the seas." His images of Australia's long Chinese history - its shrines, graves and old gold-mining settlements - are also eye-opening for many viewers. "Most people had not heard a Chinese-Australian story told from...
...project for Finland's main utility, Teollisuuden Voima Oyj, is designed to showcase Areva's 3G earthquake- and missile-proof design, known as a European Pressurized Reactor. Areva spokesman Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier said winning the contract over Westinghouse and GE-Hitachi was crucial to establishing the firm as the leader in advanced nuclear tech. "You only see how it works once you've built it and proved it's what you'd said it would be," he said. "That's why winning the Finnish contract and building the world's first third-generation reactor is so important...
Have you ever not known the answer to a very simple Jeopardy! question? Kasia Keen ANSBACH, GERMANY...
Modern Japan is not known for embracing radical change. But in elections to the lower house of Japan's parliament on Aug. 30, voters swept out of power the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had ruled Japan for all but 11 months of the past half-century. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won 308 of the 480 Diet seats at stake...