#1890s Singapore

[finchandthebard]

The "tiktok ban" should scare you and here's why.

Rant made by an autistic, history-loving, chronically online American tiktok cosplayer. Please let me know if I've gotten anything wrong and I will edit the post.

Reblog to spread awareness!

This is not just about Tiktok, and it's not about national security. The Tiktok ban is wrapped up in the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" which has the ability to ban any foreign website or app that the United States government sees as a threat to their "democracy." Not only that, but if the gov't didn't want China to gather data, then they would ban things like Shein and Temu (the latter which they advertised during the Super Bowl), which collect similar data that Tiktok does. If they wanted to prevent our data being stolen in general, they would ban companies like Meta, which monetarily supports the Tiktok ban and had to change their name because "Facebook" was associated with the largest data leak in history.

The documentations of the Tiktok court interrogations prove how incompetent our government is. Repeatedly asking the TikTok CEO Mr. Chew if he's Chinese while he repeatedly assures them he's Singaporean. The officials being concerned that they can't find Singapore on a map. The officials then being confused why the app would be able to have access to their wifi because it needs wifi to load.

The possibility of the US buying Tiktok exposes a greater issue in America: monopolies. The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890 that restricted the activities of large companies known as monopolies, which started out as small companies and would either buy other companies or buy the factories which produced all their materials. This eliminated competition in the market and gave the monopolies almost full control of quality and prices of items, and it was considered very anti-American at the time. Since the US already has multiple major social medias, including Facebook (Meta), Instagram (Meta), Threads (Meta), X (formerly Twitter), Snapchat, and Reddit, adding Tiktok would mean that nobody could compete with the US in the social media market. This makes them a monopoly, and it's incredibly dangerous.

Banning Tiktok breaks several American trademarks. A) the Republicans banning Tiktok are very concerned about their second amendment right to own guns, but they seem to not care about the first amendment right to freedom of speech and press, which Tiktok delivers. Of course there are app guidelines, but for the most part you have fairly uncensored political and ethical commentary like no other social media. B) the only other countries that have banned Tiktok are either heavily demonized by America or are direct targets for American propaganda (ex. China), which really doesn't make the ban look good. C) banning a social media for the purpose of censorship is a trademark of communism, which Americans are INCREDIBLY wary of.

Your country may follow in suit. Because of America's influence as a global superpower and an ally to many other major powers, America banning Tiktok would likely lead to a domino effect in other countries.

The rich get richer. There is a concept called social darwinism, in which it is the rich's beliefs that the poor must fend for themselves without the help of the government in order to make a living - "survival of the fittest." Tiktok contributed around $14.7 billion USD in 2023 and $24.2 billion in 2024, and it supports around 224,000 jobs [source]. The actual Tiktok website says in 2023, they contributed $15 billion USD in revenue and supported 7 million US businesses [source]. Without these jobs, there could be in increase in homelessness, debt, and sickness due to withdrawals (if you're incredibly addicted to Tiktok) and lack of quick dopamine hits (due to the rapidfire nature of the algorithm).

Remember that the president is not your friend !! Many of the political figures rallying to support Tiktok right now, such as President Biden, initially voted for the ban. President Biden is likely supporting now so that Trump won't get credit for it, and future President Trump is likely doing it for brownie points among younger generations.

The Xiaohongshu migration exposed the American government and its lies. The stories from American 'Tiktok refugees' about the questions from native Chinese on the Xiaohongshu / Rednote / Redbook app (considered the Chinese mixed of Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook) posed a lot of conspiracies and realizations about the American government. The Chinese actually own their homes, they have lower food prices than we do, and they have a slim homelessness rate. Whether this is true or not, it has greatly influenced how we see ourselves in the grand scheme of the American oligarchy, and that is not something that can be suppressed with an app being banned.

Tiktok is not totally Chinese! The CEO is Singaporean, as I've already stated, and there are multiple headquarters in the US, with the main one being in Los Angeles.

In conclusion...

Whether Tiktok is banned or not, whether permanently or not, no matter who saves it or rallies against it, remember that it is harder to scare and control someone when they are in a group. And if you think this was interesting, I'd love it if you could reblog to show some support and inform your friends as well. <3

THIS IS NOT RIGHT VS LEFT❗️IT'S UP VS DOWN❗️

[jeronimoloco]

Singapore's first railway line

Nineteenth century Singapore had its fair share of interesting personalities. One was a certain Mr Charles Burton Buckley, who had what might be thought as Singapore’s very first mile of railway built at Bukit Timah. Buckley in Singapore’s first motorcar Buckley first arrived in Singapore as a young man of twenty in 1864 and was a well established lawyer by the time he had the line in 1892.…

[fatehbaz]

The “goal of civilization” should be to get these delicious tropical pineapples shipped up to kitchen tables in St. Petersburg.

Much to consider here.

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Anton Chekhov, it appears, was not the first Russian literary luminary to visit Hong Kong. Chekhov had stopped off in October 1890 and wrote about its “wonderful bay”. [...] But Chekhov was beaten to the punch by Ivan Goncharov who stopped by in 1853. Goncharov is now best now known for his novel Oblamov, but his bestseller at the time was a 700-page tome of travel-writing called The Frigate Pallada. Goncharov had been taken, as a sort of official scribe, on the Russian naval expedition sent to “open Japan”. If that sounds like American Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition, it very much was: the Pallada arrived in Japan several weeks after Perry. The Pallada [...] went [...] via the Cape of Good Hope, Java, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, with side-trips to Manila, Korea and the Ryukyus. [...] Edyta M Bojanowska relates all this, and much more [in her book] [...]. Bojanowska uses Goncharov’s travelogue as a window on Russia, a window through which to view the European, and particularly British, imperial project [...].

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Russia’s Pacific history is little known, perhaps even in Russia. [...]

In the library [...], I once came across a book entitled La Frontera ruso-mexicana: “The Russian-Mexican Border”. There actually was one in what is now California in the first part of the 1800s. Nikolai Rezanov had tried to open Japan in 1804; he got nowhere. (He did however continue on to North America and all the way down to San Francisco where he got engaged to Conchita, the [...] daughter of the Spanish governor, a story which became a late Soviet-era rock opera.)

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Alaska ended up being sold to the United States a decade or so after Goncharov’s voyage. [...] Goncharov’s [book] [...] “strains to project an image of Russia as a confident and competent peer of European colonial empires.” [...] Goncharov was a product of his age. He was furthermore an anglophile and thought that the British had on the whole the right ideas about empire. (He did however find their ubiquity annoying: his idyll on Madeira is ruined by seeing so many of them. “They’re here too?” he wrote.) He would occasionally take the imperialists to task for some particularly egregious injustice, but he never questioned the enterprise. He just thought Russia should have a piece of the action.

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Goncharov settled on Korea as a good potential target for Russia (“Goncharov Island” is now known as Mayang-do Island, the site of a [...] missile base) [...]. The book hit the ground running, went through ten editions by the end of the century, and seems never really to have been out of print [...]. Singapore gets a slightly fuller treatment. Goncharov marvels at the pineapples piled up “like turnips”. “The goal of civilization,” Bojanowska quotes him, is to get these pineapples up to St Petersburg where they were currently unheard of luxury items. (Goncharov’s equating of capitalism with tropical fruit is reminiscent of the [...] [twentieth-century] fascination with bananas.)

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Text above by: Peter Gordon. A book review published under the title '“A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada” by Edyta M Bojanowska'. Published online in the Essays, Non-Fiction, and Reviews sections of Asian Review of Books. 10 July 2018. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Italicized first lines in this post added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism.]

[racefortheironthrone]

As a Social Democrat, what would you say has been its historical tendencies towards colonialism and upliftment of developing nations? Why is that Communism, despite some acknowledged failures (Afghanistan, Tibet, Xinjiang), is seen as more anti-colonialist by comparison?

That's a really interesting question. Honestly, when it comes to social democracy's record on de-colonization, it's something of a mixed bag. One of Eduard Bernstein's major flaws, his feet of clay, is that he was pro-imperialism - although to be fair, the SPD as a whole was pretty consistently anti-colonialist between the 1890s and 1914. On the other hand, the British Labour Party did very little about empire and was arguably pro-empire up until 1945. Clement Attlee, however, had a personal interest in decolonization and was a committed supporter of Indian self-governance since the 1930s, and negotiated the independence of India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. On the other hand, Attlee wasn't entirely consistent on this point - he rather mis-handled the British Mandate in Palestine, African colonies were bypassed for de-colonization, and the Attlee government began the counter-insurgency in Malaysia. So something of a mixed bag, as I said.

Attlee's policies did have a long-term effect on the Labour Party - it opposed British involvement in the Suez Crisis on a united basis despite its divisions on other issues, for example. Likewise, the Harold Wilson government was characterized by broad sympathies to the cause of decolonization but a relatively weak commitment to accepting much risk. For example, Wilson refused to send British ground troops to Vietnam but did provide intelligence and jungle warfare training and wouldn't publicly denounce the war.

He did remove British troops from Singapore, Malaysia, and the Persian Gulf and supported de-colonization in Africa, but he rather screwed up in Rhodesia where after insisting on black suffrage in return for Rhodesian independence, he refused to send the British military to "fight our kith and kin" when Ian Smith unilaterally declared independence for his apartheid state, delaying liberation for many years.

By contrast, the Soviet Union and China could more straightforwardly support anti-colonial insurgencies (that often blended nationalist and communist ideologies) in no small part because the Bolsheviks had been anti-WWI and anti-imperialism pretty consistently thanks to Lenin's influence.

And if you were an anti-colonial insurgency, would you prefer the folks who might give you a thumbs up or the folks who would give you weapons?

[fumblingmusings]

how old are Oz and NZ supposed to be (in human years) during wwi and wwii in your fic?

Oh! Timeline for the main players. I know I absolutely neglected to say how old the latter two were by the war chapters due to their absence.

Both however would be in the armed forces. Jack fought at Gallipoli and managed to have a Pulitzer prize winning romance with Malta as he recovered which I genuinely want to write one day (I mean not the prize winning part... realistic expectations...); Maia, like her mother, was a nurse, though in Egypt to begin with then France.

She spent much of WWII in Greece. Jack was in Singapore for WWII and spent most of the war as a POW.

Also I don't know if acknowledging Evie is a teenager for a significant chunk of the 17th century justifies how stupid/traumatised she is for much of it but I hope it explains somethings about her emotional state... I'd say the ageing is the same for Arthur too, thinking on it. That is fixed and does not change in my mind.

1600s: Evelyn: 18; Alfred: 8 months

1630s: Evelyn: 19; Alfred: 4; Matthew: 7 months

1660s: Evelyn: 20; Alfred: 6; Matthew: 2

1690s: Evelyn: 23; Alfred: 10; Matthew: 5

1760s: Evelyn: 28; Alfred: 15/16; Matthew 12/13

1780s: Evelyn: 29; Alfred: 17; Matthew: 16; Jack: 2 months

1850s: Evelyn: 30; Alfred: 19; Matthew: 18; Jack: 4/5; Maia: 10 months

1870s: Evelyn: 30: Alfred: 20; Matthew: 20; Jack: 14/15; Maia: 12.

1890s: Evelyn: 32; Alfred: 21; Matthew: 21; Jack: 19; Maia: 17/18 (Maia is at University in the 1890s chapter, so she's 'old' enough to attend at the very least).

1914: Evelyn: 32; Alfred: 21; Matthew: 21; Jack: 20; Maia: 20.

1939: Evelyn: 33; all the kids are now in their early 20s.

1999: Evelyn 34; all the kids are around 23/24. Their ageing for all of them has massively slowed down after WWII. Why? Because I say so.

I know in canon Alfred shot up like a stick of bamboo as a result of the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 and seemingly ages at the rate of a human during those seven years but I do like the slower pace. Zee does grow nearly at the rate of humans though. She's a wee bit slower but she is not a baby for as long as say Oz or Mattie were. Those boys were babies for a good couple of decades each. Alfred was a toddler/young lad for longer than the others. I don't know if there's a genuine reason, aside from that's just what I wanted to write.

[reasonsforhope]

"The fledgling of the South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx mindanensis) has been photographed for the first time in 130 years by eye surgeon and field biologist, Dr. Miguel David De Leon.

The photograph is the first time anyone is able to see the image of the rare small forest kingfisher found only in Mindanao, since the bird was first sighted in Southern Philippines in 1890 during the Steere Expedition.

“Discovered during the Steere Expedition to the Philippines and published in 1890, the fledgling of this Vulnerable species has never been described nor photographed until today,” wrote De Leon in his Facebook post on March 11, 2020, with the photo of the three-weeks-old Dwarf Kingfisher.

The director of the Robert S. Kennedy Bird Conservancy, a group De Leon founded in 2017 with eight field workers and bird photographers, documents birds and habitats to contribute data towards conservation of species and ecosystems.

The Filipino field biologist and his team spent 10 years searching in the avian field trying to document the species nesting, feeding, and breeding behaviors. The dwarf kingfishers are known to be cavity nesters and eat a variety of small invertebrate creatures.

In the book a Guide to the Birds of the Philippines written by Robert S. Kennedy, Pedro C. Gonzales, Edward C. Dickinson, Hector Miranda, and Timothy H. Fisher, it was written that South Philippine dwarf kingfisher perches quietly and darts invisibly from perch to perch.

“Even if we’re watching them closely, they just disappear,” Dr. De Leon said in an interview with The New York Times.

Ceyx mindanensis is the tiniest species of forest kingfisher found only in Mindanao in the Philippines. Its unique call is described as “high-pitched, insect-like, and almost inaudible zeeep.”

Its population is continuously declining, threatened by habitat loss, poaching, and climate change.

De Leon hopes that the photographs he had taken will help researchers to learn more about the species.

De Leon also praised his colleagues for faithfully and cheerfully adhering to the strictest guidelines in carrying out avian field research, and shared an excerpt of RSKBC’s Guidelines, “In observing and documenting birds, RSKBC upholds the medical principle of primum non nocere–first, do no harm. . . field work is done with the welfare of the birds as prime import.”

Initiatives to conserve Philippine bird species include sending a breeding pair of Philippine Eagles to Singapore’s conservation bird park, Puerto Princesa City is moving to declare itself as the “Bird Capital of the Philippines”, and the University of the Philippines setting up the “Siyap”, an outdoor exhibit of wild bird sounds in UP Diliman."

-via Good News Pilipinas, May 12, 2020

This makes me so happy 

(via)

[whisperingofthepages]

The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey

Pages: 248 Hours: 7hr 25m Narrator: Paula Masterton Publisher: Bolinda Audio Released: 1st of December 2024 In 1890s Singapore, the formidable Miss Leda Cassidy arrives as paid companion to Sarah Jane Bendemeer, whose family suffers under the thrall of Southeast Asia’s most terrifying hantu. But there’s more to Miss Cassidy than meets the eye, and she’s faced down worse in her life than a…

[brookstonalmanac]

Beer Events 10.1

Events

Albany Brewery bought James Boyd's brewery (New York; 1872)

Thomas May left Kaiserbrauerei Beck & May (1875)

Lewisburgh Brewery partially destroyed by fire (Kentucky; 1890)

Leopold Nathan patented the Art of Brewing Beer (1918)

Singapore's Tiger Beer debuted (1932)

Sacramento's Buffalo Brewery sold the brewery buildings and land to the Sacramento Bee newspaper (California; 1948)

Roger Maris hit home run #61 (1961)

Blitz Weinhard patented Barrel Loading (1963)

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. established a holding company and corporate restructuring began (1979)

He'Brew released its 1st beer (1997)

Florida finally changed its beer packaging laws to allow odd-sized bottled to be sold (2001)

Breweries Opened

Fitzgerald Brothers Brewing (New York; 1866)

Army & Navy Brewery / Turtle Grove Brewery (Halifax, Canada; 1870)

Brasserie Amos (France; 1868)

Czech Share Brewery (Czech Republic; 1895)

Honolulu Brewing & Malting Co. (Hawaii; 1898)

August Schell Brewing (Minnesota; 1902)

Hilden Brewery (Northern Ireland; 1981)

Hillsdale Brewery & Public House (Oregon; 1985)

Hogshead Brewpub (California; 1985)

Wellington County Brewery (Canada; 1985)

James Page Brewing (Minnesota; 1987)

Pacific Crest Brewing (California; 1988)

Callahan's Pub & Brewery (California; 1989)

Whistler Brewing (Canada; 1989)

Gentle Ben's Brewing (Arizona; 1991)

Hill Country Brewing & Bottling (Texas; 1991)

Millrose Brewpub (Illinois; 1991)

Ragtime Taproom (Florida; 1991)

Ebeneezer Brewing (Utah; 1992)

Fish Brewing (Washington; 1992)

Al Frisco's (Canada; 1993)

American River Brewing (California; 1993)

Little Apple Brewing (Kansas; 1993)

Brimstone Brewing (Maryland; 1994)

Hart Breweries Ltd. (Canada; 1994)

Dalian Brewing (Hong Kong; 1995)

Hose & Hydrant Brewing (Canada; 1995)

West Berkshire Brewing (England; 1995)

Ballpark Brewing (California; 1996)

Barley's (Kansas; 1996)

Barrett's Brewpub & Eatery (Alabama; 1996)

Brasserie Frog et Princesse (France; 1996)

Buckley Brewery & Grill (Ohio; 1996)

Crooked Waters brewing (Illinois; 1996)

Cobblestone Winery & Brewery (New York; 1996)

Copper Dragon Brewing (Illinois; 1996)

Foundry Ale Works (Pennsylvania; 1996)

Four Peaks Brewing (Arizona; 1996)

Your World Brewery (Massachusetts; 1996)

Aukland Brewery (New Zealand; 1997)

Glacial Lakes Brewing (Minnesota; 1997)

La Barberie (Canada; 1997)

Mobjack Bay Brewing (Virginia; 1997)

Ninkasi Ale House (France; 1997)

Red Shield Brewery (England; 1997)

Rogue's Roost Ale House (Canada; 1997)

Three Rivers Eatery & Brewery (New Mexico; 1997)

Washington Brewing (DC; 1997)

Bertram's Salmon Valley Brewery (Idaho; 1998)

Fisherman's Beer Microcerveceria (Argentina; 1998)

Inchant Brewery (Australia; 1998)

Malt Shovel Brewery (Australia; 1998)

Tractor Brewing (New Mexico; 1999)

Alewife Brewery (England; 2000)

Brookhaven Brewery (Utah; 2000)

Santa Maria Brewing (California; 2000)

Brenham Brewery (Texas; 2001)

Monet's Bistro & Brewpub (Illinois; 2001)

New Albanian Brewing (Indiana; 2002)

Cerveses La Pirata (Catalonia; 2015)

[nzbookwyrm]

In 1890s Singapore, the formidable Miss Leda Cassidy arrives as paid companion to Sarah Jane Bendemeer, whose family suffers under the thrall of Southeast Asia's most terrifying hantu. But there's more to Miss Cassidy than meets the eye, and she's faced down worse in her life than a pontianak.

However, she may have met her match in the indefatigable businessman, Mr Kay Wing Tong, whose large and constantly-growing family clearly requires female supervision—especially of the particular kind Miss Cassidy can provide. Ill omens and strange happenings surround Mr Kay and his colourful family, and Miss Cassidy must find a way to defend the ones she has learned to love.

--Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Literary Work)--

--Co-Winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize--

[wikiuntamed]

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[govupdate]

Attorney General's action on Opium

9 November 1890

The Attorney General has released a sweeping package of reforms to tackle the growing opium reliance among troops, ranging from prohibition of service personnel from consuming drugs and mandatory drug tests. While the Police Commissioner has been supportive of the measure, the average police officer has not been satisfied with the measure.

"I cant believe that a coolie has more rights than me"

Anonymous police officer

These new changes have resulted in the resignation of Coy 4 platoon 5 (who frequent opium dens for their nights out), but it may have prevented more soldiers from becoming like Coy 4 platoon 4 of Singapore Division. Speaking of which, they are well on their way to recuperation and would eventually come back to service soon.

[aromaofwine]

Salvano wine in singapore | Authentic Italian Wines Since 1890

[clbbidatop]

Bia San Miguel, Guinness và huyền thoại về Tour đấu Billiard xuyên châu Á

Bia, Billiard và San Miguel Năm 2003, trước thời điểm SEA Games 22 tổ chức tại Việt Nam, người hâm mộ thể thao còn háo hức trước một thông tin khác. Thành công từ 2 giải đấu Billiard tổ chức tại Singapore và Philippines khiến WPA Asian 9ball Tour quyết định mở rộng quy mô sang 5 quốc gia, bao gồm Việt Nam. San Miguel từng tài trợ cho tour đấu Billiard lớn nhất châu Á Việc một giải thể thao chuyên nghiệp tầm cỡ quốc tế như WPA Asian 9ball Tour đến Việt Nam đã thực sự tạo một cơn sốt trong cộng đồng Billiard Việt Nam. Khán giả có thể đến nhà thi đấu để tận mắt chiêm ngưỡng đường cơ của những "quái vật" như Efren Reyes, Chao Fong Pang, Francisco Bustamante thay vì chỉ quan sát qua màn hình ti vi như trước đây. Trong giai đoạn 2004-2006, WPA Asian 9ball Tour tổ chức 4-5 sự kiện mỗi năm. Bên cạnh tiền thưởng hấp dẫn tính theo từng vòng đấu, những cơ thủ còn nhận được điểm thưởng theo bảng xếp hạng thế giới hạng mục Pool 9 bi. Đó là điều kiện cần và đủ giúp WPA Asian 9ball Tour quy tụ những cơ thủ hàng đầu châu Á góp mặt. Thành công của WPA Asian 9ball Tour xuất phát từ sự đồng hành của một doanh nghiệp lớn. Đó là San Miguel Corporation (SMC), một trong những tập đoàn lớn nhất Philippines. Được thành lập từ năm 1890, SMC có hơn 1 thế kỷ hình thành và phát triển. Tầm cỡ của SMC đã vươn tầm quốc tế, nhưng sản phẩm chủ lực của họ vẫn là bia San Miguel. Từ rất lâu trước khi bỏ tiền vào Billiard, SMC đã xây dựng thương hiệu từ thể thao. Từ thập niên 30 của thế kỷ trước, doanh nghiệp này đã thành lập một đội bóng rổ quốc gia. Vào thời điểm giải bóng rổ nhà nghề Philippines được thành lập, SMC không chỉ sở hữu 3-4 đội bóng hàng đầu. Họ còn là nhà tài trợ lớn của giải đấu. Thời điểm SMC lấn sân sang Billiard cũng là lúc doanh nghiệp này tiến hành hàng loạt thương vụ sáp nhập và mua lại trên toàn châu Á. Họ đã mua cổ phần từ những doanh nghiệp sản xuất bia tại Australia, Nhật Bản, Thái Lan và Việt Nam. Số tiền họ chi ra cho những thương vụ đó lên tới hơn 1,3 tỷ USD, lớn hơn rất nhiều so với chi phí tổ chức những giải Billiard. Những huyền thoại Từ năm 2003 đến 2005, mỗi sự kiện WPA Asian 9ball Tour quy tụ 32 cơ thủ góp mặt. Người vô địch nhận khoản tiền thưởng lên tới 50.000 USD. Đến năm 2006, số cơ thủ tham dự giảm xuống còn 24, và tiền thưởng cũng giảm xuống chỉ còn 40.000. Có tổng cộng 15 sự kiện được tổ chức, và đây cũng là nơi chứng kiến tài năng kiệt xuất của Efren Reyes. Reyes chính là cơ thủ xuất sắc nhất lịch sử WPA Tour Không thể phủ nhận WPA Asian 9ball Tour chính là nơi chứng kiến tài năng của Efren Reyes tỏa sáng rực rỡ nhất. "Phù thủy của những đường cơ" vô địch tới 7 giải đấu. Những đồng hương của Reyes cũng vô địch 5 lần. Người duy nhất có thể chen vào giữa chuỗi thành tích rực rỡ đó của những cơ thủ Philippines là Yang Ching Shun với 3 lần vô địch. Sự tích "không bao giờ thua trong những giải đấu nhiều tiền thưởng" của Reyes cũng xuất phát từ WPA Asian 9ball Tour. Đây là nơi ông đánh bại hàng loạt tượng đài như Warren Kiamco, Chao Fong Pang và Yang Ching Shun. Khi nhắc đến WPA Asian 9ball Tour, tất cả đều nhắc đến Reyes với những từ đẹp nhất, và đó là lý do giúp ông được hưởng nhiều biệt đãi. Theo quy định của WPA Asian 9ball Tour, mỗi cơ thủ vô địch sẽ nhận 10.000 USD tiền thưởng cho mỗi trận thắng. Tuy nhiên, Reyes được hưởng tới 20.000 USD khi vô địch giải đấu tổ chức tại Philippines vào năm 2003. Nếu dịch SARS không bùng nổ trong năm đó, WPA Asian 9ball Tour đã có thêm 3 giải đấu được tổ chức, và Reyes có thể vô địch thêm ít nhất một lần nữa. Một chi tiết đặc biệt khác của WPA Asian 9ball Tour là thể thức thi đấu không cho phép các cơ thủ "ngâm cơ" quá lâu. Trong mỗi ván đấu, cơ thủ có 45 giây để suy nghĩ trước khi đánh mỗi đường cơ. Phương thức phạt của giải đấu cũng thú vị không kém: Mỗi đường cơ quá giờ bị trừ 50 USD vào tiền thưởng. Số tiền không quá nhiều, nhưng cũng đủ khiến cho cơ thủ phải xử lý nhanh. Thể thức thi đấu đó dường như cũng là một nhân tố khiến Reyes trở thành bất khả chiến bại ở WPA Asian 9ball Tour. Tỷ lệ vô địch trong các trận chung kết của ông là 100%. Chao Fong Pang và Jeong Young Hwa là những cơ thủ hiếm hoi chỉ thua Reyes với cách biệt 2 ván đấu. Những bại tướng còn lại đều nhận thất bại với cách biệt rất lớn. Di sản còn mãi Năm 2006 chứng kiến sự thay đổi theo chiều hướng suy giảm của WPA Asian 9ball Tour về quy mô giải đấu và tiền thưởng. Trên thực tế, SMC dần rút chân khỏi Billiard không phải vì thiếu tiền. Họ chỉ đơn giản là thay đổi phương thức tiếp cận trong kinh doanh. Từ chỗ mua lại hàng loạt doanh nghiệp nước ngoài, SMC chuyển sang bán ồ ạt, đồng thời tái cơ cấu các khoản chi. WPA Tour đến giờ vẫn là giải đấu huyền thoại với ký ức về bia San Miguel Kỷ nguyên San Miguel của WPA Asian 9ball Tour khép lại với giải đấu tổ chức tại Jakarta, Indonesia năm 2006. Reyes đánh bại cơ thủ chủ nhà Ricky Yang trong trận chung kết với tỷ số 11-6. Bước sang năm 2007, San Miguel cũng rút lui, nhường chỗ cho một nhà tài trợ mới, cũng là một hãng bia: Guinness. Nếu như San Miguel là doanh nghiệp lớn tại Philippines và châu Á, Guinness từ lâu đã trở thành một đế chế sản xuất tầm cỡ thế giới. Những ông chủ châu Âu không ngại bỏ tiền giúp WPA Asian 9ball Tour duy trì 6 giải đấu mỗi năm. Ở một góc độ nào đó, quy mô WPA Asian 9ball Tour dưới kỷ nguyên Guinness còn lớn hơn cả San Miguel. Tuy nhiên, thành công của WPA Asian 9ball Tour trong giai đoạn này lại không chứng kiến sự thống trị từ Reyes và các cơ thủ Philippines nữa. Những người thi đấu tốt nhất lại là VĐV đến từ Đài Bắc Trung Hoa, với Chang Jung Lin và Yang Ching Shun là nhân vật chính. Đó dường như là một phần nguyên nhân khiến giải đấu không còn hấp dẫn như trước, số người xem cũng giảm đi. Khoảng thời gian 2007-2008 còn chứng kiến quá trình suy thoái kinh tế toàn cầu. Khu vực châu Âu, nơi Guinness đóng đại bản doanh, là một trong những nơi chịu ảnh hưởng nặng nề nhất. Vì lý do đó, hãng bia này quyết định ngừng tài trợ. WPA Asian 9ball Tour cũng khép lại, chấm dứt một thời kỳ hoàng kim của Billiard châu Á. WPA Asian 9ball Tour đã dừng lại từ lâu, nhưng ký ức về một giải đấu huyền thoại cũng những cơ thủ xuất sắc vẫn vẹn nguyên trong tâm trí người hâm mộ. San Miguel và Guinness, nhờ đó, vẫn có một vị trí nhất định trong tâm khảm những người theo dõi Billiard, và họ thậm chí không cần phải chi tiền để làm việc đó nữa. Tại chuyên mục Tin Tức Bida của Bida Top, bạn có thể đọc được những bài viết về cách chơi bida hiệu quả, các kỹ thuật đánh bida, cũng như những thông tin mới nhất về giải đấu bida trong nước và quốc tế. Các bạn chưa biết chơi bida có thể đến với lớp học bida sơ cấp dành cho người chưa biết cầm cơ do HLV Seven Nin hướng dẫn với không khí vui tươi và thoải mái sẽ giúp bạn nhanh chóng làm quen và thành thạo với bộ môn này. Source link Read the full article

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What does it mean to be Chinese 🇭🇰 🇹🇼 and British 🇬🇧 ? This display of photographs by Jamie Lau offers us eight unique answers to this question. Lau was born in London and grew up in rural Bedfordshire with no extended Chinese community around him. Whilst the UK’s Chinese community is mostly based in towns and cities, in this series Lau introduces us to seven other Chinese and British individuals and what they love about countryside life. Meet artist Qu Lei Lei, who forages for wood for his sculptures on the forest floor. Hear from Ruby Peng who grew up in #singapore 🇸🇬 but is fascinated by the slow pace of countryside living. Discover what Reverend Mark Nam makes of the typically English phrase ‘More tea, Vicar?’ In 2014 Jamie Lau was commissioned by Open Eye Gallery to produce Ebb and Flow, a photographic series on Liverpool’s Chinatown, an abstract study of the architecture and people that make up the oldest Chinatown in Europe. The project had particular relevance to Jamie with his Grandfather having passed through the city as a sailor in the 1890s en route from Hong Kong. 8 Stories develops his interest in merging cultures. Learn more about the history of the #chinese community in the UK and hear stories of the remarkable individuals who have lived through it in our free exhibition Chinese and British, open until Sunday 23 April 2023. #hongkong 🇭🇰 #taiwan 🇹🇼 #macau 🇲🇴 #china 🇨🇳 #britishlibrary (à The British Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7MAzKrMDU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Visited by Malay navigators since ancient times, it was included on the maps of English and Dutch navigators in the early 17th century. The current name was given by William Mynors of the East India Ship Company, who landed there on Christmas Day 1643. Christmas Island was uninhabited until 1890, when a population consisting of Chinese and Malays was brought in to exploit the phosphate mines. The island, which depended on the British colony of Singapore, was transferred to Australia on 1 October 1958. From 1981 onwards, residents were deemed eligible to acquire Australian citizenship. In 1984, the government of Australia extended social security, health and education benefits to the island and granted political rights to new citizens. Income tax was introduced from 1985. The focus of local life was the Phosphate Mining Commission, where practically the entire population worked. In 1987, the authorities closed the mine, which was reopened in 1990 by private operators, but under strict conditions of preservation of the environment. In 1991, investments were made to develop the island's tourist potential. https://www.instagram.com/p/CplILcYD2xl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It actually was performed in Singapore by an amateur troupe around 1890 and attended by the King of Siam and his entourage. Everyone loved it, and the English tutor of one of the king's sons assigned it to his charge as a translation exercise. The result was so stiff and formal that his father and some of his uncles and such turned it into a fake religious text, complete with "original" verses in the holy language. (That prince, who eventually became king, is now -- ironically -- remembered largely as a author and playwright. He returned to the text as an adult and retranslated/readapted it with a Chinese setting.)

Muppet Mainstage, June 5th, 2024

“Tit Willow” was written by Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert for the 1885 light opera The Mikado. The first and last verse of the song was sung by Rowlf the dog (Jim Henson) and Sam the Eagle (Frank Oz) in the UK spot of season 1, episode 20 of The Muppet Show (1976). The song is a solo, but Rowlf convinces Sam to play the part of the dicky bird in the song and makes him repeat the call of “tit willow.”