Unlike financial remittances, which are easier to track and have an explicit dollar value, material remittances are difficult to trace or translate into a dollar value.
The PRC’s representatives in Melanesia integrate these three strands of Chinese statecraft to complement each other’s effects and adapt them to conditions on the ground.
Mindfulness is the ability to observe and focus on your thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations in the present moment with acceptance and without judgement.
In any nation, we may have differences of opinion and majority and minority groups, but can we act together to exercise our commitment to the common humanity that we all belong to?
British Columbia Premier David Eby questioned how such individuals could be allowed to pursue asylum claims based on fears of returning to India, while their alleged criminal activities continued to affect residents in Canada.
In the weeks after his death, the boys’ mother was hospitalised for acute mental health care and later travelled to India to be supported by her sisters, leaving the brothers without a parent able to care for them in Australia.
