Welcome to our popular Migrant Tales series – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was sent in by Allen. Allen is Chinese born, emigrated to New Zealand when he was a child and had a pleasant upbringing. He is fluent in English and Mandarin and was relatively unscathed by racism whilst growing…
Neil Reid of the Sunday News has written an intriguing article about the allegedly fatal stabbing of an African youth in Avondale at 9pm on Wednesday. Normally news such as this filters through to the press within hours but it’s taken 3 days in this instance. In his report Neil Reid says “The source told…
Yahoo.co.nz“Three teenagers have been referred to Police Youth Services after a group of youths stormed an Auckland high school classroom and attacked a pupil.A further five have been reported to Police Youth Services following the attack on Monday at Lynfield College.One of the attackers reportedly yelled out the name of an Afghani youth gang during…
Stuff.co.nz “A group of teenagers has stormed West Auckland’s Lynfield College and attacked a pupil, apparently after a war of words on the social networking website Bebo. Witnesses say one of the attackers yelled out the name of an Afghan youth gang during the attack yesterday afternoon, One News reported.Principal Steve Bovaird said a group…
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