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SECTION I IB 7 i Peter Dueck, right, discloses better cancer screening. DO Australia's most wanted man has been captured. D4 3 Brian Mulroney, right, promises 'fiscal B3 A Gulf Islands MLA cools talk of a new ferry terminal. B2 THURSDAY. APRIL IT fV Hm 1 i Mi for mews jsl look 1 6, 1989 IAN SMITH years ago, said Sing Tao's news coverage reflects the uneasiness felt by non-Chinese-Canadians towards Asian immigration and investment.

But he maintains that part of the uneasiness is inevitable as two cul- I'1 ta ltl? ii imT aMiiiiii DENI EAGLAND HOT METAL: Above left, one of the millions of Chinese characters set by Ruth Pang, above, at the Chinese Times in the heart of Vancouver's Chinatown. I i -jf liliiiil'IfejUl KS3Nfv-j BRIAN SUNG: president of Cathay International TV urn events. At the same time, The Times is also trying to computerize its operations. "I realize most of the people from Hong Kong are still concerned more about what is happening in Hong Kong. What we believe is that, if you move here, you have to get along with the local community.

So you need to know more about local news," said Ip, a 33-year-old former government information officer in Hong Kong who immigrated to Vancouver with his family a year ago. If The Chinese Times straddles the decades, Chinese Edition Lifestyle Magazine is firmly aimed at the future, The brainchild of publisher Lily Ray and editor Siu Wan Ng, the magazine was launched last October after two years of planning. It was an immediate hit. More than 28,000 copies were immediately snapped up and Ng said she was overwhelmed when more than 2,000 responses to a reader survey flooded into the Richards Street office. jumped to 50,000 when a Toronto edition was added earlier this year.

Plans are under way to expand into the U.S. Although partly geared to recent Hong Kong immigrants, Chinese Edition is.unique among Chinese-language media in Vancouver for its bilingual content: 70 per cent of its stories are in Chinese, 30 per cent in English. Ng said both she and publisher Ray see the magazine as an important bridge between two cultures. "A lot of people who are new to the community want to know a lot more about Vancouver. And the Canadian community here would like to know about the Chinese community," Ng said.

HINESE DITION is, in part, a reflection of what Ng, a former producer for Hong Kong TV-B and film director, might have wanted ww t-r .4 i lJ land prices, don't receive equal prominence. At Cathay' International TV, the main Chinese-language television station in Vancouver whick started 3'2 years ago, president Brian Sung is even more outspoken about the reaction to Hong Kong immigration in the Lower Mainland. Sung, 47, said previous waves of immigrants such as Italians, Portuguese, and Chinese tended to live on Vancouver's east side. But now, new Hong Kong immigrants are moving into the west side, a part of the city that has generally not been home to immigrants in the past. "For the first time in Canadian history, the impact of immigration is Please see CHINESE, B8 way of life.

a fJ 1 i By KEVIN GRIFFIN Sun Multiculturalism Reporter UPSTAIRS AT The Chinese Times, Ruth Pang sils in front of an ancient, manual typesetter, deftly choosing from among 7,000 Chinese characters to punch out a story. Downstairs, two electronic typesetters used for headlines sit a few metres away from the 30-year-old offset press that prints 6,000 newspapers six days a week. As Canada's oldest Chinese-language daily newspaper, the Venerable publication is haltingly bringing itself into the 1980s. Founded in 1907 and still owned by the Chinese Freemasons, The Chinese Times has for years been the voice of the estab-lished Chinese-Canadian community in Vancouver. But times are changing.

The arrival of new Canadians from Hong Kong has meant some editorial changes at the newspaper: Business and economic coverage began in February, a real estate page in March and, most recently, a special page every Friday designed to help new immigrants find day care, vocational training and other private and public services. "We are going to change a lot in the future," says news editor William Ip. HAVE AN aim to start getting new readership. More and more new immigrants are entering Vancouver so we are going to capture their While remaining the grandfather of Chinese-language media in Vancouver, The Chinese Times is but one of number of media outlets informing the Chinese-Canadian community in Vancouver. As the Chinese-Canadian community in B.C.

has grown from 20,000 when The Chinese Times first started, to about 120,000 in 1989, the Chinese-language media has also expanded. There is now radio programming, a second daily newspaper, a local television station, weekly and monthly publications and, most recently, a glossy magazine. While the Chinese-language media is the most vibrant in the city, they are a part of some 80 different ethnic print and electronic media outlets in Greater Vancouver. In varying degrees, Chinese-language media outlets cover both local events in the Chinese-Canadian community, provincial and national events, and news from Beijing and Hong Kong. In an interview in the Chinatown offices of the Chinese Times, Ip notes how the paper continues to change since its inception 82 years ago as a supporter of Dr.

Sun Yat Sen's democratic reforms in China. With an editorial staff of 10, including two reporters, The Chinese Times has traditionally concentrated on local news but Ip is expanding its coverage to include more national and international EVE NG: an art director of Chinese Edition I 1 i uwv.aI tures meet and Vancouver becomes an "international city. "XT 11 EW IMMIGRANTS have to adapt, do their best to settle in this community if they want to live here for long. There may be some adjustments from both sides. It is natural," he said.

But Tsang does criticize what he calls sensationalized coverage of the issue by the mainstream media. Tsang said stories with catch phrases such as the "Hong Kong invasion" and how "Vancouver is being bought up by Asian money" often receive front-page coverage while other stories, explaining how other factors such as population movements within Canada affect PhoneMart or call your B.C.Tel Ve make it a i UU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY when she arrived from Hong Kong seven years ago: There's a Who's Who section profiling prominent Chinese-Canadians plus articles ranging from a look at Canadian etiquette in job interviews, a survey of services available to new immigrants, and a look at local post-secondary education facilities. Like Chinese Edition, the Chi nese-language daily newspaper Sing Tao was started to inform the growing number of Hong Kong residents living in the city. At its editorial and production offices in south Vancouver, 10 state-of-the-art Chinese-language typesetters produce the next day's copy for 10,000 readers. Unlike the older and locally owned Chinese Times, Sing Tao started six years ago and is part of Sing Tao International, a newspaper empire based in Hong Kong that publishes in cities around the world such as London and Sydney.

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