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The grants and activities made by Asia:NZ for the period July 2009 to June 2010
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Business
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $4,737 for an internship opportunity within ITRI in Taiwan.
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $19,278 for an internship opportunity within KPMG in Vietnam.
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $7,000 for an internship opportunity within Kyushu Railway Company (KRC) in Japan.
Frances Yamada: $8,498.60 to undertake an internship opportunity within Kyushu Railway Company (KRC) in Japan.
Hong Kong New Zealand Business Association Inc: $4,000 assists with the launch of the Hong Kong film festival week.
New Zealand International Business Forum: $10,000 to sponsor the IBF Korea New Zealand Business Roundtable.
Japan New Zealand Business Council: $3,000 to sponsor two “Think Japan Seminars” in Auckland and in Christchurch. 2
Culture/Communities
Ahilan Karunaharan: $1,000 to stage “The Inheritance of Loss” in Wellington.
Alyx Duncan: $1,700 to assist with travel costs to Beijing, China to film a section of “The Red House”.
Aroha Quartet: $1,000 to assist with travel to Guangzhou, China.
Art and Industry Trust: $4719 to assist in hosting filmmaker Shuddhabrata Sengupta from Delhi, India to the Christchurch Art Gallery 2010 SCAPE Biennial of arts.
Arti Gentejohann: $2,370 to assist in the staging of “Bindi - the Indian dot” exhibition at Pataka, Porirua, Wellington.
Ashley Remer: $3,000 to assist in conducting a research trip to Japan.
Asia New Zealand Foundation/Korea Foundation and Christchurch Arts Centre Artist Residency Exchange: $9,780 to assist with travel to Seoul, South Korea for the second artist residency exchange.
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Asia New Zealand Foundation/Christchurch Arts Centre: $7,605 to assist with hosting two paper-cutters from China to hold workshops during the Chinese New Year celebrations.
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $15,000 to support the 2010 Festival of Japan in Wellington.
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $12,220 to assist with costs for the inaugural artist in residence programme at Platform China Contemporary Art Institute in Beijing in 2010.
Asia New Zealand Foundation/Taipei Artist Village Artist Residency Exchange: $7,540 to Andy Leleisi'uao to assist with travel to Taiwan.
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $2,300 to assist artist Mu Yuming to visit New Zealand for the Wellington Artist Residency Exchange (WARE).
Asian Events Trust: $2,000 to assist with travel to China to explore opportunities for working with culture groups in 2011 Chinese New Year festival in Wellington.
Auckland Art Gallery: $6,000 to assist in hosting artists from Asia as part of the Fourth Auckland Triennial. 3
Auckland Cambodian Youth and Recreation Trust: $500 to assist in staging the Cambodia New Zealand Friendship Day in Auckland.
Auckland Chinese Community Centre: $1,000 to assist in staging the Chinese New Year Festival in Auckland.
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival Charitable Trust: $6000 to assist in the hosting of writers and performers from Asia to attend the Festival.
Bhartiya Samaj Charitable Trust: $1,000 to assist in the staging of a cultural festival in Auckland to mark the diamond jubilee of India's independence.
Block Foundation: $2,000 to assist in the hosting of prominent architect Momoyo Kaijima for a lecture tour in Auckland and Wellington.
Bridgette Murphy: $1,500 to assist with a workshop to create a giant tiger lantern for Chinese New Year in Palmerston North.
British Council New Zealand: $2,500 to assist in the staging of the “People in Your Neighbourhood” project.
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Cantonese Opera Society of New Zealand Inc: $3,000 to support the Waitakere Moon Festival.
Chandrakirti Trust: $500 to support a visit by monks from India for a series of workshops and performances in Nelson.
Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand: $4,000 to support the New Zealand Youth Choir to travel to Singapore and Seoul and to work with local choirs, Ensemble Singers in Singapore and the World Vision South Korea Choir.
Christchurch Arts Centre: $1,631 to assist with the preservation of 10 pieces of paper cutter's Jia Qiong Liu's artwork.
Creative New Zealand ConversAsians: $4,000 to assist with travel by New Zealand artists to a series of workshops in Singapore.
Drum Productions Westfield Style Pacifika: $4,000 to support the Asia Pasifika segment of the 2010 Westfield Style Pasifika.
Fiona Amundsen: $2,000 to assist with travel to Japan to research her exhibition “The First City in History”. 4 George Chan World Lion Dance Championship: $1,500 to assist with travel to attend World Lion Dance Championship in Malaysia.
Hamilton City Council: $3,000 to support a Japanese component as part of the Pacific Rose Bowl Festival.
Hamilton City Council: $4,000 to support the Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival Asia Experience.
Hindu Council of New Zealand: $1,800 to assist with the staging of the Deepawali Festival in Rotorua.
Hokushin Shinoh Ryu Iai-Do of New Zealand: $1,000 to assist in bringing Master Goho Chong from Hokushin Shinoh Ryu Iai-Do of Australia to demonstrate at the 2010 Lantern Festival, conduct a national seminar and a series of workshops around Auckland.
Indian Cultural Society (Waikato): $800 to assist with the staging of a Diwali celebration at the Founders Theatre in Hamilton.
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International Pacific College: $2,000 to support the Palmerston North Sakura Festival.
Jack Woon: $1,000 to assist with travel to attend the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Jade Min: $650 to assist with the development of an exhibition of Chinese artists in Auckland.
Japanese Society of Auckland: $1,500 to assist in the staging of the 2010 Japan Day at the ASB Show Grounds in Auckland.
Kerry Ann Lee/AM Space: $2,560 to assist with travel to China to stage an art project at the AM Space Gallery in Shanghai.
Manawatu Multicultural Council: $500 to support a multicultural concert in Palmerston North.
Mark Hamilton and Shayne Comino: $2,000 to assist with travel to Kerala in India to study martial arts.
Mark Summerville: $3,000 to assist with travel to Shanghai, China, to film a documentary on artist New Zealand Heather Straka. 5
Martin Reynolds: $1,000 to assist in hosting a tour by Japanese drummer Shoji Hano in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Mary-Louise Browne: $3,956 to participate in an artist-in-residence programme at Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan.
MAU Dance Theatre: $2,500 to support two artists from Indonesia for a performance season at the Manukau Arts Festival in Auckland.
Mika Haka Foundation: $1,500 to support dancer Shakti to New Zealand to perform at the Pasifika and AROHA festivals in Auckland.
Music Association of Auckland: $2,000 to support the East Meets West Concert in Auckland.
Napier/Hastings Ramayan Mandali: $800 to assist with the staging of a Diwali celebration.
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Narthana Aalayam School of Indian Dance: $800 to assist in running a series of dance workshops in Auckland.
Nelson Indian Community: $1,000 to assist in bringing performers from Wellington to a Diwali Festival.
New Zealand Academy of Bharata-Natyam: $4,500 to assist with staging a performance of traditional Indian dance in Nelson.
New Zealand Indian Fine Arts Society: $750 to support a concert by M Balamuralikrishna in Lower Hutt.
New Zealand International Festival of the Arts Trust: $6,000 to support the staging of “Sutra” as part of the 2010 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington.
New Zealand Japan Society of Auckland: $2,000 to support its annual Taste of Japan Festival.
New Zealand School of Music: $1,600 to assist musicians to participate in the World Music Days Festival in China.
Nicholas Spratt: $1,700 to participate in an artists' workshop in Korea. 6
Nigel Borell: $2,000 to assist in conducting a research trip to Hong Kong.
New Zealand Association of Events Professionals: $4,000 to bring the Australian organiser of Sydney’s Chinese New Year Celebrations Gillian Minervini as a speaker at the Eventing the Future Conference in Christchurch.
New Zealand Wushu Federation: $2,000 to support the organising of the Chinese Wushu performance in Wellington.
Otago Festival of the Arts Trust: $4,000 to provide support with venue hire expenses.
Peter Wilson: $1,400 to assist with travel to Shanghai, China, to visit the Shanghai Puppet Theatre and Shanghai Drama Academy.
Phil Dadson and Lisa Benson: $3,000 to participate in the 9 Dragon Heads Silk Road Artist Project 2010.
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Rashmi Pilapitiya/Shamon Productions: $3,000 to support the staging of “Gas” at Bats Theatre in Wellington.
Renee Liang: $2,000 to assist with the staging of “The Bone Feeder” in Masterton and Palmerston North.
Rewi Alley Academy: $2,000 help with the purchase of traditional Chinese costumes for dance performance.
Sai Natyalaya Trust: $1,500 to support an Indian cultural concert at the Dorothy Winstone Centre in Auckland.
Sri Lanka Association of New Zealand: $1,000 to retain the services of an instructor to teach a drumming group.
Sri Lanka Dance Academy: $2,000 to assist in bringing guest artist Mohan Sudusinghe to New Zealand for a seven week workshop.
Stanley Harper: $2,000 to assist with travel to Tokyo and Hong Kong for screenings of his film “Cambodia Dreams”.
The Documentary New Zealand Trust: $2,000 to assist with travel of delegates to the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in China. 7
The Green Bench: $1,900 to support an exhibition of Japanese artists in Whanganui.
The Jewel School Limited: $1,300 to assist in the hosting of Japanese DJ/musician DJ Mitsu the Beats for a gig in Wellington.
United Chinese Association of New Zealand: $2,000 to assist in the staging of the annual Moon Festival, the Multicultural Festival and the Chinese New Year Celebration concert in Auckland.
United Sri Lanka Association Auckland: $500 to assist in the staging of Miyurasa, a youth concert, in Auckland.
University of Auckland: $2,000 to support a lecture tour of architect Mr Akihisa Hirata to Auckland University School of Architecture and Planning.
University of Auckland: $2,000 to support a lecture tour of architect Mr Hitoshi Abe to Auckland University School of Architecture and Planning.
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Urban Fusion Trust: $1,700 to assist in the staging of the photographic exhibition “Faces of India” in Wellington.
Victoria University Gamelan Club: $1,500 to assist Gamelan Padhang Moncar in the staging of a puppet show with Dr Joko Susilo in Wellington.
Vietnamese Students Association of Victoria University: $500 to assist with the staging Vietnam Day celebrations in Wellington.
Wai Taiko Drummers: $2,000 to assist with travel to Japan to perform and learn from Japanese drummers.
Waitakere Indian Association: $1,000 to support the Holi Mela in Henderson, Auckland.
Wellington Durgotsav Committee: $500 to support the Durgapuja Festival in Wellington.
Wellington International Filipino Society: $500 to support the Fiesta in Wellington.
Wellington New Chinese Friendship Association: $800 to assist in holding weekly dance group practices. 8
Wellington Xiamen Association: $2,000 to assist with hosting six artists from China to exhibit in Wellington.
Wintec SPARK Festival: $1,995 to support Wintec School of Media Arts organising the Spark Festival in Hamilton.
New Zealand National Tai Chi Chuan Association/WTCQD Coordinating Sub- committee: $500 to assist in organising the annual World Tai Chi and Qigong Day in Auckland.
Education
AFS Intercultural Programmes: $28,000 to seven New Zealand teachers to participate in a three week study programme to Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines and India.
Amuri Area School: $1,500 to assist a group of students on a school study visit to Singapore.
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Anthony Hall/Fraser High School, Hamilton: $3,000 to contribute towards a study tour to Vietnam.
Ashleigh Stewart: $5,000 to assist with costs on a student exchange to Waseda University, Japan.
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $28,000 to enable 10 New Zealand educators, including two principals to participate in the Korean Studies Workshop in Seoul, South Korea.
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $14,000 for eight principals to participate in the Asia:NZ's Singapore Principals Forum.
Auckland Girls' Grammar School: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school. Auckland Normal Intermediate: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
Brooklyn School: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
Charles Rowe: $5,000 towards the costs on a student exchange to Hirosaki University, Japan. 9 Cheviot Area School: $1,500 to assist a group of students to undertake a school study visit to Japan.
Chinese Language Foundation: $3,000 to assist in coordinating and managing a conference for teachers.
Chisnallwood Intermediate School: $2,000 to assist in the school’s jazz band to perform at the National Jazz Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
College Street School: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
Columba College: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
Felix Campbell: $5,000 to assist with costs on an exchange to the University of Japan.
Gary Cain: $1,000 to assist with travel to participate in the New Zealand Principals delegation visit to China.
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Global Connexions: $1,300 to assist in staging a fashion competition with an Asian category for all secondary schools in Tauranga.
Hamish Stott: $1,000 to assist with costs on a sister school exchange to Japan.
Henderson High School: $1,500 to assist with a study visit to Japan.
Henderson Intermediate: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia Awareness at the school.
Horowhenua College: $2,500 for students to undertake a school study exchange to Indonesia.
Hutt City Council: $1,000 to support a Diwali art workshop for Hutt Valley school students.
Hutt Intermediate School: $1,500 to assist with a study visit to Japan.
International Languages Aotearoa New Zealand: $3,000 to assist Chinese language students from throughout New Zealand to participate in a language and culture camp to China.
Jacob Wiringi: $1,500 to assist with a school study trip to Japan. 10
Jeff Johnstone: $1,000 to assist with travel to participate in the New Zealand Principals delegation visit to China.
Lara Sweetapple: $1,500 to assist with a school study trip to Japan.
Lincoln High School: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
Maharangi Khan: $3,000 towards a study visit to Japan.
Middleton Grange International College: $2,000 to assist a group of students on a school study visit to Vietnam.
Mount Hutt College: $2,500 to assist a group of students on a sister school study visit to Japan.
New Zealand Poetry Society: $300 to assist the junior haiku section of the society’s annual international poetry competition.
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Onehunga High School: $3,500 to assist with the Hall of Fame dinner which included a 'Trading with Asia' theme.
Opihi College: $2,500 to assist with a school study trip to Japan.
Otumoetai College: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
Owairaka District School: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
Paekakariki School: $2,500 to assist a group of students on a school study visit to China.
Royal Society of New Zealand: $8,000 for high achieving students to participate in science and technology programmes in Asia.
Sacred Heart Girls' College: $3,000 to assist a group of students on a school study trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Samuel Bennett: $1,000 to assist with a study visit to Japan.
Tawa College: $2,500 to assist with a school study trip to Japan. 11
Te Aro School: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
Te Puke High School: $2,500 to assist a group of students on a sister school study trip to Singapore.
Westlake Boys' High School: $3,000 to assist with a school study trip to China.
Worser Bay School: $5,000 to provide support to raise Asia awareness at the school.
David Holborow Memorial Scholarship Programme for students of Korean descendant to study at a New Zealand tertiary institution: $5,000 each to Chan Jin and David Choi
David Holborow Memorial Scholarship Programme for a student who is a descendant of New Zealand Korean war veteran to study at a New Zealand tertiary institution: $5,000 to Lisa Hubbard
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Nakashimato Scholarship Fund for student exchanges to Japan: $5,000 each to Devon Gray and Vanessa Chang, $3,000 to Lytton High School, $2,500 to Sancta Maria College, $2,000 each to Esther Smith, Rebecca Newble, Riccarton High School and Rosie Parker, and $1,500 - Kaipara College
Media
Amanda Fisher: $5,000 for an internship at the Philippine Star newspaper.
AUT Pacific Media Centre: $5,000 for the Visiting Asian Fellowship.
Caleb Starrenburg: $2,915 to travel to Pakistan to research a number of print articles for New Zealand media outlets.
Carly Tawhiao: $2,650 to accompany a New Zealand team to the 2010 Asian Science Camp in Mumbai, India.
Catherine Pattison: $5,000 to travel to Malaysia to research and write four feature length articles about the Malaysian Rally and the Thai Songkran Festival.
Corazon Miller: $5,000 for a Kiwi Asian Journalism Scholarship. 12 Feilidh O'Dwyer-Strang: $4,255 to assist with the participation of one of four New Zealand graduate journalists who have been accepted into the 2010 Journalism Professional Practicum at the Murdoch University in Western Australia.
Hadyn Green: $8,000 to assist with travel to Japan.
James Ellingham: $3,000 for an internship at the Phnom Penh Post newspaper.
Jess Harkins: $3,500 for an internship at the Jakarta Post newspaper.
Jono Hutchison: $5,000 for an internship at the Hong Kong bureau of the International Herald Tribune newspaper.
Julie Starr: $3,670 to attend the Hong Kong Media Conference 2010 as a delegate and a panellist.
Katie Foley: $3,000 for an internship at the Shanghai Daily newspaper in China.
Lucy Mullinger: $2,500 for an internship at the China Daily Online in China.
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Maori Television – Native Affairs: $10,000 to travel to Shanghai, China, to research and report on a number of business related stories.
Matthew Theunissen: $4,255 to participate in the 2010 ACICIS Journalism Professional Practicum in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Melissa Davies: $5,500 to assist TV3 reporter to travel to China to cover the opening of the New Zealand Gardens theme park in Qufu.
Michael Dickison: $3,000 for an internship at the Deccan Herald newspaper in Bangalore, India.
Michele Ong: $2,500 for a three month internship at the China Daily Online in China.
Natalie Gauld: $1,000 to assist the editor in chief at the Hawke's Bay Today newspaper, to be part of a New Zealand China Friendship Society delegation to travel to China.
New Zealand Press Association: $4,000 to assist a parliamentary reporter to travel to Thailand and Malaysia to accompany the Prime Minister John Key on an official visit to attend the East Asia Summit and to sign a Free Trade Agreement with Malaysia. 13
New Zealand Press Association: $2,550 to assist parliamentary reporter Kate Chapman to accompany the Prime Minister John Key on official visit to Shanghai, Seoul and Hanoi.
Pan Pacific Films Ltd: $6,000 to assist in making a documentary following New Zealand Olympian and Trans-Atlantic rowing champion Rob Hamill to Cambodia to appear before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia to testify at the trial of Khmer Rouge war criminal Comrade Duch.
Pietra Brettkelly: $5,200 to undertake a teaching stint at the Asian College of Journalism on Investigative Documentary Film Making.
Rebecca Todd (The Press): $5,000 to report on a group of Bhutanese refugees from a UNHCR refugee camp in Nepal to resettlement in Christchurch.
Robyn Janes (TVNZ Close Up): $6,640 to travel to Thailand to report on a number of stories.
Sam Wicks: $2,000 to travel to Japan to report on a project by music journalist Nick Dwyer about a collaboration between New Zealand and Japanese musicians.
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Shabnam Dastgheib: $4,255 to participate in the 2010 ACICIS Journalism Professional Practicum in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Tania Butterfield: $4,255 to participate in the 2010 ACICIS Journalism Professional Practicum in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Tim Hume (Sunday Star Times): $3,896 to report on the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, in Sumatra Indonesia.
TV3: $5,000 to travel to South Korea to research and produce six news stories.
Whitireia Community Polytechnic - Whitireia Journalism School: $3,300 to assist with coordinating and managing Chinese blogger and journalist, Isaac Mao, tour of New Zealand journalism schools and meetings with journalists and bloggers.
Research/Track II
David Capie: $10,000 to explore the drivers of the new regionalism and to produce policy relevant research that will inform strategies to help New Zealand retain a voice in the emerging regional architecture. 14 Christian Yao (Massey University): $5,000 to research the nature and characteristics of international human resource management practices that are implemented by Chinese multinational companies.
Rosemary Haddon (Massey University): $1,500.00 to assist with the staging of the 19th NZASIA international biennial conference 2011.
NZPECC: $2,500 to support a young researcher to attend the PECC XIX, PECC's general meeting in Tokyo, Japan.
Otago University Foreign Policy School: $1,500 to assist in the staging of an international conference titled “China's Ascent - New Superpower or New Global System?”
Alan Edwards (The Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington): $5,000 to assist with the gathering of archival data to complete the grantee's Master's thesis.
Callum Martin (The Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington): $6,000 to research on how New Zealand has responded to the increasing international demand for civilian police in peacekeeping.
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Kim Rockell (University of Canterbury): $5,000 to assist with the grantee's PhD thesis on the Philippine Rondalla in the Asia-Pacific diasporas.
Young Leaders Network
Alexandra Lee: $1,000 to present a paper at the fifth i-REC Conference (an international network of information and research and construction) on Participatory Design and Appropriate Technology for Post-Disaster Reconstruction.
Aman Muhammad Ullah: $1,000 to attend the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations On-Campus Conference in Cambridge, USA.
Aman Muhammad Ullah: $1,000 to attend the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Asia Conference in Singapore.
Asia New Zealand Foundation: $15,000 to support five members of the Young Leaders Network to attend the inaugural New Zealand-Sino Youth Exchange in China.
Divya Dhar: $1,000 to attend the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations On-Campus Conference in Cambridge, USA. 15 Esther Hogenhout: $3,000 to assist Young Leaders to stage a photo exhibition in Christchurch.
Leon Gaskin: $6,000 to travel to Bangkok, Thailand to undertake a pilot internship opportunity with UNESCO.
Naomi Johnstone: $1,000 to attend the “Sri Lanka Unites” Future Leaders Conference in Sri Lanka.
Reuben Todd: $2,400 scholarship to study Mandarin in China by the Confucius Institute.
Simon Gray: $6,500 to support a member of the Young Leaders Network and 2008 Young Leaders Forum participant to attend the Track II Dialogues in Beijing, Shanghai, China and in Tokyo Japan.
Simon Lewis: $2,400 scholarship to study Mandarin in China by the Confucius Institute.
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