This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 T essay examines the debate surrounding the potential impact of new technologies on traditional newspapers in the 21st Century. Using the Internet as an example, the essay compares the situation in developing African countries with the western world. Specifically the essay examines the various ways the Internet technology has impacted news c...

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 T Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong (CFA), the highest court established in Hong Kong after the 1997 handover, has made two landmark but controversial decisions on freedom of expression. The decision in Cheng Albert and Another v Tse Wai Chun Paul (Cheng v Tse) has made it much more difficult for a plaintiff to succeed in a defamation actio...

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 T paper discusses some fundamental assumptions about pluralism in the Australian print media. Pluralism, the number of print media outlets available to the public, and known as structural diversity, can be considered as one of two elements of media diversity. The other is the variety of views presented by those outlets, known as content dive...

This paper looks at multilateral processes in the ‘Asia-Pacific’ region and the impact of American foreign policy on them. The paper suggests that organizations like the AsiaPacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum have been made increasingly irrelevant as American policy becomes more bilateral and even unilateral, and as the very definition of the ‘Asia-Pacific’ becomes less certain as a con...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between trading volume and stock return volatility in the Australian market. The initial analysis centres upon Karpoff's [1986, 1987] model of the volume-price change relationship. Evidence is found which supports the model. The relationship between price change and trading volume, irrespective of the direction of the price change, i...

the study of tectonic evolution of the tethyan and se asian regions indicates that these tworegions have each passed through southwardly progressing sequences of similar tectonic events. both regionshave experienced a southward island-arc subduction and back-arc spreading leading to continentaldetachment from gondwanaland, with an earlier southward island arc subduction of palaeotethys (tethyan...