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...positively gleam. Ng Huck Hui, a team leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore, points to an expensive array of semiconductors. "We bought that three years ago, so by our standards it's pretty old," he says. "Might be time to get a new one." Says Lane, the Edinburgh expat who moved to Singapore in 2004 to head the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology: "The funding here is extremely good. You're in scientific heaven...
...Around 1 million New Zealanders - almost another Auckland - are thought to be living overseas. Ross McConnell, chief executive of the not-for-profit Kiwi Expat Association (KEA) is trying to get his fellow citizens to think of New Zealand as a "globally connected nation of 5 million people, rather than as an isolated country of 4 million people." Last week McConnell launched an online global census (www.everyonecounts.co. nz) to find out more about those missing Kiwis. "Knowing more about this community will have practical benefits, and will help us better define ourselves as a nation," he says. Since...
...recitals have become increasingly rare since the instrument’s modern glory days ending just after the mid-twentieth-century. The recent exodus of British organists to the United States, however, could reverse this unfortunate trend. John Scott is the latest, and the most skilled, of these renowned expat musicians. Formerly the director of music and organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, Scott currently holds the same posts at St. Thomas’s in New York City, perennially one of the best choirs in New York. Over the course of a life devoted...
...semifinals are great food, great drinks, great company-paradise on earth. If the world only knew-we islanders have kept it a secret," laughs Stephen Choo Quan, 32, an expat Trini living in the U.S., who tries to get home every year to attend. Anthony McQuilkin, 63, has played the bass pan in Desperadoes for over 40 years. Desperadoes is a 120-member steel band that was formed in the 1940s, and has won Panorama 10 times since the competition's inception. "The musical arrangements are very intricate," he says. "Every player has been practicing this tune...
...prior to Carnival Monday (it's Feb. 27 this year). But the semifinals are where the real action is. "The semifinals are great food, great drinks, great company - paradise on earth. If the world only knew - we islanders have kept it a secret," laughs Stephen Choo Quan, 32, an expat Trini living in the U.S., who tries to get home every year to attend. Anthony McQuilkin, 63, has played the bass pan in Desperadoes for over 40 years. Desperadoes is a 120-member steel band that was formed in the 1940s, and has won Panorama 10 times since the competition...