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World and Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion Usain Bolt has replaced NBA star LeBron James as the most marketable sportsman on the planet according to the website sportspromedia.com. The second annual ranking of the world's 50 most marketable athletes is published in the June issue of the Sportspro magazine... click on "Marketable Athlete" in the News section.

JAMAICA has slipped eight places to 106th out of 153 countries on the 2011 Global Peace Index, which shows that levels of world peace have declined for a third consecutive year. Iceland bounced back from economic woes to top all countries, while Somalia has replaced Iraq at the bottom of the ranking... click on "Peace Ranking" in the News section.

It is past time that we, as Canadians, took our country back from those who would destroy our way of life. This very wise, educated gentleman is a first generation Canadian whose parents immigrated from Pakistan. He is also Muslim, but truly understands what it is to be Canadian first, even though his parents are from another country. Mahfooz Kanwar, PhD, is a Sociologist and an Instructor Emeritus at Mount Royal College... click on "Canada first" in the News section.

Jamaica and China have entered into discussions to expand the island’s co-operation in sports... click on "China Jamaica" in the News section.

Celebrating its 27th anniversary, Tsung Tsin Association of Ontario (TTA) hosted an evening that included a tasty Chinese banquet, introduction of the new board members, lively musical entertainment and hot-hot-hot dancing on one of Spring's wettest Saturday nights. The torrential downpour was of little consequence to the nearly 400 guests who turned out for the President's Inaugural Ball at the beautiful Regal Palace restaurant in Scarborough... click on "TTA Ball" in the Articles section.

Would it not be wonderful if your partner had the power to build you a road to avoid all that traffic on the way to work? Well, that was what Sir Anthony Musgrave did for his wife Lady Musgrave, except he did not commission the building of a road so that she could avoid traffic. If fact, it was so that she could avoid going past the house of a certain neighbour... click on "Lady Musgrave" in the Articles section.

Talk to any upscale, London-based wine merchant and he’ll tell you two very important things about his rich Chinese clientele. First, money is no object. Sotheby’s recently reported, for instance, that a vintage bottle of 1869 Chateau Lafite sold for more than £130,000 to a Chinese buyer. And that’s for drinking now by the way: not to lay down in a cellar. ‘What we’ve seen emerging in the past year are people paying virtually any price for wine,’ said David Elswood, Christie’s head of wine. ‘That is not investment: that is just uncontrolled spending.’... click on "Rich Chinese" in the Articles section.

Read assorted info, this and that... click on "Dis ’n Dat".

Make Hakka Style Steam Pork & Egg (Ghinn Chun)... go to the Recipes page.

Searching for CHANG family members in China ... click on "Lost" under the Announcements sction.

Tsun Tsin Association of Ontario has launched their website www.tsungtsinontario.ca

June 2011