Ann Kit Suet Chin is a New Zealand Chinese
writer. She was born in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia. She attended Methodist
Primary and Secondary School in Sibu. She graduated from Windsor
University in Canada, Auckland University and Auckland University of
Technology.
Ann is the fourth child of the late John
Chan Hiu Fei and Mary Kong Wah Kiew. She is married to Chin Chen Onn,
PhD. She has three surviving children, Deborah, Gabrielle and Sam. Her
third child, Andrew died when he was a baby and is the inspiration of
her first book.
This
is a real life story of losing one's only son. This experience has made
the author strong and caring. This tragedy has
been a great help for her to help understand other bereaved people. The
author is very brave to write this book. It has not been easy and she
aims to touch,...
Used as a reference book for NICU staff at the University Hospital, Toronto.
Dr Simon Rowley is a consultant at Starship Children's Hospital who's been given a copy of the book.
"It
is a good reminder to all health professionals that when our patients
leave us, the story does not end for the parents. The detail is amazing,
and every little thought and action seems to have been recorded as it
happened, and then has been reflected upon.
"For parents undergoing
similar experiences this book could be a great comfort. For health
professionals, I would see it as essential reading."
ISBN 9780473239008 English
ISBN 9780473309626 Chinese
This is a
hundred-year-old journal of two families, the Chans and the Kongs. It traces
the first movement in 1907 from Kwang Zhou, China to the jungles of Borneo.
It is a six-generational record with the second wave of movement to England,
Canada, Japan, Singapore, Australia, USA ...
This
book records with humor the life of a busy and active family through
World War II, the formation of Malaysia and Confrontation. It is a
personal reflection of a way of life that has moved on and provides
insight into a family and its relationships. It is most of all a work of
love and respect for the Chan and Kong families and for Father and
Mother.
a fiction novel – Mail Order Bride. The story, set in Auckland, New
Zealand, touches on social issues such as teenage pregnancies,
drugs, paedophile and the like. The book took two months to finish.
Her third book, Mail Order Bride is the first fiction piece
from Ann. She said that the book targets an audience of
young adults and that it appeals readers interested in social
issues and ills that young adults have to face.
Women suffers from
oppression. This story traces the life of Nadine who overcomes her own
problems of oppression, grows up to be a social worker and helps women
who have suffered from physical and mental violence, domestic violence,
rape, pornography, swinging, sex slavery, human ...
Judy Lawson, Counsellor
A book I would use in my work as a reference.
World War II in Borneo, Tales of my Grandpa
ISBN:
9780473339005 (Pbk)
It
is seventy years after the end of the World War II, or the Japanese
occupation in Borneo. Captain Cheng aka Captain Fong and his Canadian
soldiers are remembered in their role of leading the surrender of the
Japanese.
"I am the victim of sexual assault and I take personal offence."
Those were the words of several
female MPs today as they stood up in Parliament to protest against John
Key's comments yesterday in which he accused Labour of "backing" and
"supporting" rapists.
In a media conference today,
Green MP Catherine Delahunty questioned whether Mr Key's comments would
set a precedent for more inappropriate comments in parliament.
"What else is going to be said about women... what's going to be said about our rights as human beings," said the MP.
MPs are up in arms over Speaker David Carter's refusal to force the Prime Minister to apologise for the remarks.
Following the Speaker's ruling, numerous Green and Labour MPs stood up to take a point of order against the decision.
When they were refused by Mr Carter, some were thrown out, others walked out.
Outside the debating chamber, the
Labour and Green MPs told media that for some of them, it was the first
time they had publicly named themselves as victims of sexual assault.
Through tears, Green MP Jan
Logie, said she wished none of them had to stand up in such a situation
but sexual assault was a big issue in our society and needed to be
confronted.
Labour's Nanaia Mahuta says it
doesn't take a Speaker's order for the Prime Minister to apologise and
he could do so himself if he wished to.
The man was found guilty by a jury at Auckland District Court. File photo
A man who murdered his partner and was released on parole after
12 years in jail is back behind bars after having sex with a teenage
girl.
The man in his 50s who cannot be named - to ensure the
victim is protected - started a relationship with a Waikato woman a
couple of years after getting out of prison.
Soon after moving in
with her, her 16-year-old daughter joined them because she was having
trouble with her father and had nowhere else to go.
Eventually the convicted murderer moved into his own place and the teen joined him.
On his birthday he asked her to dress up "like a blonde Japanese schoolgirl" and had sex with her in a caravan.
The victim told police she felt like she had no choice.
She drank alcohol with the man in the hope that "would make it go away" but the offending was repeated on several occasions.
Despite
the girl being old enough to legally consent to sex, the man was
charged with two counts of sexual connection with a dependant family
member.
He defended the matter at an Auckland District Court trial but was found guilty by a jury.
It
came before the High Court at Auckland this morning because Judge Nevin
Dawson believed the man may qualify for a sentence of preventive
detention.
Crown prosecutor Sam McMullan did not pursue that course but said the behaviour fitted into a pattern.
"The
defendant has shown throughout his offending and relationship history
that he's an overbearing and, at times, manipulative partner," he said.
The prosecutor also told the court there were sexual elements to the murder of his partner more than 20 years earlier.
He accepted though that the defendant was prepared to address his alcohol issues, which had been a trigger behind the crimes.
Justice
Geoffrey Venning said that was the only mitigating factor before the
court and that there was no obvious empathy or insight into the sexual
offending.
Since being paroled on the murder count, the man had
racked up three convictions and the judge said there were serious
impulse-control issues.
NZME News Service requested a copy of the
Parole Board's decision to first release the man into the community but
a spokesman said it was too long ago.
Justice Venning sentenced
the defendant to four and a half years prison and ordered he must serve
half of that before being considered for parole again.
"With your background there's a need to protect the community from you," he said.
The judge imposed a deportation order. Photo / File
An Indian man who came to Auckland to get a business-management
qualification will go home to his wife and daughter with two sex
convictions instead.
Dhaval Kadam, 31, came to the country in
July last year on a two-year student visa but he will now be deported
after being convicted of two counts of indecent assault against teenage
girls.
Not only did the victims suffer the groping at the hands
of the defendant but their trauma was stretched out over more than a
year.
Kadam got through four lawyers and flip-flopped between
admitting and denying the charges, throughout which he was granted name
suppression by the court.
Judge Pippa Sinclair finally put an end
to the fiasco last week when she denied his application to vacate his
guilty pleas and sentenced him to 300 hours community work and 18 months
intensive supervision.
The court heard how the sentence was academic though, as there was a deportation order in force against Kadam.
The incidents took place on two consecutive days on inter-city buses in Auckland and Northland.
On
August 28 last year - weeks after he had arrived in the country - Kadam
boarded a relatively quiet bus at Kawakawa and immediately sat near the
17-year-old victim, who was travelling alone.
He tried to talk to her but she could not understand him through his "heavy accent", Judge Sinclair said.
Eventually, he sat next to the girl, forcing his shoulder and leg against hers.
When
the girl asked him to move so she could get off in Whangarei, he
remained seated and stood up as she tried to squeeze past him.
"She felt a hand [up her skirt] on her upper thigh and quickly moved away from him," the judge said.
She
sought refuge in some nearby public toilets and remained there for a
considerable amount of time after she saw Kadam follow her off the bus.
The next day, Kadam was on another bus when two teenage girls boarded at Takapuna.
The 16-year-old victim and her friend noticed him staring at them and thought he seemed "creepy".
When he got off the bus at Kawakawa he reached over and grabbed the right breast of the girl.
His
lawyer Phil Hamlin said, despite the previous guilty pleas, his client
wanted to defend the charges and his defence was that the molesting was
"accidental".
"I'm not persuaded he has an arguable defence that warrants vacating these pleas," Judge Sinclair said.
She
did not accept Kadam's explanation, which she said had been
contradicted in interviews with probation during which he exhibited
concerning attitudes towards women.
"This offending was
worrisome," the judge said. "Those young women were entitled to feel
safe on public transport and you trampled on their rights. They were
vulnerable and defenceless."
But Judge Sinclair forbid
photographs being taken of the defendant after Mr Hamlin cited Waikato
District Health Board documents.
Immigration New Zealand
confirmed the 31-year-old would be deported to his partner of five years
and four-year-old daughter later this month.
