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For achievement or service to the community, usually in a national role.
QUEEN'S SERVICE ORDER
Recognises valuable voluntary service to the community or faithful service to the Crown or public sector. Usually awarded for service at a national level.
QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL
Same as above but usually awarded for service at a local or regional level.
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Stella Sin Kam Yin Li (Auckland): has been awarded in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list the Queen's Service Medal for Community Service. Mrs Li was the founding president of the Chinese Women’s Association of New Zealand in 1995, a position she still holds. She provides an advice programme on a Chinese language radio station, and has facilitated fundraising for the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind and the Yang Tzi River disaster.
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Gerald Joe Wong, Palmerston North, for services to the Chinese community
Making connections
By LAURA JACKSON - Manawatu Standard | Wednesday, 31 December 2008
More than 20 years of service to the Chinese community in the Manawatu has seen Gerald Wong awarded a Queen's Service Medal.
Mr Wong has helped connect the Palmerston North and ethnic communities through his role as president of the Manawatu New Zealand Chinese Association.
Before taking up the role of president he was the association's treasurer, secretary and branch representative.
He is also the association's representative on the Manawatu Ethnic Council.
The council look after the needs of the ethnic community and works closely with police, schools and Massey University to ensure the integration of new settlers into the community.
Mr Wong's current project is as chairman of the New Zealand Chinese Association's aged Chinese pilot project.
His work also extends beyond the Chinese community. Mr Wong, a chartered accountant, works with local iwi groups and other Maori communities.
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Dr Frank Yet Keong Liaw, Turangi, For services to community medicine and the community. New Years Honours 2008 - 2009 THE QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL
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Susan Sui Wei Hou, Dunedin for services to the Chinese community. New Years Honours 2009 THE QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL
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Monday June 02, 2008
THE QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL
Donald Sew Hoy, Auckland, for services to the Chinese community
Jennie Sew Hoy, Auckland, for services to the Chinese community
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Outstanding contributions to New Zealand recognised
Officers of the Order
Professor Hong Jie Di, Lincoln, for services to agricultural research
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Ling Juan (Jenny) Wang, Manukau, for services to Chinese migrants
Chinese New Settlers Services Trust
In 1998, a group of Chinese new settlers who came from China , Taiwan , Hong Kong , Malaysia and other Asian countries, voluntarily gathered together, with the aim of helping Chinese-speaking people to settle down well in New Zealand . They started with a senior Tai Chi group that ran some entertainment activities in the Kotuku House square in the front of Manukau City Council white house building. The team leader was Jenny (Ling Juan) Wang, who was a first year student in Social and Community Work Diploma course at the Manukau Institute of Technology at that time.
¡ö Jenny drafted and the first board approved the first paper that stated CNSST constitution and philosophies at her home garage in June 1998. The trust was registered in September 1998. The initial name was °Manukau Chinese New Settlers Services Trust(in 2000, it was changed to °Chinese New Settlers Services Trust¡±).
Now, CNSST has become the largest and only Chinese group to be approved by CYF for the provision of professional services to the large Chinese speaking client group in the Auckland region.
The resettlement process is a life crisis. Chinese new settlers in New Zealand face difficulties such as language and cultural barriers, which prevent them from integrating and contributing to New Zealand society. Our Trust aims to bridge the gap." - Jenny Wang, Executive Director, CNSST
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THE QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL
Lorna Christine Wong Hop, North Shore, for services to the Chinese community
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THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT 2008
Dr Sun Sung Chau, North Shore, for services to medicine and the community
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NEW YEAR HONOURS 2005 M.N.Z.M
Mr David Ti TAI, of Lower Hutt. For services to the Chinese community
IPENZ Professional Member David Ti Tai of Lower Hutt, who received a MNZOM for services to the Chinese community.
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New Year's Honours Saturday December 30, 2006
THE QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL QSM (for Community Service)
Ngov Dun Meng Ly, Manukau
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New Year's Honours Saturday December 30, 2006
THE QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL QSM (for Community Service)
George Wong, Dunedin
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New Year's Honours Saturday December 30, 2006
Members of the Order
Dr Elsie Seckyee Ho, Hamilton, for services to the migrant community
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New Year's Honours Saturday December 30, 2006
Officers of the Order
Chung Yock (Dan) Chan QSM, Wellington, for services to the Chinese community
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QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2003 M.N.Z.M.
David Victor WONG HOP, of Auckland. For services to the Chinese community.
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said M.N.Z.M. 2003
QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2003 M.N.Z.M.
Leslie WONG, of Dunedin. For services to the Chinese community.
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said M.N.Z.M. 2003
QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2003 M.N.Z.M.
Kai-Yin (Spencer) CHEUNG, J.P., of Christchurch. For services to the Chinese community.
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NEW YEAR HONOURS 2005 M.N.Z.M
Mr Donald (Kee Chong) KWOK, J.P., of Hamilton. For services to the Chinese community.
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QSM community service:
Queens Service Medals community service were awarded to Judith Cheung of Bucklands Beach for her charity work and services to the Chinese community.
Judith Cheung: Well known in Chinese communities in Auckland, Wellington and Gisborne, Mrs Cheung has been involved in community work, civic fundraising and helping non-English speaking Chinese with translations and paperwork. Founder of Auckland’s Chinese Oriental Markets with her husband, she became a charter member of Rotary in 1994 and president in 1997.
Organises annual Chinese New Year charity dinner for the club, which has raised money for Auckland Diabetes, Auckland Asthma, child development, Polio Plus and NZ Transplant unit. She is serving second term as Auckland Tung Jung Association president.
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Ronald Chan, of Manukau, received the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to business. Mr Chan, pictured with the Hon Pansy Wong, Minister of Ethnic Affairs, and members of his family, has been involved in the fruit and vegetable trade in Auckland for more than 50 years. He co-founded Vege World in 1991 and went on to establish the Fruit World franchise in 2001. Fruit World is the largest independent franchisee green grocer store in New Zealand. In 2005, he was awarded the Roger Davies Trophy for service to the Horticulture Industry and in 2008, was recognised with a New Zealand Summer Fruit Industry Award for his long contribution to the industry; the first time the New Zealand Summer Fruit Industry has recognised an individual outside the fruit growing sector. Mr Chan has also been involved in Chinese opera and has been instrumental in fostering local singers, bringing performances to New Zealand, and donating the proceeds from shows to various New Zealand charitable organisations.
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Peter CHAN, of Auckland. For services to the Chinese community. The New Zealand New Year Honours 1999
Issued 31 December 1998
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New Zealand New Year Honours 2002
O.N.Z.M.
Mrs Esther Frances FUNG, of Wellington. For services to the Chinese community.
M.N.Z.M.
Lim Nam CHHOUR, of Auckland. For services to the Chinese Cambodian community.
Q.S.M.
Thomas Cheu Kwan Wong DOO, of Auckland.
Loo-Chi HU, of Christchurch.
Quang Long LE, of Auckland.
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Arthur Loo New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal in recognition of community services to New Zealand.
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New Year Honours recognise ethnic communities 6 January, 2006
These individuals have all been recognised for their tireless community work. They have each made a significant contribution to strengthening the communities they come from, ensuring ethnic peoples maintain links to their own heritage, culture and mother tongue and integrate successfully into the wider New Zealand community. They have also worked to build links between ethnic communities and the wider Kiwi community."
- Auckland educator Song Lam, who was recognised for her work as a bilingual school facilitator helping new immigrant students and liaising with their families,
- Chinese community leader Lynda Park, who was recognised for founding the Shunde Association and her work with settling new Chinese migrants, and
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M.N.Z.M.
Dr Cheung-Tak HUNG, of Dunedin. For services to philanthropy and the Chinese community.
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Mr Percy Chew LEE, of Christchurch. For services to the Chinese community and the community.
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Members Cheung Choi Chan, Manukau, for services to the Chinese community.
QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL Betty Suet Mui Leung, New Plymouth, for services to the Chinese community. Mrs Leung, who migrated here from Hong Kong 34 years ago, has received the Queen's Service Medal.
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THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT Cheung Choi Chan, Manukau, for services to the Chinese community.
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QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL Ping Ching Mabbett, Wellington, for services to the arts and the community.
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Member
For achievement or service to the community, usually in a national role.
Connie Fay Ling Kum, Auckland, for services to the Chinese community.
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Chinese New Year 21/1/2006
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Kok Kit Wong, Auckland, for services to business and the community.
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KIT WONG'S reward for years of service comes in the satisfaction he gets from helping others.
The New Year honours recipient says he is "humbled" to be made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for service to business and the community.
"It's exciting that my efforts were recognised and I was overwhelmed by all the congratulations messages I received," he says.
Mr Wong was instrumental in forming the Somerville Multicultural Business Centre in Howick in 1992 to help migrants establish businesses.
He has been involved in starting a number of community organisations including the Rotary Club of Somerville, the City of Manukau Education Trust and the South Manukau Education Trust.
Mr Wong is also involved in the Chinese New Settler Trust and the Asian Community Advisory Group for Manukau Institute of Technology and is a senior member of the Property Institute of New Zealand.
In 2008 he was inducted into the Manukau City Council Hall of Fame.
He says family support has enabled him to get involved with so many organisations.
"I need to thank my wife, she always laughs that my main job is my community work not my business," Mr Wong says.
He became passionate about helping migrants after finding little practical assistance was available when he moved here from Hong Kong in 1987.
"Money is not my main objective, I try to live a meaningful life, to help people and promote better cultural understanding," he says.
"I have tried to create harmonious community relations between the new migrants and the community.
"I have been a member of the Manukau City Council economic steering committee for about five years."
Mr Wong says he can't put a price on the value of volunteering. "I have been in real estate and property management but they can't give me the satisfaction of working for the community.
"The Chinese New Settler Trust now has eight centres in Auckland and every week we have cultural classes and activities for elderly people. Some of the local kiwis are learning Chinese as well so we feel good that we can proudly show them the culture."
He is proud of his contribution as trust chairman.
"I could use my experience and knowledge to fully utilise the resources."
"It will be quite humbling and I will be very proud to wear it, but there are a lot of other unsung heroes in the community as well.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/eastern-courier/4541717/Hero-of-the-community
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Audrey Bing Shum Chan, services to the community, Auckland. THE QUEEN'S SERVICES MEDAL (QSM) 2011
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Kitty Shui Fung Chiu, JP, services to the community, Auckland. THE QUEEN'S SERVICES MEDAL (QSM) 2011
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Arthur Loo, services to the Chinese community, Auckland. THE QUEEN'S SERVICES MEDAL (QSM) 2011
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Robert Joseph Ting, services to the Chinese community, Wellington. THE QUEEN'S SERVICES MEDAL (QSM) 2011
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New Zealand honors pillar of Chinese community
WELLINGTON, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government has honored a stalwart of the country's ethnic Chinese community in its annual New Year honors list for his services to maintaining a strong Chinese culture.
Robert Ting, 71, received the Queen's Service Medal on Saturday for his 50 years of work with many of the country's leading Chinese organizations.
Ting, whose grandparents emigrated from south China's Guangdong province in the early 1900s, told Xinhua the award symbolized the growing recognition of the contributions the Chinese community had made to New Zealand.
The Wellington resident was for 17 years treasurer of the Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre and for three years treasurer of the New Zealand Chinese Association, and for the last 10 years has been treasurer of the Tung Jung Association, which was founded in 1926 by Chinese who emigrated from the Tung Qwoon ( Dongguan) and Jungsen (Zengcheng) districts of Guangdong.
"I come from a family that was quite heavily involved in the Chinese community from the early 1900s. My grandfather was the founding president of the Tung Jung Association," Ting said in a phone interview.
Originally set up to maintain kinship ties and to help fellow Chinese in trying times, the association became a focus for many of New Zealand's early Chinese immigrants and has since evolved into an education and research institution to support Chinese language and culture and to help with research into family histories.
"The Tung Jung Association maintains all the Chinese cultural occasions and we always hold dinners to celebrate Qingming and the Chinese New Year as well as other traditional festivals," said the retired accountant.
"Unfortunately I don't speak Chinese myself my mother spoke English to us all the time at home, so I never learned."
Recent immigration from China had seen a growth in the use of the Mandarin dialect in New Zealand's burgeoning Chinese community and distinctions between the established Chinese and new arrivals, he said.
"My heritage is Cantonese and it has become increasingly difficult to keep the prevalence of Cantonese."
However, interest in New Zealand's early Chinese immigrants has grown since the previous Labour Party-led government under Prime Minister Helen Clark apologized in 2002 for historic injustices against the Chinese population, in particular the infamous poll tax.
The Chinese Immigrants Act of 1881 imposed a poll tax of 10 pounds a sizeable sum at the time -- on every Chinese entering the country, and this was raised to 100 pounds in 1896.
The discriminatory levy meant many Chinese men could not afford to bring their wives and families with them to New Zealand and it left many in long-term debt.
After petitions to the government, the poll tax was waived from 1934, but it was only officially repealed 10 years after that.
In a gesture of reconciliation in 2005, the New Zealand government established the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust with a grant of 5 million NZ dollars (3.88 million U.S. dollars) to promote the preservation of Chinese New Zealand history and to support Chinese New Zealand history, language and culture, particularly that of the early Chinese community.
The establishment of the fund marked a long awaited formal acknowledgement of the Chinese community's contribution to New Zealand, said Ting.
"The interest from the trust fund has been distributed to many worthy Chinese projects, such as books and other research."
Asked whether he considers himself predominantly a Chinese or a New Zealander, Ting replied: "A mixture of both I still like to keep my ties to the Chinese."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2011-12/31/c_131337207.htm
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NZ-born Chinese man keeps in touch with his cultural origins
He was born in Wellington, but Robert Ting was determined not to forget his Chinese roots.
Mr Ting, 71, of Newlands, has been involved in Wellington's Chinese community for more than 50 years.
This year he received a Queen's Service Medal for his efforts.
"A group of guys nominated me, behind my back of course, and it came out of the blue. I was quite happy to accept it but there are lots of other members of the community who don't seem to get recognised."
Mr Ting is treasurer of the Tung Jung Association, founded in 1926 by immigrants from Southern China. He is the honorary auditor for both the New Zealand and Wellington Chinese associations.
His grandfather came out to New Zealand in the goldrush days. It was a time when Chinese people were discriminated against, paying a "poll tax" to the government on the basis of their nationality.
From 1881 until 1944, Chinese entering New Zealand were legally required to pay the tax – initially 10 but eventually 100. No other nationalities had to pay the tax.
Chinese were also denied the right to naturalisation for more than 40 years.
In 2002, the prime minister at the time, Helen Clark, apologised to the Chinese community for the poll tax, which she said had caused a lot of hardship.
Mr Ting said a strong Chinese community had remained in Wellington since those early days. He was determined his children would not forget their roots, and remembered many years of happy involvement with the Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre. "We used to have a lot of fundraising evenings. I wasn't too adept at cooking, but I'd go along and help with the dishes, or put some decorations up." This is a series on lesser-known recipients of New Year honours.
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THE QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL (QSM)
Shin-Kee Chung, Christchurch For services to the community
George Sue, JP, Levin For services to the community
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Levin's George Sue has been added to the Kapiti Horowhenua Business Hall of Fame.
With a background in market gardening, combined with a strong community and charitable focus, Mr Sue was presented with his Hall of Fame Laureates award at the Electra Kapiti Horowhenua Business Awards in Levin on Friday night.
Paraparaumu's Coastlands shopping centre founder Bruce Mansell, who grew up in Levin, was also inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Mr Sue said he was "humbled" by the honour.
"I've lived in Levin for nearly 70 years and have had good times here and have been only too happy to contribute back to the community, in return for what it has given me," he said.
"You certainly don't expect anything for the things you do. It's just to help the area grow and move onwards.
"To me, this area is home and the place where we've brought up our family."
Born in Otaki in 1940, Mr Sue was schooled in Levin.
He said he felt he was not a student who could achieve academically and was more interested in land and animals, which led him to study horticulture.
He then had a long career in the market gardening industry, including starting his own vegetable growing business with his wife Shirley in 1967.
Mr Sue's background in business and community organisations includes roles as president of the Horowhenua Growers Association for 15 years, a member of the Horowhenua Kapiti Business Development Board for 13 years including four as chairman, and chairman of the JPs' Association.
Coastlands chairman of directors Bruce Mansell said it was an honour to get the induction and it was due to a "team effort" reflecting Coastlands' contribution to the community over the years.
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Member:
For achievement or service to the community, usually in a national role.
Jimmie Kay Yin Kan, Palmerston North, for services to the Chinese community.
QUEEN'S SERVICE ORDER
Recognises valuable voluntary service to the community or faithful service to the Crown or public sector. Usually awarded for service at a national level.
QUEEN'S SERVICE MEDAL
Same as above but usually awarded for service at a local or regional level.
Edward Wong, Auckland, for services to martial arts.
John Hin Chi Wong, Manukau, for services to the ethnic community.
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