Friday, January 30, 2009

Australia Immigration News

Asian immigration growing fast in Australia: census

SYDNEY (AFP) — Australia's Asian population is growing rapidly as more immigrants from across the region pour into a country once despised for its racially exclusive policies, official statistics showed Thursday.

China and India provided increasing numbers of immigrants, while traditional sources of new arrivals in the so-called "Lucky Country" -- such as Britain and Italy -- suffered a decline, a review of the latest census revealed.
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Apart from China and India, countries providing increasing numbers of immigrants included Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and South Africa.
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1 comment:

CHRIS ONG said...

it's no surprise at the rate things are going in m'sia, why people are flocking out. Most see no future in the government of the place, but we still love malaysia, its people and all it used to stand for. Things may shift, u never know...