Christmas Island DNA-Trying to erase prior S'pore ownership?
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Christmas Island DNA reveals its secrets
ABC Science Online
Monday, 16 May 2005
The inhabitants of multicultural Christmas Island originally came from southern China and Southeast Asia and have tended not to mate with people of European descent, new genetic research has found.
Molecular geneticist Dr Cheryl Wise, who was at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia at the time of the research, and colleagues report their study online in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
They say their findings may have implications when testing for inherited conditions more common in people from a particular ethnic background, like the blood disorder thalassaemia.
Wise and team studied DNA in blood samples from 100 people who were living on, or were born on, Christmas Island, the tiny Australian territory 360 kilometres south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
They studied differences and similarities in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), inherited from the mother, and Y chromosome variations, inherited from the father.
"Mostly Christmas Islanders have come from southern China and Southeast Asia like Malaysia and Thailand," says Wise, who is now at the Royal Perth Hospital.
The researchers found similar origins for both men and women.
Something old, something new
The findings confirm historical records of labourers recruited from China and Malaysia following the discovery of rich phosphate deposits on the island in the 19th century.
But the genetics study also tells the researchers something new: people of Christmas Island have generally kept to themselves and not bred with Europeans.
The 2002 census reports 61% of Christmas Island residents identified themselves as Chinese, 25% Malay and 14% European.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2005/1367237.htm
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Have the Aussies forgot that Chrismas Island people were Singaporeans?
Are they trying to erase that fact that they bought the island from Singapore on the cheap? ( 10 million pounds)
Give back to Singapore lah..... we can have air/naval base, real resort Casino, chilli crabs........ -
it WAS part of singapore..
so, harp on it like the idiots in japan, china, korea and whatever over the few islands?
get over it, move on...
it's Australian now... let them be... -
HmmmOriginally posted by the Bear:it WAS part of singapore..
so, harp on it like the idiots in japan, china, korea and whatever over the few islands?
get over it, move on...
it's Australian now... let them be...
Singapore also in the idiotic fight over some few island with Malaysia, China, Vietnam and Thailand. The thing is that, news of these island's fight did not get into the headlines of our news, so I'm not surprise that not many people knew about it.
Yeah, let's move on and let them be. -
if that is the case..........how about offering Singapore island to Australia for free...they can even have our $100 plus billions reserves........SEntosa however will remain independent because it's Harry's Island.......and our old man friend can retire there ........
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Originally posted by Dr Who:if that is the case..........how about offering Singapore island to Australia for free...they can even have our $100 plus billions reserves........SEntosa however will remain independent because it's Harry's Island.......and our old man friend can retire there ........
Harry Lee~
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shrewd harry would probably exchange this island for the whole of western australia.Originally posted by Dr Who:if that is the case..........how about offering Singapore island to Australia for free...they can even have our $100 plus billions reserves........SEntosa however will remain independent because it's Harry's Island.......and our old man friend can retire there ........ -
Of course cannot lah. Heard of the selling brain joke or not?Originally posted by vito_corleone:shrewd harry would probably exchange this island for the whole of western australia. -
Brilliant!Originally posted by Dr Who:if that is the case..........how about offering Singapore island to Australia for free...they can even have our $100 plus billions reserves........SEntosa however will remain independent because it's Harry's Island.......and our old man friend can retire there ........
Like that migration rate will drop drastically.
Hopefully I can dream of that scenario tonight...
I can imagine, the day of merger with Australia is the day of mega lawsuits against the "you-know-whos"...
So excited!
Going to sleep soon!
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well blame the gov for selling it then
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HarryOriginally posted by Dr Who:if that is the case..........how about offering Singapore island to Australia for free...they can even have our $100 plus billions reserves........SEntosa however will remain independent because it's Harry's Island.......and our old man friend can retire there ........ -
Strange thing
It was sold, that was decades ago, so what is the issue? -
people run out of things to blame the governmemt already...
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it didOriginally posted by Hogzilla:Hmmm
Singapore also in the idiotic fight over some few island with Malaysia, China, Vietnam and Thailand. The thing is that, news of these island's fight did not get into the headlines of our news, so I'm not surprise that not many people knew about it.
Yeah, let's move on and let them be.
who could forget pedra branca? or pulau batu putih for the malaysians..