Share Amanda Zhao’s family has left, after staying two weeks in Vancouver looking for bringing justice to the murder of their only daughter. They acknowledged that headway has been made in the case and are satisfied with the outcome of the trip. Jason Kenney, minister of state for multiculturalism and PM Harper’s right hand man, [...]
Share As promised, Yang Baoying has spoken up. Yang Baoying, Amanda Zhao’s mother, criticized foreign minister David Emerson for being insincere and arrogant in previous correspondence with the Zhao family. MLAs Jenny Kwan, Mike Farnworth and MP Bill Siksay held a press conference for Yang and Zhao Zisheng, the father, yesterday. Yang also swears that [...]
Share ———————– They are finally here in Vancouver. They are Yang Baoying, Zhao Zisheng and Li Junjun. They are the family of murdered Chinese student Amanda Zhao. They arrived at YVR yesterday after flying 20 hours Beijing-Hong Kong-Vancouver. The tickets were sponsored by CARE Society. Their visa application fees were sponsored by MLAs Jenny Kwan [...]
Share Vancouver Sun – The family of Amanda Zhao is planning to come to Canada next month to seek answers from government officials in her unsolved murder, opposition politicians say. Members of the provincial and federal NDP said at a news conference Thursday that after months of lobbying the federal government, Zhao’s elderly parents will [...]
Share Yang Baoying, mother of murdered Chinese student Amanda Zhao, finally got her visa to come to Canada! Minister of State for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney has agreed to meet with Yang and would arrange for her to meet with senior ministers. Yang confirmed with Ming Pao that herself, her husband and Amanda’s cousin Li Junjun [...]
Share CIV – Two NDP MLAs are paying for the visa application for Yang Baoying, mother of Chinese student Amanda Zhao murdered in BC 6 years ago, in a very low key way, Ming Pao reports. Yang has written a few times to the Canadian minister of justice, asking for action on bringing the suspected [...]
Share CIV – The Harper government is determined to bring closure for Yang Baoying, mother of murdered Chinese student Amanda Zhao, after PM Stephen Harper and his cabinet reached a “political consensus to examine what Canada can do to bring Zhao’s killer to justice,” according to a senior government source. After PM’s right hand man [...]
Share CIV – Yang Baoying, mother of murdered Chinese student Amanda Zhao, has submitted a formal written request — in English — to Canada’s minister of justice for a meeting in person. The email was sent last weekend by Li Junjun, Amanda’s cousin, in Beijing. Yang was worried that this request would eventually have the [...]
Share CIV – Jason Kenney, federal secretary of state for multiculturalism, has had private discussion with the minister of justice last week regarding the unresolved case of the murder of Amanda Zhao, Kenney’s director of communications Alykhan Velshi confirms. “In the New Year, Kenney, Nicholson and public safety minister Stockwell Day will discuss this further,” [...]
Share NDP MLAs Jenney Kwan and Mike Farnworth wrote a letter to the deputy commissioner of the RCMP demanding answers and/or actions on Amanda Zhao’s case. Looks like my extra effort of putting the story together in English is paying off :) Here’s a copy of the letter: 4 December 2007 Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass [...]
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