"For people who are under 25, it is the golden age to start

SYDNEY Bert Blyleven Jersey , Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A statue of the explorer Captain James Cook - credited with the discovery of Australia in 1770 - has caused racial tension in city of Sydney on Thursday, with calls for it to be removed from where it currently stands in Hyde Park, along with other statues of historical figures.


In an analysis in local media, prominent indigenous Australian Stan Grant - also a well-respected worldwide media personality - drew a parallel earlier in the week between the current tensions surrounding Confederate statues in the United States, and the statue of Cook in Sydney, and said Cook's statue emblazoned with the words "discovered this territory in 1770" perpetuates a "damaging myth".


"A belief in the superiority of white Christendom that devastated indigenous peoples everywhere," Grant said.


According to Cook's journals on April 23, 1770, he first encountered indigenous people on the eastern coastline as he made his way on his ship, the HMS Endeavour, towards where he would eventually make landfall six days later at what he named Botany Bay.


Cook was later killed in Hawaii in 1779, after he made an attempt to kidnap, and ransom the King Kalani'opu'u - an attempt that failed, with Cook being savagely beaten to death, according to the records of his surviving crew.


As the direct evidence from Cook, and all scientific and otherwise evidence firmly refutes any notion that Cook discovered what is now known as Australia, many are calling for the statue to be torn down, along with those of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and Governor Arthur Phillip - who was the head of the First Fleet that arrived in Australia in 1788.


The Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore referred the matter of the statues for advisement to the indigenous advisory panel of her council, and said that she will take their "advice on how Sydney can most effectively play a role in progressing equality and redress past injustices".


"There have been too many people in mainstream Australia ready to make judgment on these issues without consulting indigenous communities, and whether well-meaning or not, it's often done more harm than good," Moore said.


However, there has been severe backlash on some fronts over any plans to tear down the statues, and prominent indigenous Australian leader, and former national president of the Australian Labor Party, Warren Mundine, said on Thursday that instead of tearing down statues - statues of indigenous Australians should be erected.


"All this nonsense about changing things - we cannot look back at history without modern minds otherwise we would have to tear down the pyramids because they were built by slaves," Mundine said.


"In Australia the problem is an absence of memorials, we need more about our own people, our indigenous people."


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Liu Xianran (third left), Tsinghua University graduate and 22-year-old business owner, takes a group photo with his team. Liu is one of China’s younger generation looking to make fortunes from the booming Internet industry. WANG ZHUANGFEI CHINA DAILY

Young Chinese entrepreneurs are tapping opportunities from the Internet to realize their world-changing dreams, reports Peng Yining in Beijing.


When China was first connected to the Internet in 1994, Liu Xianran was 2.


At the age of 8, Liu had his first computer and was fascinated with cyberspace as he played computer games.


Now the 22-year-old wants to earn his first pot of gold in China's booming Internet business and, maybe, change the world.


When Liu, who majored in chemical engineering, graduated recently from the elite Tsinghua University, he gave up offers of well-paid jobs from consulting firms and developed an education smartphone application with his schoolmates in a rented apartment in Beijing.


"If I took the offers, I would be earning more than a million yuan annually in five years. But my dream is bigger than being a millionaire," Liu said.


"I want to make our world a better place by doing what I am interested in and make a fortune."


The Internet has given Chinese in their 20s like Liu great opportunities to start their own business and strike it rich, said Zhang Yichi, professor at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University and director of the school's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.


Thanks to the Internet, there are fewer upfront costs for young business owners, Zhang said.


Unlike traditional industries, Internet companies can build websites, host conference calls and launch online marketing campaigns, all on a shoestring budget.


Open-source software can also reduce or eliminate the need for consultants and tech support.


"For people who are under 25, it is the golden age to start their own business," Zhang said.


"They have the opportunity and character that other generations don't have."


It cost Liu less than 100,000 yuan to found his first company. Most of the money was spent on renting the two-bedroom apartment where Liu and his team live and work.


The sole female team member takes up one bedroom while Liu and three other men take the other one. Two of the men use a bunk bed and the 22-year-old CEO shares a double bed with another member.


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