Australia’s top Chinese websites

29 Jun 2007 · Posted in Computers & Internet, Mathematics, Travel & Culture 

I was quite amazed that Alexa’s list of the top 100 most popular websites in Australia includes several Chinese ones:

34th place: 6park.com: 最热门的海外中文网络社区和门户网站(Oversea Chinese Community)

42nd: Baidu.com: The leading Chinese language search engine

48th: 腾讯网(www.qq.com): 中国最好的门户资讯网站，QQ.COM，新生活，我主张

53rd: 新浪新闻中心 (sina.com): 包括即日的国内外不同类型的新闻与评论，人物专题，图库。

80th: Sohu.com Inc.: Produces Chinese language Internet portal and internet communities

But it was not that surprising after reading Australia’s 2006 Census results, which were released yesterday:

Britain continues to provide the most overseas-born residents, but the number of Chinese and Indian migrants has doubled since 1996.

There are now 206,600 Chinese-born people living in Australia, and 147,100 Indians. Chinese is now the most common foreign language spoken at home, followed by Italian and Greek.

Wow. When I was a kid (living in Australia), the only foreigners we ever saw were the newly arrived Italians and Greeks. Very occasionally we would see an Asian who was studying in Australia as part of the Colombo Plan.

Now, the fastest growing migrant population groups are the Chinese and Indians. The dark days of the White Australia Policy are well and truly over.

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