'chan' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an informal term used primarily in Japanese, usually to refer to someone close to the speaker, such as a friend or a child. Example sentence: "Hey Chan, did you finish your homework?".
The one exception was Abbott's remark when he urged Indonesia to "reciprocate" for Australian aid by sparing the lives of Chan and Sukumaran.
"Now is a time to be thinking of the Chan and Sukumaran families, to spare a thought for what they are going through today and to provide them with all the support and assistance that we can".
Moving the other way, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are fully fledged crossover stars; Chan appearing recently in a Chinese-American co-production, 2010's Karate Kid, alongside Will Smith's son Jaden.
Before being executed on Wednesday Chan and Sukumaran called for a campaign to abolish the death penalty across the world.
Early in 2006, Chan and Sukumaran – as the convicted ringleaders – were sentenced to death.
Julian McMahon, the Australian lawyer for Chan and Sukumaran, told Guardian Australia that while the eventual decision would not be retrospective "nevertheless there can be no doubt that a favourable ruling from the constitutional court should be of great significance on the question of whether these 10 prisoners should be executed".
The game was called Kato-chan & Ken-chan – a cheerful platform game in the vein of Super Mario Land, except the lead characters urinated, farted and defecated throughout each level.
Kato-chan & Ken-chan was one of many imported, inexplicable Japanese titles I encountered while working in a games shop in the early 90s.
Soong Chan-Rah, a Korean-American pastor and professor of evangelism at Chicago's North Park seminary, says the rise in multicultural evangelical churches coincides with a decline in the numbers of traditional white evangelicals, and that the newer kind practise a form of evangelical Christianity distinct from the "white, middle-class and Southern" version.
Prayuth Chan-ocha, the general who heads Thailand's governing National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), warned employers to stop using unregistered workers, and has repeatedly expressed a desire to regulate more strictly Thailand's labour market.
The junta has even banned a computer game, Tropico 5, in which players set up their own military dictatorship in a fictional paradise where sunny beaches and political corruption "coexist in perfect harmony .The coup leader, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, and his fellow soldiers have been busy putting up a façade that bespeaks legitimacy.
