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Gillard announces trip to Indonesia to discuss asylum seekers with SBY
Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced she will travel to Indonesia next month for talks on how to stem the flow of asylum seekers travelling to Australia by boat. The visit follows a challenge by the Coalition in Question Time to go to Indonesia to discuss the issue, although the PM's office says the trip has been planned for some time. However, her plan to travel overseas ...
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NZ needs to keep up its commitment to Southeast Asia
New Zealand has been highly successful in engaging with Southeast Asia - but is competing with more countries for attention in the region, according to a new report from the Asia New Zealand Foundation.The report, "Mind the Gap: New Zealand and Regional Institutions in Southeast Asia" says new initiatives are needed to sustain New Zealand’s relationship with the region.Author Dr ...
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Julia Gillard to travel to Indonesia
Julia Gillard will travel to Indonesia next month to discuss ways of combating people-smuggling and terrorism.The prime minister will meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 5 July to discuss a number of political, security and commercial issues.The talks, which are part of the annual ...
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Pakistan to benefit fromChinese hybrid rice technology
BEIJING, China - Pakistan wants to benefit in the field of agriculture and particularly in enhancing rice production by employing Hybrid rice technology developed by an expert from Hunan province, said Pakistans Ambassador to China, Masood Khan. Pakistan largely benefited from the Hybrid rice seeds developed by Professor Yuan Long Ping, who is popularly known as Father of Hybrid Rice, said ...
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Turkish Government Wont Condemn Silent Protests
Turkey's deputy prime minister Bulent Arinc says he does not object to the silent anti-government protests that have sprung up across the ...
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Militants kill six Pakistani soldiers in attack on convoy
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A senior police official said militants attacked a military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weapons in northwest Pakistan, killing six soldiers.Shafiullah Khan says two soldiers were wounded in the attack Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar. Two vehicles were destroyed.Khan says the soldiers ...
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Why Asian greens are red-hot with gardeners
Dave Hames discovered tatsoi, an Asian salad green, on a trip to Hawaii a few years ago. Many of the vegetables at the farmer's markets he visited there were new to him. Southern Indiana, where he lives, doesn't offer a great variety of the foods of the world. But the taste of tatsoi inspired Hames: "I had one of those 'I can grow that' ...
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RPT-Australias Intrepid faces tough fight over Indonesia mine
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:00pm EDT By Sonali Paul and Fergus Jensen MELBOURNE/JAKARTA, June 19 (Reuters) - Australia's Intrepid Mines Ltd is learning that business in Indonesia is personal as it wages a difficult fight to win back rights to a $5 billion copper and gold prospect in East Java. Intrepid was booted off the site last year by its Indonesian partner who transferred the Tujuh Bukit mining ...
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Asian stocks mixed ahead of Fed announcement Nikkei rallies on exports
Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday ahead of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech later in the day. The U.S. Federal Reserve two-day meeting ends today and investors are looking for clues on the outlook for ...
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Asian stocks advance ahead of this week`s Federal Reserve meeting
Asian stocks advanced with the start of the week, ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve two-day meeting that covenes on Tuesday. Market participants will focus on this meeting as it might show the direction of the central bank stimulus ...
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Filipino chef making waves in Singapore–for Japanese food
Duo of Tomato My culinary experience in Singapore was so great that I don't even know where to start. Imagine: Sakizuke (appetizer) made of tofu skins from Kyoto topped with uni from Hokkaido, capped with freshly grated wasabi from Shizuoka near Japan's Mt. Fuji; Chlorophyll, a vegetable dish as satisfying as a tender juicy steak; Mazusoba, a dry ramen with noodles that are ...
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Royal Bangkok in St. Paul serves good food at great prices
Royal Bangkok is hidden in the back of a building full of mostly empty storefronts in a mall of sorts on St. Paul's University Avenue. It looks closed, but numerous signs assured us that it was "Open for Business!" and "Now Open!" We pressed on, and we were glad we did. Royal Bangkok, which replaced Bangkok Thai Deli after it moved into a former Burger King next door, ...
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Pakistan election-monitoring group pulls back on some claims
A Pakistani election-monitoring group has backpedalled on some claims it made of voting irregularities in the aftermath of the country's May 11 ...
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Report Immigration Reform Would Boost US Economy Finances
CAPITOL HILL -- A congressional report estimates that reforming America's immigration system and legalizing 11 million undocumented immigrants would boost U.S. economic growth and shrink the federal deficit. The report was seized upon by senators debating an overhaul to federal immigration laws. Legalizing millions of unauthorized immigrants would have an almost entirely positive effect ...
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Malaria Risk Spikes for Worlds Poorest Children
LONDON -- The poorest children in the world's most impoverished communities are twice as likely to contract malaria as the least poor, according to ...
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Bangladeshs pioneering bank faces increasingly foggy future
DHAKA -- Bangladesh's pioneering microlender faces an uncertain future after a commission proposed the government take over or break up the Nobel-award-winning bank, analysts said ...
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Malaysias 1MDB plans US$1 bil. initial public offering Dow Jones
KUALA LUMPUR -- Sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd plans to raise about US$1 billion through a public listing of its power assets in Malaysia next year, Dow Jones Newswires has ...
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Tournament sells parking assets
In Auckland, Wilson operates carparks in 59 buildings. Photo / APN Many of the carparking assets of New Zealand-owned and operated Tournament Parking have been sold to Southeast Asia's biggest player Wilson Parking. But Tournament's owners will keep their properties. James Brown, who established Tournament with Simon Roundtree 14 years ago, yesterday confirmed the deal. ...
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Pakistani girl killed in Kashmir border firing officials
An Indian army soldier looks towards the Pakistani side on the Indian side of Line of Control (LOC) near Kaman post on October 9, 2008. A Pakistani girl was killed Wednesday when Indian troops opened fire across the de facto border that divides disputed Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals, officials ...
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Brazil protests proceed as smaller cities join the fray
1 of 6. Members of the Brazilian law enforcement troops confront protestors ahead of the Confederations Cup soccer match between Brazil and Mexico outside the stadium of Fortaleza June 19, ...
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Pakistani Bishops Decry Discrimination in Textbooks
Curriculums Continue Despite Ongoing Appeals to Foster PeaceBy StaffROME, May 30, 2013 (Zenit.org) - The Pakistani bishops are reiterating an appeal to their government to form young people in a mentality of justice and peace and remove religious discrimination from textbooks.According to the Fides agency, the episcopal conference's Justice and Peace Commission submitted a report on ...
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Gabon nets US$1.7bn Singaporean investments
Gabonese authorities have managed to secure investments worth a total of US$ 1.7 billion from Singapore, including a new fertilizer plant to be set up outside Port Gentil and palm oil ...
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Thailand cuts rice subsidy price after $4.4B loss
BANGKOK -- Thailand will pay farmers 20 percent less for rice to stem losses from a much-criticized subsidy program that dislodged the country from its spot as the world's No. 1 exporter of the grain, a government minister said Wednesday.Cabinet minister Warathep Rattanakorn said the government will pay 12,000 baht ($389) per ton of rice, compared to the current price of 15,000 baht ...
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Singapores air turns hazardous as Indonesian fires rage
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's air quality deteriorated to "hazardous" levels late on Wednesday as smoke from slash-and-burn land clearing in Indonesia enveloped the city-state, inflaming tensions between the Southeast Asian ...
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Southeast Asia growth accelerated via robust demand
KUCHING: Southeast Asia as a whole achieved a high economic growth rate of 5.3 per cent in 2012, up from 4.5 per cent in 2011, despite weakening external demand.According to the United Nation's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific's (UNESCAP) Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2013, growth was driven by buoyant domestic demand backed by supportive ...
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Foreign couple's novel approach to helping Burmese village
The political situation in Myanmar is well-known throughout the world, but often overshadows the circumstances of local people and our rich culture. A couple overseas have combined the two to create an unusual approach to helping the people of one village in the country.
Myanmar is one of the most politically and socially isolated countries in the world, much bad press is leveled at our country for decisions made and actions taken that the people are not responsible for and while attention focuses on the political dynamic of the country, the plight of many Burmese such as poverty, lack of access to water and education, become overshadowed. One family in the United States has taken a novel approach to giving back to a country that has stolen their hearts. Read more
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