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Judo Fed choose four to battle for medals
... ed for the first time in Cambodia in 2006, which saw participation from all other ASEAN nations except Brunei and East Timor. The three men heading to the SEA Games won golds in different categories at this year's national championships. Comment?
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Uganda: Population Soars to 33 Million
UGANDA'S population is soon clocking 33 million people and the country will hit over 90 million people in the next 40 years. Comment?
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Thailand seeks U.S. help battling insurgents
... who is laying the land mines." Gen. Pichet is the 4th Army regional commander. He also commanded Thai troops in East Timor in 2000. He said his superiors had asked the U.S. for satellite reconnaissance assistance but that nothing had been arranged ... Comment?
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"Too little is being done to address impunity"
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... protection. Bennett has served with the United Nations in senior human rights posts in complex operations in East Timor and Sierra Leone since 2000. He has also worked for many years with the New Zealand Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of ... Comment?
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Nov. 30 Distinguished Lecture in International Justice and Human...
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... the Massachusetts Appeals Court and former chief international judge on the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor. The Distinguished Lecture in International Justice and Human Rights is part of the Social Justice Leadership Series and is ... Comment?
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Israel could annex more of West Bank: Minister
... as Israel's founders in 1947 and simply seek UN support for a resolution calling for statehood, which is what East Timor did to become the first new state of the 21st century in 2002. Or they might declare independence without going to the UN as ... Comment?
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Argument over pipeline clouds Timor gas deal
EAST Timor has warned it will abandon a multibillion-dollar deal with Australia to exploit natural gas fields in the Timor Sea unless a pipeline is built to deliver the bounty directly to the impoverished nation. Comment?
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On Native GroundPETER Galbraith Pays the Price for Telling the Truth About Afghan Elections
... and U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, is no foreign policy neophyte. He worked for the U.N. in East Timor in 2000-2001 and as the U.S. ambassador to Croatia from 1993 to 1998. He is close to Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy ... Comment?
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... STUDIO - the power o more... Balibo [Wed 25/11/2009 03:36:34] As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian-based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East ... Comment?
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... Church by the pro-Indonesia militia. This shot was described by the Walkley judges as the definitive image of the East Timor crisis. Picture: Rob Maccoll / Courtesy of the Nikon Walkley Press Photography Awards The winners of the 2009 Nikon Walkley ... Comment?
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Shakira's 'She Wolf' sheds kitschy trappings for shiny electro-pop
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... title track. Shakira edited the lyrics to fit the new club milieu. You'll find no songs about the politics of East Timor (as she indulged on her last CD). Instead we get improbable complaints like "Men in This Town," in which our heroine trolls the ... Comment?
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Gym owners' ire grows as wait for answer goes on
... establish the annual costs of the various components. Cr David Stewart,A chairing TCAL while Warren Banks was in East Timor as a United Nations military observer, said the changeover of management had created some problems. Cr Stewart said the ... Comment?
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Wideform's rise as major industry force
... employees across Wollongong, Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane, North Queensland, South Australia and now East Timor. According to its website, it provides indirect employment for more than 4000 contractors. The company has five divisions: ... Comment?
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Peter Galbraith's $100M Oil Patch
... in the summer of 1995. And then, in 1999-2000, he took charge of the economic issues in the reconstruction of East Timor, after that small country was half destroyed by the wanton looting and violence of the Indonesian-backed militia, following its ... Comment?
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... bullets along the way. His Kabul hotel was blown apart an hour after he left, he went three days without food in East Timor - until he paid several hundred dollars for some bananas - and in Nauru his flight was cancelled eight times, keeping him ... Comment?
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Future of Wideform Group in question
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... top 500 privately owned companies in Australia. The company has also pioneered Australian private investment in East Timor. For full coverage see Tuesday's Mercury comments Comment Fred Ferreira's Wideform Group has regularly been listed in BRW ... Comment?
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Follows the personal journey of 28-year-old Chris as he adjusts to civilian life after serving in the army for 11 years with the elite special forces in East Timor. Comment?
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IOC sets out to reconnect young people to virtues of sport
... threads that ties together the fabric of society. Nobel Prize laureate Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta, the president of East Timor, offered his own view of the meaning of sport to youth. "I firmly believe that youth are the personification of the unique ... Comment?
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U.S. Taps Tough Critic for U.N. Council
... , ineffective or all of the above," she wrote. She cited the response in Rwanda in 1994, in Kosovo in 1999 and in East Timor the same year. In an argument that would surely make a slew of U.N. members cringe, Comment?
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New diplomat to be installed in Kabul
... Government's promised crackdown on corruption. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Saturday announced that former East Timor ambassador Paul Foley would replace the current ambassador to Afghanistan Martin Quinn, who will end his 21-month term next ... Comment?
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