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Flight Centres MD one of Australias wealthiest
spot in the industries category, falling behind investment and the services sectors. Check out the table below to see who made it as Australia’s top five most wealthiest people last ...
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US expecting strong bookings from China
Increasingly strong bookings from China to the United States have been forecast through the third quarter of 2013, according to a new study. For the first quarter of the year 81 percent of tour operators surveyed projected an increase in bookings from China to the US, according to the Travel Market Insights Travel Trade Barometer. Second quarter estimates were even higher, with 87 percent ...
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Nutritious meals sicken 500 in NW China schools
/enpproperty--> XINING - A total of 548 students fell ill after consuming milk and biscuits in schools in Northwest China's Qinghai province on Wednesday, local authorities said. The food poisoning incident involved primary and middle school pupils in seven townships in Hui-Tu autonomous county of Datong, and about a dozen of them were in serious condition, said a statement from the ...
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Japan is integral to the future of Asia PM Lee Hsien Loong
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Japan is integral to the future of Asia and called on Japan to deepen its strategic engagement with Southeast Asia and the wider ...
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Chinas premier offers to help end Pakistan energy crisis
China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the economy to a near standstill. Li arrived in the Pakistan capital under extra-tight security on Wednesday on the second leg of his first official trip since taking office in March and ...
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Philippines to send probe team to Taiwan
Taipei has approved Manila's request to send investigators to Taiwan to examine evidence and interview witnesses to the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards. But Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Wednesday declined to tell reporters when a team from the National Bureau of Investigation would leave for Taiwan. "It will be very soon but we don't ...
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Ford closure Timeline of the car-makers history in Australia
Geelong 3220 Following the announcement that Ford will be shutting its Broadmeadows and Geelong plants in 2016, we look back over the car maker's production ...
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Ford Australia to close Broadmeadows and Geelong plants 1200 jobs to go
Australia Ford Australia says it will close its Australian manufacturing plants in October 2016, with the loss of hundreds of jobs.Ford president Bob Graziano said approximately 1,200 workers would lose their jobs when the Broadmeadows and Geelong plants were shut down.He made the announcement in Melbourne this morning after announcing that the company had lost $141 million over the last ...
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Li moots China-Pak eco corridor
Li Keqiang on Wednesday linked growth in his country's restive west with that in sluggish Pakistan, saying the two sides wanted to create an "economic corridor" to boost development. Li, on his first overseas trip since taking over in a once-in-a-decade power transfer in Beijing, congratulated Pakistan on its recent general election and hailed the countries' long-standing ...
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Hong Kong stocks drop before China factory data
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks dropped early Thursday as concerns that the Federal Reserve was considering winding down its bond purchases weighed on sentiment, with investors also cautious ahead of a preliminary reading on Chinese manufacturing activity in May. The Hang Seng ...
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Six Thunder jets escort Premier Li Keqiangs plane in Pakistan
Six JF-17 Thunder jets of the Pakistan Air Force escorted Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's aircraft when it entered Pakistani airspace on Wednesday at the start of his two-day visit. The JF-17s, developed and built jointly by China and Pakistan, guided the special Air China Boeing 747 aircraft to Nur Khan airbase, according to media ...
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North Korean soldiers have fun during downtime
A saluting soldier flashes a smile in a field.(Photo:Agencies) Laughing and joking, stroking stray dogs and relaxing at a fun fair, these are members of North Korea's People's Army as you've never seen them before. The soldiers from the nation show their softer, more human side in these new images from French photographer Eric Lafforgue, 47. Mr Lafforgue took the snaps during ...
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DPRK account closed by Bank of China report
Bank of China has closed the account of the main foreign exchange bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which was hit with US sanctions in March after Washington accused it of helping finance Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. The state-run Foreign Trade Bank had been told of the closure and that its transactions had been halted, Bank of China, the country's ...
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UN human rights council appoints members of inquiry commission on DPRK
GENEVA, May 7 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Human Rights Council announced Tuesday the appointment of two more members of the commission of inquiry to investigate human rights violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Former Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Donald Kirby will serve as chair of the three-person commission, and the other member appointed ...
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Press Digest - China - May 23
Wed May 22, 2013 9:34pm EDT May 23 (Reuters) - Chinese newspapers available in Beijing and Shanghai carried the following stories on Thursday. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. CHINA SECURITIES JOURNAL -- Combined profits at China's state-owned enterprises rose 5.3 percent to 689 billion yuan ($112.38 billion) in the first four months of 2013 from a ...
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Revision of Mental Illness Guide Stirs Debate
A long-anticipated revision of an official diagnostic guide to mental illness, known as the DSM-5, was released this week. While the new manual is being welcomed by some doctors as reflecting advancements in the understanding and diagnosis of mental disorders, critics say its definitions of psychiatric conditions are based too much on symptoms and too little on the biological causes of mental ...
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RPT-Ford to close Australia auto plants
Wed May 22, 2013 9:14pm EDT SYDNEY May 23 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said on Thursday it is closing its two Australian auto plants and will cease production in the country in October 2016. Ford Australia Chief Executive Bob Graziano said the company will close its engine plant in Geelong and its assembly plant in Broadmeadows, both in the state of Victoria. The car manufacturer has struggled with ...
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Elusive pandas caught on camera in China habitat
A giant panda in the Wang Lang Natural Reserve in Sichuan province, was captured by a camera trap set up by the World Wildlife Fund and its local partners as part of an effort to obtain footage of endangered species in ...
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Legal Experts Debate U.S. Retailers Risks of Signing Bangladesh Accord
American retailers remain sharply opposed to joining an international plan to improve safety conditions at garment factories in Bangladesh as their European counterparts and consumer and labor groups dismiss the ...
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Drewry Trans-Pacific Rate Benchmark Strengthens
Drewry's Hong Kong-Los Angeles Container Rate Benchmark rose $250 this week, achieving almost 63 percent of a proposed $400 per-40-foot-container general rate increase by USL and CMA CGM set for May ...
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2 mini-spider species found in SW China
Two new minute spider species with oversized rumps have been discovered in southwest China, according to a new study published in the open access journal ...
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Hong Kong shares may start weaker ahead of China flash PMI
HONG KONG | Wed May 22, 2013 9:05pm EDT HONG KONG May 23 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares could start weaker on Thursday, tracking Wall Street losses and ahead of the HSBC China flash purchasing managers' index for May that could offer fresh clues on the world's second-largest economy. Lenovo is due to post quarterly earnings later in the day, while Sinopec Engineering is due to ...
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US China can jointly tackle global challenges
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - US and China can cooperate more to resolve a range of challenges to advance global economic recovery, said Tung Chee Hwa, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's political advisory body, here Wednesday. Over the past few decades, the economic relationship between the United ...
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China-Pakistan bond unbreakable premier
The relationship between China and Pakistan is unbreakable, and the two neighbors are intent on deepening their strategic cooperation, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here ...
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Building construction gives way to birds in C. China
Prospective residents of a building that is under construction in central China's Henan Province will have to wait to move in because of some strange intruders at the construction site == ...
Fiji Feature
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Fiji needs to focus more on needs of the poor
Fiji is facing a major problem with informal housing or ‘squatter colonies’, especially on the outskirts of major cities such as Savu, which draw people in with the promise of jobs and prosperity. An ongoing effort by government to provide affordable housing for low-income earners is hampered by mismanagement, a lack of funds and the reluctance to evict non-payers from their homes.
Fiji is one of the more developed countries of the South Pacific island nations, but a large proportion of the population remain in poverty and exist through subsistence means rather than through formal integration with the national economy. Read more
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