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Selasa, 8 November 2011

Oceania -| Indonesian commandos 'terrorise' villagers in fresh West Papua ...

Indonesian commandos 'terrorise' villagers in fresh West Papua ...: This comes after a series of violent events across Papua in recent months, and just hours before a horrific attack on a student in nearby Wamena town, when Yusuf Hiluka, 23, was set alight with glue by two officers from Satpol PP (Satuan ...

New Zealand -| Anti-poverty plan gives working parents' benefit to jobless

Anti-poverty plan gives working parents' benefit to jobless: Depending on which measure is used, between 170000 and 270000 children in New Zealand live in poverty, says Labour. The extension of the tax credit would cost almost $400 million over the first four years but would be phased in over three stages and ...

New Zealand -| Key facts about New Zealand children

Key facts about New Zealand children: New Zealand sits at the bottom of the OECD for its rankings on child wellbeing and our investment in children is also among the lowest. The first 1000 days/ 3 years of a child's life are when the most important physical, mental and social development ...

New Zealand -| NZ enters second week of election campaign

NZ enters second week of election campaign: Deputy leader Annette King said Labour would set in law an official poverty measure, unprecedented in New Zealand, provide free 24/7 access to primary health care for all children under six and extend paid parental leave from 14 weeks to 26 weeks. ...

New Zealand -| Mixed reactions to Labour's welfare policy

Mixed reactions to Labour's welfare policy:
It's thought around 23000 New Zealand children are living in poverty – three years ago Prime Minister John Key promised to tackle the cycle of welfare dependency and abuse. He commented today on Labour's policy to extend Working for Families to ...


3News NZ

Borneo -| Brunei to gain from energy summit

Brunei to gain from energy summit: Brunei stands to benefit greatly from its participation at the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW 2011), said the top officials of Brunei on Monday. ...

Borneo -| Brunei Darussalam's National Security Strategy

Brunei Darussalam's National Security Strategy

Brunei, a small Islamic country with a predominantly Malay population, has been ruled by the same family for over 600 years. However, there is a real concern that Brunei's dependence on energy wealth could undermine the regime's ability to sustain ...

Indonesia -| Bank Internasional Set to Use Rp 2.5t Bond Issue for Lending

Bank Internasional Set to Use Rp 2.5t Bond Issue for Lending: The Jakarta-based lender will offer the seven-year bonds to investors from Dec. 6-8 with a planned listing on Dec. 14, it said in a brief prospectus published in Investor Daily on Monday. Proceeds from the debt sale will be used to increase lending in ...

Indonesia -| Total Unemployment in Jakarta Declining

Total Unemployment in Jakarta Declining:
Jakarta Provincial Government has conducted various efforts to reduce total unemployment by holds several events such as job fair, employee training and so on. As a result, from Jakarta Statistical Center Agency (BPS) mentioned that total of Jakarta ...


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Indonesia -| Building a Home for the Less Fortunate

Building a Home for the Less Fortunate:
“There's widespread poverty in Indonesia,” Engeline said. “But we need to identify those who not only need homes but who are also ready to work for them with us.” First, an HFH team surveys an area and works with village leaders to identify the ...


Jakarta Globe

Indonesia -| Centurion Reports Initial Drill Results From its Badak Property Northern ...

Centurion Reports Initial Drill Results From its Badak Property Northern ...

Samples to be assayed will remain under the control of Centurion personnel until shipped or delivered to Intertek Testing and Inspection Services preparation laboratory in the city of Medan, North Sumatra that is responsible for pulverization of the ...

Indonesia -| Norwegian company wins tender to build Belawan LNG terminal

Norwegian company wins tender to build Belawan LNG terminal: State gas distributor PT PGN has appointed Norway-based Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Höegh to build the Belawan floating storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU) in North Sumatra . Deputy Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Widjajono Partowidagdo told ...

Indonesia -| 8 Sick Cows Seized

8 Sick Cows Seized:
Jakarta Marine and Agriculture Department seized 8 unfeasible cows for consumption. The seizure was conducted during the examination of qurban cattle slaughtering in West Jakarta and North Jakarta on Sunday (11/6). The cows were seized because they got ...


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Indonesia -| Murdered student may have had tragic past

Murdered student may have had tragic past: Police in South Jakarta are still investigating the death of a 17-year-old high school student who was allegedly killed at a night club in Kemang, South Jakarta, on early Saturday. South Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Imam Sugianto said that police ...

Indonesia -| Indonesia's Economy Expands 6.50% in Third Quarter on Spending, Investment

Indonesia's Economy Expands 6.50% in Third Quarter on Spending, Investment

By Novrida Manurung and Widya Utami - People commute to work using motorcycles in Jakarta, Indonesia. The world's fourth-most populous nation relies on consumption more than some of its neighbors, making it less vulnerable ...

Indonesia -| Indonesia's economy grows driven by high consumption

Indonesia's economy grows driven by high consumption:
The BBC's Karishma Vaswani reports from Jakarta on why Indonesia has been one of Asia's best performing economies in recent years and on fears that rising food prices could derail growth. Indonesia's economy continued to grow rapidly - despite a weak ...


BBC News

Indonesia -| Garuda working hard to rebuild reputation with Australians

Garuda working hard to rebuild reputation with Australians

"Rebuilding the brand is even more difficult than building a brand," Mr Satar told journalists in Jakarta recently. Flight attendant trainee Motoku Fukuoka of Japan listens during a class at the Garuda Indonesia Training Centre. ...

Australia -| Australian sporting, cultural and entertainment heavyweights head to support ...

Australian sporting, cultural and entertainment heavyweights head to support ...: A who's who of Australian sporting, cultural and entertainment are heading to St Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean to support the Gold Coast city's bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The headline acts will be Indigenous Australian R&B singer ...

Australia -| Australian sporting, cultural and entertainment heavyweights head to support ...

Australian sporting, cultural and entertainment heavyweights head to support ...: The headline acts will be Indigenous Australian R&B singer Jessica Mauboy who will perform a number of her chart topping songs, and dancers from the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park providing distinctly Australian entertainment at the Bid ceremony ...

Australia -| Remote work strategy slammed

Remote work strategy slammed

"Closer co-operation and improved communication would result in training linked to real jobs and not just 'training for training's sake', which has been evident for many programs, particularly programs for indigenous Australians, where graduates have a ...

Australia -| Australia defends involvement in Cambodian railway project

Australia defends involvement in Cambodian railway project: So through infrastructure connectivity, economic development that will increase the growth rates in Cambodia, help reduce poverty rates and give opportunities for individual Cambodians. COCHRANE: In the course of this project, Australia has made ...

Australia -| Report of Bali boy deal could damage case

Report of Bali boy deal could damage case: We have warned them that in Australia, such thing would be a crime. We are not allowed to gain any benefit from any criminal case." The Year 9 student is facing three charges after allegedly being caught with 3.6 grams of cannabis when police swooped ...

Australia -| Money launderers pose national threat

Money launderers pose national threat: James Freis Jr heads the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in the US and told the conference that an estimated $2 trillion, or 3.6 per cent of global gross domestic product in 2009, originated from drug trafficking and other organised crime. ...

Australia -| No more intervention, say NT Aboriginal elders

No more intervention, say NT Aboriginal elders:
We as Aboriginal people call on the international community to hold Australia to account for its continuing crimes against humanity for its treatments of its first nation's people. Again, we say to our visits by the minister's department; ...


Green Left Weekly

Australia -| New study to reduce ear disease

New study to reduce ear disease: Among Aboriginal children living in remote communities in the Northern Territory the incidence is about 20 per cent, about 200 times more prevalent than for other Australians. Across the country, about 45 per cent of all Aboriginal children suffer from ...

Isnin, 7 November 2011

Bahasa Melayu -| Program KB Kendalikan Penduduk Turunkan Angka Kemiskinan

Program KB Kendalikan Penduduk Turunkan Angka Kemiskinan: KALAUPUN Total Fertility Rate (TFR) secara menyeluruh saat ini sudah bisa diturunkan, namun persoalan bukan saja pada tingkat kesuburan secara alami. ...

Bahasa Melayu -| A.N.D.R.A.G.O.G.I: SAKIT MENTAL bermula sejak kecil

A.N.D.R.A.G.O.G.I: SAKIT MENTAL bermula sejak kecil: Katanya, kebanyakan pesakit mental di negara ini tidak menyedari mereka menghidapi penyakit itu sejak kecil dan keadaan menjadi lebih teruk sehingga ...

New Zealand -| Parties urged to address poverty

Parties urged to address poverty: Social service providers are warning that poor young people are becoming angry and despairing as poverty in New Zealand gets worse. They are urging political parties and voters to put poverty at the top of the agenda during the election campaign. ...

Oceania -| Papua Tension Could Worsen as Corporations Move in, Activists Warn

Papua Tension Could Worsen as Corporations Move in, Activists Warn:
Papuan Amungme tribesmen armed with traditional bows and arrows stand guard before the strikers' road blockade at the US Freeport-McMoran gold and copper mine on Friday. (EPA Photo) The presence of large firms in Papua alongside Freeport could ...


Jakarta Globe

Oceania -| Police to let KPK probe funds received from Freeport

Police to let KPK probe funds received from Freeport: The National Police said Sunday it will allow the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to scrutinize police officers regarding funds they may have received from mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia to guard the company area in Papua. ...

Oceania -| Police have no comment on Komnas HAM Papua finding

Police have no comment on Komnas HAM Papua finding: Saud Usman Nasution refused to provide commentary regarding the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) latest finding that there had been serious violations during the Papuan People congress crackdown in Abepura, which claimed the lives of ...

Oceania -| Papua: One Simple Step to take - International Crisis Group

Papua: One Simple Step to take - International Crisis Group: If President Yudhoyono is looking for one simple step that could change the ugly political dynamic in Papua, he should announce that police will stop using live ...

Borneo -| Talks on energy efficiency in Brunei building

Talks on energy efficiency in Brunei building:
During the courtesy call on the Japanese Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam. - PHOTO COURTESY JAPAN EMBASSY On November 4, four Japanese experts from the Energy Conservation Centre of Japan (ECCJ) and Hokuriku Electric Power Company paid a courtesy call ...


Borneo Bulletin

Borneo -| The fight for Borneo's soul

The fight for Borneo's soul: The issue is not simply about the local communities depending on ancestral lands and forests to live, but about deforestation and wildlife habitat destruction - a struggle for Borneo's soul. The third-largest island in the world, made up of Malaysia's ...

Australia -| Rudd talks up aid success

Rudd talks up aid success: Mr Rudd, who just weeks ago addressed the UN General Assembly in New York, will appear at the Thebarton Senior College tomorrow night talking about "how Australia's aid program is reducing poverty in our region and beyond". The event will be hosted by ...

Australia Genuine Partnership Essential For Aboriginal And Torres ...

Australia Genuine Partnership Essential For Aboriginal And Torres ...

ANTaR welcomes the announcement of the National Health Leadership Forum will come under the National Congress of Australia's First People.

Australia -| Reality of the stolen generation

Reality of the stolen generation: The cast shed their uncertainties when they had to dance. They looked adept in any style, as individual virtuosity combined with well-drilled group choreography in traditional indigenous, balletic, contemporary or hip-hop.

Australia -| Millions of Americans living in extreme poverty - ABC News ...

Millions of Americans living in extreme poverty - ABC News ...: The number of Americans in neighbourhoods affected by extreme poverty has grown by a third over the past decade.

Australia -| Fremantle suicides spark probe

Fremantle suicides spark probe: Opposition Health spokeswoman Ljiljanna Ravlich has been calling for an independent review of the mental health system in WA for months. Australian Medical Association state president David Mountain said the system had been extremely underfunded for at ...

Australia -| Funding reshuffle divides mental health community ABC News ...

Funding reshuffle divides mental health community ABC News ...: Under the Better Access initiative GPs can help Australians experiencing mental illness to access rebates from sessions with a psychologist ...

Indonesia -| Jakarta Officer Charged Over Pedestrian Death

Jakarta Officer Charged Over Pedestrian Death: Long criticized for their reckless driving, a member of the Jakarta Police escort and security unit has been arrested for hitting two elderly women with his motorcycle, one of whom later died of her injuries. Maemunah, 67, died from her injuries while ...

Indonesia -| 40-gold haul realistic, says Philippine official Julian Camacho

40-gold haul realistic, says Philippine official Julian Camacho: By Musong R. Castillo JAKARTA—A total of 252 gold medals will be contested in 23 s ports scheduled in Jakarta of the 26th Southeast Asian Games, which gets going on Friday with a glitzy Opening Ceremony at Palembang province in South Sumatra. ...

Indonesia -| Indonesian Film Explores the Lure of Extremism

Indonesian Film Explores the Lure of Extremism:
Jabir, played by 25-year-old Dinu Imansyah, from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, is mired in poverty and saddened (and angered) to see his mother struggling to make ends meet by working in a traditional market. In desperation, Jabir joins a ...


Jakarta Globe

Indonesia -| An American Alien in Indonesia

An American Alien in Indonesia:
Carita, several hours from Jakarta by bus, is a fantastic surf spot that makes for a fine long weekend getaway from the Big Durian. (JG Photos/Andrew D. Kaspar) Before he was elected president, Barack Obama announced at a town hall meeting in Ohio: “I ...


Jakarta Globe

Indonesia -| Police Looking for Clues in Kemang Nightclub Stabbing Death

Police Looking for Clues in Kemang Nightclub Stabbing Death: South Jakarta Police are still looking for leads into the stabbing death of a teenager at a popular Kemang nightclub early on Saturday morning. Raafi Aga Winyasa Benjamin, 17, died on Saturday after being stabbed in the stomach following a quarrel with ...

Indonesia -| Jakarta Transportation Department to Summon TransJakarta Bus` Operator

Jakarta Transportation Department to Summon TransJakarta Bus` Operator:
Jakarta Transportation Department suspected the smoke which came out from TransJakarta trailer bus B 7607 IX in corridor V (Kampung Melayu-Ancol) on Saturday (11/5) was because oil leakage on the bus' turbo engine. For that, Jakarta Transportation ...


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Indonesia -| Josephine Teo to attended ASEAN Seminar in Jakarta

Josephine Teo to attended ASEAN Seminar in Jakarta: SINGAPORE: Minister of State for Finance Josephine Teo will be in Jakarta for the 8th ASEAN Finance Ministers' Investor Seminar (AFMIS) on November 7 and 8. The theme for the meeting is "Growth and Resilience - the ASEAN story". ...

Indonesia -| 12 grilled over student's murder

12 grilled over student's murder: The South Jakarta Police are questioning 12 witnesses in relation to the murder of a Pangudi Luhur senior high student at an upscale café in Kemang recently. “We're still garnering information to figure out what happened at the scene,” South Jakarta ...

Indonesia -| Expert questions Jakarta's drainage work

Expert questions Jakarta's drainage work: An expert from Trisakti University has questioned the quality of the drainage work in Jakarta, especially the work hurriedly being done on Jl. Sudirman. “I notice that the administration is racing with time in the project due to the SEA Games, ...

Indonesia -| Malaysia must take action to avoid extinction of its last rhinos

Malaysia must take action to avoid extinction of its last rhinos:
The groups are calling for $1.2 million in funding to implement a plan to save rhinos in four priority areas in Sabah and Indonesia's Sumatra island. Tam , a male Sumatran rhino is kept in semi - captivity in Borneo with hopes.


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Sabtu, 5 November 2011

Indonesia -| Proud to Be Indonesian? 80% Say Yes in Poll

Proud to Be Indonesian? 80% Say Yes in Poll: ... half of our population below poverty line (income below 1 USD a day). Truly lots to be proud of... A national survey released on Monday showed that 83.3 percent of people polled said they were proud to be Indonesian. Only 5.5 percent of respondents ...

Indonesia -| Indonesia's Athletes Urged to Continue Climb Up Medals Table

Indonesia's Athletes Urged to Continue Climb Up Medals Table:
Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo holds the SEA Games Torch as part of the torch relay in the capital on Friday. (EPA Photo) As work continued apace to get Indonesia ready to host the Southeast Asian Games, the host nation's athletes received a rousing ...


Jakarta Globe

Indonesia -| Fantastic Film Fest Returns to Jakarta and Bandung

Fantastic Film Fest Returns to Jakarta and Bandung:
INAFFF's return will bring fantasy, horror and sci-fi to theaters in Jakarta and Bandung. American action flick 'Immortals,' Israeli thriller 'Rabies' and French horror movie 'Livid' are all slated to be screened at this year's festival. ...


Jakarta Globe

Indonesia -| City Ensures Qurban Cattle Free from Anthrax Disease

City Ensures Qurban Cattle Free from Anthrax Disease:
Jakarta Marine and Agriculture Department ensures that qurban cattle in Jakarta are free from anthrax disease. This assurance is given after the cattle examinations which conducted since ten days before Ied ul Adha (H-10) in animal shelters at five ...


BeritaJakarta.com

Indonesia -| SE Asia Stocks-Higher end to bearish week

SE Asia Stocks-Higher end to bearish week: Singapore and Indonesia both bounced back to around a one-week high, with Jakarta's Composite Index ending up 2.1 percent and Singapore's Straits Times Index gaining 1.4 percent. Stocks in the Philippines climbed 1.5 percent, with Malaysia and Vietnam ...

Indonesia -| Jakarta Investment Gallery to Be Built in 2013

Jakarta Investment Gallery to Be Built in 2013:
Jakarta Investment and Promotion Board (BPMP) continuously tries to attract foreign and local investors interest to invest in Jakarta. One of its efforts which will be conducted is by building Jakarta Investment Gallery in 2013. ...


BeritaJakarta.com

Indonesia -| Indonesian government orders police to break Papuan mine strike

Indonesian government orders police to break Papuan mine strike: Such is the poverty in Papua that an estimated 10000 itinerant gold panners work in the river carrying the mine's waste, or tailings, from the company's mill. The army and police have also been involved in that enterprise, with military trucks carrying ...

Indonesia -| Pulp and paper giant battles with Greenpeace over deforestation claims

Pulp and paper giant battles with Greenpeace over deforestation claims

"The root cause of deforestation, or even illegal harvesting, is poverty . . . In a country like Indonesia, you have 35 million people living below the poverty line." The Forest Stewardship Council, an international certification system "promoting ...

Indonesia -| Poverty reduction

poverty reduction: poverty reduction. The most pressing issue facing Indonesia is poverty reduction. "We know that many local and indigenous communities have been able to ...

Oceania -| West Papua: Human Rights Issues · Global Voices

West Papua: Human Rights Issues · Global Voices: Indonesia. West Papua Media Alerts summarizes the major human rights issues in West Papua. One issue involved Indonesian security forces which are accused of attacking the strike of mine workers. ...

Oceania -| Police, military continue persuasive approaches in Papua

Police, military continue persuasive approaches in Papua: The Indonesian police and military continue to apply persuasive approaches in handling all sorts of conflicts and problems in restive Papua, a senior police ...

New Zealand -| Election 2011: State of the Greens Party

Election 2011: State of the Greens Party: That would push the Greens through the 10 per cent party vote barrier and cement their status as New Zealand's third political party. The polls, which have the Greens consistently ranging from the mid-9s to over 10 per cent show they have successfully ...

New Zealand -| Christians Against Poverty founder set for marathon campaign

Christians Against Poverty founder set for marathon campaign: John Kirkby, 50, of Christians Against Poverty (CAP) will set off on Tuesday 8 November to run five marathons in the UK followed by five in Australia and five in New Zealand. As he runs, he will take with him the Bible-inspired message of “Remember the ...

Malaysia -| Where the poor gets poorer

Where the poor gets poorer: He said that this was only one aspect of mismanagement by the state government and PKR has lodged a police report asking the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission to investigate. Mohd Nazree said that the AG's report also exposed sand theft activity at ...

Borneo -| Poaching affects locals in Brunei

Poaching affects locals in Brunei: Locals in Sukang and Melilas have reported activities of poaching at Sg Ingei ( western Brunei), where the two-year Sg Ingei Faunal Biodiversity Survey--a Heart ...

Australia -| Fair exchange the key to indigenous prosperity

Fair exchange the key to indigenous prosperity

.. so the voice of traditional Aboriginal people - men and women who live on their country, speak their own language, perform their ceremonies and live their lives very differently to, and sometimes in defiance of, the rest of Australia - are heard. ...

Australia -| Farewell to rock art pioneer

Farewell to rock art pioneer:
Mr Chaloupka's passion for indigenous Australian culture began when he and his brother Milo - who fled their Czech homeland after World War II - came to Australia and married two Aboriginal sisters. Former Territory Administrator and mate Tom Pauling ...


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Australia -| UK's aid ban on countries that outlaw gay rights smacks of double standards

UK's aid ban on countries that outlaw gay rights smacks of double standards

... Commonwealth leaders summit in Perth, Australia, failed to adopt a recommendation seeking to end “homophobic laws” — whatever those are — British Prime Minister David Cameron sunk into an almighty sulk and issued an aid fatwa on anti-gay ...

Australia -| Tanzanian clerics slam threat to link aid to gay laws

Tanzanian clerics slam threat to link aid to gay laws

Cameron made the threat after Commonwealth leaders failed to adopt a recommendation to call for an end to homophobic laws in the 41 member nations at their summit in Perth, western Australia. Kilaini appealed to the Tanzania government and other ...

Australia -| Bali boy pleads with court, promises to try harder to beat drug addiction

Bali boy pleads with court, promises to try harder to beat drug addiction

The teary testimony from the youth from Morisset Park, near Newcastle, came as his father told the court that the holiday to Bali was an attempt to remove the boy from bad influences in Australia and get him off cannabis. Reporters were banned from the ...

Australia -| PhD scholarship on indigenous Australians' access to birth ...

PhD scholarship on indigenous Australians' access to birth ...: A PhD scholarship to undertake research on indigenous Australians' access to birth registration and birth certificates is available for a suitably qualified ...

Australia -| Coroner paints bleak picture of Indigenous health

Coroner paints bleak picture of Indigenous health: By Tim Jeanes A coronial inquiry covering the deaths of six Aborigines in South Australia's Far West Coast has painted a bleak picture of local alcohol abuse, chronic sickness and self-neglect. Deputy coroner Anthony Schapel has delivered his findings ...

Australia -| Coroner calls for action on alcohol abuse

Coroner calls for action on alcohol abuse: Chronic ill health and alcohol abuse pose a serious threat to traditional Aboriginal communities, a coroner says. After investigating six deaths around a place called Town Camp near Ceduna on South Australia's west coast, SA deputy coroner Anthony ...

Australia -| Funding reshuffle divides mental health community

Funding reshuffle divides mental health community: Under the initiative, GPs can help Australians experiencing mental illness to access rebatable sessions with a psychologist. This week, the number of subsidised sessions available each year dropped from 18 to 10 and psychologists aren't happy. ...

Australia -| Canada is failing to nurture its farm potential

Canada is failing to nurture its farm potential: The Dirty Thirties largely spawned the identification of farming with grinding poverty, primitive technologies and capricious commodity prices, and the image has proven durable. In Ottawa, as well as in the popular imagination, farmers and the food ...

Jumaat, 4 November 2011

New Zealand -| UN: Water pollution, drought threaten world's poor

UN: Water pollution, drought threaten world's poor: The United States was fourth, ahead of New Zealand and Canada, but when the index is adjusted for internal inequalities in health, education and income, some of the wealthiest nations drop out of the UNDP's top 20, the report showed. ...

New Zealand -| Politicians debate Auckland's housing crisis

Politicians debate Auckland's housing crisis: Green Party spokesperson Alan Johnson criticised the management of Housing New Zealand, saying it was only regarded as doing a good job because it was not as bad as Child Youth and Family or the Corrections department. He said the department went out ...

New Zealand -| Parties asked to commit to reduce income inequality

Parties asked to commit to reduce income inequality: Growing inequality has been accompanied by growing overall poverty levels in New Zealand, which in turn has increased pressure on social services. "In view of this evidence we are asking all Party Leaders to state whether or not they will encourage ...

New Zealand -| Labour vows government partnership with Auckland

Labour vows government partnership with Auckland: But according to economists its share of GDP is lower than it should be for a city of its size in a country the size of New Zealand. Auckland must do well if the rest of the country is to do well. We must make Auckland the most efficient gateway for ...

Oceania -| Comprehensive solution to Papua problems

Comprehensive solution to Papua problems: Papuan problems have become even more complicated following the escalation in security disturbances in the eastern most province over the past two months. The latest unrest started with a bloody clash between workers of giant gold and copper mining ...

Indonesia -| Badly Flood Threaten Jakarta in 2025

Badly Flood Threaten Jakarta in 2025:
Badly flood could happen few years ahead in Jakarta if not handled optimally. Jakarta is one of the biggest provinces in Indonesia. Therefore, it needs more serious management by Jakarta Provincial Government and central Government. ...


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Indonesia -| 10 militants charged with planning Indonesian church attack

10 militants charged with planning Indonesian church attack

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Ten suspected militants have gone on trial for allegedly planning to bomb an Indonesian church before Easter mass and to film the inferno for broadcast. They are also charged with sending mail bombs — none of them deadly — to ...

Indonesia -| Huge Flood In Jakarta Expected In 200 Years

Huge Flood In Jakarta Expected In 200 Years: JAKARTA, Nov 3 (Bernama) -- The Jakarta Public Works Department has ruled out the possibility of a massive flood in the Indonesian capital next year. The department's head of water management, Tarjuki said if the great flood in 2007 were to recur it ...

Indonesia -| Papua: A high-stakes pawn?

Papua: A high-stakes pawn?:
Demanding Freeport's exit: Activists from Repdem, a non-governmental organization that fights for democracy, stage a protest in front of PT Freeport Indonesia in Jakarta on Wednesday. They demanded Freeport's exit from Indonesia, claiming that the ...


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