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- Australia wants to become Asia Pacific financial hub - Treasurer Swan 13 May 2008 11:56 GMT
... Australia wants to become Asia Pacific financial hub - Treasurer Swan CANBERRA (Thomson ... 'working families', the key demographic in Labor's election win last November, saw the benefits of ...
- Australia gives huge tax breaks to low, middle-income earners in first budget 13 May 2008 11:56 GMT
... 'working families', the key demographic in Labor's election win last November, saw the benefits of ... a bid to make the country an Asia Pacific financial services hub. Swan said Australia remained ...
- The Hon Stephen Smith Mp, Minister For Foreign Affairs, The Hon Duncan Kerr Sc Mp, Parliamentary Secretary For Pacific Island Affairs And The Hon Bob Mcmullan Mp, Parliamentary Secretary For International Development; 2008-09 Inte 13 May 2008 11:54 GMT
... this Budget give effect to the Government's election commitments to address climate change adaptation needs, ... the MDGs. Most developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region can claim progress in meeting some ...
- Foreign aid chases UN goals 13 May 2008 11:11 GMT
... in line with the Rudd Government's key pre-election pledge to increase Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) ... and sanitation in impoverished countries in the Asia Pacific region while a $45 million fund over ...
- Celebrity rises to power in Osaka 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... For more than a decade now gubernatorial elections in Osaka have been conducted in difficult ... professor and head of the Center for Asian Studies at Australia's Adelaide University. (Copyright 2008 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please ...
- False choices for Tokyo 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... when strategists pondered whether to look to Asia or the West. Then, Japan turned its ... a vengeance. While talk of an "East Asian Community" would seem to resurrect that dichotomy, ... China. As the two biggest countries in East Asia, positive relations make almost anything possible. At ...
- Japan's Fukuda in a fight for his life 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... poll ratings and a possibly crucial general election in the new year, he is expected ... mutually beneficial relationship'' between the two neighboring Asian powers. Fukuda, known for his dovish diplomatic stance, ... Masaki's e-mail address is yiu45535@nifty.com (Copyright 2007 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please ...
- Promises undermine democracy 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... By Van Jackson Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers ... its people. In Korea's most recent presidential election, this week, popular conservative candidate Lee Myung-bak ... Hamilton and an adjunct professor of East Asian History at the University of Maryland, University College. ...
- Lee stumbles out of the starting block 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... "A journey well begun is half done." Bruce Klingner is senior research fellow for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation (heritage.org). (Copyright 2008 Asia Times Online Ltd. All ...
- Renewed urgency to rein in North Korea 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... the newly opened Korea Center of the Asia Society in New York "will be one of ... Washington. They're saying Hill, at present in Southeast Asia, will likely meet Kim next week somewhere ... of state for East Asia and the Pacific. Hill made light of the North Korean ...
- Government web-wary in Singapore 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... recent experience, some believe could influence future election results in Singapore. "The next general election ... them on YouTube." As in several other Asian countries, Singapore's bloggers and other online commentators are ... politics, culture and gay issues. (Copyright 2008 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please ...
- Myanmar courts political disaster 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... country maintains the second-largest standing military in Southeast Asia - a largely untapped pool of labor ... of the approaching cyclone from both the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Thailand and the ...
- Politics of poverty in the Philippines 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... World Bank's senior economist for the East Asian and Pacific Region, has noted the country ... labor force, the smallest percentage in industrialized Southeast Asia according to World Bank statistics. A recent ...
- No friends of the Earth 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... thousands of kilometers north in the tropical Pacific Ocean are already at risk due to ... and proposes standards well beyond what US voters will be ready to accept. If the ... high finance and cheap lingerie. (Copyright 2008 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact ...
- China, Vietnam churn diplomatic waters 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... islands and signs saying ''China hegemony jeopardizes Asia'' and ''Beware of the invasion." They were ... the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Singapore in mid-November while ... Vietnam’s latest international triumph, given its recent selection to assume one of the two-year non-permanent ...
- Man at work: Rudd walks Asian tightrope 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... Man at work: Rudd walks Asian tightrope By Tanja Vestergaard LONDON - Under the ... China last week, his only stop in Asia as part of his first world tour, ... of weakening other bilateral ties in the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Asia on the ascendant in ...
- Asian arms race gathers speed 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... Koreas, into a permanent peace structure in Northeast Asia. The countries in the region all seem ... another there. The Japanese reversal The Northeast Asian arms buildup - a three-tiered scramble to ...
- US tweaks stance on Taiwan vote 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... the Washington-based Brookings Institution's Center for Northeast Asian Policy Study. "The attitude [of Washington] has ... by Chen, Alan Romberg, director of the East Asia Program at the Henry L Stimson Center, ...
- For Sino-US ties, cautious progress 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... Jintao met again in September during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' meeting and have kept ... Negroponte, deputy national security advisor and senior Asian director, to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State ... society. Dr Jing-dong Yuan is director of East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center ...
- Economic and strait-talk as Taiwan votes 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... who to vote for in Saturday's presidential election. The owner of a small homestay hotel ... that Taiwan has fallen behind other East Asian economies despite once being one of Asia's "four little dragons". The younger generation is ...
- China and the US remain focused 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... is bracing for the March 22 presidential elections in Taiwan, at which time a referendum ... Dr Jing-dong Yuan is director of the East Asia Non-proliferation Program at the James Martin Center for ...
- Promises and pandas for Taiwan's Ma 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
... (KMT) candidate Ma Ying-jeou in Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday has boosted optimism that political ... senior associate and director of the East Asian Program of the Henry Stimson Center, noted that ... freelance journalist based in Taipei. (Copyright 2008 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. Please ...
- COMMENTARY: Why the War in Iraq? 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
... Qaeda. A pro-West government was installed and elections were held. Troops remain in Afghanistan to ... missions. Another reason our troops are in Asia is to secure the region’s oil. Like it or ... East, trouble in northern Africa, problems in Central Asia, and angst in South America. Some ...
- Strong yuan may be China's savior 13 May 2008 10:50 GMT
... appreciation of the yen, and after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 that shattered the other ... Alberta, and a senior fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is the editor ...
- Crisis? What crisis? 13 May 2008 10:50 GMT
... the working of private equity in , Asia Times Online, February 22, 2007.) Their managers and ... very nice incomes. With the US presidential election this week settling down into a contest ... as night falls here in the US Pacific northwest, once again I think of all ...
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