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<title>IFC and ILO to Improve Labor Standards and Competitiveness in Vietnam&apos;s Apparel Industry</title>
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<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 22:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  PDR managed by IFC, whose donors are Australia, Canada, Finland, IFC, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. About  ...  became the first specialized agency of the United Nations system in 1946. Its work in setting  ...
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<title>Pride shines through on gloomy day</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191953445</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 21:07 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Wednesday, 08 October 2008 In pouring rain, New Zealand troops line up at Ohakea to board  ...  on a total of 16 peacekeeping operations, United Nations missions and defence exercises throughout the world,  ...  for six months and it won&apos;t be fun. The contingent will be living at an  ...
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<title>Be warned: disaster is a test, TV viewers told</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191953022</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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...  surviving on their emergency supplies for three days after an earthquake. Today is the United Nations International Day for Disaster Reduction. Each year New Zealand holds a Disaster Awareness Week around that day. Wellington City Council yesterday warned that  ...
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<title>Some variation but one language</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191936461</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 18:37 GMT</pubDate>
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... MANY people believe there is regional variation in Australian pronunciation, but in reality the variation is so subtle that it would not be  ...
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<title>On foundering fathers</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191936460</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 18:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Miriam Cosic. When the British came to Australia and found an empty land, terra nullius,  ...  American frontiersman came to rely on his gun for protection and his own reading of  ...
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<title>Critical mass for a tropical hub</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191935062</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 18:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  industry sector has the potential to transform Australia&apos;s economy. One observer has calculated that capturing  ...  decade to $US100billion ($139billion) a year. The UN World Health Organisation, the Bill and Melinda  ...
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<title>Michael Stutchbury: Decisive act may not avert recession</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191927898</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 17:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  well have acted swiftly and decisively, as it has done. The battle to keep Australia from recession has begun with the Reserve Bank&apos;s shock 100 basis point cut to official interest rates. Reserve  ...
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<title>Silver lining</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191920006</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 17:24 GMT</pubDate>
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...  change must be included in a new United Nations agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the  ...  necessary depth taking place. Roger Hanney, Sydney, Australia. I do agree.In 1985 I suggested Brazil  ...
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<title>Mars, Incorporated completa l&apos;acquisizione di Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191916717</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 16:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  USD 80 per azione in contanti, ovvero un totale di circa 23 miliardi di dollari  ...  come gli stabilimenti di produzione di Scoresby, Australia; Porici, Repubblica Ceca e Monterey, Messico. Il  ...
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<title>Morning business news - Oct 7</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191912103</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 16:49 GMT</pubDate>
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...  money too freely. MORNING BRIEFS - The Australian Central Bank overnight cut interest rates by  ...  than 12 months ago, Iceland topped a UN table of 177 countries as one the  ...
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<title>Rammell becomes UK minister for Middle East</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191895924</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 15:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the International Development Department to replace Megg Munn with responsibility for South America and Australia. Former UN deputy secretary-general Lord Malloch-Brown is the only Foreign Office Minister under Miliband to retain  ...
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<title>Cornered Tigers bare their teeth</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191894625</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 15:49 GMT</pubDate>
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...  as his country&apos;s envoy in Indonesia and Australia before returning to Sri Lanka and joining  ...  safer demarcated areas. According to the latest UN humanitarian updates, over 220,000 internally displaced persons  ...
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<title>World&apos;s biggest computing grid launched</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191892277</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 15:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, the Czech Republic,  ...  of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status. Kendra Snyder | Source:  ...
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<title>Financialbussinessnews.US: FinancialBusinessNews.US: Stock News: GGLB &amp; CABN</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191878608</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 14:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the first Green Globe certified activity in New Zealand and Australasia. To read the full news  ...  admitted as an affiliate member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. For more information on  ...  fossil fuel power plants into gasoline to run cars and jet fuel to fly aircraft.  ...
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<title>Boom-bust fear over East&apos;s bumper crop harvests</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191877954</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 14:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  three missed harvests in three years in Australia, said Dr Fischler, who is now a  ...  for Economic Co-operation and Development and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation had recorded five  ...  trend was decreasing. The OECD and the FAO both say the peak is over and  ...
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