24/11/2008 | WHILE their warships patrol the Gulf of Aden to protect merchant shipping from Somali pirates, a number of those nations are directly linked to foreign fishing fleets that are plundering Somalia's fish stocks, says a new paper on reasons behind the growth of piracy off the Horn of Africa.
24/11/2008 | MORE than 50 years ago my father, like millions of others, left Communist China seeking a better life. He found it in Australia, working first at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market and later in Tasmania, where he ran a Chinese restaurant for more than 30 years.
24/11/2008 | ASIA-PACIFIC political leaders have promised not to resort to protectionism as the world's economies slow sharply in coming months after hearing a strong plea from the outgoing US President, George Bush, to maintain their commitment to free markets despite the global financial turmoil.
24/11/2008 | EXILED Tibetan leaders have voted to break off long-running talks with the Chinese Government but resisted calls to adopt a more inflammatory stance on the future of their disputed homeland.
23/11/2008 | KEVIN RUDD has flagged more cuts in interest rates and further government spending to stimulate the economy, using an address to business leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Peru to step up his push for co-ordinated international action to save the world from a deep recession.
23/11/2008 | THE Indian textile industry, the country's second-largest foreign exchange earner, will shed half a million jobs by April due to the global financial crisis, an Indian Government official has warned.
23/11/2008 | Edward Wong visits a medical centre that is at the forefront of assisting survivors of one of the world's worst natural disasters.
22/11/2008 | East Timor has gone on a spending spree to try to buy civil peace, but it's stirring its own unrest. Lindsay Murdoch reports from Dili.
22/11/2008 | IT IS not historically true that Australia and New Zealand run on different political cycles, but for long periods we have had governments of differing stripes facing each other across the Tasman.
22/11/2008 | INDIA has to do a big job. More than half a billion citizens don't have a toilet and the country needs to build 28 new loos every minute over the next four years to meet the Indian Government's ambitious sanitation target.
22/11/2008 | The theft of an oil-filled supertanker has piracy in the headlines, but its roots will not be beaten by gunboat diplomacy alone, writes Connie Levett.
22/11/2008 | AN ITSY-BITSY spider went missing this week.
22/11/2008 | Michelle Rice talks to female survivors in Congo's war-torn North Kivu region. This is not a story for the faint-hearted.
22/11/2008 | THE leading US intelligence organisation has warned that the world is entering an unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of Western-style democracy cannot be taken for granted, and the US will no longer be able to "call the shots" alone.
22/11/2008 | BRITAIN will begin withdrawing its 4000 combat forces from Iraq early next year if January's provincial elections proceed without problems.
22/11/2008 | Violence and other abuse of Afghan women is enough to make you wonder what we're there fighting for, reports Paul McGeough from Kabul.
22/11/2008 | THE sadness of the widow Zarghona's Afghan story is its utter ordinariness. At the age of 30, she spends her days in a tiny, smoke-blackened shed, sitting cross-legged by a deep hole in which she bakes bread.
22/11/2008 | As the Dalai Lama prepares to step back, exiled Tibetans urge greater action, write Matt Wade in New Delhi and John Garnaut in Beijing.
21/11/2008 | SOMALI pirates who hijacked the Saudi oil supertanker Sirius Star are demanding $US25 million ($39 million) in ransom, while plans have emerged for additional warships from 10 European countries and Russia to converge on the region to tackle the pirate problem.
20/11/2008 | THERE should be no more Bahrainis throwing trussed Australian sheep into the boots of their Mercedes before next month's Eid al-Adha religious festival.
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