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Agents of change gather for small enterprises movement
Paper Edition | Page: 4 The Dayakan Indonesia (Empower Indonesia) movement was launched on Wednesday to enable agents of change across the country to gather and assist micro entrepreneurs and lower-middle income families to improve their livelihoods.Empower Indonesia comprises 17 institutions and individuals, including health movement Pencerah Nusantara, the Asgar Muda Foundation, Selamatkan ...
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Fake Vietnam veteran admits 30-year lie
Tweed man Christopher John Bayliss has admitted he has been misrepresenting himself as a returned Vietnam veteran for 30 years. Pic: supplied A TWEED Heads man has admitted falsely claiming to be a Vietnam veteran for almost 30 years.Christopher John Bayliss, 61, of Bilambil Heights, yesterday confirmed to the Bulletin he had not served in the Australian Defence Force during the Vietnam War, ...
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Huawei unveils worlds thinnest smartphone Ascend P6 in Singapore
A model shows Huawei Ascend P6 smartphone at Huawei's booth during the CommunicAsia in Singapore, on June 19, 2013. International telecommunications giant Huawei unveiled its latest flagship device Ascend P6 in Singapore on Wednesday, marketing it as the thinnest smartphone in the world. (Xinhua/Chen ...
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Garuda Indonesia Named The Worlds Best Economy Class By SkyTrax At Paris Airshow
Garuda Indonesia, the airline of Indonesia, was named "The World’s Best Economy Class" at the SkyTrax 2013 World Airline Awards at the Paris Air show yesterday. In addition to being voted "The World's Best Economy Class", Garuda was also named "The World’s Best Economy Class Seats" by SkyTrax – a result of Garuda Indonesia’s ...
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AirAsia spreads its wings further into Indonesia
AirAsia, the World’s Best Low-Cost Airline awarded by Skytrax for the fifth year running, today announced direct flights to two additional destinations within Indonesia, Medan and Surabaya. This announcement comes shortly after its previous direct flight launch to Makassar, another city within the archipelago. With the new routes, AirAsia now flies direct from Singapore to 17 other ...
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China Vietnam establish fishery hotline
Agricultural authorities from Beijing and Hanoi agreed on Wednesday to establish a fishery emergency hotline, as the leaders of the two countries vowed to prevent disputes from derailing ties. On his first official trip to China, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang and President Xi Jinping also witnessed the signing of another nine agreements in areas including defence, economy and public ...
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Asylum detention and Indonesia politics live blog
10.31am Good morning and welcome to our live coverage from Canberra. Apologies for our late start this morning: I was unavoidably delayed. Last night was the Parliamentary Press Gallery’s mid-winter ball. We’ve got some lovely photos of that event thanks to Mike Bowers, who scrubbed up a treat. One attendee - national senator Barnaby Joyce - evidently thought a walk round the ...
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US State Department Says Indonesia Failing to Protect Religious Minorities
Indonesian youths gather outside the church that was attacked by Muslim hardliners in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners stormed a courthouse and set two churches on fire Tuesday in central Indonesia to protest what they considered a lenient sentence for a Christian convicted of blaspheming ...
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Asian mkts fall on Bernanke comments China data eyed
US stocks tumbled more than 1 per cent on Wednesday and benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield surged 17 basis points to 2.355 per cent, its highest in 15 months, while the dollar advanced broadly on the back of rising yields. Bernanke said on Wednesday the US economy is expanding strongly enough for the Fed to begin slowing the pace of its $85 billion monthly purchases of Treasuries and ...
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U.N. official Myanmar must deal with anti-Muslim violence
Myanmar's failure to deal with violence against the Rohingya, an ethnic and religious minority, threatens its transition to democracy, a U.N. official ...
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Former Investigators Want New Probe of 1996 TWA Crash
Six former investigators want the U.S. government to reopen its probe of the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800. The plane went down shortly after takeoff from New York City, killing all 230 people on ...
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US Criticizes China Russia in Fight Against Human Trafficking
The United States has declared China and Russia among the worst countries in fighting human trafficking, a designation that could lead to sanctions against both nations. In its annual report on human trafficking released Wednesday, the U.S. State Department downgraded China and Russia, along with Uzbekistan, to the lowest possible U.S. rating, known as Tier Three. Iran, North Korea, Cuba, ...
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Numbers at 18-Year High as UN Observes World Refugee Day
LONDON -- Thursday is World Refugee Day - and the United Nations says the number of refugees worldwide is at its highest in 18 years, at over 45 million people. The Syrian conflict is a major driver behind the increase. Four-year-old Shahad laughs and jokes with her older sister in their makeshift home. She appears a happy, young girl; but the scars and burn marks on her smiling face tell the ...
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Protests Continue in Turkey But Methods Changing
ISTANBUL -- Anti-government protests continue in Turkey, but the methods have changed. The two weeks of clashes in which four people died and about 5,000 were injured drew increasing numbers of supporters. Istanbul's Taksim Square. These "standing man" protests, as they are called, began Monday after the government quashed mass demonstrations, which it said were fomenting ...
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NY City University Immigration Program a Success
NEW YORK -- While the United States Congress continues to wrestle with an immigration reform bill, every day more people become American citizens. In fact, last year the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service swore in almost 700,000 new citizens, including 84,000 in New York State. The immigration bill is the big issue on the minds of those seeking information about citizenship. The ...
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Former Hungarian PM Who Breached Iron Curtain Dies at 80
Former Hungarian prime minister Gyula Horn, who played a key role in ending communism in eastern Europe, has died in Budapest after a long illness. He was ...
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Transjakarta gets new boss
Pargaulan Butar-Butar, the head of the transportation office and of the school bus unit in North Jakarta, has been appointed the new head of Transjakarta, replacing M. Akbar who is to lead the land transportation subagency.Butar-Butar was one of 51 echelon III officials rotated in the city administration. Reliable sources asking for anonymity said Akbar was rotated because of frequent fires that ...
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Residents allowed using ID for mayoral race
Bandung administration will allow its residents, who are apparently not registered in the voters' list for the upcoming mayoral election, to cast their votes by showing their ID (KTP) to officials at polling stations.They must go to polling stations located near the address registered on the IDs.Bandung General Election Committee (KPU) applies the ruling of the Constitutional Court No. 85 ...
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Haze update Singapore Indonesia officials to discuss how to prevent haze
Villagers burning the waste from oil palm kernels after removing the fruits at Kandis, 82km north of Pekanbaru. Much of Riau province was blanketed by haze yesterday, which also spread to Pekanbaru. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ ...
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UPDATE 1-HK investigates HSBC other banks for inappropriate market conduct
Hong Kong’s de facto central bank said on Tuesday that its investigation into possible benchmark rate manipulation has been extended to include HSBC and a number of other banks. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced in December that it was investigating UBS about possible misconduct relating to its submissions for the Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate (Hibor). ';Apart ...
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Inside business HK fears cooling of hot money flows
How hot is Hong Kong? Ed Snowden has fuelled a media firestorm by hiding here while he lobs out explosive revelations about US internet snooping. But locals should have their eyes on a different kind of American-generated heat. Hong Kong has been one of the biggest repositories of hot money created by the ultra-low interest rates of the US Federal Reserve since the financial crisis. Now, it is ...
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Apple hopes to dominate Taiwan’s tablet market
The Taiwanese tablet market is set to grow exponentially this year, nearly doubling the hardware sales of 2012. Executive VP and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Maxwell Cheng of Far EasTone Telecommunications (FETLF), told DigiTimes that 70 percent to 80 percent of those tablets will fall within the seven-inch range. Cheng’s company alone hopes to sell roughly 300,000 units this ...
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Trade alliance plans mission to Taiwan
The Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Trade Alliance this week announced its first trade trip to Taiwan. The trade mission will connect New Mexico companies with like-minded businesses in Taiwan, said Randy Trask, director of the alliance. ';It’s going to be centered around a semiconductor trade show. Anything from LEDs to semiconductors, this would be a fit,'; Trask said. ...
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sign of closer links for China Taiwan
The governments of China and Taiwan are set to open their first representative offices in each other’s countries. The new Chinese leadership has been taking a more stridently nationalist approach towards other neighbours, with whom arguments about the sovereignty of islands in the South China and East China Seas remain ...
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Taiwan’s EVA Air joins world’s biggest air alliance
Taiwan’s EVA Airways on Tuesday joined Star Alliance, the world’s biggest airline grouping, in a move that could give it an edge over regional rivals like China Airlines. ';EVA Air has successfully completed all joining requirements and I can confirm that our chief executive board has now unanimously accepted EVA Air into our alliance,'; Star Alliance CEO Mark Schwab ...
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Laos looking ahead
The new stock exchange in Laos may be a sign of changes to come in our otherwise centrally-run economy.
Laos is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia, but as the globally economy recovers and commodity prices pick up, the country looks set for a future of relatively strong growth, if not widespread prosperity, and this has been exemplified in the government’s recent decision to open a stock exchange in the country, which it is hoped will bring much-needed capital flowing into the country to fund investment projects in industry and infrastructure, catalysts for further growth in the economy. Read more
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