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• Obama tells Myanmar to free Suu Kyi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Singapore, Nov 15 (DPA) US President Barack Obama used a meeting Sunday with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to urge pariah state Myanmar to free pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.In what was the first meeting in 43 years between a US president and the leaders of ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Military Regime Hosts a Party for John Bolton

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Mark Leon Goldberg reports that John Bolton, the Bush administration’s former ambassador to the United Nations, has a new book out. It’s called ConUNdrum — har har — and apparently continues Bolton’s quest to shave several more floors from the U.N.’s Turtle Bay offices . But what’s more interesting, ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• United States To Continue Its Tough Stance On Myanmar

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  The United States of America has declared that, even with the resumption of high level talks with the military junta of Myanmar, the sanctions imposed by the US will not be withdrawn, until the Myanmar government embraces democracy and makes necessary reforms in its administration. The US ambassador the ASEAN Affairs, ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. restricts travel by Guinea junta (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 516
  Reuters – The U.S. government has restricted travel to the United States by Guinea’s military junta, which has been accused of planning a bloody crackdown on opposition protesters who killed more than 150 people. Here is the original:  (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">U.S. restricts travel by Guinea ...
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• Freedom Hell on Earth

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  The social investigation was conducted by Freedom House. The organization’s Freedom in the World report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2009 enumerates the bottom 21 countries and territories with regards to repression of human freedom. Here are some of the worst of hell on ...
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• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  3 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
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• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
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• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
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• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
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• Unwinnable battles for West African political opposition?

  
  Africa Blog — Authority: 507
                                        Gabon’s newly inaugurated President Ali Ben Bongo named his first government at the weekend, appointing a mix of old faces and relative unknowns. One of his main challengers for the presidency, Andre Mba Obame, began a hunger strike in ...
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• Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...
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• Guinea junta leader digs in despite calls to quit (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 516
  AFP – The head of Guinea’s military junta has postponed an announcement on whether he will stand for president, an official said Sunday, the day after the West African nation was hit by an arms embargo. View original here: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Guinea junta leader digs in despite calls to quit ...
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• Pakistan army advances on Taliban

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...
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• Hundreds being tossed across Bangladesh-Myanmar border: Report

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Dhaka, Oct 16 (IANS) Bangladesh and Myanmar are tossing hundreds of Muslim tribal Rohingya families across their border, where they are reinforcing troops for the past one week, a media report said.Alleging that Myanmar border force Nasaka is pushing out the Rohingyas, Bangladesh says it has adopted the policy of ...
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• GUINEA – Guineans heed stay- away call

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 122
       Guinea’s citizens have heeded the calls by trade unions to stay at home in protest to the killings which claimed more than 150 lives at the end of last months.    Reports from Conakry said the streets were empty today with very little traffic following the calls by the union federation to observe two ...
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• Consumers push to penalise tardy telcos

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  If you have ever stayed home all day to wait for that telephone repair technician who never turned up, you may have wanted some redress. Now a new consumer advocacy group has called on the Federal Government to make telcos pay automatic compensation payments to consumers when workers are late or fail to show up. The ...
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