Cooking up a deal across the Timor Sea
On the wall of the single classroom at the abandoned village of Batugade, East Timor, where I spent a night in September 1975, there hung a map of the Portuguese empire - or rather a set of boxed maps on a single scroll, to avoid it appearing just as widely dispersed specks on the globe.
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ASEAN, Japan eye 10-year road map to double trade
ECONOMIC MINISTERS from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan aim to finalize a 10-year road map to double trade between the region and the world’s third largest economy, a statement posted on the Web site of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) last week said.
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Lesson of Indonesia’s democratic experience — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
MAY 6 — On behalf of the government and people of Indonesia, I am pleased to extend a very warm welcome to all of you to Jakarta. This is a very impressive gathering of the members of the World Movement for Democracy. We see a positive trend of significant expansion of democracy, particularly in the second half of the 20th century. Democracy ...
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Oakley man lone American killed in Indonesia plane crash
Lifelong pilot traveled the world collecting and delivering planes for corporate customers.
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ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS TO SEEK LEADERS' CONSIDERATION ON DEVELOPMENT OF PROPOSED ASEAN-WIDE FDRS
SINGAPORE, May 8 (Bernama) -- Environment Ministers of the Sub-RegionalMinisterial Meeting (MSC) on Transboundary Haze Pollution have expressedappreciation on the significant progress in developing national Fire DangerRating Systems (FDRS) in Malaysia and Indonesia. The FDRS provides early warning on potential fire occurrences, whichenables preparedness and preventive actions during dry weather ...
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Research and Markets: Leasing Life Handbook 2012
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Leasing Life Handbook 2012" report to their offering.
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MAP OF THE DAY: Where The World's Chocolate Comes From
Here's an awesome graphic of the global cocoa trade from The Guardian. The top producing cocoa countries include the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Indonesia. Although the U.S. imports its fair share of the bean, the Netherlands takes the cake as the world's top cocoa importer.
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Queen's Diamond Jubilee: sixty years of royal tours
Sophie Campbell looks back on the Queen's six decades of royal tours.
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China’s policies vis-à-vis South China Sea are based on selective history: Philip Bowring
China’s assumption that the histories of the non-Han peoples whose lands border two-thirds of the waters known in English as the South China Sea are irrelevant.
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THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE SUB-REGIONAL MINISTERIAL STEERING COMMITTEE (MSC) ON TRANSBOUNDARY HAZE POLLUTION
BRUNEI, May 11 (Bernama) -- Environment Ministers and their representatives fromBrunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand met at theThirteenth Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee (MSC) onTransboundary Haze Pollution on 8 May 2012 in Brunei Darussalam.Malaysia was represented by Dato’ Sri Douglas Uggah Embas, Minister of NaturalResources and Environment ...
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