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BY SEAN HEALY Canberra's plans to secure greater Asian markets for the big Australian corporations took a beating in Chiangmai, Thailand, on October 8 when a meeting of economic ministers of the Association for South-East Asian Nations rejected
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PRAGUE — The following is the first in a three-part eyewitness account of the large anti-corporate tyranny demonstrations outside the meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Prague in September by Russian writer and
The following is a statement, slightly abridged, from the coalition of Korean unions and radical groups protesting against the October 20 summit of the Asian-European parliamentary meeting, ASEM, in Seoul. Today, the United States, the World Trade
Giant United States bank Citigroup announced a $3.1 billion third-quarter income and record year-to-date earnings on October 17. But its wealth couldn't help it avoid protests in 50 cities across the US and around the world, which demanded that
BY STUART MARTIN& MELANIE SJOBERG Workplace relations minister Peter Reith is yet again planning to tinker with his own draconian industrial relations laws, this time with the aim of ensuring that employers can cut the pay and conditions of workers
In August 1975, as the Suharto dictatorship was preparing to invade East Timor, Australia's ambassador to Indonesia, Richard Woolcott, sent a cable to Canberra urging compliance with Indonesia's plans to annex East Timor. He wrote: "It would seem
BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at five Southcorp factories here are in the second week of strike action, which began on October 11 in support a new enterprise agreement. Southcorp has offered an average
The US presidential election takes place on November 7. According to public opinion polls, it's a dead heat between the Republican nominee, Texas Governor George W. Bush, and the Democratic nominee, vice-president Al Gore. What makes the election
The state of Israel was founded on a lie: that Palestine was an empty land. "Land without people for a people with no land" was the Zionists' slogan. Even after the majority of Palestinians had been expelled, Israel's prime minister, Golda Meir,
BY HELEN BRANSGROVE SYDNEY — Sixty people marched on the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on October 14 to protest against the mandatory jailing in grim, high-security prisons of men, women and children seeking refuge from persecution.
PRD suit against Suharto hampered On October 18, the chairperson of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) Budiman Sujatmiko met with the National Ombudsman Commission to complain about "unprofessional" incidents by the court that have disrupted a law