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Rescuers recover two dead bodies of trapped miners in Philippines
Manila - Rescuers recovered on Thursday bodies of two of the 16 miners trapped in a flooded mineshaft in a northern Philippine gold mining town, a police report said. The report said the still unidentified bodies of the two miners were already bloate...

[Posted on : 2008-09-25 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Australian prisons not all that bad
Sydney - It's not true that men who go to jail end up getting raped by sex-starved fellow inmates, research in Australia shows. We have shown that the whole belief that young and attractive people are likely to be raped in jail is a bit of a myth, Ju...

[Posted on : 2008-09-25 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Australia mulls patent for dodgy Korean cloning scientist
Sydney - Australia might issue a patent to a South Korean scientist who falsely claimed to have cloned human embryos, news reports said Wednesday. National patent agency IP Australia confirmed to the Sydney Morning Herald that it was reviewing a pate...

[Posted on : 2008-09-24 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Kidman and Luhrmann's Australia stirs great expectations - Feature
Sydney - With a novice director, a tiny budget, small-time actors and the skimpiest of plots, 1986's Crocodile Dundee became the most successful Australian film of all time. Australia, in cinemas in November, is at the other end of the spectrum: huge...

[Posted on : 2008-09-24 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Indonesia arrests 18 suspected rebels in Papua province
Jakarta - Indonesian police have arrested 18 suspected rebels in the country's easternmost province of Papua for hoisting a separatist flag, officials said Tuesday. The detainees allegedly raised the Bintang Kejora, or Morning Star flag on a stre...

[Posted on : 2008-09-23 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Indonesia to boost security ahead of Eid al-Fitr holiday
Jakarta - Indonesia will boost security nationwide ahead of Eid al-Fitr, the celebrations marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, when tens of millions of people will be traveling across the country, officials said Tuesday. Inspector ...

[Posted on : 2008-09-23 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Australian stocks snap winning streak
Sydney - Australian shares gave up some of their recent gains Tuesday in response to an overnight plunge on Wall Street. The ASX 200 lost 111 points, or 2.2 per cent, to trade at 4,798 by the middle of the session. ...

[Posted on : 2008-09-23 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Pushy pig terrorizes Australian woman for 10 days
Sydney - A woman was being held hostage on an east coast Australian farm by a wild pig she took in 10 days ago and treated for an eye infection, news reports said Tuesday. One of its eyes it couldn't see out of, so I put cream in it and I fixed it b...

[Posted on : 2008-09-23 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

ANALYSIS: Australia worries wealth not spreading to the middle
Sydney - It's a measure of the strength of the economy that analysts squabble over whether the next move in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of Australia would be up or down. Interest rates go up when times are good to slow demand and curb inflatio...

[Posted on : 2008-09-23 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Hungarian MOL plans to have 100 Austrian petrol stations this year
Vienna - Hungarian oil and gas group MOL Plc. plans to operate 100 petrol stations in Austria this year, the company's CEO Zsolt Hernadi said in Vienna on Monday. MOL was aiming at a market share between five and 10 per cent of Austria's petrol retai...

[Posted on : 2008-09-22 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

 

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