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| Wednesday 5th of July 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Two Indians in New Zealand get 19 years for rape
Wellington, July 5 (IANS) Two Indian chefs in New Zealand have been sentenced to 19 years in jail for raping a schoolgirl.
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| Friday 30th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| New Zealand ups immigration intake, prefers Indians
Wellington, June 30 (IANS) New Zealand has included India and China in its list of preferred countries for migrant workers in areas of 'absolute skill shortage'.
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| Indo-Fijian family's disappearance still a mystery
Suva (Fiji), June 30 (IANS) The mysterious disappearance of an Indo-Fijian family more than two months ago continues to baffle police in Fiji.
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| Tuesday 27th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Australians wake up to World Cup nightmare
Sydney, June 27 (DPA) A nation accustomed to cheering invincible sporting teams was inconsolable Tuesday after Italy bundled Australia out of its first World Cup finals in 32 years with the very last kick of a tense match in Kaiserslautern that ended 1-0 |
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| Monday 26th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Australian surgeons perform first triple transplant
Sydney, June 26 (IANS) Australian surgeons claimed to have performed the world's first triple-transplant operation involving the liver, kidney and pancreas of a patient, said a report Monday.
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| East Timor prime minister resigns
Sydney, June 26 (DPA) Mari Alkatiri's resignation as East Timor's prime minister Monday sparked hopes that the political unrest that has cost dozens of lives and sent tens of thousands to makeshift refugee camps may be drawing to a close.
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| Thursday 22nd of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| New Zealand wakes up to India's potential
Wellington, June 22 (IANS) New Zealand's business community has woken up, though somewhat belatedly, to the fact that business with India is not only profitable but also inevitable.
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| Wednesday 21st of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Singaporean of Indian origin found guilty of murder
Sydney, June 21 (IANS) A Singaporean of Indian descent has been found guilty of murdering his two Singaporean flatmates in Sydney three years ago.
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| War veteran, 85, jailed as incorrigible thief
Wellington, June 21 (DPA) An 85-year-old New Zealand war veteran, who has more than 50 convictions for shoplifting since 1990, was jailed for one month Wednesday for stealing groceries.
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| Indo-Fijian woman's final wish may be fulfilled
Suva (Fiji), June 21 (IANS) The body of an Indo-Fijian woman, suspected to have been murdered by her husband in Melbourne, Australia, will be given a Christian burial.
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| Tuesday 20th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Indian woman goes missing in Auckland
Wellington, June 20 (IANS) Police in Auckland, New Zealand, are concerned over a 22-year-old Indian woman who left her home last week and has since been missing.
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| Monday 19th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| World War II Japanese gold still haunts treasure hunters
Baguio City (Philippines), June 19 (DPA) For decades, tales of buried vaults packed with gold ingots, gems and other treasures hidden by the Japanese Imperial Army in the Philippines have lured treasure hunters from all around the world.
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| Border-Gavaskar scholarship winners in Australia
Brisbane, June 19 (IANS) Three young Indian cricketers arrived here Monday to undergo an intense six-week coaching stint under the Border-Gavaskar Scholarship at the Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence (CBCE).
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| Friday 16th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Australia frets at blunt-shooter Viduka
Sydney, June 16 (DPA) Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira is insistent he will keep faith with the lumbering Ronaldo for the clash with Australia at the weekend.
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| Australian charity helps to send Indo-Fijian's body home
Suva (Fiji), June 16 (IANS) A charity organisation in Australia has come forward to help repatriate the body of an Indian origin woman, who was found murdered in Melbourne last week, to her home in Fiji.
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| Thursday 15th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Indo-Fijian minister to spend salary on constituency
Suva (Fiji), June 15 (IANS) An Indo-Fijian minister in Fiji's newly formed government has pledged to spend his salary on the constituency from which he got elected.
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| Ranil asks Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to bring peace to Sri Lanka
Bangalore, June 15 (IANS) Former Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe Thursday flew in here and urged spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to help bring peace to his island nation.
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| Wednesday 14th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Militant cleric freed in Indonesia
Jakarta, June 14 (DPA) Muslim militant cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the alleged spiritual leader of terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, walked out of jail Wednesday amid Western concerns that his freedom could trigger a fresh round of terror activity.
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| Fiji Labour Party formed multi-party cabinet: Chaudhry
Suva (Fiji), June 14 (IANS) Fiji Labour Party (FLP) leader Mahendra Chaudhry has triggered a fresh controversy by saying that Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was not sincere about the party's participation in the new multi-party cabinet.
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| New Zealand Indian students feel insecure
Wellington, June 14 (IANS) Indian students in New Zealand report low levels of perceived security at school, with some remaining absent as a result, according to a new survey.
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| Tuesday 13th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Australia's heroics put Brazil on alert
Berlin, June 13 (DPA) Australia's heroics against Japan have not gone unnoticed in the Brazil camp as the World Champions prepare for their opening match.
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| Indian company buys into New Zealand coal mine
Wellington, June 13 (DPA) Gujarat NRE Coke Limited, India's largest stand-alone, publicly listed coke-making company, is to take a NZ$20 million (about $12.6 million) stake in New Zealand's Pike River Coal Limited, it was announced Tuesday.
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| Revealing Japanese germ warfare crimes
Hangzhou (China), June 13 (Xinhua) A former UN biological weapons inspector is leading a campaign to educate the world on the germ warfare practised by the Japanese in China from 1931 to 1945.
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| China reduces bounty to new Nepal government
Kathmandu, June 13 (IANS) The Chinese government, described as Nepal's 'all-weather friend' by the earlier regime of King Gyanendra, curtailed its bounty to the new government of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, offering spare duty-free concessions |
| More controversy for Malaysian Indian Congress
Kuala Lumpur, June 13 (IANS) Yet another controversy has hit the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) polls with the party's incumbent deputy president S. Subramaniam alleging that delegates have been warned against voting for him.
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| Monday 12th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Sri Lanka for talks with Tigers despite breakdown
Colombo, June 12 (Xinhua) The Sri Lankan government Monday said it wants to go ahead and have direct talks with the Tamil Tigers on the Norwegian backed peace process despite the breakdown of last week's talks in Oslo.
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| Earthquake shakes western Japan
Tokyo, June 12 (Xinhua) An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale shook large parts of western Japan early Monday, injuring at least eight people, said the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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| Storms black out New Zealand's biggest city
Wellington, June 12 (DPA) Much of Auckland, New Zealand's biggest city, came to a standstill Monday when it was blacked out by a winter storm that cut power lines.
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| Indian origin woman murdered in Australia
Suva, June 12 (IANS) A 19-year-old Indo-Fijian woman was found murdered near her home in Melbourne, Australia.
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| Wednesday 7th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Over 60 percent land use in Chinese cities illegal
Beijing, June 7 (Xinhua) China's ministry of land and resources has said that over 60 percent of the new land acquisitions for construction purposes in Chinese cities since last September are illegal.
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| Tuesday 6th of June 2006 / Asia-Pacific |
| Chinese boy has third arm removed
A two-month-old Chinese boy has had a third arm successfully removed in an operation, doctors in Shanghai have said. |
| Indonesia quake survivors ill due to poor sanitary conditions
Yogyakarta (Indonesia), June 6 (Xinhua) Many survivors of the earthquake in Indonesia's Yogyakarta and Central Java are suffering from various illnesses caused by poor sanitary conditions in their makeshift shelters.
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| Students return to school in quake-hit Indonesia
Bantul, (Indonesia), June 6 (Xinhua) Nearly ten days after the devastating earthquake, many schools in Indonesia's worst-hit Bantul district resumed classes, with tents, undamaged labs, libraries and even mosques mobilised as makeshift classrooms.
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| Two injured in blast near navy camp
Colombo, June 6 (Xinhua) At least two civilians were injured when two claymore mines exploded early Tuesday near a navy installation close to the Sri Lankan capital, said a navy official.
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| APEC launches bird flu exercise
Canberra, June 6 (Xinhua) The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) launched a bird flu exercise Tuesday in which all 21-member economies will test their emergency communication and response to a human influenza pandemic.
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