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8 hrs ago | Colombo Page

Sri Lanka to establish an Expressway Development Authority

Feb 11, Colombo: Sri Lanka Deputy Minister of Port and Highways Nirmala Kothalawala said in Parliament yesterday that the government would establish an Expressway Development Authority soon.

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12 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

Just Released: "Kulim (Malaysia) Berhad (KULIM) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review"

Kulim Berhad is a Malaysia-based diversified company. Kulim, together with its subsidiaries is engages in the oil palm plantation, investment holding and property investment in Malaysia.

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16 hrs ago | Asopa People

Dr Frankish fulfils dream to return to PNG

TIME MAREEBA DOCTOR has sold her general practice to fulfil a lifelong dream to volunteer her medical expertise in isolated and impoverished regions of Papua New Guinea.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Oceania, World News, Australia, Malaria, Health

Fri Feb 10, 2012

ABC News

Protestors demand talks with PNG shipping chief

Emotions are still raw in Papua New Guinea, a week after the ferry disaster that's thought to have killed around a hundred people.

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Related Topix: Oceania, World News,

Tasmanian Government

Celebrating 60 years of International Volunteering

The Minister for Community Development, Cassy O'Connor, this evening attended the Australian Volunteers International event 'Celebrating 60 years of International Volunteering'. "Today, we celebrate the many Tasmanians who volunteer their time, energy and skills to help improve health and education outcomes, create sustainable livelihoods, and ... (more)

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Asopa People

Pacific's imperilled tuna industry moves south

IN MARCH, THE COMMISSION THAT OVERSEES the harvest of tuna in the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean is to meet to decide whether to lift a two-year-old ban on fishing in one of the strategic migratory paths of the fish, which are declining in numbers as their value skyrockets.

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Related Topix: Oceania, World News

Salem-News.com

Misguided Buddhist Zealots

Keeramalai, a few kilometres to Dambakola Patuna, Kanagarayan kulam Buddhist stupa, Buddhist Statue built on a site, supposedly, visited by the Buddha, Buddha Statue IN Killinochchi and Buddhist Temple in Kanakarayan Kulam area on the site of a destroyed Hindu temple.

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Related Topix: World News, Buddhism, Sri Lanka, Asia

ABC News

PNG unclear about death toll, two weeks after landslide disaster

Over two weeks since a massive landslide hit Tumbi village in PNG's Southern Highlands province, authorities are still unclear about the death toll.

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Related Topix: Landslide, World News

Colombo Page

Killer croc brought to Sri Lanka national zoo had human bones inside

Feb 10, Colombo: Veterinary surgeons of Sri Lanka's Dehiwala National Zoo said they have recovered bones of a man's hand and a leg from the stomach of a slain crocodile that was brought to the zoo after it was captured.

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Thu Feb 09, 2012

USGS Earthquakes

M 5.1, Papua region, Indonesia

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Related Topix: Oceania, World News

The Miami Herald

Canadian family members rescued from Pacific ocean

Strong winds and high seas are hampering efforts to find eight crew members missing after their freighter ship sank off Turkey's Black Sea coast in a winter storm, officials and reports said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster, Oceania, World News

Energy Tribune

Shell Opens Office In Papua New Guinea

Shell has opened a representative office in Papua New Guinea, where the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major is pursuing the potential for LNG export projects.

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Related Topix: Oceania, World News

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

PNG launches inquiry into ferry disaster

The Papua New Guinea government says a retired Australian judge will chair an inquiry into last week's ferry disaster.

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Live Charts

Small caps round-up: Air Partner, Croma, Regency...

Aviation group Air Partner has unveiled Richard Everitt, the firm's current Senior Independent Director, as the successor of Aubrey Adams, Non-Executive Chairman of the company, with immediate effect.

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Related Topix: Oceania, World News

Sofia News Agency

Bulgarian Rescued 100 Survivors after Papua New Guinea Ferry Accident

A Bulgarian headed the rescue operation of passengers traveling on the ferry boat which sank last week off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster, Travel, Oceania, Papua New Guinea Travel, World News,

Wed Feb 08, 2012

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Move to combat TB in Torres Strait and PNG

The federal opposition has called on the government to increase tuberculosis care in Papua New Guinea and the Torres Strait Islands following an outbreak of the deadly disease in the region.

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Wetpixel.com

Final call for entries: DEEP 2012

DEEP Indonesia 2012 is now making its final call for entries. There are seven themed categories with over $40,000 in prizes, including underwater photo equipment and premium dive travel packages to some of the top photo destinations in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

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Silicon Alley Insider

A Map Of Emerging Global Risks From The Past Two Weeks

The past couple of weeks have seen a rise in political risks in Kuwait, Senegal and Algeria.

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Asopa People

Australia has 'little to gain' from PNG involvement

AN EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT THE Australian National University says Australia has nothing to gain from becoming involved in Papua New Guinea's ongoing political crisis.

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Colombo Page

Six Sri Lankan universities upgraded to international standards

Feb 08, Colombo: Sri Lankan government's efforts to improve higher education had been paid off when six universities in the country were ranked among the top 100 universities in South Asia.

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