Former Fiji citizens will now be entitled to obtain permanent residency status come 2009. This was announced by interim PM and acting Finance Minister Voreqe Bainimarama while delivering his 2009 national Budget at the Tradewinds Convention Centre in Lami, Suva...
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Fonterra has cut its forecast payout from $6.60 per kilo to $6.00, following a 24 per cent drop in international dairy commodity prices over the past eight weeks. Last season, Fonterra gave farmers their highest payout payment in 43 years,...
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The company said it expects profit between 64 cents and 70 cents per share for the quarter. In last year's fourth quarter, the company reported profit of 78 cents per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect profit of 66...
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The Australian Greens have slammed the Australian Government for inaction over whaling. The Greens accused the Federal Government of being weak for bowing to pressure from Tokyo in deciding not to send a ship to monitor the Japanese whaling fleet...
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BEIJING - China announced a complete overhaul of its dairy industry Thursday to improve safety at every step - from cow breeding to milk sales - saying its worst food quality scandal in years had revealed "major problems" in quality...
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Former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks, who pleaded guilty before a US Military Commission to proving material support to a terrorist organisation, has today spoken publicly for the first time. Speaking via video on www.getup.org.au , Hicks made an appeal...
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BEIJING: Provincial governments in China are alarmed by the wide-spread job cuts resulting in reverse migration of hundreds of thousands of workers returning to their rural homes. They have begun to order factories to obtain prior permission before cutting jobs....
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Global stock markets have plunged again as shoppers in the US and elsewhere rein in their spending because of the economic crisis. In Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei and South Korea's Kospi index each fell by more than six per cent...
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TOKYO: Asian stock markets took heavy losses yesterday, reflecting widespread gloom about US economic troubles and another bad day on Wall Street. Japan’s key Nikkei 225 Stock Average plummeted nearly 7%, ending the day below the 8,000 level. Traders said...
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JAKARTA/SINGAPORE: The Indonesian rupiah yesterday tumbled to its weakest level since the Asian financial crisis a decade ago and trading almost ground to a halt as forward markets indicated the currency would slump further. Investors in the offshore non-deliverable forwards...
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