Despite its media billing as a substantive loosening of the United States' four-decade-long economic blockade of Cuba, a new bill passed by the US Congress will tighten the blockade by codifying restrictions on travel to the island and by prohibiting
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Dictatorship nostalgia
"I often hear investors lamenting the good old days — when policy was predictable and you knew who to talk with to fix a problem." — World Bank country director for Indonesia, Mark Baird, on why it is "unreasonable" to
SOUTH AFRICA: Thousands march to demand access to AIDS treatment
The prices of HIV/AIDS drugs across the globe are unaffordable. Poor people are dying because they cannot buy drugs or get access to quality health care. Drug prices must come down.
Jessie Mary (Bon) Hull, March 28, 1915-June 16, 2000
BY MARY MERKENICH
I recently read with sadness that Bon Hull had died. Apparently, she died after a short illness. The obituary I read, by Sue Jackson, Judy Morton, Jean Taylor and Dianne Vale,
PAKISTAN: Authorities arrest unionists
LAHORE — Military authorities in Hyderabad in southern Sind province briefly imprisoned 11 trade unionists and have now charged them with "breaching the peace" in an attempt to crush an attempt to form a
Sydney protests against the GST
BY ALANA KERR
SYDNEY — On the day the curtain was raised on the "new tax system", 200 people participated in a lively demonstration outside the Sydney Town Hall to protest against the impact the GST will have on
Tasmanian upper house stymies land rights
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — Showing the extent to which the official reconciliation process has served as a smoke-screen for refusing justice to Aboriginal people, the Tasmanian upper house has released
With this new issue of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, the first since the GST came into effect on July 1, we have had to increase the cover price from $2 to $2.20.
Through the GST the government will take one-11th of GLW's sales income. As a not-for-profit
BY JEAN McSORLEY
Last month's announcement by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation that the preferred tenderer to supply its new nuclear reactor is an Argentinian company drew much media and public attention. The company
Networker: What does ADSL spell?
It's new, it's exciting, it's wonderful, it's ADSL. Okay, so the marketing departments didn't get to choose the name, but they are certainly leading the latest charge in internet technologies. ADSL stands for
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
The Australian Financial Review claimed breathlessly that the "new" leaders of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, president Sharan Burrow and secretary Greg Combet, "unveiled a radical policy agenda that shifts the union
How about that!
Genome! Hi! I'm so glad you could drop in for a chat. It's simply marvellous that a celebrity like you can spare a moment from your busy schedule to talk to us. I'm sure that all my readers would love to hear what you have to
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