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Analysis
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Saturday, 23 July, 2011
By David Fogarty/Alfian - INDONESIA can't get enough power to feed its booming economy and fortunately for Mochamad Sofyan, investors are lining up to invest billions of dollars in the country's growing green power sector. Sofyan, head of the new and renewable energy division at state utility PLN, i
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Saturday, 23 July, 2011
By Juan Carlos Salazar - GEORGINA Emma Brizuela, who lives in the Havana neighbourhood of San Miguel del Padron, decided two years ago to become the legal owner of her home. In July 2009, she embarked on a lengthy administrative battle, which the Cuban press describes as "a real nightmare," and is n
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Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
By Anne K Walters -
THE space shuttle Atlantis might have flown off from the International Space Station for the last time early yesterday, but the flying laboratory will remain as an orbiting reminder of the shuttle programme for at least the next decade.
The ISS could not have been built withou
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Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
By Boris Babic -
WHEN Croatia finally puts former prime minister Ivo Sanader on trial, it will have the chance to dismantle a system of corrupt parallel authorities that has siphoned off many millions of dollars.
But to achieve it, prosecutors may have to fend off pressure from political interest
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Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
By Justine Gerardy -
MALAWI’S President Bingu wa Mutharika brushed off accusations that his presidency is turning autocratic, in an interview days after Britain suspended aid over complaints of poor governance.
“I’m a very open person. Some people have dubbed me dictator. They don’t know what a d
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Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
By Andy Sullivan -
SENATOR Mitch McConnell’s plan to avert an imminent US debt default could lead to a day of reckoning for his Republicans as they weigh the prospect of fiscal disaster against the demands of Tea Party activists.
With other efforts to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling a
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Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
By Sven Egenter -
A FALTERING economy and lasting damage from the world financial crisis may threaten the British government’s goal to eliminate a record budget deficit despite deep spending cuts which have so far reassured investors.
While the euro zone is fighting to contain an escalating debt
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Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
By Adrian Croft -
A BOMB exploded near a police station outside a crucial city in Afghanistan’s south yesterday where Afghan forces are readying to assume security responsibility within hours, another worrying sign as Taliban seek to disrupt a gradual transition process.
The roadside bomb hit a p
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Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
By Edmund Blair -
EGYPT’S finance minister-designate said yesterday that the government was committed to a market economy and to bring an environment in which investors could predict the future “reasonably well”.
Hazem el Beblawi, who has yet to take the oath of office, said he did not rule out t
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Tuesday, 19 July, 2011
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FATHER-AND-SON act Rupert and James Murdoch top the bill yesterday in what promises to be a day of gripping political drama in the normally staid surroundings of the British parliament’s committee rooms.
It will be the first time the Murdochs have been questioned in public since a
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