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CANADA News, Aug 29, 2011


US surveys damage as Irene heads to Canada
Sydney Morning Herald
Stripped of its hurricane rank, Irene has reached Canada after barrelling through the northeastern United States where the storm claimed at least 18 lives and left a trail of treacherous flooding. Millions of people were left without power along the US ...
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Say yes to Canadian oil sands
Washington Post
By Robert J. Samuelson, When it comes to energy, America is lucky to be next to Canada, whose proven oil reserves are estimated by Oil and Gas Journal at 175 billion barrels. This ranks just behind Saudi Arabia (260 billion) and Venezuela (211 billion) ...
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Cougar Oil and Gas Canada, Inc. Acquires Additional Oil Leases at Land Sale
MarketWatch (press release)
CALGARY, ALBERTA, Aug 29, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cougar Oil and Gas Canada, Inc. ("Cougar" "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company acquired an additional 3 sections of land (1920 acres) at an Alberta Provincial Government land ...
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Lincicome Wins in Canada
New York Times
Bjorn's birdie on the par-5 No. 18 finished off South Africa's George Coetzee. A version of this brief appeared in print on August 29, 2011, on page B10 of the New York edition with the headline: Lincicome Wins in Canada.
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Odd: Fat cat from Canada finds Facebook fame
CNN (blog)
Fat Boy, a fat cat from the city of Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan, Canada, has become an unlikely local celebrity. The "husky" cat weighs in at about 22 lbs, equivalent to a 350-pound person, and since the local animal shelter began chronicling Fat Boy's ...
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Irene moves to Canada, US damage estimated at $7 billion
Vancouver Sun
NEW YORK — The remnants of Irene reached Canada Monday after barreling through the northeastern United States where the storm claimed at least 18 lives and caused estimated economic damage of up to $7 billion. Millions of people were without power ...
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updatedStorm warnings in place for Irene
CBC.ca
Irene was moving toward Eastern Canada on Sunday, after barrelling through the eastern US first as a Category 1 hurricane and then as a tropical storm. By midday, parts of southern New Brunswick had already been drenched with 50 millimetres of rain. ...
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Quebecers may have burned a political bridge
Montreal Gazette
On May 2, Canada went to the polls. Quebec went wholeheartedly New Democratic Party. The rest of the country voted into power a majority Conservative government. Like people everywhere, Quebecers voted the way they did because they believed it served ...
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Keep kids out of boxing, pediatricians warn
Globe and Mail
According to Boxing Canada, about 2000 kids aged 11 to 16 are participating in the sport; 500 of them are female. The two pediatrician groups put out a similar statement in 1997, but “the evidence to support our stance now is much stronger,” says ...
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Globe and Mail
Crosshair to oppose all resolutions at AusAm EGM
MarketWatch (press release)
Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA, Aug 28, 2011 (Filing Services Canada via COMTEX) -- Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. (CXX - TSX, CXZ - NYSE Amex), ("Crosshair") has called on fellow shareholders of Australian American Mining Corporation Limited ...
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Canada dealt first loss at 12 Nations tournament
Vancouver Sun
VIERUMAKI, Finland — Canada's leisurely skate through the competition at the 12 Nations women's hockey tournament came to an abrupt halt Sunday. Canada, which had outscored its opponents by a combined 44-1 margin in winning its first three games, ...
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FanExpo Canada | A rundown of news from this weekend's convention
Comic Book Resources
DC Comics will relaunch the Justice Society by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott. The new adventures of the JSA will be set not on the “New 52″ Earth, but on Earth-2, as they were before Crisis on Infinite Earths combined DC's multiple ...
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Canada's Damian Warner finishes 18th in decathlon at 2011 IAAF World Championships
Vancouver Sun
Damian Warner of Canada competes in the javelin throw event of the men's decathlon at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu August 28, 2011. DAEGU, South Korea — Damian Warner of London, Ont., struggled to an 18th-place finish in the decathlon on an ...
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Helicopter crash kills four in Quebec, Canada
Xinhua
28 (Xinhua) -- A helicopter crashed late Saturday in Canada's Quebec province, killing all four aboard including two men, a woman and a child. Local police sources said on Sunday that the helicopter went down around 9:15 pm ET in a densely wooded area ...
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Military looking to purchase over $750 M in new trucks
Vancouver Sun
Canada's military is planning to purchase thousands of new trucks in a deal estimated to be worth more than $750 million, even as an earlier announced truck program has fallen years behind schedule. With much fanfare in 2006 the Harper government ...
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Flight Attendants From Air Canada Reject New Deal
Self-catering-breaks.com
Apparently, there is not going to be any quick fix to the problems over at Air Canada. In fact, AirCanada's flight attendants have just recently held a strike vote after they overwhelmingly rejected a new tentative agreement with the airline. ...
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Canada in danger of missing the boat in the Arctic
Globe and Mail
Statements by France's ambassador for the polar regions, Michel Rocard, thatCanada appears to have given up on competing with Russia for Arctic commercial shipping traffic, should serve as a wake up call for Canadians. It may be that the country ...
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Globe and Mail
Rapp, Ellis dominate IM Canada
Slowtwitch
Jordan Rapp's race-best bike and run splits sealed a dominating second win at Penticton while Mary Beth Ellis topped Erin Baker's 1990 course record and smashed the field with a dazzling 8th overall, 9:03:13 performance at Ironman Canada Sunday. ...
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Hockey Guilty Pleasures: Trevor Alexander, Hockey Blog in Canada
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Today's Special Guest: Trevor Alexander, aka Teebz , who writes Hockey Blog in Canada , is an occasional contributor to UniWatch and one of our favorite bloggers. I'm not a Vancouver fan by any means, but I think that Dan Carcillo's (notes) latest ...
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100 flights cancelled in Canada over Irene storm
Hindustan Times
Canadian airlines cancelled over 100 flights at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Sunday as Hurricane Irene that ravaged through the US East Coast was approaching the country, the Toronto Star newspaper reported. The affected flights include ...
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Team Alberta romps to Western Canada Midget AAA Baseball Championship at ...
Victoria Times Colonist
By RON RAUCH, timescolonist.sports August 28, 2011 8:04 PM Alberta's Sherwood Park Dukes pour out of the dugout to celebrate winning the Western Canada Midget AAA Baseball Championship at Lambrick Park Sunday. Wyle Cunningham crafted a masterful ...
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Macatawa Bay Yacht Club-boat Team Heritage sails into Canada's Cup final
HollandSentinel.com
By Lukas Cimbal Sailing on what organizing committee co-chairman David Sligh described as “another postcard day in Macatawa, Michigan”, Team Heritage defeated Chicago's Team Convexity in the first race of Day 3 at the Canada's Cup Defender Trials on ...
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Transportation Safety Board of Canada
National Post (blog)
Just after 7 pm on Saturday, with word of the Resolute Bay crash already filtering through Canada, passengers boarded a Winnipeg-bound First Air 737 in Rankin Inlet, a Nunavut community of 2300 people 1300 kilometres south of Resolute Bay. ...
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Irene Nearing US-Canada Border; Millions in Dark, 18 Dead
BusinessWeek
28 (Bloomberg) -- Tropical Storm Irene neared the US-Canada border after killing 18 people, sending rivers to near-record heights and knocking out power to almost 6 million customers in 13 states and the District of Columbia. ...
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Merchant mariners call for medal recognition
Toronto Sun
By Jessica Murphy ,Parliamentary Bureau Canada's merchant mariners spent almost half a century fighting for recognition. Now they're asking for one more courtesy: A badge of pride. The Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association is pushing for a small ...
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Upcoming Harper-Obama talks last, best hope to slow the post-9/11 border chokehold
Toronto Star
OTTAWA—Ontario's economic health and millions of jobs will be on the table this fall when Prime Minister Stephen Harper sits down with US President Barack Obama to talk about unclogging the United States-Canada border. Many see the expected high-level ...
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Canada Names Women's World Team to Tokyo
International GYMNAST Magazine Online
Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique announced its women's world squad Sunday, following a two-day trial in Ontario. Talia Chiarelli, Madeline Gardiner, Mikaela Gerber, Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Peng Peng Lee, Dominique Pegg and Kristina Vaculik are set to ...
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International GYMNAST Magazine Online
Liberals gather in Ottawa to analyze loss, prepare for future
Montreal Gazette
By Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News August 28, 2011 OTTAWA — Liberal members of Parliament, defeated candidates, party executives and staff began gathering in Ottawa on Sunday to begin dissecting the worst electoral loss in the federal party's history ...
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Canada's organic farmers grow respect
Ottawa Citizen
By Lynn Moore, Postmedia News August 29, 2011 2:06 AM Canada's organic farming business has come a long way in very little time. While some farmers stuck to organic protocols and other industry players followed voluntary standards or certification ...
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Heats - Day One: World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia
Rowing News
On the opening day of the World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia, Canada saw three of its crews win heats, with two other boats advancing to the semifinals from second place. This regatta also serves as the qualifier for Olympic events to be held ...
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Bor community in Canada celebrates independence, remembers its great contributors
New Sudan Vision
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada) - One might think that the period of fanfare, pomp and color accorded an independence day was over when South Sudan became independence on July 9 this year. However, you could be proven wrong as South Sudanese communities ...
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Canada murder charge shock for NZ family | Otago Daily Times ...
The New Zealand family of a former Napier City councillor are in shock after finding out he has been charged for the murder of his Canadian wife.
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Take Irene seriously, Eastern Canada warned | Canada | News ...
Even though Hurricane Irene has been downgraded to a tropical storm, residents on Canada's east coast shouldn't let their guard down, weather experts are warning.
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Marvel Tells Canada That Alpha Flight Is To Be A Continuing Series ...
By Rich Johnston
But for now, from a hurricane-less Fan Expo Canada comes the news that Alpha Flight will now be a continuing series by Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente and Dale Eaglesham. I think I can still hear the cheering… Van Lente elaborates: “Wolverine ...
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Irene, now a tropical storm, nears Canada - News on Feeds
Site Map Make News on Feeds your home page! - Drag this link to your home button Bookmark! this page - Press CTRL-D ... Irene, now a tropical storm, nears Canada. published about 8 hours ago. MIAMI, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Gusty bands of rain ...
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Rapp, Ellis Take Ironman Canada Titles – Triathlete.com
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Ironman Canada was supposed to be hot—both temperature and race wise—and it did not disappoint.
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Irene weakens, makes way into Canada
By The Associated Press
Forecasters expect it to reach Canada later Sunday or early Monday. So far, Irene has claimed at least 19 lives and caused $3 billion in damage along the coastline, according to one private estimate. Flooding, downed power lines and falling ...
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Slave Lake begins the rebuild | Canada | News | London Free Press
People in the fire-ravaged town of Slave Lake, Alta., are excited and relieved to start building new memories, though some are waiting until the spring.
London Free Press
100 flights cancelled in Canada over Irene storm | Business News ...
By IANS
Moscow: Canadian airlines cancelled over 100 flights at Toronto's Pearson International Airport Sunday as Hurricane Irene that ravaged through the US East Coast was approaching the country, the Toronto Star newspaper reported. ...
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Canada: Holy Books Used for Cigarettes | New Middle East News
By admin
Several prisoners in British Columbia, Canada used copies of the Bible to roll cigarettes and store contraband, according to the Vancouver Sun. Prison services officials found that incidents of Bible desecration increased following a 2008 order that ...
New Middle East News
Floods build in US as Irene sloshes into Canada | Progressive ...
By msnbc.com: US news
Written by msnbc.com: US news. August 29, 2011. Read the full story. As Tropical Storm Irene chugged north into Canada, residents along the battered U.S. East Coast began surveying damage and fretted over the next danger: treacherous ...
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Tropical Storm Irene moving toward Canada | WCBD-TV 2
Tropical Storm Irene continues to move northward across the Southern New England states. Heavy rain is pushing north into areas of Canada.
CountOn2.com - Local News
Canada: Nissan Canada announces retail network for all-electric ...
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Nissan Canada Inc. (NCI) announced 27 selected Nissan retailers have passed the rigorous certification process to sell, support and service the all-electric. ... Categories. Advertisement (1); Battery News (1420). A123 (87); BYDbattery (12) ...
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Blackouts reported, storm warnings issued as Irene nears Quebec ...
Daily News, Halifax. Sunday, August 28, 2011; Atlantic Canadians urged to prepare as Hurricane Irene forecast to arrive. Ottawa Citizen, Canada. Sunday, August 28, 2011; Irene on track for late-weekend hit in Eastern Canada: forecasters ...
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Nutts Cup on Global TV News Hour | Crossfit Vancouver® - The ...
By eunice
Thank you to everyone who came out and made the second annual Nutts Cup such a success. It was one of the best days I've had with the CrossFit community in this province. Some of you ended up on the News Hour last night. Here's the link ...
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What do Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland and the USA agree ...
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FAMVIN News Seeing Christ in the face of the poor. Home · FAMVIN.ORG · About · Our Spirit · Our Work ... What do Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland and the USA agree on? August 29, 2011 0 Comments. It is more expensive to deal ...
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Dead Canadian Polar Bear Haunts Michigan Hunter - Yahoo! News
Read 'Dead Canadian Polar Bear Haunts Michigan Hunter' on Yahoo! News. Don't get me wrong, I love polar bears. Fact is, I have a Baccarat crystal polar bear ...
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Latest News / Canada – A Canadian man who left a computer job in Ottawa in March to join the rebel fighters in Libya has been killed by a sniper's bullet in ...
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Fan Expo Canada 2011: Liveblog Central | Comic News | News ...
Here you can find all the Fan Expo Canada 2011 panel and event liveblogs in one place!
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OCEANIA News, Aug 29, 2011


Fiji pull out of Olympic field hockey qualifying
AFP
SYDNEY — The Australian and New Zealand women's hockey teams have both qualified for the London Olympics after Fiji pulled out of the Oceania Cup qualifying tournament on Monday. The three-team tournament in Hobart from October 5-9 will now be a two ...
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AFP
Port of Tauranga tips 25pc traffic jump
New Zealand Herald
Photo / Mark Cairns Tauranga's port has been chosen by the world's second-largest container shipping line as the only New Zealand stop-off for its new Oceania Express service. The vessels will initially call every fortnight but once business grows it ...
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Experienced squad options for Black Sticks
Stuff.co.nz
That will be followed by the Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament in October, the Champions Trophy in Argentina in January, four home tests against Argentina in March, a four-to-six nations tournament in New Zealand in March-April, and a home series ...
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Stuff.co.nz
13 years on, Whippy returns
Fiji Times
THIRTEEN years ago, he represented Fiji in the Oceania Junior Championship and as a teenager. But today Fiji men's basketball captain Leonard Whippy returns to New Caledonia with a different mission to defend the gold medal. A new New Caledonia is what ...
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Soccer Results Bring Mixed Fortunes for Solomons
Solomon Times Online
While Guam picked up in the second half and creating some chances of their own, it was no match for one of the giants of Oceania soccer. With a population of just over 10000 the little known Tuvaluan soccer team gave soccer something to smile about ...
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Solomon Times Online
Major change looming in Fiji Football calendar
Fijivillage
The Oceania Football Confederation wants the soccer format to be changed in Fiji. Fiji FA's Acting President, Sheik Ibrahim said they are now carrying out final work in organizing the calendar for next year. It has also been proposed that major soccer ...
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Fijivillage
New service boost for port
SunLive
MSC national operations director Mark Godfrey says the new service, the Oceania Express Service, has a port rotation of: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Tauranga, Balboa, Long Beach, Melbourne. “MSC recognises the Port of Tauranga as a major New Zealand ...
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Lal jets into team
Fiji Times
"The main reason for me to play in this tournament was to secure my spot in the national side for theOceania Championship. To qualify you need to play at least three out of four national rankings championship." Bala downed former Fiji number one ...
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Kane Russell gets Black Sticks call up
Newstalk ZB
The Black Sticks head to the Oceania Qualifier in October, needing to finish in the top two against Australia and Fiji to earn provisional qualification. Meanwhile, Clarissa Eshuis and Bianca Russell have both been included in the women's preliminary ...
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Mini World Cup 2011
Otago Daily Times
A special guest, Oceania player of the century Wynton Rufer, displayed his silky skills during the morning and was a hit with autograph hunters. In the mini internationals, the eighth grade mini All Whites were too strong for their Argentina opposition ...
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Otago Daily Times
Canoe Racing in danger of losing funding
Newstalk ZB
Miskimmin says the amount of funding will be based on the size of the program. He says if athletes don't qualify boats then funding will be adjusted accordingly. Miskimmin says the boats that have failed to qualify still have a chance at the Oceania ...
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Panasonic introduces range of products
Himalayan Times
Associate Director of Panasonic Corporation, Corporate Management Division for Asia and Oceania, Masaru Maruo, on the occasion, said that Panasonic's corporate vision is to become the No 1 green innovation company in the electronics industry by the ...
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GPG leads NZ sharemarket higher
Stuff.co.nz
MSC, the world's second-largest container line by capacity, announced it would start its OceaniaExpress Service in October, with Tauranga its only New Zealand stop. Port of Tauranga said 40 per cent of the forecast container volume increase this year ...
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Wrestling: On the road to Olympic gold
The Bay of Plenty Times
He has to finish in the top two at next year's Oceania champs in Aussie and do the same at the African Cup in Morocco. Mount Maunganui's Megan Candler also won three medals at the weekend - two in grappling and one in freestyle - with her achievement ...
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Bakradze to Visit Singapore, Australia, N.Zealand
Civil Georgia
The Georgian parliamentary speaker's office said in a press release on Saturday, that the purpose of the visit to Australia and New Zealand "is to establish bilateral contacts with leading countries" of theOceania region, "which will help to promote ...
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Playing for their mom's homeland
Inquirer.net
We feel there is something intrinsically wrong when our television networks telecast basketball tournaments but are not prepared to cover such major events as the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Zone Group I tie between the Philippines and Chinese-Taipei on ...
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Numbers of women at the top shrinking
The Australian
In the Asia and Oceania region, which includes Australia, women were barely 13 per cent of those in senior management. "Women's absence is seen most profoundly at the top of companies in the key policy and decision-making positions," the report says. ...
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The power of prayer
Fiji Times
PNG reached the final of the Oceania championship last year. Motu said it would be an uphill battle for them to conquer PNG. "It will be tough playing against PNG. We have not played against them for sometime but we are ready to put oa good fight ...
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Confirmed: Patty Mills to play in Australian NBL this season
A Stern Warning (blog)
Mills is already in Australia, preparing for the important Boomers series against the New Zealand Tall Blacks, to be played in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. The series will determine which Oceaniateam gets through to the 2012 London Olympics. ...
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Special Report: Afghan heroin traffickers targeting Tanzania, East Africa
The Citizen Daily
The report further points out that once in East Africa, Afghan heroin flows to Europe, North America, South-East Asia and Oceania – either directly or via other African countries. Increasing flows of heroin to Africa have also led to increases in drug ...
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Similarity between two earthquakes
Korea Times
With territory in Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America including Brazil, Portugal became one of the world's major economic and political powers. The country had undertaken these ventures in the Age of Discovery, transforming itself from the Kingdom ...
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Korea Times
Getting Libya “Governed Right”
Baltic Review
Well, in the words of the government of Oceania, “War is Peace.” In a special column for CNN, the Truman National Security Project's Rachel Kleinfeld typifies the message of the foreign policy elite. “It's worth some effort,” Kleinfeld writes, ...
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Blaze loses last pre-season match
Gold Coast Bulletin News
Mark Worthington and Adam Gibson arrive in Australia this week but the Boomers head into camp ahead of next week's Oceania Championship Olympic qualifying series against New Zealand. To read how the pre-season may have uncovered a star for the Blaze ...
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Sexual Intercourse With Neanderthals Contributed to Human's Strong Immunity: Study
International Business Times
DNA inherited from Neanderthals and newly discovered hominids known as Denisovans has contributed to key types of immune genes still present among populations in Europe, Asia andOceania. These gene variants must have helped humans survive while ...
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Regional qualifying starts this week
ESPN
The Asian qualifier and Oceania one, pitting Australia against New Zealand, will be played later in September. The third through sixth-place teams at EuroBasket and the teams finishing 3-5 in Argentina will advance to next summer's Olympic qualifying ...
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