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Aug 29, 2011

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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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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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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ASIA News, Aug 29, 2011


Bidvest increases diluted earnings
BusinessLIVE
Bidvest said Asia Pacific continued to deliver strong results. Deflation on food products was evident for a large part of the year, impacting trading margins. Bidvest Europe's overall result was lower. Adverse factors included a challenging economic ...
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BusinessLIVE
First time pavilions from India and Japan reflect new industry trends
Search-Autoparts.com
As Asia's largest trade fair for automotive parts, accessories, equipment and services, the show is expected to house a record-breaking 3600 exhibitors under one roof, compared with more than 3100 exhibitors in 2010. The fair is organized by Messe ...
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Sesa Goa may slide as Supreme Court bans mining in Chitradurga
India Infoline.com
Net profit of Gillette India declined 86.51% to Rs 2.51 crore on 16.20% rise in net sales to Rs 292.28 crore in Q4 June 2011 over Q4 June 2010. On a consolidated basis, net profit of C & C Constructions declined 19.7% to Rs 24.27 crore on 24.5% rise in ...
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Five Finalists Chosen for the 2011 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award
Iran Book News Agency
Previous year's winners of the Book Award include James C. Scott for The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2010) and Duncan McCargo for Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (2009).
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Iran Book News Agency
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo Hatches Six Greater Flamingos
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News
These beautiful birds are found in habitats such as marshes and estuaries on several continents including Africa, Asia and Europe. The greater flamingo has a distinctive black-tipped bill that curves downward, which helps the animal feed on small ...
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Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News
Zircon's take-off may be only the beginning of boom
The Australian
In a recent announcement, Alkane Resources (ALK) noted that strong zircon demand, combined with a tightening supply, had fuelled a dramatic increase in prices. Contracted zircon prices from mineral sands companies were $US1700 to $US2000/tonne in the ...
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SCTA plans to set up museums: Prince Sultan
Arab News
Al-Ghabban added that DNA and C-14 tests proved that the artifacts found during the excavation were 9000 years old. He said the team found 80 valuable artifacts from the area, while previous excavations referred to Asia as the first place where man had ...
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GCLL, QSPW and NNAN: Nanomaterial and Clean Tech Stocks With News For Investors
Small Cap Network
Guo is an ex-Regional Director for BP Solar where she worked for 15 years and she has been named by Asia Law Business magazine as one of "China's Top 10 In-house Counsels." On Friday, Quantum Solar Power closed at $0.970 (QSPW has a 52 week trading ...
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Training camps athletes love
Cincinnati.com
Phillips 2b, Lewis lf, Votto 1b, Bruce rf, Frazier 3b, Stubbs cf, Hanigan c, Janish ss, Cueto p Today's game: 1:10 pm vs. Washington at GABP Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson gets playful at his 2010 ProCamps Worldwide camp. ...
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Spectrum A to Z
Computerworld New Zealand
Band plan selection will be critical, with the Asia Pacific plan (likely to be formalised at a meeting of the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva in January 2012) appearing to be the most favoured. This allows for 45MHz paired bands (one for ...
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THAILAND: Persecution of torture victims and the legalization of impunity in ...
Asian Human Rights Commission News
The Asian Legal Resource Centre wishes to draw the attention of the Human Rights Council to the systemic persecution of torture victims in Thailand. Thailand acceded to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of ...
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Camels are the new cash cow for the UAE
gulfnews.com
Emiratis and Arabs contribute to 75 per cent of the local sales while Asia makes up 15 per cent and Europe and America make up 10 per cent. Al Ain Dairy reports similar demand. "Demand is very high and is increasing based on the increase in awareness...
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gulfnews.com
Elder Bar Turned Green - LEA, LEO, LF, LGF, LGI
Health Talk & You
As of December 31, 2010, it had 19 joint ventures located throughout Asia, as well as five in North America, three in Europe and Africa and one with operations in all three regions. Dreyfus Strategic Muni. (NYSE:LEO) went up 0.50%, to close at $8.08 ...
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P&F Descending Triple Bottom Breakout - RBS, RBS/PM, RSH, RT, RTI
Retirement Planning
As of May 31, 2011, a traditional internat ional franchisee operated one Wok Hay full-service Asianrestaurant. The Company-owned and operated restaurants are concentrated in the Northeast, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest regions of the United ...
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