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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to a report released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Australia's political policies toward Fiji have negatively impacted Australia's reputation in the region and stunted development opportunities among the Pacific Islands. The report also states that international confidence in Australia's regional leadership is strained as the Bainimarama Government continues to progress economically through freshly formed partnerships with China and other Asian powers.
The ASPI report comes only days after the announcement of Fiji's groundbreaking economic plan, which reduces or eliminates taxes for 99 percent of taxpayers and improves the ease of doing business in Fiji for foreign investment through major tax cuts and ...
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... to restructure the means and ends of policymaking. If the former crush and liquidate dissent in the ...The pro-realpolitik community of defence intellectuals first objected to the Academy and th... raise the red flag as early as 1997 on the 'China threat' and the absolute necessity for the US to i...
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... (NZCC) released a revised Leniency Policy in March 2010. Under the previous Leniency Policy,... Nippon Airways, Singapore Airlines Cargo, China Airlines, Northwest Airlines and Polar Air Cargo. ... in one jurisdiction compromise the defence in another. In addition, the threat of extraditi...
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... consciousness among diplomats and policymakers that threats to basic security in one state or reg... powers"--namely, but not limited to India, China, Brazil, and South Africa--and the harnessing of m...In In Defence of Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,...
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The four theories of the press have long dominated in journalism education and research and arguably do a good job of describing media systems in the West. However, it is hard to fit Asian media systems into the existing theories. This paper re-examines the four press theories and identifies the difficulties in using the theories as a guide to understand media systems in Asia. The purpose of this paper is to raise issues with the applicability of the theories in an Asian media context and explore a new paradigm, which would bring in cultural values from both the East and the West.
... of the world's religions originated, and China, where paper and the printing press were first inv... economy as the government has adopted a policy of gradually cutting subsidies and encouraging com..., in particular the right to life, self-defence, and freedom. They have also duties; in particular...
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...Danish Defence Minister Soeren Gade said that the Ministry of Jus...Even so, the ICC does not include China, India, Russia or the United States. What is neede... of Piracy and Order", in Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2009, pp. 80-81; (2) www.bt.dk/nyheder/de...
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... in assisting the consumer movement in China. Asian culture believes in karma, which means "dee...-mediating complaints, engaging in consumer policy advocacy, monitoring trade malpractices and tender...Their defence was that the 'clinic' was a registered concern in ...
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... worth $7.8 billion, after reviewing bids by China (HongQi-9), Israel (Arrow-2), Russia (S-300, S-400... Hansen, "The Middle East and Missile Defence," in Missile Defence: International, Regional, and...
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...(growth), and a generally generous dividend policy in the sector, the telecoms have provided stabilit... way out of recession, many military and defence budgets are facing cuts and airborne ISR assets ar...
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..." missions to communist countries like China, Cuba, and North Vietnam, only to return with glow... thinking takes its cue from Shelley's "Defence of Poetry," the tract ending with the famous line ... and cognitive grasp of complex matters of policy, history, and even abstract ideas, they need to sp...