Khmer Rouge steps up armed attacks
In the last week, the Khmer Rouge has escalated its attacks on UN and Cambodian government installations as it seeks to prevent the May 23 elections.
On May 3 Khmer Rouge guerillas attacked Siem Reap,
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"We are not trying to do live priests out of business. However, the robot never forgets an anniversary." — Japanese curator of a cemetery and chapel staffed by a robot priest which says prayers of the appropriate religion for those buried in the
ANC youth leader to tour Australia
By Sean Malloy
Jeremiah Ndou, head of the ANC Youth League International Affairs Department, will be a guest of the radical youth organisation Resistance at its 22nd national conference in July.
CONSTANCIO PINTO, exiled former executive secretary for the National Council of Maubere Resistance, headed a delegation of East Timorese youth which toured North America in April. They spoke to some 30 missions at the United Nations, lobbied
SYDNEY — Seventy people attended a public meeting on the situation in Cuba held here on May 5. The meeting was addressed by a representative of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Basilio Gutierrez. Gutierrez is visiting
By Geoff Spencer
PERTH — Some 1200 people attended a Save the Westrail Midland Workshops march and public meeting on May 6. Loudspeakers were set up outside the Midland Town Hall to cater for the large crowd which could not be accommodated
Cambodian emergency
This week's issue of the Bulletin magazine has a cover feature on Cambodia by Australian journalist and film maker John Pilger. It is must reading.
Pilger describes the growing threat of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, who
South Korea celebrates May Day
By Michael Chong
South Korean workers and students celebrated May Day this year for the first time in 35 years. Until now, any ceremonies relating to May Day were legally banned.
In the Seoul region, a
Abattoir axed
By Geoff Spencer
PERTH — Robb Jetty meat workers walked off the job for 24 hours on May 4 with the announcement of the closure of the abattoir and the loss of 220 jobs.
The state Coalition government decision came a
By Jason Cheng
MELBOURNE — While most economists and economic commentators are still singing the tune of "economic rationalism", Age economics editor Kenneth Davidson remains an outspoken "Keynesian". Davidson delivered the May Day
ACTUP rally against censorship
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — A noisy protest was held outside the offices of TV Week on May 8, following the magazine's refusal to carry a series of AIDS awareness advertisements aimed at young gay and
By Bronwen Beechey and Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — The day after a large May 5 march and rally against the Kennett government's budget cuts and attacks on superannuation benefits of public sector workers, a $2 million "audit" of the state's
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