BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — Daewoo's Bupyong factory recommenced operations on March 7 under the guard of 8000 riot police. As 80 buses took workers into the factory about 200 laid-off workers attempted to block them. All were detained by the police.
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Tahiti's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru was re-elected mayor of the working-class city of Faa'a, near Tahiti's international airport, with an overwhelming majority in the municipal election held March 10-11.
Temaru's election is a big boost
Cruelty
"[Abdurrahman Wahid's] advisers have taken to placing a vibrating mobile phone in his pocket so they can call and wake him during meetings." — The Washington Post on the Indonesian president's habit of falling asleep when he is bored.
“[Sometimes we can find] out who people are by listening to the music
and rhythm they carry in their speech, and theorizing that we are not really
who we are when we are perfect in grammatical sentences (which I think
of as a form of
Finding the enemy
Who is the enemy? This is a dilemma for the US military chasing funding
in a post-Soviet era of “peace dividend”.
In Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll's dramatic account of intrigue
and interference in data networks
BY ANA KAILIS
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has announced that it will carry out a "marginal seats campaign" during the next federal election, which is expected before the end of the year. But are such campaigns a winning strategy for the
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the PreposterousBy Nick CohenVerso, 2000247pp, $35(pb)
"I appreciate there were some people who voted for us who thought we would make a difference. They didn't understand" —
BY MARGARET PERROT
WOLLONGONG — The sacking of Dr Ted Steele from Wollongong University has attracted a great deal of media attention in the past month. Much less well known is the university's treatment of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly journalist and
BY VIV MILEY
The Senate on March 7 passed new legislation which widens the circumstances under which Australian Defence Force reserves can be called out by the defence minister to suppress civil protest actions and strikes.
The legislation, which
On March 6 eight West Australian Liberal MPs wrote a letter calling on Prime Minister John Howard to block the imminent $10 billion takeover of Australia's 12th largest company, Woodside Petroleum, by the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell.
BY AL GIORDANO
While it is front-page news in South America, US President George Bush's half-billion dollar increase in funds for Plan Colombia — complete with a public relations facelift and attempted name change — has flown under the radar of
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