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East Timor won’t be Asean ‘basket case’
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SINGAPORE: East Timor hopes to join the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (Asean) by 2012 but not as a “basket case” which
might embarrass Myanmar, President Jose Ramos-Horta said.
Addressing the Foreign Correspondents
Association here late Saturday, Ramos-Horta said his six-year-old
country was improving its economy and other institutions in order to
be ready to join the Southeast Asian grouping.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Asian governments forced
to act as oil prices soar
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JAKARTA: Torn between protecting the poor and saving their budgets,
governments across Asia are being forced to slash fuel subsidies as
world oil prices smash through $130 a barrel.
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Between McCain and
Obama, it could get nasty
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WASHINGTON: Blustery rows between potential White House foes John
McCain and Barack Obama, more typical of an election’s frenzied
last days than its opening shots, may augur a rancorous slog through
to November.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police have broken a baby-selling racket in southern Johor state, seizing four infants and detaining 23 people including a doctor and a government registrar, reports said Sunday. The New Straits Times said the syndicate bought babies from poor women who were talked out of having abortions, and then sold them to childless couples.
-- AFP
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