Graham Matthews
Sun Xiaodi, a former miner at the Gansu No. 72 Uranium Mine in Chinese-controlled Tibet, remains "missing" over six months after he was abducted, following an interview with an AFP journalist in Beijing on April 28. Sun had
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Jon Lamb
On October 15, a band of angry villagers and former pro-integration militia from East Timor crossed the border from the Indonesian province of West Timor into the East Timorese province of Oecuessi and attacked two startled East Timorese
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"And so I want to thank you for being a good host. It's not easy to host all these countries, particularly not easy to host, uhh, perhaps, me." — Emperor George Bush II, speaking at the Summit of the Americas, in Buenos Aires, November
Pip Hinman
What a momentous week we have come through! The biggest workers' rights protest in Australian history — nothing less! On November 15, at least 600,000 workers around the country took part in mass meetings, rallies and marches against
Margarita Windisch, Caracas
Marcela Maspero, national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT), told national newspaper Dario Vea that the UNT has reached consensus on reactivating 700 closed enterprises across Venezuela as part of its
Kim Bullimore
On November 17, an Israeli military court acquitted of all charges the captain accused of the manslaughter of 13-year-old student Iman Al-Hams. Captain R, whose identity was suppressed by the Israeli military, was also charged with
The November 15 mass protest of hundreds of thousands of people at more than 300 venues around the country revealed the overwhelming opposition to the federal government's attacks on working people and trade unions — and that large numbers of
The Secret Inquisition: Guardians of the Church — Looks at the Catholic Church's controversial positions on communism and AIDS. SBS, Friday, November 25, 2pm.
Message Stick: The Future of the Tent Embassy — Set up in 1972, what does the future
Max Lane
The Indonesian government's policy, announced last month, of giving a A$40 handout to people on an income of less than $25 per month as compensation for rises in fuel prices was only due to last for a few weeks, yet was supposed to help
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
In the largest nationwide demonstration for workers' rights, up to 600,000 people mobilised across the country on November 15 to oppose the federal government's unprecedented attack on the entire work force. The following day,
Raj Patel, Durban
It was an ordinary mugging. The bastard had a gun, a swagger, a gang and didn't seem to want me to take his photo when he was roughing someone up. So he came up to me and told me to hand over the camera. Timid as I am, and not
Doug Lorimer
A claim by US intelligence officials that they possess "strong circumstantial" evidence that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program were dismissed on November 14 by US nuclear weapons expert David Albright.
According to the
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