JOINT-TRAINING INITIATIVE. Australia and Timor Leste have agreed to launch a joint education, training and employment initiative. Both sides expect to come up with specific recommendations on the initiative by the end of 2008. This was disclosed at a joint press conference in Canberra on Aug 26, 2008 by the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his visiting Timor Leste counterpart Xanana Gusmao (top picture, left) .Under the initiative, the island nation, a member of the Non-Aligned Movemen...
JOHOR BAHARU, MALAYSIA, Aug 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) -- A team of officers from the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) is to come here soon to explore opportunities in the Iskandar Malaysia economic ...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (NNN-KUNA) -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that Lebanon's efforts to secure its border with Syria in an attempt to stop arms smuggling to various ...
NAIROBI, Aug 27 (NNN-KBC) -- The fate of a 21 billion Kenyan shillings (about 300 million USD) sugar project in Kenya’s Msambweni district hangs in the ...
CARACAS, Aug 28 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused transnational companies on Wednesday of being disrespectful to national sovereignty, referring to demands made by owners ...
