The Jakarta Post
Indonesia brings S. Korea to WTO panel over paper row
JAKARTA (Antara): Indonesia has brought its trade dispute with South Korea to the Dispute Settlement Board of the World Trade Organization as the latter accuses Indonesia of dumping its wood-free copy paper products, an official said on Thursday.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050414172459&irec=0
Chief justice suggests death sentence changed into life imprisonment
JAKARTA (JP): Amid international pressure on the abolishment of capital punishment, Supreme Court Chief Justice Bagir Manan suggested on Thursday that a death sentence could be changed into a life sentence if the prisoner had been jailed for more than five years.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050414123654&irec=7
Local govt in East Java halts new drilling operations
JAKARTA (Dow Jones): Bojonegoro regency administration in East Java has stopped PetroChina Co. (PTR) and state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina (PTM.YY) from drilling new oil wells in Sukowati oil field, demanding a 10% stake in the field, a government official said Thursday.
"According to the existing law, they (the Bojonegoro regional government) cannot stop the (new drilling) operations," said Iin Arifin Takhyan, director general of oil and gas at the Mines and Energy Ministry.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050414123654&irec=8
Reinventing Indonesia
S.P. Seth, Sydney
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is his country's best salesman. During his recent Australia visit he was exuding charm, making friends, saying the right things, handsomely sharing Australia's grief on the loss of its servicemen involved in relief work in Indonesia's earthquake stricken zone, and being an eternal optimist regarding his country's future. It was a genuinely moving sight to see Indonesia's First Lady Kristiani Herawati wiping her tears when the deceased Australian soldiers were given a final send off.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20050414.E02&irec=1
Indonesia and China to forge strategic partnership
Zakki P. Hakim and Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Indonesia and China will forge a strategic partnership in a bid to boost bilateral cooperation in the fields of trade, investment, infrastructure, and agricultural, Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailworld.asp?fileid=20050414.K01&irec=0
The Australian
Sea King dead laid to rest
Drew Warne-Smith
April 14, 2005
THE burials have begun. And finally, the official recognition can too.
After a ceremonial homecoming, the military pomp and much private grief, the first three of the nine Australian servicemen and women killed in the Sea King helicopter crash were yesterday laid to rest.
And in death they can now be formally honoured.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12850378%255E2702,00.html
Aussie 'suicide bomber' to be deported from US
Amanda Hodge and Geoff Elliott
April 14, 2005
A CHINESE Australian man who sparked a major security alert in Washington DC this week after being suspected of being a suicide bomber is unlikely to face charges on his return to Australia.
Nor will he be indicted in the US after police decided not to pursue a minor charge of disobeying a police officer and to deport him instead.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12850306%255E2702,00.html
Free-trade talks come with warning
Katharine Murphy and Nigel Wilson
April 14, 2005
AUSTRALIA will offer China significant concessions on foreign investment but resist pressure to restrain iron ore exporters on price or open the textile market to greater competition, in a historic free-trade deal to be launched next week.
Cabinet has given approval for John Howard to proceed with trade talks that will formally recognise China as a free market, in return for a written undertaking from China's Commerce Minister Bo Xilai that the deal will cover all sectors of the economy - goods and services and investment.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12850385%255E2702,00.html
America unbuttons a new front in the war on breasts
… While operating within a very different philosophical paradigm to Palomar, the puritanical army currently attempting to purge the US of sex and obscenity is also ruminating with an intensity that cannot be healthy.
Outlawing Indecency, a new documentary that screened on SBS last night, reveals that the real sexual fetishists are not shady characters in gimp suits, but Christian activists. They're the ones who go on about the lecherous dangers of low-rider daks (which Louisiana recently attempted to penalise with a six-month jail term) and Janet Jackson's nipple (which one litigant claimed had caused countless Americans serious injury) with an obsession bordering on the lascivious.
The rest of us just have sex every so often, and move on.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12413894%255E12274,00.html
The Globe and Mail
THE USA can't even do anything about it because it's military obligations, including it's budget, is bogged down in Iraq.
So long, and thanks for all the jets
Harare, Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe thanked China for helping Zimbabwe during its "time of need" after six trainer jets were delivered to the cash-strapped country on Wednesday, state media reported.
The six Karakorum 8 (K-8) jets at Thornhill base near Gweru, about 250km west of Harare, will be used to train air-force pilots, The Herald reported.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=234958&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
Twin car bombs hit Baghdad
Edward Harris Baghdad, Iraq
A pair of car bombs exploded near government offices in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing 18 and wounding three dozen, as insurgent attacks against the nation's nascent security forces left at least eight others dead.
The near-simultaneous explosions outside an interior ministry office in a south-eastern Baghdad neighbourhood killed 18 and wounded 36 others, said a ministry official, Captain Ahmed Ismael. The morning blasts sent large plumes of smoke over the city.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=234949&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
The Telegraph
Asylum chaos left al-Qa'eda man free to plot ricin terror in Britain
By John Steele and Nigel Bunyan
(Filed: 14/04/2005)
An illegal immigrant trained by al-Qa'eda to be one of its top poisoners was jailed for 17 years yesterday for leading a plot to terrorise Britain with ricin and cyanide.
As he was sentenced at the Old Bailey, it was disclosed that Kamel Bourgass, an Islamic extremist from Algeria, had been convicted last year of murdering Special Branch officer Stephen Oake.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=03UIGPZELDOQRQFIQMGSM5OAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/04/14/nbour14.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/14/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=39736
The bungled raid that left a policeman face to face with an al-Qa'eda assassin
(Filed: 14/04/2005)
Operation that ended in murder of Stephen Oake was flawed from the start, writes Nigel Bunyan
Stephen Oake's fate hung in the balance as soon as he and his Special Branch colleagues entered the tiny flat in Crumpsall, Manchester.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/14/nbour114.xml
From the Taliban camps to the poison factory over a north London chemist's
By John Steele and Sue Clough
(Filed: 14/04/2005)
On a hot day in August 2001, a wiry, intense and thoroughly dangerous former Algerian policeman, then using the name Nadir Habra, checked for letters sent to him at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, a meeting place for Islamic extremists.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/14/nbour314.xml
The chaos that allows a failed asylum seeker to stay and kill
By Philip Johnston
(Filed: 14/04/2005)
There is no more incendiary issue in the election campaign than what to do about immigration and asylum. When Michael Howard suggested on Sunday that Britain's security was at risk because terrorists had used the asylum system to enter the country, he was accused by Labour of using "scurrilous, Right-wing, ugly tactics" to scare voters.
Yet the news yesterday that an Algerian asylum seeker, whose case was turned down by the authorities, was able to remain in the country to join a terrorist plot and, ultimately, to kill a police officer illustrates far more graphically than hours of party political posturing how badly the procedures have broken down. The killer, who went under a variety of names, including Kamel Bourgass, even used the envelope that contained his rejection letter from the Immigration Service to store recipes for ricin and other deadly chemicals that were intended to be used in a terror attack.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/14/do1401.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/04/14/ixopinion.html
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Belugas are Arctic Circle species. There isn't any reason for them to stay in the colder waters if they are getting warm. They follow food sources right into inlets and otherwise.
A whale with a tale
By Kaitlin Gurney and Joel Bewley
Inquirer Staff Writers
It looks as if he's Canadian.
Researchers from Quebec believe the 12-foot beluga whale that has lost his way on the Delaware River is one of their own, a male named Helis.
Identifiable by a large gash on his back near his dorsal ridge, the snow-white Helis (pronounced ell-EE) was first spotted in 1986 among belugas that make their home near the St. Lawrence River, Quebec's Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals said yesterday. The Canadian government even gave him a number: DL 018.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11387700.htm
Monica Yant Kinney Traveling whale needs a name
By Monica Yant Kinney
Inquirer Columnist
Some of the best professional advice I ever received was to never look an animal story in the mouth.
Everybody reads them. Editors may sniff and snarl, but they usually put four-legged lore on the front page.
One of my first animal experiments involved a house fire in Florida.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11387743.htm
Bush's Advisory Board should be disband. Between the COX2 drugs and Silicon Implants that is proof enough. Now inhalers are going to come into question and people will literally be deprived of their medication. This is an interesting one because it lowers the liability of Tobacco companies. Inhalers are using the first step in the diagnosis of COPD.
Asthma drugs getting scrutiny
A study shows that adults with a mild form of the disease may not need daily doses, which is the standard treatment.
By Susan FitzGerald
Inquirer Staff Writer
The recommendation that adults with mild asthma take medication every day to control the disease might be unnecessary, a new study suggests.
Patients with mild persistent asthma who went without inhaled steroids or other daily medication had no more frequent asthma flare-ups than and had equally good lung function as patients who used the drugs.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11387703.htm
Sydney Morning Herald
WOMEN choose a mate based on pregnancy and how well the young will do. That is an 'anima' instinct that will never go away, hence, the old expression "Behind every great man is a great woman," it true. The difference between choosing a Dare Devil for romance or not is will he be around to help with the kids. Both in lifestyle and facing down death the answer is resoundingly 'no.' The advent of liberated women can completely remove men like this from the sexually perferred market place because women can choose a "mate" without having to be financially mired to him so even the remotestly desperate woman no longer has to settle for an asshole.
Daredevils 'a turn off'
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Daredevils-a-turn-off/2005/04/14/1113251723505.html?oneclick=true
Alert level on high as thousands flee volcano's warning signs
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Thousands-flee-volcanos-warning-signs/2005/04/13/1113251686250.html
Bolton style is kiss boss, kick juniors, says former spy
By Michael Gawenda, Herald Correspondent, in Washington and agencies
April 14, 2005
A former State Department intelligence chief has described President George Bush's choice as ambassador to the United Nations as a classic "kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy".
In blunt testimony that surprised members of the Senate foreign relations committee, Carl Ford said John Bolton's behaviour "brings real question to my mind about his suitability for high office".
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bolton-style-is-kiss-boss-kick-juniors-says-former-spy/2005/04/13/1113251685442.html
The $9-a-bite burger
April 14, 2005 - 8:42AM
Hamburgers made of New Zealand beef are being sold by a London restaurant for STG55 ($134) each.
The burgers, made from meat from cattle of the Japanese wagyu breed, come with fries, and are being sold at the Zuma restaurant in fashionable Knightsbridge, the British tabloid The Daily Mail reported.
A spokeswoman for the restaurant said: "Our wagyu beef comes from New Zealand, where the cows are reared on beer and massaged until they weigh three-quarters of a tonne, more than double the weight of an average cow.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/The-9abite-burger/2005/04/14/1113251713222.html
The Miami Herald
Alcohol industry accused of marketing to minors
A lawsuit claiming that alcoholic-beverage makers promote underage drinking is similar to the one brought against the tobacco industry.
BY PATRICK DANNER
pdanner@herald.com
Some of the country's largest alcoholic-beverage makers have been accused in a Broward Circuit Court lawsuit of marketing booze to underage drinkers with images like the Budweiser frogs and Captain Morgan.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11388664.htm
U.S. needs credible voice in U.N. councils
OUR OPINION: JOHN BOLTON ISN'T THE RIGHT CANDIDATE FOR THIS JOB
As a rule, presidents should have wide latitude in appointments for high office. When questions arise, the nominee deserves the benefit of the doubt -- absent an egregious transgression. John Bolton's well-known disdain for the United Nations doesn't by itself disqualify him for the job of U.S. ambassador. But his ideological zeal, demonstrated by his dismaying record of carving the facts to fit narrow political goals, make him a singularly poor choice for this important position.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11388655.htm
Sheriff pledges full cooperation
Ken Jenne reiterated at a speaking engagement that a state investigation into his personal businesses would reveal no wrongdoing.
By EVAN S. BENN
ebenn@herald.com
Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne, speaking Wednesday at a Weston Business Chamber of Commerce breakfast, briefly addressed a new state investigation regarding alleged misconduct by himself and others at the sheriff's office.
Jenne repeated what he wrote in a statement Monday: He welcomes the investigation from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and he is confident it will reveal no wrongdoing on his part.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11387795.htm
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