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UN recommits to poverty reduction
13:33:49, 26 September 2008, Radio Australia News
World leaders at the United Nations have recommitted themselves to reducing global poverty.
Fiji budget to focus on poor: Minister
15:30:51, 4 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Fiji's acting interim finance minister says next year's national budget will focus on the poor.
Thailand announces benefit package for the poor
22:28:07, 15 July 2008, Radio Australia News
The Thai government has announced a $US1.4 billion benefit package for the poor to help counteract the rising cost of living.
World leaders to discuss food shortages, climate change
08:03:00, 9 July 2008, Radio Australia News
The leaders of the Group of Eight nations, meeting in Japan this week, will sit down with the leaders of other major economies including Australia to discuss climate change and world food shortages.
World Bank chief warns of greater poverty risk
11:56:58, 8 July 2008, Radio Australia News
The head of the World Bank says the task of saving the world's most vulnerable in the face of soaring food and oil prices is a test the Group of Eight nations cannot afford to fail.
Remember poor nations at G8: activists
09:20:15, 8 July 2008, Radio Australia News
Leaders of the G8 group of industrialised countries are being urged to consider the impact of rising food and oil prices on the world's poorest nations.
Australian PM urged to put biofuels on G8 agenda
12:49:21, 7 July 2008, Radio Australia News
International aid agency, Oxfam, says the Australian Prime Minister must raise concerns at the G8 Summit about the impact of biofuel policies on food prices.
Calls in NZ for higher welfare benefits
17:03:23, 29 April 2008, Radio Australia News
In New Zealand, child poverty lobbyists are calling for higher welfare benefits and tax cuts for low income earners in next month's budget.
A 'silent tsunami' of food price pain: UN
03:43:42, 23 April 2008, Radio Australia News
The UN food agency says the world faces a 'silent tsunami' of soaring food prices.
Emergency help for countries hit by food crisis
04:46:19, 15 April 2008, Radio Australia News
The World Bank has endorsed what it says is a new deal for global food policy.
![Thousands of police have been deployed in the area where parliament house, the main metropolitan police headquarters and government house are located. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/thai_protestclash_afp_081008.jpg "Thousands of police have been deployed in the area where parliament house, the main metropolitan police headquarters and government house are located. [AFP]")
![President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the islands' leader for the past 30 years, faces five bitter rivals in the poll. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/maldives_gayoom_afp_061008.jpg "President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the islands' leader for the past 30 years, faces five bitter rivals in the poll. [AFP]")
![Anti-government demonstrators try to take cover after riot police fired tear gas at protesters blocking Parliament in Bangkok. [Reuters]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/thai_protest_rtr_071008.jpg "Anti-government demonstrators try to take cover after riot police fired tear gas at protesters blocking Parliament in Bangkok. [Reuters]")
![Smoke rises from Mount Soputan on the outskirts of Manado of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. [Reuters]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/indon_soputan_rtr_071008.jpg "Smoke rises from Mount Soputan on the outskirts of Manado of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. [Reuters]")
![The quake was felt over a wide area and razed the village of Nura of 960 residents in the Tian Shan mountains at an altitude of 2,000 metres. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/kyrgyz_quake_afp_061008.jpg "The quake was felt over a wide area and razed the village of Nura of 960 residents in the Tian Shan mountains at an altitude of 2,000 metres. [AFP]")
![Several members of the United National Party, including the provincial chief, were among those killed in the bomb blast which also left 80 people injured. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/lanka_blast_afp_061008.jpg "Several members of the United National Party, including the provincial chief, were among those killed in the bomb blast which also left 80 people injured. [AFP]")
