http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/tags/activism-and-lobbying.htm Tag : activism-and-lobbying Latest news stories from around the world. Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-11-25T08:55:58+11:00 2008-11-25T08:55:58+11:00 Bangkok on edge during anti-government rallyAnti-government protesters in Thailand have taken their months-long campaign to a Bangkok airport where the prime minister and cabinet have set up temporary offices.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427427.htm2008-11-25T08:55:58+11:00NZ protesters attempt pie attack on energy chiefProtestors have stormed a meeting of New Zealand state-owned coal miner, Solid Energy, attempting to throw a cream pie at chief executive, Don Elder.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428620.htm2008-11-25T08:55:55+11:00China arrests 30 over riots in northwestPolice in north-west China have arrested 30 people involved in a two-day protest that had to be broken up with tear gas after 74 people were injured.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2425668.htm2008-11-21T08:16:25+11:00Widespread strikes across TahitiTahiti is being disrupted by industrial action.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2424575.htm2008-11-20T14:14:20+11:00Solomons retailers shut down petrol stationsMotorists were left stunned in the Solomon Islands' capital yesterday after petrol retailers closed their doors in protest against their fuel profit margins.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2422352.htm2008-11-18T09:13:06+11:00PNG landowners, government at loggerheads over carbon tradingPapua New Guinea landowners have called on the government to understand climate change and carbon trading before it makes any concrete decisions.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421141.htm2008-11-17T09:53:59+11:00FPolynesians rally against pension cutsThousands of public sector workers in French Polynesia have taken to the streets of Papeete at the start of a strike in protest at French plans to cut pensions.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2419380.htm2008-11-14T09:45:33+11:00New Caledonia smokers riot over cigaratte shortagePolice in New Caledonia have used tear gas to break up an angry crowd trying to break into a warehouse containing cigarettes.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2419378.htm2008-11-14T09:45:32+11:00Strike diminishes New Caledonia cigarette supplyA strike of government employees in New Caledonia has resulted in an emergency delivery of cigarettes to the French Pacific territory.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2417095.htm2008-11-12T09:14:36+11:00Samoans petition against arrest of minister in USAn estimated one thousand people have presented a petition to US Embassy staff in Samoa's capital Apia, to protest against the arrest and detention of the country's associate trade minister Joe Keil.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2416457.htm2008-11-11T14:02:17+11:00