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Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-11-25T08:55:57+11:00 2008-11-25T08:55:57+11:00 America's President-elect, Barack Obama says a big stimulus package is needed to save the country's economy.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428630.htm2008-11-25T08:55:57+11:00The chief executive of the Northern Marianas plans to attend US President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration in January and is working on ways to personally meet him ahead of the federal takeover of the islands' borders and immigration system.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428626.htm2008-11-25T08:55:56+11:00Vanuatu's prime minister, Edward Natapei, has suspended three of his party's MPs after they signed a motion of no confidence in his leadership.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428624.htm2008-11-25T08:55:55+11:00Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, says his first year in office has been complicated by the sharply deteritoriating global economic conditions.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427648.htm2008-11-24T22:45:23+11:00Delegates from the United Nations have arrived in Fiji on a five day fact finding mission.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427512.htm2008-11-24T11:31:07+11:00The Australian government will not be monitoring Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean this summer.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426309.htm2008-11-21T22:25:37+11:00Papua New Guinea's largest Workers Union has criticised the government over delays in helping 2000 workers with employment at the US naval base in Guam.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2425741.htm2008-11-21T08:16:26+11:00The Australian ppposition says mass job cuts at Volvo prove the government is failing to address the short-term needs in the car industry.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2425196.htm2008-11-20T14:14:32+11:00John Key has taken power as New Zealand's 38th prime minister.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2423887.htm2008-11-19T22:20:43+11:00America's three biggest car makers insist they need an emergency loan to help save the US economy from a 'catastrophic collapse'.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2424250.htm2008-11-19T19:58:17+11:00Security is being stepped up around senior government officials in Japan, after three people linked to the national pension agency were stabbed, two of them fatally.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2424423.htm2008-11-19T19:58:17+11:00A third motion of no confidence has been filed in Vanuatu's parliament against the new prime minister.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2424247.htm2008-11-19T18:05:58+11:00A former Northern Marianas election commission director has become the first delegate from the US territory to the US House of Representatives.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2424244.htm2008-11-19T16:37:54+11:00The US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has been grilled by Congress about his handling of a $US700 billion financial rescue package.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2423818.htm2008-11-19T14:14:40+11:00The Head of the National Council for Building a Better Fiji says it will wrap up its operations next month.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2423485.htm2008-11-19T09:27:44+11:00New Zealand's new Pacific Island affairs minister says her Maori background will help her in her new role.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2422354.htm2008-11-18T11:59:11+11:00A set of amendments will go before Papua New Guinea's parliament at its next sitting that could drastically reduce the powers of the Ombudsman Commission.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2422353.htm2008-11-18T09:13:07+11:00Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has offered protection to the leader of the Taliban in exchange for peace.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421522.htm2008-11-17T22:53:04+11:00Former Taiwan president, Chen Shui-bian, has been taken to hospital after going on a hunger strike to protest his arrest on money laundering and corruption allegations.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421102.htm2008-11-17T18:21:36+11:00Palau's President-elect, Johnson Toribiong, says he will continue Palau's diplomatic relations with Taiwan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421144.htm2008-11-17T14:21:18+11:00The Australian prime minister's standing with voters remains solid in the latest opinion polls, despite the effects of the global financial crisis.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421304.htm2008-11-17T09:53:58+11:00East Timor's Court of Appeal has ruled that the country's $US400 million mid year budget is unconstitutional.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2420514.htm2008-11-14T22:10:46+11:00New Zealand businessman Ballu Khan says he is unsure why he was accused of being the mastermind in an alleged assassination plot against members of Fiji's interim government.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2419961.htm2008-11-14T20:16:10+11:00The premier of Niue says a tax package that includes a goods and services charge will go before parliament again in early December.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2420277.htm2008-11-14T19:08:24+11:00The Fiji government agency formulating the proposed People's Charter, says it has halted all activites in response to an order from the High Court.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2420052.htm2008-11-14T18:37:39+11:00