Three months after the July 26 elections, a new Cambodian government is yet to be formed. Despite participating in the National Assembly swearing-in ceremony on September 24, the majority of elected opposition members are now
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Cambodia: losers reject election resultsAnyone reading the establishment press over the past month, or watching TV, would have been primed to expect certain results of the July 26 elections in Cambodia: the people would
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Washington interferes in Cambodia's electionThe Cambodian election campaign concluded on July 24; voting is to be held on Sunday, July 26. The Joint International Observer Group of government representatives — including
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PHNOM PENH — All the old players are back in town as the Cambodian elections draw close. Contrary to the expectations, and perhaps hopes, of many who deny the present government legitimacy, the elections appear likely to go ahead
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Habibie gets an unwanted birthday presentJAKARTA — Tensions are high throughout Indonesia one month after Suharto stepped down from the presidency, in the wake of massive demonstrations, handing over to his vice-president, B.J.
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SYDNEY — More than 100 people, mainly Indonesians, packed into Burwood Community Centre on May 9 to hear Indonesian sociologist Arief Budiman speak on the topic "Can Suharto survive democratisation?" in a meeting organised
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UNSW staff and students support wharfiesAround 100 staff and students at the University of NSW enthusiastically expressed their support to the wharfies at a meeting on April 30. A Maritime Union Support Group has been established
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SYDNEY — In a major public address at the University of New South Wales on August 14, Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate Jose Ramos Horta spoke out strongly on a number of critical issues of human rights in Australia and
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PHNOM PENH — The unlikely coalition between the royalist Funcinpec and the formerly socialist Cambodian People's Party has fallen apart in a shoot-out in the streets of the capital. The population that had endured so much
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UN$W to charge up-front feesSYDNEY — The council of the University of NSW decided on June 2 by the slimmest of margins (10 votes to eight) to accept fee-paying local undergraduates from 1998, and so to join the
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UNSW staff win riseSYDNEY — UNSW academic staff appear to have won significant gains as a result of their strong campaign, including scheduling a strike for March 3 and 4, at the beginning of the academic year. After stalling
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'University of the year' to strikeSYDNEY — National Tertiary Education and Industry Union members at the University of NSW on February 19 voted not to begin teaching at the start of the 1997 academic year, but instead to strike