Supporters and observers of the independence struggle in East Timor have for some time been watching for signs of differences between the Indonesian regime's two main factions: the Suharto clique and the armed forces (ABRI)
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Official: Britain is 22nd rateLONDON — Thatcherism, the rule of the market and large scale privatisation have had one major triumph — the rich have gotten richer. Judged by any other standard, Tory ideology has
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A campaign has begun in several Asian countries to oppose deployment of Japanese military forces outside Japan. Both in Japan and in the Philippines, Malaysia, Nepal and India, there has been increasing opposition to any revival of Japan's
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'You eat pesticides' On June 29, the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released its long-awaited report — "Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children". The NAS concluded that testing procedures for measuring
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LONDON — Suddenly the lights went out, the crowd stirred. The music, from Jaws, drummed menacingly as smoke filled the platform. A thin beam of light shot out, then another stabbed the darkness. The tension built as the
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Land rights issue at WA TLCPERTH — Addressing the Western Australian Trades and Labour Council meeting on July 13, Rob Riley, the executive officer for the Aboriginal Legal Service, told the meeting it was important
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.OJ OFF .CW 13 Sun shines on British economy By Frank Noakes LONDON — Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper slashed its price by 5 pence to 20 pence on July 12 in a bid to win back lost readership. "Well done Sun" it congratulated itself
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MOSCOW — On July 1, 700 teaching staff at the elite Moscow State University held an unprecedented demonstration demanding prompt payment and indexation of salaries. Similar actions, coordinated by the Moscow Council of
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South Korean workers strikeOn July 8 the workers of the nine largest subsidiaries of the largest corporation in South Korea, the Hyundai Group, began to go on strike. The strike is in protest against the company's
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Worker dried in sun Three hundred workers in a garment factory in Jakarta protested recently after the factory management forced a worker to stand several hours in midday sun as punishment. The worker, Muhana, a woman in her 20s, had
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Irish unsafe in British prisons "Catholic, Irish nationals, once found guilty of offences against the security forces, are subject to systematic or retaliatory harm, physical detention or potential death in Northern Ireland. The security
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Students released Students arrested during an army attack on demonstrators at the Indonesian National Institute of Science and Technology (ISTN) on June 24 have been released. The releases followed a confrontation at a hearing of one of