Full list of labels

As I noted in an earlier post, my old del.icio.us tags have been replaced with the new blogger "labels". For brevity, there is an incomplete list of these labels in the sidebar plus a link to the relevant labels in each post.

The full list of labels (as of November 06) follows:

Afghanistan
Africa
Australia
blogging
Canada
China
Dutch
East Timor
Europe
Fiji
Global Warming
India

PNG's slow demise

PNG's The National: Ban Expanded
The country is failing so badly that the United Nations is mulling a downgrading from ‘developing country’ to a ‘least developed country’ status.

The World Bank, in a report released last year, noted that a greater proportion, 70%, of PNG’s five million people lives in poverty now than 10 years ago.

Here are the excerpts of the Deuteche Presse report:

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Fiji police intend to arrest the military chief

Via Ms Vakaivosavosa (and in turn, Radio New Zealand): Fiji police say they will arrest the military commander for sedition and disobedience after he returns from the Middle East.

The police commissioner, Andrew Hughes, says the police are also gathering evidence to charge Commodore Frank Bainimarama with treason.

Mr Hughes says the commander’s latest threats to force the government to resign