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9-YearOld Politician 9岁小政客 The battle over Social Security has been joined by an unusual lobbyist, a 9-year-old boy from Texas (George Bushs hometown), who has agreed to travel around supporting President Bushs proposal. The boy, Noah McCullo
In business, a Chinese state-owned company plans to take over one of the few remaining independent coal miners in Australia. Chinese coal giant Yanzhou will merge with Gloucester Coal, which has mines in Queensland and New South Wales, in a $2 billio
The Federal Government is working on a plan to improve competition between the banks. It's likely that package will include a number of the Coalition's ideas. The Treasurer Wayne Swan says he'll announce a range of policy changes next month to try an
More than 80 asylum seekers have spent their first night at a mining camp in the remote Western Australian town of Leonora. The families from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Iran were flown to the town yesterday from the overcrowd detention centre at Chri
The Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan is tonight tipped to announce the budget will return to surplus earlier than expected. Improved economic conditions and revenue from the proposed new mining tax are expected to contribute to the forecast. The Oppositi
The Prime Minister Julia Gillard leaves on her week-long Asian tour later this morning. Her first stop will be Japan, where she hopes to visit tsunami-affected areas. Its then on to South Korea and then China, where she hopes to kick along negotiatio
Labor has accused the government of fudging the budget numbers to make a case for spending cuts. Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen says the Coalition has changed its forecasting methods to suit its own political purposes. And when you look closely at the
By Barry Wood Washington 10 July 2007 The Washington-based World Bank, the planet's biggest anti-poverty agency, has been in turmoil--its president forced out amid a staff revolt. VOA's economics correspondent Barry Wood reports that the bank--owned
Asian share prices have fallen for a third day as investors feared a global recession would badly hit company earnings. Japan's Nikkei index closed at a five-and-a-half year low, down 9.6 percent after the country's electronics giant Sony halved its
By Solana Pyne Marrakesh, Morocco 17 November 2009 Moroccan carpets are prized for their beauty and can fetch hundreds of dollars in stores. But little of that money ends up in the hands of the women who spend months weaving the carpets. Rug weavers
Leading the news, the senior economist is warning the Senates obstruction of key budget measures could cost a warp in 300 billion dollars over the next decade. Treasurer Joe Hockey has already warned he may look at other possible savings to bypass th
Australia is poised to start delivering weapons to Kurdish forces to help fight Islamic State militants in Iraq. Overnight Iraqi forces captured the besieged town of Amerli where Australian forces have earlier conducted an airdrop. The Prime Minister
Thousands of firefighters have spent the night battling bushfires right across the state. Hundreds of homes are feared lost as around 100 fires continue burning 36 of those remain out of control. Now emergency warnings are in place for a large fire b
Sixty-five Australians are among nearly 350 people arrested after Canadian police smashed a huge international child pornography ring based in Toronto. Nearly 400 children around the world have been rescued and an online tip-off from a website in Can
Graincorp says the Federal Government's jeopardised the future of rural infrastructure along Australia's east coast by rejecting Archer Daniels Midland's takeover proposal. The Treasurer Joe Hockey said the multi-billion dollar deal was not in Austra
Good morning, everyone. Well stock markets in China have fallen again as government measures to halt slide in share prices appear to be failing. Chinese markets have lost nearly 30 percent of their value in the past three weeks. And many investors ar
Leading the news today, the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has criticized the new Treasurer Scott Morrison for his part in Mr. Abbotts downfall. In his first interview since being deposed, Mr. Abbott refused to say whether he will remain in parlia
Leading the news this morning, Iraq is sliding further towards anarchy as a second city has now fallen to the militants. Theyve now controlled Tikrit the former hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein after seizing the northern city of Mosol. Doze
Malaysias Prime Minister has ordered the navy to conduct the search in rescue mission for thousands of refugees adrift at sea. Foreign ministers in Malaysia and Indonesia will travel to Myanmar today for crisis talks. Many of the refugees are ethnic
Good morning everyone. Now the former head of the Commonwealth Bank David Murray has warned that Australias superannuation system has to change. Mr. Murrays spoken in Canberra to the Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes which is lobbying the