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Activists and supporters gathered outside the Indonesian Embassy in Manila on Tuesday (April 28) in a last-minute appeal for clemency for a Filipina facing execution. Filipina migrant Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two children, was arrested with 2.6 kilograms of heroin at Yogyakarta Airport in 2010. Hundreds of supporters marched to the embassy gate, carrying placards and banners urging Indonesia to stop the executions. “We’re very sad, we’re very outraged that the execution is […]
A 75-year old man was bitten on the leg by a crocodile while playing golf on Tuesday (April 14) at the Palmer Sea Reef course in Port Douglas in far north Queensland, Australian media said. The man was identified as John Lahiff. The attack happened when he went to retrieve a ball from water on the 11th hole, Australian media added. “I didn’t see the croc sunbaking just on the edge of the water, […]
A double-faced cow was found in North Queensland, Australia, where it sold for 270 Australian dollars in an auction.
(Reuters) — Australian law makers held a dawn vigil on Thursday (March 5) as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said they were seeking an opportunity to discuss a prisoner swap with her Indonesian counterpart in an 11th hour effort to save the lives of two Australian drug smugglers expected to face a firing squad within days. The planned executions of Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, have ratcheted up diplomatic tension between Australia and Indonesia […]
(Reuters) — The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cannot go on forever, Australia’s deputy prime minister said, and discussions are already underway between Australia, China and Malaysia as to whether to call off the hunt within weeks. No trace has been found of the Boeing 777 aircraft, which disappeared one year ago this week, carrying 239 passengers and crew shortly after taking off from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing. More […]
Preliminary work on the world’s largest radio telescope project has made a major progress, with the completion of an array of radio telescopes in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa and Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology joined representatives from other countries in the celebration ceremony on Saturday. The “Square Kilometer Array” (SKA) project, the world’s biggest and most sensitive radio telescope, will have its facilities constructed in South Africa, eight […]
In research that contradicts years of health advice, British scientists said on Monday that babies at risk of developing a childhood peanut allergy can avoid it if they are given peanuts regularly during their first 11 months. The study, the first to show that eating certain food is an effective way of preventing allergies, showed an 80 percent reduction in the prevalence of peanut allergies among high-risk children who ate peanuts frequently from infant hood, […]
Despite repeated pleas from Australia, Brazil, and France, Indonesia refused presidential clemency for those who were sentenced to death due to drug-related charges.
Hundreds of people gathered in Jakarta on the streets of Jakarta on Sunday (February 22) to join a coin collection drive in protest to Prime MinisterTony Abbott’s comment linking clemency please for two Australians on death row to the country’s 2004 tsunami relief aid. Earlier in the week, Abbott said Australia would feel “grievously let down” if the executions proceeded despite the roughly A$1 billion (784 million USD) in assistance it gave after the disaster, […]
ILOILO CITY, February 6(PIA) — Employers from Australia and New Zealand prefer to hire Ilonggo workers, according to the City Public Employment Service Office (PESO) here. In a media interview, Ma. Elena Benitez, City PESO manager, said that the Australia New Zealand Association of Employment Providers of the Philippines, Inc. chooses to recruit Ilonggos because of their positive work attitude. “Ilonggo workers are dedicated to work and they really listen during trainings,” she said. She […]
Maria Sharapova grabbed the championship in the Australia Open after beating her opponent in Brisbane.
(Reuters) — The 37-year-old mother of most of the eight children found dead in a mass stabbing in Australia’s tropical northern city of Cairns was arrested on Saturday (December 20) for murder. Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said the woman is under police guard in hospital, where she was taken on Friday (December 19) with stab wounds. She has not yet been formally charged. “Ah look, at the moment as I said, she’s awake, she’s lucid and […]
