NZ Bolsters Troops In Timor
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007The New Zealand Defence Force is to carry out two deployments in the week ahead to bolster personnel in East Timor.
Archive for April, 2007
Presidential Runoff Confirmed In East Timor
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007East Timor’s election commission has confirmed the Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta and the parliament chief, Francisco Guterres, will contest a presidential runoff next month.
Sphere: Related ContentLinux.com | Microsoft’s ‘Men in Black’ kill Florida open standards legislation
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (COGO) to remove the words they didn’t like from Senate bill 1974.
Sphere: Related ContentOfficial Google Blog: New team members for Google.org
Monday, April 9th, 2007Mark Smolinski and Corrie Conrad join Googlers Katie Wurtz, Matt Waddell and Emily Delmont on our global public health team. Mark is an MD MPH and CDC-trained epidemiologist who worked at the Institute of Medicine and was formerly a Vice President at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, where he worked on a regional disease surveillance system. Corrie joins as a researcher focusing on preventable diseases afflicting the poor, coming from the Clinton Foundation, where she was working on its HIV/AIDS pr
Sphere: Related ContentMacauHub
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Manila, Philippines, 2 April – The East Timor economy is expected to grow 32.1 percent this year, recovering from the 2006 recession and reaching the highest growth rate on the Asian continent, according to the Asian Development Bank.
Sphere: Related ContentInvestors buys Genesis HealthCare stake
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007A group of investors led by Noonday Asset Management have bought a 10 percent stake in Genesis HealthCare Corp., according to a regulatory filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sphere: Related ContentTimor Elections Fair Says Observer
Sunday, April 1st, 2007A New Zealander who helped organise East Timor’s independence vote says the process was free and fair, despite claims of corruption.
