Women candidates
PORT VILA – Male applicants, including two women are among a group of people in Vanuatu interested in the position of the President for the Republic of Vanuatu. Application for the highest office of the land closed on Wednesday.
Global warming
SYDNEY – Global warming seems to have become the excuse for everything unusual in the weather. If it rains, that is because of global warming. If it does not rain, that is because of global warming. And not so long ago, global cooling was a major concern.
Spying on embassy
BEIJING – The Australian Government has been spying on China’s embassy in the country and “harassing” Chinese people to provide intelligence, an influential state-run newspaper said on Thursday, citing a security source. Neither the Australian Foreign Minister’s office nor China’s Ministry of State Security made any comment.
RAMSI achievement
HONIARA – Former prime minister John Howard has described Australia’s leadership of the so-called RAMSI mission to stabilise the Solomon Islands, which come to an end this week after 14 years, as one of Australia’s and his government’s greatest foreign policy achievements.
