Veteran Diplomat Named PH Ambassador To China

Source: Manila Bulletin

MANILA, Philippines --- With the pressing concern to further de-escalate tensions in the Panatag Shoal and maintain smooth bilateral relations with China, President Benigno S. Aquino III has appointed veteran diplomat Sonia Br ...
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Iran, sextet to hold talks in Moscow

Source: Voice of Russia

Iran and the six nuclear powers will hold fresh talks in Moscow on June 18th and 19th . An agreement to this effect was reached during a meeting in Baghdad this week between representatives of Iran and the ...
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Official urges Taiwan, South Korea to seek bilateral cooperation

Source: eTaiwan News

Taipei, May 26 (CNA) Taiwan and South Korea should combine each other's strengths and cooperate further to reach a mutually beneficial situation in the economic field, a local official said Saturday. "Taiwan and South Korea are geographically close to ea ...
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Cnn Effect

Source: OpPapers.com

Running Head: CNN EFFECT CNN EFFECT CNN Effect Senior policy-makers acknowledge that they often first learn of new trouble spots around the globe from cable channel news coverage. World leaders often direct messages to each other through these news chann ...
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Zhibin Gu: price of China corruption: Chinese century destoryed by wild lawlessness?

Source: Philly Independent Media Center

Is the so-called Chinese century likely to be destroyed by the wild lawlessness and destructions of the Chinese Communist bureaucracy? Watch out on the runaway corruption inside China! Has China's ongoing reform altered the nation's political- ...
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Leadership: PW talks with incoming ALA President Maureen Sullivan: ALA 2012

Source: Publishers Weekly

At the 2012 ALA conference in Anaheim, Maureen Sullivan, a long time consultant to numerous libraries of all types, will officially begin her yearlong term as president of ALA. Sullivan will take over for Molly Raphael, who work ...
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"Big Five" Crushes "Small Five" Over Veto Powers

Source: Inter Press Service News Agency

UNITED NATIONS, May 25, 2012 (IPS) - At the height of the Cold War, a Peruvian diplomat, Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde, publicly expressed scepticism about the ability of small countries to survive the diplomatic might of the big powers in the world bod ...
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Hollande makes surefooted start before assembly vote

Source: The Star Malaysia

PARIS (Reuters) - Socialist President Francois Hollande has defied critics who considered him an inexperienced lightweight by starting with a burst of globetrotting activity and standing up to Berlin and Washington on euro and ...
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House to lead utility regulatory authority

Source: Foothills Media Group

Submitted photo. Arthur House, of Simsbury, is the new chairman of Connecticutâs Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. SIMSBURY — Arthur H. House, of Simsbury, is the new chairman of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. House, who ...
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