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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will allow mining companies to use foreign workers to help address chronic labour shortages, with mining magnate Gina Rinehart's A$9.5 billion Roy Hill iron ore project winning approval on Friday to bring in 1,715 ...
May 25, 2012 at 05:26 | Source: Reuters India
SYDNEY, May 25 (Reuters) - Iron ore company Centrex Metals on Friday more than tripled the estimated reserves at its prospect in southern Australia, a growing zone for new iron ore sources that is attracting increasing interest from Asian steel ...
May 25, 2012 at 05:05 | Source: Reuters UK
Australia has hailed a surprise decision giving it a role in a radio telescope project aimed at revolutionising astronomy, vowing to draw on its decades of experience in space science. Australia and South Africa were named joint winners of the ...
May 26, 2012 at 12:06 | Source: phys.org
Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for the reduction of the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker in Indonesia. But Foreign Minister Bob Carr conceded ...
May 23, 2012 at 09:54 | Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 25 (UPI) -- Australia and South Africa will share the site for the world's most powerful radio telescope, powerful enough to detect extraterrestrial life, officials said. Both countries had been competing to win the $ ...
May 25, 2012 at 22:44 | Source: United Press International
GENEVA (Reuters) - The tobacco industry is providing legal advice to Ukraine and Honduras in their challenges to Australia's new tobacco packaging rules at the World Trade Organization, Australian Health Secretary Jane Halton said on Tuesday.
May 23, 2012 at 09:54 | Source: Chicago Tribune
CANBERRA, May 25 (Reuters) - Australia will open its booming natural resources sector to short-term foreign workers for the first time under a new scheme aimed at easing a chronic labour shortage that has sent wages, and companies' costs, soaring.
May 25, 2012 at 14:16 | Source: Reuters UK
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's first official visit to Australia during May 26 to 29 will further strengthen bilateral trade and investment in the two countries, according to HSBC economists in the two countries. Trade is a key element in ...
May 25, 2012 at 07:57 | Source: Nation - Thailand
First creditors meeting revealed a number of interested parties intent on saving GAME Australia's struggling business; continuity of the business as is remains a possibility; decision will be made in coming days. GAME Australia's struggling business has ...
May 24, 2012 at 02:14 | Source: Gamespot News
SYDNEY: Australia said Friday it would "vigorously defend" itself against complaints about its plan for plain cigarette packaging made by Honduras and Ukraine to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The action was launched by Ukraine at the WTO ...
May 25, 2012 at 10:34 | Source: Channel NewsAsia