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Calls to join Scarborough community group (State Government of Western Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
Nominations sought for Scarborough Community Advisory Group ... The Liberal National Government is calling for expressions of interest from community members to be part of a community advisory group, as work starts on the $75.4 million foreshore redevelopment at Scarborough ... Forward works for the major redevelopment of Scarborough's foreshore are underway....

Liberal stronghold 'in play' come byelection, Brown says

Edit Toronto Sun 10 Jun 2016
Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown says a Scarborough riding his party has never won is “in play” largely due to growing dissatisfaction with the governing Liberals....

Liberals relieved to be out of legislature hot seat

Edit Toronto Sun 10 Jun 2016
PC Leader Patrick Brown told reporters he’s bullish on the upcoming Scarborough-Rouge River byelection to replace Liberal Bas Balkissoon, who quit suddenly last March ... The Tories have nominated long-time Scarborough councillor Raymond Cho as their candidate and former Etobicoke councillor and mayoral candidate Doug Ford has been helping his campaign ... Two, the writ to drop for the Scarborough byelection — and perhaps others....

Chinese Embassy refutes Wall Street Journal's editorial on South China Sea

Edit China Daily 10 Jun 2016
Regarding your editorial "South China Sea Challenge" (June 3), the origin of the South China Sea dispute is not China's territorial ambition but instead the illegal seizure and occupation of Chinese territory by other countries ... But since the 1970s, 42 out of 51 land features in the Nansha Islands have been illegally occupied by other countries....

Letters to the Editor, June 10

Edit Toronto Sun 10 Jun 2016
We are! China takes our natural resources and dumps cheap manufactured goods in our country ... It is high time for our gutless politicians (all parties) to tear up trade agreements that favour countries with no respect for human rights or the environment ... If that is the case, why is he pursuing the Scarborough subway line? His own planning department ......

Cops look to ID bank bandit

Edit Toronto Sun 10 Jun 2016
The hunt is on for a bandit who recently robbed a bank in Scarborough. Toronto Police say the heist occurred at a branch near Sheppard and Victoria Park Aves. on May 6 ... Mike Earl, who heads up the Holdup Squad, said Thursday....

Risk from N. Korea to US increasing

Edit Stars and Stripes 10 Jun 2016
planners wonder if they can afford that leisurely pace in dealing with a country that warned just three months ago that it might launch a “pre-emptive and offensive nuclear strike” against a joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise ... The Security Council last week condemned the three recent missile tests as a “grave” and “flagrant” violation of its March resolution and called for countries to “strengthen enforcement.” But the U.N....

Shangri-La talks: China against World?

Edit Asia Times 10 Jun 2016
“The vast Pacific Ocean has enough space for two large countries like the United States and China,” claimed Chinese President Xi Jinping during his intimate retreat in Sunnylands with his American counterpart, Barack Obama, back in 2013 ... No other claimant country, including Vietnam, comes even close ... Similar to Carter, Sun presented his country as a responsible global power....

Engineering program partnerships featured in Jessica Laplante Evan’s Press Herald op-ed on the value of service learning (University of Southern Maine)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Southern Maine) ... Over the past 2 years, USM engineering students have partnered with schools in Portland, Gorham, Windham, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth to improve facilities, such as replacing high-intensity discharge lights (HID) at Windham Public Schools with motion-sensing light emitting diode (LED) lights ... The partnerships are the brainchild of faculty member Ivan Most ... (noodl. 34034877) ....

The tribunal's award in the 'South China Sea Arbitration' initiated by the Philippines is null ...

Edit China Daily 10 Jun 2016
3, the Philippines argues that Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Dao) generates no entitlement to an exclusive economic zone or continental shelf ... China has always maintained and enjoyed territorial sovereignty over the Zhongsha Islands (including Huangyan Dao (Scarborough Shoal)) and the Nansha Islands (including the above-mentioned eight features such as Meiji Jiao (Mischief Reef)) in their entirety....

Seychelles, Czech Republic sign air transport accord

Edit Nation 10 Jun 2016
More flexible air transport operations between the Czech Republic and Seychelles are expected by the end of this year or early next year now that the two countries have officially signed an Air Transport Agreement ... • codesharing between the two countries’ airlines as well as with airlines of third countries, ... operated between the two countries....

Indonesia in the middle of Good Country Index

Edit The Jakarta Post 10 Jun 2016
Indonesia ranks in the 83rd position out of 163 countries in the latest Good Country Index, a significant improvement after landing in the bottom half of the table in the previous year ... The index does not measure what countries do at home ... The Good Country ......

>Blame Kufuor for power crisis, not Mahama – Spio

Edit Modern Ghana 10 Jun 2016
Ekow Spio Garbrah, has blamed erstwhile Kufuor administration for the country’s unending power challenges ... Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Spio Garbrah said although the power crisis has been a major challenge for the country, Ghana is still far ahead of many other West African countries ... In fact, there are about five or six West African countries which when put together have less power production than Ghana....
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