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		<title>For Sale: 2007 Suzuki Jimny</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Samoa Tourism Still Smiling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 100 delegates gathered for the Samoa Tourism Exchange in Apia on Friday. The Exchange had 3 working sessions - 1. Tourism Impact of the Tsunami, 2. The View from Abroad, and 3. The Way Forward. Top: Samoa Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism Hon Misa Telefoni Retzlaff opens the Exchange. Below Samoa Tourism Authority CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Me, Green Me, Fiji Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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Fiji sets world mark becoming first country to implement a national low carbon travel and tourism sector initiative.

 
 
 

29 October 2009 – With international focus starting to turn towards Copenhagen as the Danish capital gears up to host the UN Climate Change Conference in December, Fiji has stolen a march on the rest of the planet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami Lesssons from the Indian Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Deepest condolences to the people of Samoa and Tonga.
The priorities for the first few days and weeks need to be caring for the injured, accommodating the homeless, and restoring basic service to affected areas.
However, looking a little further down the track, the most useful thing people from around the world can do to help Samoa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth`s Last Sustainable Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We`ve been nuked heavilly both in agression and testing of weapons. Our whales are still harvested despite expanding sancturaries. Our dolphins and albatrosses are threatened as innocent by-catch of over-fishing. Our islands are disappearing under the rising sea levels caused by carbon dioxide from the industrialised world. Our coral is dying in populated areas. And there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication: Quantity or Quality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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Well, I&#8217;m thinking about going over to the dark side and getting a Blackberry. But, I&#8217;d be worried if I became one of those adicts that can no longer hold a conversation because they are constantly checking latest email.
Remember the good old days of snail mail? Did you wait by your letter box all day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concubine in the Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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As the People&#8217;s Republic prepares to celebrate it&#8217;s 60th Anniversary, a movie has been released, Founding of a Republic,  covering the Communist war with the Capatilists from 1945 to 1949. Chiang Kai Shek, who escaped to Taiwan, is not portrayed as a villian, just a sad loser, in a sign of the times of reconcilliation. The actor who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demographics Drive Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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China needs more girls. Downunder needs more blokes. Japan needs both. Whilst most of the world’s analysts are preoccupied with the speed and nature of the current economic recovery, they are missing the fundamental force that will drive travel consumption in the 21st century. Photo: On the eve of the People&#8217;s Republic&#8217;s 60th birthday, China’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from PATAMART</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Europe is making it harder for visitors from Emerging Markets (ChIndia) to get visas, whilst AsiaPacific destinations are making it easier. Left: Samoa&#8217;s Dwayne Bently (left) and Vanuatu&#8217;s Alan sign the Pacific delegation into PATAMART in Hangzhou. Right: Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Alice Kuaningi talks with an Italian travel agent at the Pacific Village at PATAMART.

PATA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Shanghai</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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“Like Beijing the year before the Olympics”. That’s how Shanghainese describe their city at the moment, as it undergoes an infrastructure transformation in preparation for the World Expo 2010.



Left: Qing Dynasty architecture contrasts with China’s tallest building. Right: Expo mascot Haibao.

 

Tourism New Zealand Manager China, Mark Frood, based in China’s commercial capital, says the current [...]]]></description>
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