East Timor upset over travel alerts<\/p>\n
EAST TIMOR: The world's youngest nation, East Timor, appealed on
\nMonday for Australia to lift a travel warning alerting
\nAustralians of potential terror attacks in the poor, former
\nIndonesian territory.<\/p>\n
East Timorese Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta told the
\nAustralian Associated Press that the warnings were destroying
\nEast Timor's attempts to promote tourism, and he was considering
\nissuing travel alerts of his own in retaliation.<\/p>\n
\"We have no information of terrorists' attacks... If Australia
\nhas information like this, we would like to be told about what is
\nhappening in our own country,\" Ramos Horta told the Australian
\nnews agency on a visit to Melbourne.<\/p>\n
\"Don't go near schools in the United States, because students
\nwill shoot you,\" he said. \"Don't go near houses in small country
\ntowns because deranged housewives with shotguns will shoot you.\"<\/p>\n
The Australian government has issued a blizzard of travel
\nwarnings since 88 Australians were among the 202 people killed in
\na bomb attack on a nightclub on the Indonesian resort island of
\nBali on Oct. 12 last year.<\/p>\n
The alerts have sparked anger among several Southeast Asian
\ncountries dependent on foreign tourists.<\/p>\n
Ramos Horta said he was thinking about issuing travel
\nadvisories for East Timorese not to go to the United States or
\nAustralia. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
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\nATW-Crime-China
\nChina jails orchid king for 18 years
\nJP\/11\/ATW<\/p>\n
China jails orchid king for 18 years<\/p>\n
CHINA: China has sentenced a fallen flower baron once listed as
\nthe country's second-richest man to 18 years in prison for
\ncommercial crimes in a case underscoring the precarious position
\nof China's entrepreneurial elite.<\/p>\n
The guilty verdict brought to a close a dramatic reversal of
\nfortune for Yang Bin, the orchid-growing Dutch national detained
\nlast year just days after North Korea named him head of a free-
\ntrade enclave planned on the Chinese border.<\/p>\n
It also coincided with a brewing corruption scandal over
\nimproper loans in Shanghai that has cast a cloud over the empire
\nof detained property tycoon Zhou Zhengyi.<\/p>\n
\"They sentenced him to 18 years,\" Yang's lawyer, Tian
\nWenchang, told Reuters after hearing the Shenyang Intermediate
\nCourt in the northeastern industrial hub announce the verdict.
\n\"They basically convicted him on all counts.\"<\/p>\n
Yang, chairman of Hong Kong-listed Euro-Asia Agricultural
\n(Holdings) Co. Ltd., who was charged with attempted bribery,
\nfraudulent schemes and contracts, and occupying farmland
\nillegally, remained defiant.<\/p>\n
Tian said he had filed an appeal on Yang's behalf. \"He
\ndisagreed with the verdict,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old was ranked as China's second richest man by
\nForbes magazine in 2001 with an estimated fortune of US$900
\nmillion. He became the first of several high-ranking tycoons to
\nrun afoul of the law since last year, when the Communist Party
\ninvited the new capitalist rich to join their ranks in November.
\n-- Reuters<\/p>\n
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\nATW-Cuba-music-Spain-obit
\nCuban singing legend Segundo dies
\nJP\/11\/ATW<\/p>\n
Cuban singing legend Segundo dies<\/p>\n
SPAIN: Legendary Cuban musician Compay Segundo, one of the star's
\nof Wim Wender's film Buena Vista Social Club, died in Havana
\novernight, aged 95, his record company in Spain said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Segundo, whose real name was Francisco Repilado, suffered from
\na severe kidney infection and had to cancel a series of concerts
\nscheduled for this summer in Europe.<\/p>\n
Wenders released his documentary on the legendary Buena Vista
\nSocial Club musicians in 1999, recording their experiences as
\nthey performed in Cuba and abroad. -- AFP<\/p>",
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