Diplomacy on a tightrope over asylum-seekers

Diplomacy on a tightrope over asylum-seekers
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Unlike East Timor, which was a Portuguese colony, West Papua was a Dutch colony and the Indonesians always claimed sovereignty over it, although the Dutch did ...
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Angola major foreign policy priority - Portuguese PM
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
... Jose Socrates said Angola was a major diplomatic priority for Portugal, praising the recent performance of the oil-rich former Portuguese colony, the official ...

Casino competition a sure bet
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... The casino is being built by Leighton Asia in what it hopes will be the beginning of more work in the rapidly developing former Portuguese colony, which is ...