Semi-Weekly Bulletin

The Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Semi-Weekly Bulletin covered critical national and regional security issues, broadly understood, in Australia and the surrounding region. Archives from 2005 until 2010.

APSNet, Semi-Weekly Bulletin

APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 23, 2009

  1. China’s ‘chequebook diplomacy’ undermining pressure on Fiji
  2. More Diggers to train Afghan soldiers
  3. U.S. may fill Afghan civilian posts with military personnel
  4. Taliban seize vital Pakistan area closer to the capital
  5. USA: Computer spies breach fighter-jet project
  6. Refugees ‘reacted to law change’: Indonesia
  7. A nuclear Japan: The least bad option?
  8. Billions in uranium bound for China
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 20, 2009

  1. Indonesia offers cooperation on asylum seekers
  2. Defence: Taking on the monolith
  3. Rudd targets ‘vital’ military industries
  4. Security radars in Papua a priority, Air Force says
  5. UN told by Rudd Government to stop hiring Fijian soldiers
  6. Taliban exploit class rifts in Pakistan
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 16, 2009

  1. Watchdog probes hawks’ Defence Intelligence Organisation push on China
  2. Those with loud voices must speak up to restore democracy in Fiji
  3. West warned on nuclear terrorist threat from Pakistan
  4. Protection rackets on the rise in East Timor
  5. Basking in a bilateral bubble as the reality of Indonesia gets airbrushed
  6. Climate change ‘tops Australians’ security fears’
  7. Indonesia: Japan to grant aid for nine economic cooperation projects
  8. PNG’s Baki says no locals were hurt in Indonesia-PNG border fighting
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 9, 2009

  1. Minister tangled in Liu’s financial ties to Beijing
  2. Third asylum seeker boat arrives
  3. Brits’ nuclear sub accident surfaces
  4. Calls for probe after shootings at Papuan demo
  5. Clinton to back defence treaty
  6. The Bush Six
  7. Imagine there’s no bomb
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 6, 2009

  1. Rudd calls missile launch ‘reckless’
  2. Yudhoyono backs down on nuclear power plans
  3. Japan to extend US14.5 billion in financial aid to Indonesia
  4. East Timor hit over ‘dirty’ power plants
  5. Time is short as U.S. presses Pakistan, a reluctant ally
  6. Sea change: Advancing Australia’s ocean interests
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 2, 2009

  1. Closer military co-operation in Afghanistan under security agreement
  2. Aussie special forces kill senior Taliban field commander
  3. Obama’s domino theory
  4. U.S. reconciliation offer “lunatic”-Taliban spokesman
  5. Block on Chinese mining bid ‘linked to Pine Gap’
  6. Mission creep becomes a national sport
  7. How do you solve a problem like North Korea? Not with force
  8. France to pay $19m for sins of its nuclear blasts
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 12, 2009

  1. AFP team to help train Afghans
  2. As U.S. weighs Taliban negotiations, Afghans are already talking
  3. Afghanistan: Damning report on intelligence co-operation
  4. Afghanistan: The risk of terror attack is exaggerated
  5. Afghanistan: The imperial unconscious
  6. Rudd’s $35bn folly should be torpedoed
  7. Korea, Australia forge security pact
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 5, 2009

  1. Global Financial Crisis Stalls Billions in Defence Spending
  2. 28 Charged Over East Timor Attacks
  3. Pakistan’s Militants Ready For More
  4. Taliban Rivals Unite to Fight US Troop Surge
  5. Going Green Must Involve Going Nuclear
  6. Russia to Deliver 18 Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Indonesia
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 2, 2009

  1. Japan’s Nuclear Sector Takes Uranium Stake
  2. Secret Talks With Taliban Under Way
  3. Diggers of Chora Defying the Danger
  4. Afghanistan Insurgency Will Never be Defeated: Canadian PM
  5. Aceh on a Knife’s Edge, Sidney Jones
  6. Half of Super Hornets Shipment to be Made Electronic Warfare Ready
  7. Economic Lifeline Cast to Indonesia
  8. PNG Govt Wants to Boost Australian Police Numbers in Hotspots
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 26, 2009

  1. No Western-Style Democracy in Afghanistan: Angus Houston
  2. China Breaks Its Silence On Afghanistan
  3. Global Crunch Could Scuttle Sale of Submarine Builder ASC
  4. David Irvine Appointed Head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
  5. Worst Drought in Half-Century Shrivels the Wheat Belt of China
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