document.writeln('Wherefore Australia and New Zealand?: ');
document.writeln('Australia and New Zealand continue to be ignored by the rest of the \'regionalising\' world, treading tightropes between alliances with the West and the Asian region in which they have always belonged geographically, and more recently, culturally as well. ');
document.writeln('Bangkok halves public transport fares: ');
document.writeln('Good news for public transport users in Bangkok Thailand today, as public transport management authorities announced that fares for the Bangkok Skytrain and the upcoming subway system will be halved. The Bangkok Skytrain is still to make a profit - failing to become a favoured form of transportation for mainstream commuters, and public transport management is bracing to make sure that the same fate does not befall the upcoming subway-rail facility. ');
document.writeln('Why Buddhists are relaxed and upcoming Radio Australia series on Thailand: ');
document.writeln('Why Buddhists really ARE relaxed, and Radio Australia focuses on Thailand in a week long edition of \'Asia Pacific\' next week, broadcast though 400 wireless stations in the Pacific. ');
document.writeln('SARS and Beer in Singapore and Greys in Japan: ');
document.writeln('Singapore debunks SARS beer remedy to a disappointed public, the SARS death rate re-estimated at 20% in Hong Kong, and the Japanese grey demographic expands yet again... ');
document.writeln('ASEAN SARS summit kicks off next week in Bangkok: ');
document.writeln('Thailand is requiring \'lower-ranking\' officials to undergo health checks for SARS on arrival in Thailand for the ASEAN SARS summit next Tuesday. \'Leaders and ministers\' are however, seen as being intellectually-capable enough to make their own decisions. ...Not a great portent for any positive results from this particular gabfest... ');
document.writeln('The Priestess of Soul is dead. Thank you Nina Simone: ');
document.writeln('The \"Priestess of Soul\" was aptly named, as she could reach into your soul and wrench it for all its worth. Other performers can reach your heart, but very few can reach your soul. Today Nina Simone left us, and the world is a decidedly better place for her time with us... ');
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