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The very first Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report prepared by the World Economic Forum was published with overall results presented in summary at the international travel forum ITB in Berlin on Thursday, March 8, 2007, reports balidiscovery.com
An exhaustive survey that compared nations in terms of factors that make a country attractive to tourism resulted in a hierarchical ranking of 124 countries. Switzerland, Austria and Germany finished in the top 3 countries for tourism, with Angola, Burundi and Chad occupying the lowest 3 rankings in the list. Also finishing among the top 10 nations (in order of appearance) were Iceland, the U.S.A., Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Luxembourg and the U.K.
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Ideally, in order to achieve integration, regional partnerships such as ASEAN should not be overly ambitious to try and solve too many issues all at once, advised former EU Deputy Secretary General Europe Commission, Berdhard Zepter in Jakarta recently. Zepter was speaker at a discussion entitled: “Lessons and Reflections on Regionalization: Asian & European Perspectives”. In integrating the European countries into the EU, Zepter continued, the European Union (EU) first chose one integrating sector, which at the time was the economic sector. Only after this sector was deemed sufficiently strong and successful, EU expanded its base for integration by solving political and other uniting issues, reported Kompas daily.
ASEAN is economically quite strong already, Zepter said, and when one sector is strong, then regional integration will become even stronger, attracting other nations to join the group.
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Defense and Security
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
 Militant groups are devising new strategies in an effort to deal with closer cooperation between countries in the Southeast Asian region and keep victory against terrorism out of reach, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda warned on Monday (5/3/07, as quoted by Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News, published by the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy.
"While we have been enhancing our cooperation and enlarging our capabilities in the fight against terrorism, the terrorists are also making their own adjustments," Wirayuda told a ministerial security meeting in Jakarta. |
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
 The 8th March was International Women’s Day. Initially launched by the UN in 1978 , Women’s Day was meant to support and press on with the fight of the feminist movement in New York at the time to gain universal suffrage (voting rights), and is aimed to raise this awareness internationally, writes Bisnis Indonesia.
Today, however, women’s demands worldwide have widened to encompass gender equality, improved health services for mothers and children, and the fight against violence on women at work and in the home. Many of these demands have been incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), which were endorsed by all UN member countries, including Indonesia, to be achieved by 2015. While, some twenty years ago, UN members signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which has also been ratified by Indonesia.
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Politics and Security
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
 Source : The Jakarta PostJAKARTA (Antara): State Secretary Yusril Ihza Mahendra Thursday was questioned by interrogators of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on a corruption case involving an official in the Justice and Human Rights Ministry. An alleged mark-up during the procurements of the Automatic Identification Fingerprints System (AFIS) by the Justice and Human Rights Ministry occurred when Yusril still led the ministry in 2004. |
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