>> Vietnam's new communist leader Parliamentary speaker Nong Duc Manh, has been named the new General Secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party. >> New leader under threat from ousted PM Vanuatu's new Prime Minister, Edward Natapei, is already preparing to fend off an expected motion of no confidence from the man he toppled from the Prime Ministership just over a week ago, Barak Sope.

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>> Crackdown on Opposition Continues in Malaysia

In Malaysia the crackdown on the opposition continues, with the arrest of another supporter of the jailed former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. More arrests are expected to follow. [Full story ...]

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>> Political alliance in Fiji

In Fiji a strange new alliance has been forged between two old enemies. Sitiveni Rabuka and the widow of the late Prime Minister he deposed in a coup in 1987 are to form the leadership of a new political coalition to be announced today. And Rabuka is expected to play deputy to Adi Kuini Speed in the grouping of moderate parties in the run-up to national elections in August. [Full story ...]

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Monday, 23 April 2001

ASIA

>> International lenders set to question Indonesia over pace of reform

>> Indonesia's President warns his country has reached critical point

>> Jakarta ready to deploy more than 40-thousand troops next week

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PACIFIC

>> Fijian lawyers meeting over outburst by Law Society president

>> PNG's privitisation push takes unusual turn

>> PNG fuel prices jump again

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