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...China and Japan. And while many Australians confuse APEC with ASEAN or even the OECD, no other regional organization matters more to their prosperity. APEC members account for 70% of Australia's trade and 8 of its 10 biggest export markets. And, says Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, "The center of gravity of global affairs is moving more and more to the Asia-Pacific...
...prices drove a few courageous people onto the streets, only to be met with the expected heavy hand. If the junta has one bedrock policy, it's to prevent any repetition of the 1988 uprising that came so close to overthrowing decades of army rule. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer once remarked sagely that progress in Burma is like glue flowing up a hill. Yet it's important to understand that beneath the long-running political stalemate in Rangoon, Burma is actually changing fast; not necessarily in the right direction, but changing all the same. The problem is not that...
...What do you expect them to do - fall on the ground and grovel?' ALEXANDER DOWNER, Australian Foreign Minister, rejecting requests that police and prosecutors apologize for detaining Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef on suspicion of his involvement in June's U.K. terror plots. All charges against Haneef were dropped on July...
...think it’s always a honor when a former president of the United States comes to speak at your graduation,” Downer said...
...Matthew P. Downer ’07 and Amber J. Wesley ’06 from North Central University, it was a White House romance. The pair worked as interns across the hallway from one another—he at the Office of Communications and she at the Office of Media Affairs—during the summer of 2005. “We started going out to lunches,” says Downer, “and it progressed from there.” Wesley remained in Washington, D.C., to work in the Department of Commerce while Downer completed...