Word: national
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...baby with rain water and infant formula for two days before they were rescued from Minchu village. The hall is filled with stacks of donated drinks, crackers, new slippers, clothes, toothpaste, soap, and towels - part of an outpouring of support that has come from around the nation in the past week. One government bank account open for donations has already collected $30 million from the public. On Friday night, a celebrity fundraiser in Taipei raised over $15 million for the flood victims in a seven-hour event...
...cope with the burgeoning numbers. But some working in the prison system say the difficulties in the controlling the inmates will not be solved by raising more jail houses; the crisis, they say, also stems from profound problems in Mexico's justice apparatus. More than 41% of the nation's total prison population of 220,000 has not even been convicted and sentenced even though many of the prisoners have already spent several years behind bars. "There should be less focus on trying to put more people in prison and more on trying to get the right people in," Deputy...
...crash in Papua New Guinea this week has been so deeply felt because they were visiting a place that to many Australians is almost a sacred site. Or maybe it was that the group, collectively, had so many young children waiting for them at home. Whatever the reason, the nation was in mourning this week after nine members of a tour group died in a plane crash on their way to the famous Kokoda track in PNG. Five Papua New Guinea nations were also on board the Twin Otter when it collided with a hillside, killing everyone on board...
...nation is often referred to, there's often little choice. The lack of roads and the incredible remoteness of thousands of tiny hamlets and villages throughout the island mean flying is usually the only option to get around. Moala's flight was ferrying a group of 12 passengers to the tiny village of Kokoda, 50 miles northeast of the capital Port Moresby. Onboard flight CG4684 was co-pilot Royden Soauka, and a tour group of nine Australians and their local guide Steven Jaruba, a local businessman. By early on August 14, three days after the crash, authorities reported a 14th...
...scene of some of the most ferocious fighting of the Second World War between Australian and Japanese forces. Australian troops eventually prevailed, forcing the Japanese to pull back and abandon plans to launch further attacks on allied bases and the Australian mainland. Yesterday tributes poured in from around the nation for those killed in the crash, with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who walked the track in 2006, saying in a statement published in Australian newspapers that Kokoda evokes the memory of the thousands of young Australians who gave their lives in the pursuit of freedom and democracy. "For nine...