Archive for August, 2007

Probe clears Australia’s Thorpe of doping (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia’s Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe was cleared of doping allegations Friday after an Australian investigation found there was no evidence he had taken performance-boosting drugs.

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Australia’s top trainers, jockeys banned from tracks (Reuters)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Some of Australia’s top jockeys and trainers, including 11-times Melbourne Cup winner Bart Cummings, have been banned from racetracks in an effort to stop the spread of equine flu, officials said.

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Australia’s top trainers, jockeys banned from tracks (Reuters via Yahoo!7 News)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Some of Australia’s top jockeys and trainers, including 11-times Melbourne Cup winner Bart Cummings, have been banned from racetracks in an effort to stop the spread of equine flu, officials said.

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Human error blamed as Australia counts cost of equine flu (MSNBC)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -Human error was likely responsible for the spread of equine influenza which has hit two Australian states, curtailing horse racing and costing millions of dollars in lost jobs and revenue, Australia federal agriculture minister Peter McGauran said Friday.

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Australia, India Agree To Study Free Trade Agreement (Nasdaq)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- Australia and India have agreed to undertake a joint feasibility study to look at the merits of a free trade agreement between the two countries.

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Australia drugs agency finds Ian Thorpe not guilty of doping (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australia′s sports doping agency has cleared champion swimmer Ian Thorpe of doping charges that arose last year when urine tests showed elevated levels of two banned substances.

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Homes in the sky on the rise in Australia (University of Melbourne University News)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Homes in the Sky, Apartment Living in Australia claims to be ‘the first history of apartment buildings in Australia’, though its authors confess it is not comprehensive, and draw on many histories of Australian apartment buildings. But the book is no less impressive for that. It is indeed very well-referenced and up-to-date, the photographs are beautiful, and the story it tells is complex and …

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Spring carnival for yabbies and punters (Tenterfield Star)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

RODNEY ROBB trained the winner of the 1999 Birdsville Cup. His tilt at Australia’s most famous outback race meeting this year is now a lost dream. Like other trainers heading to Birdsville for the two-day meeting that was due to start today, Robb is struggling in the Equine Influenza Handicap.

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Australia’s champion swimmer Thorpe cleared of doping (AFP via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia’s Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe has been cleared of doping allegations and the case against him is closed, the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) said Friday.

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Australia’s champion swimmer Thorpe cleared of doping (AFP via Yahoo!7 News)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia’s Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe has been cleared of doping allegations and the case against him is closed, the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) said Friday.

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Australia’s champion swimmer Thorpe cleared of doping (AFP via Yahoo! Asia News)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia’s Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe has been cleared of doping allegations and the case against him is closed, the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) said Friday.

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2007/08/06 (New Straits Times)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

DELECTABLE DUCK: Aromatic Duck in Pancake. MANVEET KAUR and her friends dropped by China Treasures restaurant and made a vow to come back for more. The food’s that good, she promises.

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Spring carnival for yabbies and punters (Thursday Magnet)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

RODNEY ROBB trained the winner of the 1999 Birdsville Cup. His tilt at Australia’s most famous outback race meeting this year is now a lost dream. Like other trainers heading to Birdsville for the two-day meeting that was due to start today, Robb is struggling in the Equine Influenza Handicap.

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Small profit rise for Southern Travel (The New Zealand Herald)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Southern Travel Holdings today reported its June year net profit rose 2.8 per cent to $514,000. Operating revenue fell 16 per cent to $28.6m and the operating surplus fell 6.2 per cent to $747,000.

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Racing allowed, but no travel (Adelaide Now)

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

THE BAN on horse travel inside South Australia has been extended for another three days, but racing will be allowed at two venues.

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