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CHEAP HOTELS IN CEBU ISLANDS HOTEL REVIEW 900 PESOS CHEAP HOTELS IN THE PHILIPPINES GOPR1442 – Video

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Minecraft New Lucky Block Mod Island! (Minecraft Lucky Block Islands PVP) w/ Lachlan & Friends – Video

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Evil Islands Gameplay + Gua (en espaol!) 10: Orc ABC, Main Evidence y Punishing Captain – Video

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Evil Islands Gameplay + Gua (en espaol!) 10: Orc ABC, Main Evidence y Punishing Captain
En este gameplay continuamos la parte detectivesca de Gipath: Quin quiere matarnos? Orc ABC Book, Main Evidence y Punishing the Treacherous Captain Primer ogro muerto! YEA!

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Cayman Islands court leaves tax agreement in tatters

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Illustration: Michael Mucci.

Investigators for the Australian Tax Office and their lawyers were told by a judge last year that if they travelled to the Cayman Islands they could be locked up.

A year earlier the Tax Office had suffered a setback. It lost a case in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. This was the first lawsuit, and apparently the only one, to test whether a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) actually worked. It didn't.

After years of gabfests, conferences, issues papers and symposiums, when the Australian government finally sought to uphold its rights under an international tax treaty and obtain a bit of information, thwack, it was promptly thwarted by a judge in the Caribbean.

"The Commissioner's staff and lawyers would be exposed to risk of incarceration should any of them decide to visit the Cayman Islands," wrote Justice Nye Perram of the Federal Court in a judgment after the Caymans defeat. The Caymans judge ordered the relevant documents, now in the hands of the Australian court, destroyed.

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As G20 leaders prepare for their talkfest in Brisbane in the coming week they would do well to ponder this. Even if they were to talk day and night for a year, sally forth with a shipping container brimming with white papers, sign a slew of resolutions and an array of treaties on top, it would hardly put a scratch on the Leviathan that is global profit shifting.

The key is to stop the money from getting to the tax haven in the first place, properly enforce Australia's existing tax laws and enact some new ones not try to get it back from a low-lying island in the Caribbean. The G20 does not make laws, or enforce them; sovereign nations do.

The idea of a multilateral solution plays straight into the hands of the perpetrators, the multinationals, their lawyers and the big four. You can almost hear PwC, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and KPMG chuckling about the G20 from their city eyries. While solemnly pontificating to governments on tax policy, in the very next breath they go about showcasing the latest in tax avoidance fashions to the world's premier tax cheats.

The Caymans Islands is the fifth largest banking centre in the world; its hundreds of banks and insurance companies are the stewards of trillions in the wealth of other nations. In a fiscal ring-a-ring-a-rosy, they even help prop up OECD bond markets with their surfeit of capital. The overflow has to go somewhere; why not buy government bonds in the countries where the profits originated?

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Japan-China relations strained over illegal coral poaching

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Red coral jewellery and ornaments are popular among wealthy Chinese, with the price per gram having more than quadrupled over the past five years. Photograph: Alamy

A cluster of Japanese islands has become a potential flashpoint in already tense relations between Japan and China after Tokyo urged Beijing to crack down on a rise in illegal coral poaching by Chinese fishermen.

The demand came as Japanese officials warned that Chinese poachers currently in the area would not be allowed to take refuge on the Ogasawara islands, located about 600 miles south of Tokyo, from a powerful typhoon expected to arrive later on Thursday.

Japan has boosted its coastguard and police presence near the islands after observing a dramatic rise in the number of poachers searching for red coral in its exclusive economic zone.

Chinese boats traditionally poached coral in the East China Sea and near the Japanese island of Okinawa, but are thought to have moved to the Ogasawara chain to escape beefed up security and to take advantage of calmer waters.

Jewellery and ornaments made from the coral are popular among wealthy Chinese, with the price per gram having more than quadrupled over the past five years, according to the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.

More than 200 Chinese fishing boats have been spotted in waters off the Ogasawara and Izu island chains in recent days, prompting calls for Tokyo to put more pressure on Beijing.

Members of the ruling Liberal Democratic party adopted a resolution this week calling on the government to lodge the strongest possible protest, adding that they were outraged by the barbaric act of pulling out coral by the roots.

The standoff will only add to tensions between the two countries as their leaders struggle to set up their first-ever bilateral meeting at next weeks Apec summit in Beijing.

The Kyodo news agency quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the prospects were dimming for an official summit between Japans prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, although the two may hold informal talks lasting 10-15 minutes.

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Adventures in unspoiled Vanuatu, the islands of highs and lows

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By A. Odysseus Patrick November 6 at 7:31 PM

The hotel phone buzzed at 5:54 a.m. Roused from a deep sleep, 40-year-old Australian lawyer Veronica Riding groggily answered the phone.

Good morning, madam, a friendly voice at the other end said. I gave you my torch last night. Would you mind returning it?

Riding, her husband, two children and my family of four had arrived late the night before at the Warwick Le Lagon Resort and Spa, one of the five big hotels on Vanuatus main island of Efate. The flashlight was a loaner from a porter. He wanted it back. Now.

Vanuatu (van-oo-AH-too) is one of the South Pacifics rawest vacation destinations. In an age in which travelers expect modern conveniences and fast service, the archipelago is a throwback to an era before free WiFi, legal liability waivers and Taylor Swift. Its islands offer and this is why we went unspoiled tropical landscapes, friendly locals and a heritage that draws upon ancient Melanesian culture, colonial France and famed British explorer James Cook.

A former French and British protectorate, Vanuatu won independence in 1980. Eighty percent of its 250,000 citizens known as Nivans inhabit jungle villages spread across 65 islands. A form of pidgin English, Bislama, is the national language. Most families live in thatched huts; bows and arrows are still used to hunt game (including bats known as flying foxes), and children as young as seven wield sharp machetes against the thick foliage.

Our plan for a week-long tropical break from our home in Australia went wrong before it began. Its supposed to be a 3 1/ 2-hour flight from Sydney to Vanuatus capital of Port Vila. But Vanuatus international airport doesnt have an instrument-landing system, which means even some large airlines struggle to land during rainy weather, which is common. Our Virgin pilots tried three times before giving up. We then flew to Fiji, refueled and returned to Brisbane, a round trip of some eight hours.

We got to Port Vila the next evening, exhausted. The early-morning flashlight call was, though polite, unwelcome. Later, Veronicas husband, Alex, confronted the hotel employee.

Why did you wake me up so early? he asked.

But its daytime, the employee replied.

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URBAN HEAT ISLANDS EFFECTS IN EUROPE: Interview with Juergen P. Kropp – Video

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URBAN HEAT ISLANDS EFFECTS IN EUROPE: Interview with Juergen P. Kropp
Interview with Juergen P. Kropp (PIK) on the occasion of the FEEM-ICCG Joint Seminar "Coupling remote sensing, statistics and dynamic modelling for an advanced assessment of urban heat island...

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Creative Channel Islands: Photography [The Mini-Series] Episode Two – Video

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Creative Channel Islands: Photography [The Mini-Series] Episode Two
In conjunction with our amazing new book, Creative Channel Islands: Photography [The Mini-Series] offers an intimate and revealing portrait of our Channel Island photographers. We ask a variety...

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