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International PBX Ventures Ltd.: Copaquire Drill Results and Update

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire - June 16, 2008) - George Sookochoff, CEO of International PBX Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:PBX) announced today the completion of the Copaquire 2006-08 drill program and receipt of the final drill results CQ70 - CQ99.

The Copaquire copper molybdenum property is a potential bulk tonnage and open pit and quarry deposit. The property is located in the productive West Fissure structure of northern Chile that localizes several of the world’s largest copper mines, including the nearby Quebrada Blanca (Teck Cominco) and Collahuasi (Xstrata) producing mines approximately 15 kms east of the Copaquire property.

PBX has been drilling continuously on the Copaquire property since August 2006. In this program PBX has drilled a total of 86 drill holes for 25,738m (See attached table for final drill results CQ70 - CQ99).

Sulfato Copper Zone:

The drill program began in August 2006 and focused on testing the Sulfato copper zone. From The results of the 2006 Sulfato drilling has shown that a substantial leachable copper resource may be available near the Sulfato mountain top. Additional in-fill drilling as well as drilling to depth should allow a copper resource estimate to be published upon completion of the next drill program.

Cerro Moly Molybdenum Zone:

Drilling continued into 2007 with the focus on developing a molybdenum copper resource at the Cerro Moly molybdenum zone. The company achieved this goal and in October 2007 released an interim 43-101 compliant resource estimate of the Cerro BankWest Credit Cards Moly Deposit:

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NONE of Australia’s billionaires have the flash of Brazil’s richest man, one Eike Batista.

Once a business partner of Melbourne’s own Robert Champion de Crespigny when the gold industry was the fancy of them both, Batista has since gone on to become fabulously rich from a bagful of derring-do investments covering water, power and, like his fellow billionaire, Fortescue’s Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, iron ore.

Along the way Batista became a champion offshore powerboat racer and married a Playboy cover girl and Carnaval queen sensation, Luma de Oliveira, which is probably more interesting than knowing his father was a former mining minister and revered executive of the Brazilian mining giant, Vale.

Sadly, the marriage ended in divorce in 2004. We know the two had been deeply in love because one year at Carnaval de Oliveira led the throng wearing a dog collar sporting Eike’s name.

All that is by way of background to Batista’s latest plaything, OGX Petroleo, his oil exploration company floated in Brazil last week and which now has a market value of more than $US20 billion ($21.3 billion).

It’s worth repeating that we are talking about an exploration company, albeit one that can now be called Brazil’s second biggest “oil” company.

There is no production, just the high hopes that OGX (all of Batista’s companies have the multiplier “X” in their name) will match Brazil’s Petrobas in making monster oil finds in the offshore Santos basin.

Batista rolled the dice a while back and outbid everyone else for a huge portfolio of exploration licences in the Santos, where Petrobas now reckons its Tupi oilfield could be 8 billion barrels of oil (think 2.5 times Bass Strait) and its Carioca discovery as much 30 billion barrels (think 10 times Bass Strait).

OGX plans to drill its first wells later this year and report discoveries next year. If only it were so easy. Having said that, there is no MEDIUM dvd doubting that the Petrobas discoveries, even …continue reading

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Our travel expert answers queries on routes and destinations around the world

A: Pilgrims who have walked the famous Camino de Santiago say that a budget of € 25 (about R300) a day should be sufficient. For accommodation, your best bet is to stay in the hostels known as albergues. A bed, usually a bunk in a mixed-sex dormitory, will cost you € 4-10 per night. Blankets are usually provided, but it is advisable to bring a thin sleeping bag. Many albergues have kitchens, but most restaurants along the route offer a “pilgrim’s menu”, a simple three-course meal usually taken in the evening, for € 7-10. A bottle of cheap wine with your dinner will only cost € 2-3. Bottled water, sandwiches and fruit along the route are not expensive. If you decide to take a break along the way, you can usually find a cheap hotel for € 25-35. For a list of albergues on the route, check out www.caminodesantiago.me.uk.

A: The cheapest service for tourists is known as the Backpacker train, popular with younger travellers. You get a seat in a carriage and you can buy snacks and drinks on board. A ticket costs 48 (about R375) each way. A more comfortable trip is offered on the Vistadome train. Carriages with aircraft- style seating have panoramic windows and snacks and refreshments are served on board. The cost of a seat is 71 (about R560) each way. The most luxurious way to travel the route is aboard the Orient Express Hiram Bingham. This service, named fo r the explorer who discovered the ruins in 1911, has elegant carriages decorated in the style of the 1920s Pullman trains. There are two dining cars and an observation bar carriage. A return day-trip, including meals and drinks , is currently 588 (about R4600) per person. Whatever train you opt for, you need to book well in advance during the busy period until the end of September. If the trains from ANZ Rewards Credit Card Cusco are full, you can usually …continue reading

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‘Participation’, ‘rights-based’ and ‘consultative’ are all terms associated with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as the paradigm for humanitarian aid has shifted from agencies thinking they know best, to trying to put affected people at the heart of their aid responses. But when push comes to shove, and beneficiaries are unhappy with what they receive, do NGOs listen? And if so, how?

"There is still a huge gap between rhetoric and reality when it comes to beneficiaries actively taking part in informing agencies what their needs are, evaluating if and how they are being met, and how or if projects have changed their lives," said an aid analyst. "When things are not going well, often no one hears about it."

To some extent NGOs are financially accountable to donors, but on many levels they are forced to regulate themselves or each other, which has led to a panoply of accountability initiatives, codes of conduct and certification schemes, including, the Humanitarian Accountability Project International (HAP-I), which sets a certification standard against seven criteria to evaluate accountability, including monitoring and addressing complaints; the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP); and the International Sphere Standards, which set minimal standards in disaster response.

Most experts say NGOs have made progress, but they still place far more emphasis on reporting back to donors than they do on evaluating their impact on beneficiaries, particularly when things go wrong, according to John Mitchell, director of ALNAP.

The same can be said for UN agencies, all of those consulted told IRIN, but this report focuses primarily on NGOs, which carry out most of the face-to-face work with beneficiaries in emergencies, and draw their legitimacy mainly from accountability to them.

Is the donor the client?

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Lima, June 2 (Prensa Latina) Non-governmental organisations in Peru have called for a general strike to protest against the government’s decision to allow US troops helping the civil administration to carry arms. Earlier, the government had urged the US troops to help civil administration construct water-wells and classrooms in the country’s restive southern province of Ayacucho where illegal armed groups operate.

The government’s decision has been criticised by the opposition politicians who say the authorities have bent laws to allow foreign soldiers to carry guns.

Opposition combine Ayacucho Defence Front has announced that the strike will take place July 8.

Around 70 US soldiers have already been deployed and 350 more are expected to arrive.

Front chairman Iver Maravi said protesters would demand the withdrawal of the foreign troops, as its presence goes against the country’s law.

Defence Minister Antero Flores-Araoz said the government’s decision is justified in view of the presence of the armed groups in the region where the US troops are to work.

Antero, while responding to the criticisms by Peruvian Nationalist Party (PNP) leader Ollanta Humala, said the foreign troops are here to help the government and since the area is disturbed, the troops may be allowed to carry arms for self-defence.

Humala said such missions do not justify carrying guns. He said Peruvian engineers and constructors could do the work.

The ruling party and conservative groups in the Congress had approved the entry of US troops to Peru.

The opposition fear the US troops might open a military base in Peru.

Army chief Gen. Edwin Donayre said the US troops would only perform humanitarian tasks and Citibank MasterCard would not set up military base in Peru.
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On the hunt for borers

By NICHOLAS BERGIN

nbergin@thehawkeye.com

Local, state and national agencies plan to use royal purple prisms to catch a little green this summer.

A little green bug known as the “green menace” or the emerald ash borer, a dark metallic green beetle measuring about half an inch long and an eighth of an inch wide.

The borer, which has been responsible for the death of tens of millions of ash trees in the United States, originated in Asia and probably found its way to America as a stowaway in wood packing material.

Since its discovery in southeastern Michigan near Detroit in the summer of 2002, the ash borer has been spotted in Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The invasion of this miniature supervillain has the Iowa departments of natural resources and agriculture teaming up with Iowa State University Extension and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plant protection and quarantine division.

The USDA has set up quarantines in the affected states and plans to put up three-sided, purple, corrugated-plastic prisms coated in a nontoxic glue in 45 states. Iowa will see 1,200 prisms.

The traps will not stop the progression of the bug, but it will help track it. The closest confirmed spotting of the borer is about two hours west of the Quad Cities in Peru, Ill.

State officials plan to hang about 1,000 more traps across Iowa but are working out locations and funding issues, said Aaron Lumley, a Montrose-based forester with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

On Saturday, Lumley climbed an A-frame latter to hang one of the traps in an ash tree behind the Port of Burlington welcome center.

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LIMA, Peru (AP) - Former President Alberto Fujimori’s daughter says he has a pre-cancerous growth in his mouth and it may have to be operated on.
Fujimori is on trial, accused of approving a death squad that carried out two massacres of suspected rebel collaborators early in his administration in 1991 and 1992.
Keiko Fujimori says the lesion is similar to one that was removed 10 years ago from the back of his tongue. Fujimori is 69.
She says the doctors who treated him then have confirmed he has «leukoplakia,» a precancerous lesion that develops on the tongue or the inside of the cheek.
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The latest chapter in the whip-cracking adventures of Indiana
Jones survived its first perilous outing in the Kingdom of Critical
Knives today, winning a comfortable round of applause from critics
at a preview in Cannes.

Starring Harrison Ford, 65, and set in the late 1950s of the
Cold War, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull sees its swashbuckling archaeologist hero racing against
Soviet agents to recover a mysterious pre-Colombian skull in the
wilds of Peru.

The world premiere of the fourth instalment in the Indiana Jones
saga, and the first in 19 years, gets its official world release at
a gala premiere at 7pm today (0300 AEST Monday) at Cannes and is
the hottest ticket at this year’s edition of the world’s biggest
film festival.

Hollywood blockbusters have a chequered history at Cannes, with
the Da Vinci Code, for instance, mauled by the pack of
4,000 journalists attending the 2006 festival.

So the critical response to this latest Indiana Jones adventure
from Hollywood blockbuster maestros Steven Spielberg and George
Lucas has been almost as hotly-awaited as the film itself.

Critics arrived an hour early to snatch a chair in the
2,300-seat theatre and the two-hour movie won Business Credit Card laughs and a round of
friendly applause at its end.

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