You are right, taking a long way passing Australia helps:
I must ocnfess it took me some time to figure out, it looks like yahoo doens't want you to find this possibility :-)
i compared:
http://au.dir.yahoo.com/Business_and...nd_Investment/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Ec...nd_Investment/
The first one has the option: "suggest a link" totally at the bottom of the page.
The second one hasn't.
Now let's see how it works out...