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| Australian government proposes what it says are world's toughest tobacco ... Washington Post By AP, CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's government introduced a groundbreaking bill to Parliament on Wednesday that would prevent tobacco companies from displaying their distinctive colors, brand designs and logos on cigarette packs in a bid to make ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Time for Gillard's rubber to hit non-Canberran road ABC Online By Annabel Crabb It's time Julia Gillard set forth and started 'selling' the Government's carbon tax to the people. (ABC: Hayden Cooper) Julia Gillard is absolutely correct not to recall Parliament next week. There are two reasons why. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Housing Recovery Hindered in U.S. as Government Works at Cross-Purposes Bloomberg Government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have boosted standards so high that some people previously considered prime borrowers no longer qualify. That's limiting a real estate rebound that also has been damped by a state attorneys general probe ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| U.K. to Weigh Domestic Preferences in Contracts Wall Street Journal By ALISTAIR MACDONALD The UK government will consider giving companies operating in the country preference in contracts after Canada's Bombardier Inc. said it would cut more than 1400 jobs there following the government's awarding of a large train ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Australia's aid review report released Radio Australia The Australian government has today released the first independent review of Australia's aid program in fifteen years. And it's announced a series of reforms that the foreign minister Kevin Rudd says will ensure aid spending is strategic, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Roger Clemens Perjury Trial Defense May Focus on Single Government Witness Bloomberg Legal arguments made before jury selection, set to begin today in federal court in Washington, show a defense focused almost exclusively on Brian McNamee, Clemens's former trainer and the government's chief witness. Clemens, who admits being injected ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Restive City of Hama Tests Will of Syrian Government New York Times In just days, the protests and the government's uncertain response have underlined the potential scale of dissent in Syria, the government's lack of a strategy in ending it, and the difficulty Mr. Assad faces in dismissing the demonstrations as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Kudos to the Greek government for standing firm against Israel-trashing Gaza ... New York Daily News All hail the government of Greece for single-handedly mothballing the flotilla that was setting sail to challenge Israel's naval blockade of Gaza. The Greeks have gotten loads of bad press lately, what with riots in the streets and a debt crisis that ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Thaksin Won't Seek Role in Sister's Government Wall Street Journal By JAMES HOOKWAY BANGKOK—Thailand's ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra won't be playing any role in the new government led by his youngest sister Yingluck Shinawatra, his lawyer said Wednesday, countering widespread reports in the Thai capital that Mr. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wilkie slams State Government Tasmania Mercury INDEPENDENT MP Andrew Wilkie has used a speech in Parliament to express his dismay at the Tasmanian Government. He used his three-minute speech to hit out at the State Government's plan to give a loan to newly formed company Fibre Plus Tasmania to buy ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Government and unions resume pension talks Reuters By Keith Weir LONDON (Reuters) - Trades unions resume talks with the government on Wednesday over public sector pension reform following a walkout last week by some 300000 teachers and civil servants. Both sides say the talks set for Wednesday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Government warned on NHS wait times Belfast Telegraph The Government has been warned it risks failing to meet a key pledge on waiting times as a new survey showed most trust chief executives and chairmen believe the NHS is facing a "very, very" serious financial situation. A poll has shown 42% of NHS ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Telangana issue: Two states playing on government mind Daily News & Analysis By KV Ramana | Place: Hyderabad | Agency: DNA As part of its strategy to find an amicable solution to the Telangana issue, the Centre seems to be working on a plan to separate Telangana and Hyderabad. The bone of contention has been deciding the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Troika in town for end-of-term review RTE.ie It is not the toughest review the Government will face, nor the most testing for the EU-IMF teams, who have a lot on their plate dealing with Greece and Portugal, and who might welcome a relatively straightforward visit to Dublin. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The Government Accountability Office celebrates its 90th anniversary Washington Post In response to this familiar Washington crisis, Congress passed and President Warren G. Harding signed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, establishing an independent, nonpartisan agency now known as the Government Accountability Office. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Swan pledges carbon compo for some miners ABC Online By Sabra Lane and staff The Federal Government is promising extra assistance for some coal miners as it moves to counter the industry's campaign against the carbon tax. The Government will unveil the full details of the carbon tax on Sunday, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Court notice to government on CBI exemption from RTI Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the central government on a public suit filed against the decision to exempt the CBI and the NIA from the purview of the RTI Act, the country's transparency law. A division bench of chief ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ineffective government does not serve public interest Financial Times Should the UK government set a public interest test for important business deals? A private investigator acting for The News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, stands accused of erasing voicemails, raising false hopes that the murdered ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Why China's local government debt is so scary Moneycontrol.com But it does mean it`s hard to trust the road maps the government is printing and selling to investors. Just last week China`s official national auditing board said that local government`s owed about 10.7 trillion yuan (USD 1.65 trillion). ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US government urged to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Iraq Xinhua The federal government should cut nonessential defense budget appropriations, the resolution noted. "We're spending one trillion dollars over there (in Afghanistan and Iraq). We should be investing in education, health care and infrastructure," said ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| China Construction Bank Chief: Local Government Financing A Worry But No ... Fox Business BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- The debts of local government financing platforms are a big concern, but no bailout plan is needed now for China's banking system, China Construction Bank Co. (0939.HK) Chairman Guo Shuqing said Wednesday. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Should the federal government back luxury mortgages? Boston Globe (blog) The Federal Housing Administration was formed to help first-time and low-to-moderate income buyers get mortgages. But it now finds itself backing mortgages up to nearly $730000 in some of the nation's costliest housing markets, the report notes. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Portugal Government Ends Golden-Share Holdings Wall Street Journal LISBON (Dow Jones)--Portugal's new government Tuesday scrapped the so-called golden shares it held in Galp Energia SA (GALP.LB), Energias de Portugal SA (EDP.LB) and Portugal Telecom SA (PT) as part of terms set under a EUR78 billion bailout and as it ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Chinese government may be looking at buying 'huge chunk' of Facebook shares Los Angeles Times The Chinese government is looking into buying a stake in Facebook ahead of the social network's widely expected initial public stock offering in 2012. The possible investment, which was reported by the website Business Insider, would land the communist ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Brazil Government Sees CBD, Carrefour Merger Failing -Report Wall Street Journal SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil's government sees little possibility of success for the proposed merger between Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao (CBD), or CBD, and the Brazilian unit of French retailer Carrefour SA (CRRFY), due to disagreements among ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hezbollah's Fadlallah says government is "pure Lebanese" NOW LEBANON Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Hassan Fadlallah said on Wednesday that "the Americans will not find a partner to help them in this government because this cabinet is a 100 percent Lebanese." During the parliament's second session to discuss the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Double bombing kills 37 at Iraqi government office Times of India AP | Jul 6, 2011, 01.06am IST BAGHDAD: A car packed with explosives and a roadside bomb went off back-to-back outside a municipal building north of Baghdad today, killing 37 people and wounding 54, Iraqi police and a hospital doctor said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Microsoft to team up with both Baidu and the Chinese government's censorship ... Marketplace That arrangement means going along with the Chinese government's censorship policies. You don't hear the name Google much around China. The search giant, which dominates the market in nearly every country on the planet, isn't really a player in China. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Obama Website Hacked, Supporters Invited To Fake Anti-Government Events Hosted ... Huffington Post Users of the Obama 2012 application for mobile devices were informed of two fake anti-government events hosted by "Commy Obama" in the nation's capitol, according to the Examiner. The Obama campaign has made headlines for its push to go digital ahead ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Solar Energy Needs Government Subsidies Energy and Capital The renewable grant program, which provides government subsidies to many solar projects, is set to expire at the end of 2011. The Department of Energy's loan guarantee program runs out even earlier, on September 30. And Congress has been looking to cut ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Should the Government Need a Search Warrant to Track Your Car with GPS? TIME The court agreed to hear a case next term about when the government can put GPS devices on people's cars — which could produce one of the court's biggest privacy rulings in years. The GPS issue is important in its own right — the government can learn ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Big-Government Leftists Have Accidental Encounter With Laffer Curve, Learn Nothing Forbes (blog) The big-government advocates at the Center for American Progress recently released a series of charts designed to prove America is a low-tax nation. I wish this was the case. The United States does have a lower overall tax burden than Europe, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Government of Peru and Macchu Pisco LLC Launch the Centennial Macchu Pisco ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Macchu Pisco LLC launches this week the Centennial Macchu Pisco Sour Competition as a collaboration with the Government of Peru to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Machu Picchu's re-discovery by American archeologist Hiram Bingham and the upcoming ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| State Government and Political News: Smoking ban turns one-year old today Pierce County Herald The state government could save $267-million-dollars a year by looking more closely for fraud, having local governments share more services, and reducing employee overtime. Those are the initial findings of a task force Governor Scott Walker appointed. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The government and fluorescent bulbs Chicago Tribune Rick Perry told us last week, "government, get out of the way!" The concept of fluorescent bulbs is a good idea. They ARE dimmable and truly save money. Under a lamp shade the look is the same as an incandescent bulb. The problem is the government has ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Justice lays out government's 'significant and regrettable' history of anti ... Federal Times (blog) However, since DOMA's Section 3 defines marriage as between one man and one woman, the federal government is banned from extending full health benefits to same-sex spouses and partners, though the Obama administration and Office of Personnel Management ... See all stories on this topic » |
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