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| Trademark Is a Privilege in Australia, Government Says BusinessWeek By Joe Schneider on April 18, 2012 Trademark use by companies in Australia is a privilege that the government can curtail, Queensland state's solicitor-general said in defending the country's plain-packaging legislation for cigarettes. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Czech government seeks majority after new crisis Reuters PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said on Monday he would seek an early election in June if his government did not find a clear majority in parliament after a junior partner split just a week after the coalition parties clashed over ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| RBI Puts Onus for Growth on Government Wall Street Journal (blog) So what prompted the RBI to take such drastic action when on March 15 it had expressed its inability to ease policy unless the government shows "credible" steps towards fiscal consolidation? Governor Duvvuri Subbarao, speaking to reporters after the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Swiss government says it has frozen more Iranian assets in Switzerland Washington Post GENEVA — The Swiss government says it has extended financial sanctions against Iran by freezing assets of 11 more companies and people. The Swiss Cabinet said Wednesday the move against an additional eight companies and three individuals was carried ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wis. Gov. Walker visits Illinois, blasts 'mess' in government Chicago Sun-Times "If voters in our state want to know the difference between going forward or backwards, they need only look at the mess that you have in state government here in Springfield to know what it would be like if ultimately the recall would prevail," he told ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Government overturns Lords justice reforms changes The Independent The Government has made a U-turn on its justice reforms by making it easier for the victims of domestic violence to claim legal aid. But it has set itself up for a showdown in the House of Lords after over-turning a number of amendments from peers ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Government Paranoia Leads to an Indian Cartoonist's Arrest Bloomberg It follows that governments, which represent the state but are congregations of human actors, should exercise extreme self-restraint in depriving human beings of their liberty, and in particular never use the state's power to settle personal scores. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Czech party splits, government's fate in balance Reuters By Jan Lopatka | PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Vice Prime Minister Karolina Peake quit the junior ruling party on Tuesday, a move that could cost the austerity-minded coalition its parliamentary majority although she pledged to keep supporting government ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Clinton calls for governments to be transparent Fox News BRASILIA, Brazil – Transparency and open governments are the best way to combat corruption, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said Tuesday as she joined Brazil's president at an international conference. Clinton and Brazilian President Dilma ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UK Government Must Review Cost Of Lowering Top Income Tax Rate:Report Fox Business LONDON – The costs and benefits of the UK government's move to cut the top rate of income tax are highly uncertain and the measure should be comprehensively assessed to establish the effect on Treasury coffers, a committee of lawmakers said. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Canada Government To Limit Environmental Reviews On "Major" Energy Projects Fox Business OTTAWA – The Canadian government released details Tuesday of its plan to dramatically streamline reviews for big energy and mining projects, capping the timeline for federal reviews and ceding more regulatory oversight to the country's provinces. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Government U-turn over legal aid The Press Association The Government has made a major U-turn on its justice reforms by making it easier for the victims of domestic violence to claim legal aid. Ministers faced criticism that their reforms would make it too difficult for women abused by their husbands and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Vodafone Takes Legal Action Over Tax Proposal in India New York Times (blog) By THE NEW YORK TIMES "The British telecommunications giant Vodafone said Tuesday that it had started legal proceedings against the Indian government over a proposed retroactive tax law that could cost the company more than $2 billion," Mark Scott ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Romney, Republicans Hammer Government Waste in Appeal to Middle Class Voters Fox News Romney's preferred message on Tax Day is that government is squandering the money those middle-income voters pay in taxes – that the $1680 these families can ill-afford to pay is being flushed away on commemorative GSA coins, Solyndra subsidies and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UK Rearrests Muslim Cleric Qatada, But Deportation May Take Time -Minister Wall Street Journal LONDON (Dow Jones)--UK border agency officers have rearrested Abu Qatada, a Muslim cleric who the government says poses a threat to national security, but his deportation to Jordan where he faces terrorism charges may take months, Home Secretary ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| "We gonna pawty," said high-flying US government official Reuters By Thomas Ferraro | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A US government official at the center of an election-year spending scandal kept traveling far and wide at taxpayers' expense - long after his boss was advised a year ago of suspected abuses, according to a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| New Zealand Government Sets Up Unit To Plan Christchurch Rebuild Implementation NASDAQ WELLINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The New Zealand government has established a new business unit tasked with preparing a blueprint for the implementation of Christchurch's inner city rebuild within 100 days, New Zealand Minister of Earthquake Recovery Gerry ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tim Berners-Lee speaks out against UK surveillance bill CNET The inventor of the World Wide Web says that the British government's plan to let intelligence agencies scrutinize residents' Internet use could lead to the "destruction of human rights." by Dara Kerr April 17, 2012 6:38 PM PDT Follow @darakerr Tim ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Government hits back in plain packaging fight ABC Online By Naomi Woodley and staff The Federal Government wants to encase all cigarettes in the same generic, olive green packaging. Lawyers for the Federal Government have rejected a suggestion by tobacco companies that plain packaging laws are invalid ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| GSA: The official poster group of government waste Vallejo Times-Herald We will wager that until recently most Americans knew little more about the General Services Administration than that it manages the federal government's buildings and supplies. But the GSA is obscure no more. The catalyst for the GSA's sudden and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| EU Officials Slam Argentina Government Over YPF Move Fox Business By --EU says stands fully behind Spain BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- Argentina's government came in for a chorus of criticism from top European Union officials Tuesday over the government's decision to expropriate the Argentine unit of Spanish oil giant ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UK moves to deport alleged terror fund-raiser Abu Qatada CNN International The United Kingdom will resume efforts to deport him to Jordan, the government said. Britain views Abu Qatada as a national security threat, but the European Court of Human Rights barred the country from deporting him because evidence gained from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Arizona's Brewer Vetoes Bill Opening Buildings to Guns BusinessWeek Brewer said she was concerned about the costs for local governments, which would have been required to equip libraries, city halls and other buildings with metal detectors security officers and gun lockers in order to prohibit firearms. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Scottish Government: No Water Contamination From Elgin Leak Fox Business LONDON – Testing of water and sediment samples taken two miles from Total SA's (TOT) leaking Elgin natural-gas platform in the North Sea indicate there hasn't been any direct marine contamination as a result of the incident, the Scottish government ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Good-government group critical of budget process Wall Street Journal AP ALBANY, NY — A good-government group sees some flaws in last month's approval of New York's $132 billion budget and is calling for measures to make the process more accountable to the taxpayers who pay the bills. Citizens Union's recent analysis of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Plain cigarette packs 'about health' Herald Sun THE Federal Government has rejected tobacco company claims that its plain packaging laws amount to an acquisition of their brands and logos, saying the legislation is an extension of regulations that have applied for the last 40 years. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee slams Government's monitoring plans The Independent Controversial government plans to allow intelligence agencies to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of every person in the UK should be scrapped, the inventor of the world wide web has said. Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned that the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Federal plan for open government called inadequate TheChronicleHerald.ca OTTAWA — Some members of a high-level panel struck by the Conservatives to offer advice on increasing transparency in government say a recently released plan to do so doesn't go far enough. And government watchdogs continue to urge the international ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Philips: Price of government backed bulb will fall MarketWatch By Ryan Tracy WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The cost of a new energy-efficient light bulb highlighted by the Department of Energy will continue to come down in coming years, the head of Philips Electronics Ltd.'s North American lighting business said ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Canada Plans to Speed Up Environmental Project Reviews BusinessWeek By Colin McClelland on April 17, 2012 Canada will speed up and simplify environmental reviews for major energy and mining projects, the federal government said today, expanding on plans first announced in the government's March 29 budget. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Unusual Alliances Form In Nebraska's Prenatal Care Debate NPR (blog) Dave Heineman vetoed a bill that would spend government funds on prenatal care to illegal immigrants. He has that service for illegal immigrants should be provided by churches and private organizations, not with taxpayer money. Nebraska Gov. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| As We See It: Why government is distrusted Santa Cruz Sentinel On the day after Tax Day, the news about government excess has not been uplifting. From Colombia, the reports about 11 Secret Service and US military personnel there to plan security for President Barack Obama's trip also took time to hire at least 20 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Oil firms ask government to compensate them New York Daily News New Delhi, April 17 — Three state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) Tuesday asked the government to temporarily declare petrol as a regulated commodity, reduce state sales tax and provide hundred percent cash compensation to them as they will be ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Czech Premier Seeks to Keep Majority as Ally Splinters BusinessWeek By Peter Laca on April 18, 2012 Czech Premier Petr Necas will seek to preserve his parliamentary majority after the smallest party in the ruling coalition splintered amid government efforts to cut the budget deficit. Necas will hold talks in Prague ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Secrets of the British Empire: UK government opens long-forgotten files to ... Washington Post In the 1960s, the UK refused to hand the files to its former colonies, arguing that they were the property of the British government. Years later, the UK declined to make them public, explaining that they were the records of the former colonial ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Peru's Highest Court Sides With Central Government In Minas Conga Mine Case Fox Business LIMA – Peru's highest court, the Constitutional Tribunal, on Tuesday sided with the central government and said the regional government of Cajamarca overstepped its bounds by declaring inviable the Minas Conga copper and gold project. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Employees' strike paralyses government offices in Kashmir New York Daily News Srinagar/Jammu, April 17 — Work in government offices across Jammu and Kashmir was paralysed Tuesday as employees struck work Tuesday demanding an increase in the retirement age and regularization of adhoc/daily wage workers. A majority of the state's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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