Malaysian government revokes rights activist's passport: Amnesty
The Malaysian government has revoked the passport of a Malaysian human rights lawyer campaigning for minority rights and the abolition of a tough security law, Amnesty International said. ...
AFP via Yahoo! News: Fri, 16 May 2008 01:00:53 GMT |
Fliers squeezed by government fees
As if high fuel prices aren't enough, airlines and passengers are getting pinched by rising taxes as the U.S. government demands a bigger piece of the pie. ...
CNN Money: Thu, 15 May 2008 17:58:46 GMT |
Berlusconi's government wins parliamentary green light
Italy's new right-wing government led by Silvio Berlusconi won a vote of confidence in the Senate on Thursday, sealing parliament's approval 24 hours after the lower house passed a similar vote. ...
AFP via Yahoo! News: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:04:51 GMT |
Is government's rosy data in step with reality?
How can government data say inflation seems tamer when milk and gas both cost almost $4 a gallon? It makes you wonder if the government is performing a statistical sleight of hand. ...
MSNBC: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:36:18 GMT |
Talks set on new government for Lebanon
The deal, which follows a burst of street battles, is seen as a boost to Hezbollah. Lebanese factions took another major step toward calming a flare-up of sectarian and political violence Thursday by agreeing to immediately resume long-stalled talks over a new government. ...
Los Angeles Times: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:20:12 GMT |
Report: Government's Cyber-Security Plan Is Riddled With New Spying Programs
Major parts of the government's proposed $17 billion computer-security plan are actually spying programs, according to a Senate committee's budget report. The committee also faulted the plan for excessive secrecy around privacy and civil liberties issues and for funding experimental and possibly illegal technologies. ...
Wired News: Thu, 15 May 2008 19:44:44 GMT |
Zimbabwe government defends run-off poll delay
The Zimbabwean government on Thursday defended a decision by the country's electoral commission to delay a second round presidential poll by more than two months, saying it was acting within the law. ...
AFP via Yahoo! News: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:47:55 GMT |
Secret UFO files released by UK government
Britain's Ministry of Defense has released files on UFO sightings dating back to the 1970s, including witness accounts and the government's response. ...
CNN.com: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:02:50 GMT |
Soybeans Fall as Argentine Government, Farmers May End Dispute
May 15 (Bloomberg) -- Soybeans fell the most in two weeks on speculation that farmers in Argentina, the world's third- largest exporter of the oilseed, will resolve a dispute with the government that has disrupted shipments. ...
Bloomberg.com: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:45:14 GMT |
Malaysian government revokes rights activist's passport: Amnesty
The Malaysian government has revoked the passport of a Malaysian human rights lawyer campaigning for minority rights and the abolition of a tough security law, Amnesty International said Thursday. ...
AFP via Yahoo! Philippines News: Fri, 16 May 2008 00:27:00 GMT |
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Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Rob Corddry to star in big-screen comedy
Red Hour production company. No director is attached to the project about a guy trained by the U.S. government as a Cold War experiment to be the world's biggest jerk, The Hollywood Reporter said. Ben and Stuart gave it to me to read years ago, and it's ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
MP hands over petition in bid to keep hospital open A massive petition has been handed over to the government in a last-ditch bid to save Royal Hospital Haslar.
A massive petition has been handed over to the government in a last-ditch bid to save Royal Hospital Haslar. Gosport Tory MP Peter Viggers last night called on Labour to help keep the Gosport hospital open. Last night, he presented ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Security Council wants UN peacekeepers in Somalia
improving political reconciliation and security conditions.That will be difficult in a country that has not had a functioning government since clan-based warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. The warlords then turned on each other, ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
UN hopes to send top aid coordinator to Myanmar
crisis, much more needs to be done," Ban told reporters. "The Myanmese ambassador has assured that the Myanmese government will do all to assist." Add a Comment on this topic. Events Calendar Sponsored by: Events Search enter event type or date Top ... ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Free flu vaccines for kids has "sketchy" evidence
any child that wants be protected can be immunised but we're just not yet ready to commit the government to immunising all children against influenza." In Australia, vaccinations are funded for people aged over 65 and Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Interpol: Colombia has real rebel data
camp,' said Interpol's secretary general, Ronald Noble, adding: 'No one can ever question whether or not the Colombian government tampered with the seized FARC computers.'Chavez did just that, calling Noble 'a tremendous actor' and an 'immoral police ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Celebrity cast in Hollywood wiretapping case
name was among the 60 names that prosecutors contended Pellicano provided to bribed police officers to run through government databases in order to help his clients in legal and other disputes. Nealon was never called to testify in the trial. - Chris ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Chavez: Interpol report 'ridiculous'
the Ecuadorean base that killed rebel leader Raul Reyes and 24 others.'Ecuador is right,' Chavez said. 'The Colombian government should be tried in an international tribunal.'Chavez likened the accusations of Venezuelan support for the rebels to a plot ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Cannes balances glamor with `Blindness'
and bureaucratic heartlessness, from Hurricane Katrina to global food shortages to the cyclone in Myanmar, where the military government has severely restricted relief efforts. 'There are different kinds of blindness. There's 2 billion people that are ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
For Once, It's the Thoughts That Count
and featured, among others, the French Jewish socialist who heads the International Monetary Fund and a top Chinese government economic planner and former deputy speaker of parliament. Lunch brought an even more unexpected sight: an unplanned clash ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Interpol: Credible Information Linking Venezuela to Columbia FARC Terrorists
(Reuters) - Interpol, the international police agency, said on Thursday documents found on Colombian rebel computers, which Colombia's government charges show that Venezuela and Ecuador supported leftist guerrillas, were authentic. However, the agency ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:19:00 GMT |
Exams system faces health check
Ms Tattersall was speaking as Ofqual was being formally launched. Its creation was announced last autumn, when the government said it was splitting the two functions of the exams watchdog QCA, which had been charged with making sure standards were ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Docs fight bid to force holidays
Salaried doctors have accused the Queensland government of being more concerned about them taking annual leave than cutting hospital waiting lists.Queensland Health has demanded doctors working in the public system use up a massive backlog of accrued ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Cannes balances glitz, glamour and celebrity with savage 'Blindness'
and bureaucratic heartlessness, from Hurricane Katrina to global food shortages to the cyclone in Myanmar, where the military government has severely restricted relief efforts. 'There are different kinds of blindness. There's two billion people that are ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Lockheed beats Boeing to win $3.57B GPS contract
aerospace companies, but not on the GPS III program.In a statement, Lockheed said it is 'honored that our government customer has entrusted our team to build this vital system, which will provide improved GPS accuracy and assured availability for ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Call for water market competition
downward pressure on costs. 'Competition can also help respond to the environmental challenge of water scarcity, which the Government highlighted in its water strategy. Markets could spur innovation in developing and making better use of water resources ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Government moves SC against HC order
The Centre on Thursday moved the Supreme Court for vacating the Calcutta High Court's order staying the Union HRD ministry's memorandum on 27 per cent OBC quota in post-graduate courses in centrally-run institutions, including IIMs and IITs. In its ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Myanmar junta warns against hoarding cyclone aid
abusive and ill-equipped ... military will not necessarily help victims of the cyclone,' Human Rights Watch said. The government warning on hoarding obliquely referred to such concerns. 'The government has systematically accepted donations and has ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
SA teachers set deadline for wage offer
South Australian teachers have given the state government a deadline to come up with a revised offer in their dispute over pay and conditions. The Australian Education Union (AEU) said on Thursday teachers would give the government until ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Hospital bed shortage 'could happen ...
incident at North Shore could end up happening here because of a lack of planning,' he said.'(The Queensland government) say they're planning for the future but they haven't planned for the present.' AAP ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Demand for social housing to rise
acknowledged, in secret notes which she failed to keep hidden from photographers, increasing defaults on mortgages. The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for councils to be able to be given greater freedoms to increase their housing stock by ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
Four-year delay for patient records
'serious delays' in applying new software for the National Programme for IT in the NHS and said the Government had underestimated the challenges involved. In a progress report, the NAO concluded that while all elements of the £12.7 billion programme are ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
120,000 Deaths Could Result From Myanmar Cyclone
of the dead and surviving victims continued to soar. The new numbers compare with those from the Myanmar government, which put the death toll at nearly 38,500 with about 27,800 missing. Aid, including that brought by U.S. planes, has begun to flow in but ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
Protest group loses desalination fight
A community group's bid to stop the Victorian government building a pilot plant for a proposed desalination plant in the southeast of the state has failed in the Federal Court. Federal Court Judge Peter Heerey rejected the claim by ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
China accepts foreign rescue teams ...
as well.The turnabout comes as the death toll from Monday's magnitude-7.9 quake jumped to nearly 20,000 and the government said the number could more than double to 50,000.Rescue work has reached a critical stage as chances for survival for those trapped ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
Constitutional Renewal 21st Century Britain is a vibrant and open Democracy - the recent UK local election results are a clear example of what the electorate can do.
I have just been elected to Chair the pre-legislative Committee for the new Constitutional Renewal Bill which the Government intends to present to Parliament in the next session. The cross party Committee, which does not have a Government majority, has ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
36 killed in Lanka clashes
(EW) cells based on radio monitoring reported that LTTE militants had transferred eight of their cadres to Molangavil government hospital in the non liberated area. It said three of the rebels had died in the hospital. Separately, one soldier lost his ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
US stops short of branding China a currency manipulator
gains on Wall Street overnight on some better-than-expected economic data and a pullback in oil prices. The Australia government will provide an estimated Rp3.6 trillion (A$462 million) in development assistance to Indonesia in 2008-2009, reaching new ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
ABC dumps fired-up Foley
listen to Kevin Foley? Vote in our poll on the right of this page. Mr Foley said the Government had 'put every available dollar that we've had into that (health) system', but then turned his sights on the South Australian Salaried Medical Officers ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
NREG fails to deliver
In NREGA, labour is self-selecting. In other words, there is no choice of worker with Government responsible to ensure receiving of minimum wages. As wage payment is calculated on the basis of work 'outturn', the simple solution is to have Standard ...
Moreover: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT |
