According to Hurun Report, high-end wine and expensive watches are no longer popular in high-class gifts market after Chinese government punished officials against extravagance and waste. The "richmen's favourite gift brand" ranking list ...
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The Court of Cassation reversed a Cairo Criminal Court ruling sentencing three former regime officials to prison in the steel licenses case and ordered that they be retried before new judges. Mr Ahmed Ezz, former organization secretary ...
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Cornwall County Council has voted in support of an IT outsourcing and telehealth partnership with BT after rejecting a controversial plan to privatise a much broader range of council services. After councillors threw out their executive's ...
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German consumer organisations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. Third party apps often want access to a users’ chat as ...
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Jeremy Hunt's promise in 2010 that the UK would lead Europe with its broadband infrastructure within five years raised a few eyebrows. No one was against the sentiment of rolling out broadband to every home in the UK by 2015 – even ...
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IDG News Service-German consumer organizations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. Third party apps often want access to a ...
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Barnet Council will cut 70%of staff from the back-office functions it is outsourcing to Capita in a controversial deal to automate council services. The London borough's Cabinet is expected to approve the deal in a vote this evening,that ...
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Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy welcomed its first freshman class. The new six-year program focuses on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to foster college and career readiness. Supporting this innovative learning model, ...
Related government agencies will integrate the resources of state banks and public funds, totaling NT$300 billion in scale, to bolster the languid stock market via coordinated investment strategy, according to the program for bolstering the ...
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The central government-level “task force for augmenting the efficacy of the operation of public funds” resolved yesterday (Nov. 21) requiring the labor pension fund and the labor insurance fund not to clear the positions for ...
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Taipei, Nov. 16, 2012 (CENS)--Chang Sheng-ford, minister of finance, stated yesterday (Nov. 15) that the four major public funds are now under the jurisdiction of different government agencies and score unsatisfactory returns in outsourcing ...
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Taipei, Nov. 20, 2012 (CENS)--The Insurance Bureau, under the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), put forth yesterday (Nov. 19) seven major control measures for investments by insurance firms in realties, effective immediately, which ...
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Leading users of the government's Public Services Network (PSN) have complained that the service is underdeveloped, despite the £2bn of public funds, and four years' planning, that went into the network's launch in March this year. ...
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The European Union looks set to approve UK government plans for installing superfast broadband throughout the UK by 2015. European competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia has suggested that he'd like to see some minor ...
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A BT spokesperson has labelled today's allegations that the company has marked up the cost of rural superfast broadband installations by as much as 80 per cent as"quite frankly,untrue,"condemning the Daily Telegraph's apparently leaked ...