Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has reproved the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for recklessly issuing mortgage insurance to thousands of ineligible borrowers. ...
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Corporate Express's case against school books supplier Wooldridges for non-payment of invoices for $3.6 million worth of stationery products has hit a significant hurdle with the appointment of administrators to Wooldridges' parent company ...
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MetLife has agreed to pay $500m in a multistate settlement with Florida insurance investigators in connection with holding death benefits from life insurance policies issued decades ago. The regulators accused the US insurer over non ...
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More than 600 WA businesses and schools and 90 employees are likely to receive less than 10 per cent of the $50 million they are owed by education product supplier Wooldridges, which was last month placed into administration. ...
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Taipei, Nov. 21, 2012 (CENS)--According to the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA), as of Nov. 15 the number of Taiwan’s enterprises providing unpaid leave to employees increased two more from a month ago to 49, with workers on the ...
Taipei,Oct.4,2012(CENS)--Affected by the global economic downturn,layoff and unpaid leave is spreading in Taiwan's electronics industry,affecting some 3,000 persons,mainly in the fields of DRAM(dynamic random access memory),LED(light ...
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Regional outsourcing venture Southwest One obscured the true extent of its financial losses with a highly unusual combination of understated costs and post-dated credits in its 2010 accounts,according to an analysis of the firm's accounts ...
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WASHINGTON—A top executive at Leggett&Platt testified before a Congressional committee here last week in support of stronger enforcement of U.S.trade laws. Karl Glassman,Leggett's chief operating officer,spoke before a trade ...
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(Free-Press-Release.com)September 2,2012--Today,RealOrganized,Inc.announced another major upgrade to RealtyJuggler Real Estate Software. This upgrade includes more than 75 new prospecting letters that can be used for both email and ...
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The Australian operations of Corporate Express/Staples has contributed to an 18 per cent drop in second quarter international sales at Staples. Total international sales for the second quarter were US$1.1 billion. The decrease was ...
SCO, the low-end Unix software vendor that sought to claim intellectual property rights over the popular open-source operating system Linux, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the first stage in its winding up and liquidation. Further ...
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Incoterms - a.k.a. Trade Terms are key elements of international contracts of sale. They tell the parties what to do with respect to carriage of the goods from buyer to seller, and export & import clearance. They also explain the division ...
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RBS is said to be considering legal action against CA Technologies,following the debacle of the past week which left millions of customers unable to access their funds. A software failure in the banking group's IT systems stopped customer ...
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The Royal Institute of British Architects(RIBA)revealed the findings of the RIBA Student Earnings Survey 2011-12.900 RIBA Student Members responded to the survey providing information about their current or most recent work placement.Key ...
Six members of a UK cyber fraud organisation have been jailed for selling identity theft kits online after pleading guilty at Southwark crown court. The gang members,who provided fake identities and documents to thousands of ...
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