The Western Australia state government said that Ms Julia Gillard’s PM of Australian, tax on iron ore and coal company profits is illegal because it limits state governments’ ability to finance development. Western Australia ...
Tags: iron ore, coal, mine tax, Minerals Resource
Hindustan Times reported that it’s not just Congress leaders who have been beneficiaries of the iron ore mining business in Goa. Affidavits filed with the Election Commission ahead of Assembly polls in 2012 have revealed that at least ...
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Grab the bear bottle of honey off the Walmart shelf and have a look.By appearance,the honey looks golden and wholesome.The beehive the honey came from may contain 60,000 honey bees;and those same bees probably tapped over a million flowers ...
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Business Standard reported that iron ore starved steel industry in and around Karnataka might have to wait for a longer period to get smooth supply of key raw material for its blast furnaces as the opening of Category B mines, which contain ...
Tags: starved steel industry, iron ore, raw material, mining
An adults-only rating category for computer games has come into effect across the nation. The new R18+ category will make it illegal for people under 18 to buy, hire or view any games given the rating, while it will be illegal for ...
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China's sudden cuts to rare earth export quotas and domestic production marked the beginning of a Rare Earth Economic War, proposes Jacob Securities' Senior Mining and Metals Analyst Luisa Moreno. The good news is that partnerships between ...
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Reuters reported that workers at the main units of Southern Copper in Peru will hold contract talks soon with the global copper producer but say they could strike after January 15 if negotiations break down. Union leader Ricardo ...
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New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
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UK pig producers have warned that around 40% of pork products imported from the European Union are illegal, following yesterday's (1 January) introduction of new EU welfare regulations that ban the use of stalls in pig rearing. ...
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Pakistan Daily Times reported that the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet,which recently met with Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs in the chair,approved the recommendations of its sub ...
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Fitch Ratings forecasts that after a period of severe destocking in 2012,raw steel production in China will grow 3%to 4%in 2013.But the ratings agency also believes that Chinese steel demand has likely peaked and should grow at less than ...
IDG News Service-Two trade groups focused on fighting software piracy have signed a partnership agreement,with the goal of bringing more cases against people and businesses using unlicensed software. The Software and Information Industry ...
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The co-chairman of the Ohio Green Party and editor of FreePress.org,Bob Fitrakis,on Monday filed a federal lawsuit over software that was allegedly installed on central vote tabulation machines in 39 Ohio counties without being tested or ...
IDG News Service - SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, which said that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. "We recently spent ...
Tags: SA, software maintenance renewals, software, company news
The number of countries where a controversial movie trailer on YouTube has been blocked increased to five by Monday, as Google ran into legal threats in some of these countries. Malaysia is the latest country in which Google has blocked ...
Tags: YouTube Video, Google, Computer Products, YouTube