The State Council, China's cabinet, has promised policies to boost e-commerce, including through cutting red tape and liberalizing investment rules covering a sector it recognizes as very important to the economy. E-commerce is ...
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed the craft beverage law to ease the restrictions imposed on alcoholic beverage producers. Expected to come into effect by the end of this year, the law will allow farm distilleries to increase the ...
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China will try to quicken the pace of economic reform this year as part of the government's efforts to arrest a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, the country's top economic planning agency said late on Saturday. The National ...
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Senator Chris Coons announces Manufacturing Jobs for America initiative. A new congressional report released Dec. 17, 2013, found that after a decade of devastating declines, the American manufacturing sector is recovering—and now ...
The American Institute for International Steel (AIIS) released a letter Tuesday applauding the trade facilitation deal reached December 7 by the 159 member countries of the World Trade Organization at the WTO's just-concluded Ninth ...
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NSW government agencies will now be required to evaluate Cloud-based services when undertaking new procurements under the state's first Cloud services policy. The policy, announced today by incoming financial services minister Andrew ...
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The White House Wednesday unveiled details of an infrastructure spending plan that includes faster approvals for certain energy projects. The plan, which calls for spending $50 billion on transportation infrastructure and new partnerships ...
The Department for Education is cutting IT staff among 1,000 job losses to reduce total headcount by a quarter. The announcement comes as the government aims to shrink Whitehall to its smallest size since the Second World War under the ...
Tags: IT staff, job losses, Civil Service Reform Plan, cutting red tape