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Timeshare Accommodations Questioned on Government Expense Reports
Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:01:15 +0000 | Timeshare Owners
The TimesLeader.com reported last week about some Luzerne County, Pennsylvania officials who were questioned when the word “timeshare” appeared on their government-issued debit card statements. No, the officials explained, they were not taking timeshare resort holidays. Instead, they were simply spending the taxpayers’ dollars carefully by staying at the Manhattan Club timeshare when they were in [...]
Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:21:17 +0000 | Global Voices Online - China
Zhengyi has listed out major fake news in 2007 with some background information. Some of his picks are (zh): 1. Paper Baozi, 2. Cruelest Step mother, 3. Guangzhou's property price goes down upon government regulation; 4. the gunman of campus shooting in Virginia is Chinese; 5. Province government gives order to protect the pig once [...]
Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - India reveals flawed Tibet policy
Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:14:05 +0000 | Newsvine China
he recent decision by India's ruling United Progressive Alliance government to bar ministers from attending a felicitation ceremony for the Dalai Lama is an indication not only of the blunders committed by the government in its foreign policy decision-making, but more perilously …
Record numbers of Chinese sit government job exam (Reuters)
Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:41:16 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - A record 640,000 Chinese people sat the annual national exam for government posts on Sunday, showing ferocious competition for secure jobs even as the economy grows at breakneck speed.
Greenpeace climbers captivate power plant urging government to regulate its CO2 emissions
Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT | Greenpeace
While the UN Climate Conference in Bali is thrashing out solution to global warming, two Greenpeace vessels gear towards the Castle Peak Power Plant, allowing the climbers to scale to a 30M-tall ash silos and suspend a 15m x 15m banner reading ?Climate Change Starts Here? to protest against the government shirking its responsibility to restrain greenhouse gas emission from power plants.
Arroyo "Most Corrupt" Philippine Leader: Poll
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:48:48 +0000 | Newsvine China
The Pulse Asia poll was conducted in October, when Arroyo's government was plagued by allegations of kickbacks in a deal with China's ZTE Corp to set up a broadband network linking government offices.
Hong Kong Leader Presses China for Vote
| New York Times
The Hong Kong government on Wednesday urged the Chinese government to set a firm timetable for direct elections for the region’s leader and legislature.
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