The government of Pakistan (GoP) has partially resolved its circular debt issue by paying Rs260 billion to IPPs and another Rs60 billion to state-owned companies belonging to energy sector. This on one hand is likely to ease load shedding of electricity and gas and on the other hand to improve capacity utilization of industrial sector [...]
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The downfall of Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi was partly contributed by those thousands of protesters who disagreed with his view of “Us” and “Them”. Leaders such as Morsi have focused on persecuting those who refuse to share their vision; continuing down this path would have had a negative impact on history. By M.D. Nalapat History [...]
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By Craig Edwards Croatia has taken its place among its new “family” in the European Union, making it the 28th member country of the European machine. Mass celebration ensued, although not without a certain degree of skepticism. It cannot be denied that Croatia has come an enormous way in the twenty years following its independence [...]
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During the past few months, dozens of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members have been murdered and their offices sacked and burned. The police openly refuse to protect them. Rather than ordering the opposition to drop their demand that Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, resign, and negotiate reasonably with his government, the army gave [...]
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Stock indexes moved higher in the United States Friday after a government report showed sharp hiring gains in the American labor market in the last three months. The Dow Jones average of 30 key stocks was ahead a half percentage point in early trading, as were the broader Nasdaq and Standard & Poor’s indexes. Asian [...]
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By Richard Johnson Forgotten is the shock and despair triggered by the Fukushima power plant disaster about two years ago. Nuclear power is here to stay. In fact, according to a consensus emerging from an international conference, “for many countries nuclear power is a proven, clean, safe, and economical technology that will play an increasingly [...]
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The Labor Department reported the economy added 195,000 jobs in June. With upward revisions to the prior two months data, this brings the average gain over the last three months to 196,000. While the unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.6 percent, the employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) edged up to 58.7 percent, the highest since last November. [...]
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By Dr. Tint Swe The impact of the 1st July issue of the Time magazine bearing the cover story “The face of Buddhist Terror” was far reaching even before any copy of the publication was sold inside Burma. No doubt the media is an effective weapon which can either pour water on the fire to [...]
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A Boing-777 aircraft owned by Asiana Airlines, was on the runway of the international airport of San Francisco in the west of the United States when it caught fire, according to a Twitter microblog of the local television station ABC7. Reuters reports that an observer from a nearby hotel said he saw the plane cartwheel [...]
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Bolivian President Evo Morales says he would grant asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden if he requests it. Morales on Saturday became the third leftist Latin American leader to offer asylum to Snowden, following Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega a day earlier. In a statement, Morales said Bolivia has [...]
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A $214-million test launch of the only US defense against long-range ballistic missile attacks failed to hit its target over the Pacific Ocean, according to the Missile Defense Agency. There have been no successful interceptor tests since 2008. In Friday’s test, a ground-based interceptor missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and [...]
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A double murder has taken place at an amateur football match in Brazil’s Maranhao state – a referee, who fatally stabbed a football player was stoned to death, and his body quartered and decapitated by the victim’s fans, the Correio24horas website said. The tragedy broke out when a referee of a football match in the [...]
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President Barack Obama conferred with the National Security Council today to review the situation in Egypt, according to a White House release. The National Security Council is the president’s principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials, according to the council’s website. Since its [...]
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By Prof. V. Suryanarayan India is committed to achieving a bright future for the Sri Lankan Tamil community in a united Sri Lanka, in which all citizens can live in dignity, equality, and self-respect. In furtherance of this objective, India would work for a durable political solution through meaningful devolution of powers and the implementation [...]
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Yemen has asked the International Organisation for Migration to help some 200,000 Yemenis forced to leave Saudi Arabia in the past three months amid a crackdown on undocumented migrants, the IOM said yesterday. Yemen wants the IOM to help provide basic assistance such as shelter, access to water and hygiene kits to vulnerable returnees, the [...]
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Interesting to see how Edward Snowden, former employee of a National Security Agency contractor, has dropped off the front pages; how quickly he has become “old news”. The leaders of the European Union are shocked to learn that the U.S. spies on them. Since their own spy agencies routinely share information with the intelligence agencies [...]
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Ben Bernanke has an inflation problem. There isn’t any inflation and that’s a problem. In the last 12 months, consumer prices have risen a mere 1.1 percent which–according to Bloomberg–”matches the smallest increase since records began in 1960″. At the same time, the velocity of money (how fast money changes hands) has slowed to a [...]
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By Parameswaran Ponnudurai Imagine these scenarios: The rice bowl of Vietnam cracking. Popular diving spots in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia lying idle with no tourists. Nearly half of Bangkok inundated with water. Well, they could become a reality in 20 to 30 years—no thanks to the adverse effects of climate change in Southeast Asia [...]
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By Raquel Iglesias The National Institute of Public Administration of Paraguay (INAPP) was established to satisfy the need for a structured and institutionalized organization that designs and implements educational programs, courses, projects, and specific actions related to training public officials on how to better perform their public service duties, optimise management and public services in [...]
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Let me come back to the story about Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Communist leader. When asked what he thought about the French Revolution, he famously answered: “It’s too early to say.” This was considered a typical piece of ancient Chinese wisdom – until somebody pointed out that Zhou did not mean the revolution of 1789, [...]
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