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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite the gloom in the West and a slowing expansion of China’s economy, free-spending Chinese consumers and wealthy Hong Kong locals craving exclusivity have proven a blessing to retailers looking to buck global woes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iraqis voted on Saturday in the country’s first polls since US troops departed, a key test of its stability in the face of a spike in attacks that has claimed more than 100 lives. But the credibility of the provincial elections has come into question, with attacks on candidates leaving 14 dead and a third of Iraq’s provinces – all of them mainly Sunni Arab or Kurdish – not even voting. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Late French president Francois Mitterand once famously said of Margaret Thatcher: “She has the eyes of Caligula, but the mouth of Marilyn Monroe.” His words reflect the two sides of a politician whose free-market reforms drew criticism and support, but fundamentally changed the British economy and are a yardstick against which her successors are judged. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Portugal’s prime minister says a court ruling striking down parts of the budget means it will have to make other deep spending cuts to avoid a second bailout.
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Romanian and Bulgarian immigration to the UK will stretch schools but will have a lesser impact on housing and the NHS, says a report.
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Chancellor George Osborne is to defend benefits and tax changes in a speech later, saying “this month we will make work pay”.
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Teachers in a major union are expected to debate no confidence votes on the education secretary and the head of England’s schools’ inspectorate.
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By , on March 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 80 per cent of the rural students left behind by city-bound parents have never used the internet, a study of differences in rural and urban pupils’ access to basic school resources has found. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Government-paid street sweepers have been caught emptying recycling bins and dumping their contents with general waste destined for landfills. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> New Zealand declared a drought across its entire North Island for the first time in at least 30 years on Friday, with low river levels in the capital Wellington also worrying officials. Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy said: “It has become clear that nearly all farmers in every part of the North Island are facing very difficult dry conditions”. “Parts of the South Island are also very dry, in particular the Grey and Buller districts. We are keeping a close watch on all further regions,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — A strong U.S. jobs report helped propel Asian stock markets higher on Monday, but shares in Europe were weighed down by renewed worries about the region’s struggling economies. France will release monthly industrial production figures that analysts said would likely reflect continuing weakness while investors were still smarting from a credit downgrade slapped on Italy on Friday. The Fitch Ratings Agency said the country’s inconclusive election that left no party in clear control of the government harmed the chances of Italy moving ahead with economic reforms. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — A strong U.S. jobs report helped propel Asian stock markets higher on Monday. The U.S. government reported that the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January and that employers added far more jobs in February than expected, despite higher taxes and cuts in government spending. The good news overshadowed a credit downgrade slapped on Italy by Fitch Ratings Agency on Friday, which said the country’s inconclusive election that left no party in clear control of the government harmed the chances of Italy moving ahead with economic reforms. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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If the Conservatives win the next general election, they may leave the European Convention on Human Rights Act, Home Secretary Theresa May says.
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By , on March 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It’s a long and painful wait and they don’t get much sleep, but elderly people still queue up in the early hours of the morning at one of the few government dental clinics in the city. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s new leaders are planning a system of national residence permits to replace the household registration or ‘hukou’ regime, a government source said, a vital reform that will boost its urbanisation campaign and drive consumption-led growth. The hukou system, which dates to 1958, has split China’s 1.3 billion people along urban-rural lines, preventing many of the roughly 800 million Chinese who are registered as rural residents from settling in cities and enjoying basic urban welfare and services. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> He emphasised the 16 per cent increase in government spending over the next financial year, saying it was rare for a government anywhere to be lifting expenditure. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama formally ordered broad cuts in US government spending on Friday night after he and congressional Republicans failed to reach a deal to avert automatic reductions that could dampen economic growth and curb military readiness. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama on Friday branded the automatic budget cuts about to slam into the US economy as “dumb” and “unnecessary” but blamed Republicans for the failure to avert them. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The government will spend more on public services, Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah said, with much of it going to health and job training. Tsang outlined plans to spend more on language skills to keep Hong Kong competitive. He also announced investments at the two major theme parks, including a world-first attraction at Disneyland. “The importance of education is beyond question. Investing in education … provides an economic driver,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Congressional Republicans are preparing to counter increasingly dire warnings from US President Barack Obama about the effect of automatic budget cuts with a plan to give his administration more flexibility in instituting US$85 billion in cuts, a proposal they say could protect the most vital programmes – while shifting more of the political fallout to the White House. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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