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Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
A top Bolivian official says conservatives have plotted to pay one of President Evo Morales' peasant supporters to kill him. Government Minister Alfredo Rada says "extreme right" elements hoped to take advantage of Morales' frequent visits to rural areas, where the socialist leader is often swarmed by large crowds of admirers under only minimal security. Rada said Monday that plotters...
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Ukrainian News Agency - Agency news (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... News earlier reported, having passed the law «On the national budget for 2009», the Verkhovna Rada obliged the National Bank to agree the bank refinancing policy with the Cabinet of Ministers in 2009. The state budget's Article 86 envisages that in connection with the financial-economic crisis and for the purpose of regulating the situation in the monetary and currency markets the National...
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | yesterday
... if the agriculture enterprises are registered with the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) or the Ministry of Agriculture.The Agricultural Credit Bank of Jamaica Limited and the National Development Bank of Jamaica Limited were merged in April 2000 to create the DBJ.The bank's mission is to assist in the development and modernisation of all viable enterprises in the agriculture,...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
More than 50 displaced banana farmers are to benefit from a multimillion-dollar European Union (EU) fund to establish agricultural business ventures in the wake of the demise of the sector.The grant to banana workers amounts to €100,000 (J$11,200,000) and is being spearheaded by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), under the observance of the Ministry of Agriculture.Winston Simpson,...
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MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Ukraine restricts TV ads January 5, 2009 Ukraine has imposed a ban on the advertising of alcohol and tobacco products on television. The move, which also applies to outdoor advertising, was signed off by the country's president in April last year. A last minute bid in parliament (Verkhovna Rada) to have it put back to 2010 because of the effects of the global economic crisis was defeated
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DesiPundit (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Imagine a hillock, the top of which has been flattened to build a short—and it is really short at 5200 feet—runway. Imagine also that at both extremities of the runway, the edges of the hill drop away precipitously into a blue haze. And, if you have not already switched off mentally by now, imagine that the runway is not level, but slopes down from east to west, almost by 30 feet. Rada describes...
