Na For Increase In Health, Education Budget, Subsidy In Oil, Electricity
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The Lower House of the Parliament Sunday continued debate on budget 2008-09 where the parliamentarians proposed further increase in health and education budget and recommended subsidy in oil and electricity charges for agricultural sector development.
He said that five percent increase in Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 20 percent increase in salaries of government servants are [...]
Former Singapore Re Head Learns From Experience
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Crucial to the efficient functioning of modern economies are reinsurance companies that, for a fee, insure policies sold by other insurers, essentially to spread the risk. A founding father of Singapore’s reinsurance industry is Hwang Soo Jin, 72 years old, chairman emeritus and senior adviser at Singapore Reinsurance Corp., or Singapore Re as it is [...]
Parliament Passes Education Law
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Slovak Parliament approved an Act on Education and Training that was drafted by the Education Ministry with the aim of revamping the school system. The new Act will substitute 20-year-old legislation that was introduced in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
Innovations at schools will be introduced via new curricula as the key element of the reforms. The [...]
Govt To Ratchet Up Collections On Student Loans
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Due to the persistently high percentage of government student loans in default, Education Minister Carl Bethel said the government is contemplating ‘get-tough’ measures to increase collection.
Due to the persistently high percentage of government student loans in default, Education Minister Carl Bethel said the government is contemplating ‘get-tough’ measures to increase collection.
As of June 30, 2007, [...]
End Licence Raj In Higher Education
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The summer of 1991 will be one of those few outstanding and memorable moments in Parliament’s history. After teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy, Manmohan Singh’s first budget that summer blow-torched away all the chains that not only hindered economic growth but created what economists called opportunities for “rent seekingâ€. Sadly, some vestiges of that [...]
Canadas Liberals will support govt in budget vote
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduced a budget motion on
Tuesday that would killing off an education tax break proposed
by the Liberals and already passed by the House of Commons.
“The Liberal Party will not bring the government down on
this motion, on this budget at this time,” John McCallum,
Liberal member of parliament responsible for finance matters,
told [...]
UPDATE 1Canadas Flaherty moves to kill opposition plan
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OTTAWA, March 11 (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim
Flaherty took the unusual step on Tuesday of introducing a
motion in Parliament to kill an opposition tax bill that he
said jeopardized the government’s prized budget surplus.
The motion is a confidence matter, meaning that its defeat
in Parliament could trigger an election, but the main
opposition party said [...]
Malaysia PM wont resign despite poll debacle
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s premier said on Sunday he has no plan to step down after leading his ruling coalition to its worst election result in decades, despite calls by his influential predecessor for him to quit.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s multi-racial National Front (Barisan Nasional) coalition won just a simple majority in parliament, [...]
Malaysian media urge reforms after poll setbacks
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In a surprise election upset on Saturday, the opposition won in five states, trouncing Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition.
An opposition alliance also denied Barisan its crucial two-thirds majority in parliament for the first time since 1969.
“Political tsunami,” read the headline in the top-selling Sunday Star newspaper. “Winds of change sweep [...]
Malaysian ruling coalition suffers poll debacle
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s ruling party faced its biggest electoral debacle on Sunday, as the opposition won five of 13 states, putting a dark cloud on the prime minister’s political future.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s multi-racial National Front coalition managed to win just a simple majority in parliament and will form the government at [...]
