Archive for March 24th, 2008
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Singapore's Housing and Development Board (HDB) announced Monday that it will introduce mandatory resale checklists for housing agents handling resale flat transactions from May.
The checklist will include a list of key policies and ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
U.S. lawyers representing the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) in its suit against U.S. chemical companies that manufactured the substance, said they will continue to stand by Vietnamese victims in their pursuit ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Say it ain't so, Joe. Kentucky Fried Chicken, built into a worldwide franchise eatery by Colonel Harland Sanders based on his famous "finger lickin' good" secret recipe for fried chicken is going to the grill -- for the health of it.
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
U.S.-based paper and pulp company International Paper plans to invest more than 4 billion U.S. dollars in a pulp factory and industrial forest in Indonesia, local press said Monday.
The pulp factory will have the capacity to produce ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Singapore's inflation rate for general households for the whole of last year was 2.1 percent, more than double the previous year's figure of 1 percent, according to figures on the consumer price index (CPI) released by the Department of Sta ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The Philippine government is mulling to raise the tax expenditure subsidy to its food agency as a latest measure to mitigate a rice supply shortage and to cushion soaring grain prices, local media reported Monday.
According to natio ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Rice production will be reduced in Cambodia if rice fields continue to be sold to be converted to business, factory or residential sites, the Mekong Times newspaper reported Monday, citing an Agriculture Ministry official.
"We are w ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
South Korea's central bank has decided to extend the maturity of yen-denominated loans temporarily as part of efforts to protect corporate borrowers from the recent surge of the Japanese currency on the Seoul market, the Korea Times reporte ...
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