Draft protects workers from high temperatures

Source: China Daily

Chinese workers will have a shorter workday if the temperature hits 37 C, thanks to a draft regulation. The draft, made by China's top work safety watchdog, the health ministry, human resources and socia ...
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Counter Revolution Disguised as Democracy in Egypt

Source: Global Research

In a country where the embers of revolution are still glowing, you would assume that a presidential election would produce a revolutionary-appearing government. Not so in Egypt. The revolutionaries who top ...
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Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner reiterated his rejection of climate science at the Heartland Institute conference in Chicago on Tuesday. Most conservatives share Sensenbrenner's disregard for apocalyptic visions of climate ...
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First home secrets: sweat, save, aim low

Source: Stuff.co.nz

OPINION: When we bought our first house in 1974, it was a battle. The numbers may seem pathetic now: we had to find a $1500 deposit to purchase an $8000 house. Interest rates had just risen to 8 per cent and loans wer ...
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Riding to remember

Source: WCAX

A group of more than 1-thousand motorcycles roared through Vermont Sunday as part of the 20th annual Vermont Thunder ride. "We're riding for the veterans. We're riding in remembrance of everyone that has sac ...
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Analysis: Falling prices to kill off half of Chinese LED chipmakers

Source: CNBC

HONG KONG (Reuters) - In China, surplus capacity and sliding prices are sounding the death knell for half of the companies making light emitting diode (LED) chips used in Samsung television panels and Sh ...
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CBI in call for pension funds to be given credit subsidies

Source: The Independent

The Government should offer credit subsidies to pension funds and other institutional investors in order to unlock billions of pounds for infrastructure spending, the CBI argues today. In a new report, the business lobby group recomm ...
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Besieged on all fronts

Source: Calcutta Telegraph

In “There’s little that is new about the new year ” (Jan 10), I listed the paralysis in policy, political leadership and the declining economic parameters and concluded that 2012 was likely to be a dismal year for the economy. Four ...
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Direct tax thrust to cure deficit ill

Source: Calcutta Telegraph

Calcutta, May 27: The government plans to increase its revenue collection from direct taxes to 12 per cent of GDP (gross domestic product), finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said today. The income tax depar ...
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