01/09/2009
Bt63-bn budget sought for agricultural pledging programmes (The Nation - Thailand's English news)
The Commerce Ministry will seek a Bt63.3-billion budget from the Cabinet to facilitate subsidy programmes for 11 farm goods this year. The programmes are aimed at guaranteeing farm sector incomes amidst dropping agricultural prices. Of the total budget, Bt10 billion will be set aside for operation costs, and Bt53 billion will support pledging programmes for 11 products, comprising ...
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01/08/2009
Urdu university educational programmes on AIR (Hindustan Times)
COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! The Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) will now offer distance education programmes for its students over state owned All India Radio (AIR).
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01/09/2009
Intensive training for children's services directors in wake of Baby P tragedy (Guardian Unlimited)
The government is sending council children's services chiefs on intensive training programmes to help them deal with complex child protection cases in the wake of the Baby P tragedy. The move will address concerns that children's services directors have been too focused on schools at the expense of social care. Since children's services departments were merged in 2004, most director posts ...
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01/09/2009
MediaCorp to reduce work hours but programming not affected (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Singapore — Media giant MediaCorp will be adopting alternate short weeks with staff taking block leave to cut operating costs. The announcement made on Friday, however, came with an assurance that MediaCorp’s popular TV and radio programmes, publications and online properties will not be affected.
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01/09/2009
www.olympic.org - Site Officiel du Mouvement Olympique (Olympic Committee News)
further momentum at the end of the year with the launch of two new programmes: the Olympic Education Programme (OEP) and Friends@YOG. “Since Singapore won the bid to host the 2010 YOG, our schools have been actively organising various activities to intensify the YOG buzz.
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01/09/2009
Veteran Singer Luo Shi Feng Talks about Mando and Hokkien Pop (Xin.sg via Yahoo! Singapore News)
With a duet song, " Speechless Ending", Luo Shi Feng gained his popularity in Asia in the 80s. Luo was in Singapore last weekend to perform in the "Best of Hokkien Songs Concert". Xin.sg met up with Luo for an interview. A sincere and friendly Luo humorously commented that his singing is commendable as "he can still hit the notes pretty well" and having hosted many programmes, Luo claimed with ...
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01/09/2009
Nigeria: Ondo Legislature Committed to Higher Living Standards (AllAfrica.com)
The Speaker, Ondo House of Assembly, Mr Taofiq Abdulsalam, has said the legislature is committed to programmes that will enhance the living standard of the people.
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01/09/2009
RTE monopolises Top 10 progs in 08 (Ireland Business World)
RTE Television broadcast all ten of the Top 10 most-watched programmes on any television channel in Ireland last year, and nineteen of the Top 20. Every single programme on The Top 10 list was home-produced. (Nine out of the Top 10 were home-produced last year).
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01/09/2009
MediaCorp to reduce work hours but programming not affected (Channel NewsAsia)
Singapore - Media giant MediaCorp will be adopting alternate short weeks with staff taking block leave to cut operating costs. The announcement made Friday however came with an assurance that its popular TV and radio programmes, publications and online properties will not be affected.
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01/09/2009
Nigeria: Govt to Spend N360 Million On Poverty Alleviation (AllAfrica.com)
Calabar — Cross River State Government is giving out N361, 700,000.00 to 2940 poorest families in the state as part of its poverty elevation programmes.
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