08/20/2008
SBP warns banks and DFIs (Business Recorder)
KARACHI (August 20 2008): The central bank has warned the banks and DFI's against discrimination of consumers on the grounds of occupation, trade, region, sex, ethnicity etc. In this regard the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has issued a circular BPRD Circular Letter No 21 to the presidents and chief executives of all banks and DFIs.
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08/19/2008
NAMIC Announces Winners of 2008 Excellence In Multi-Cultural Marketing Awards (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEW YORK , Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Winners of the 2008 Excellence In Multi-Cultural Marketing Awards (EMMA) competition were announced today by NAMIC (National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications).
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08/19/2008
RiseUp magazine stops publishing to retool for expansion (The Business Journal of Kansas City)
RiseUp , a magazine about race and ethnicity issues that started publication June 22, stopped publishing Aug. 3 to gauge reader response and prepare to double its circulation, Publisher Janice Ellis said Tuesday.
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08/20/2008
Post-Olympic Clamp on Xinjiang Likely (Time Magazine)
As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades
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08/19/2008
Wanted: Actors of All Ethnicities (Backstage.com)
Back Stage would like to speak to actors of various ethnicities about how to get seen for a variety of roles, including roles where ethnicity is not specified, as well as roles where the casting notice calls for an ethnicity other than your own.
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08/20/2008
Survivors Tell of Ethnic Killing in Wake of Fighting in Georgia (New York Times)
Now that the fighting between Georgia and Russia has subsided, killings will be grist for competing claims of ethnic cleansing.
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08/20/2008
Medicine tailored to your genome, not your race: Venter (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Personalised, genome-based health care could help prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by adverse drug reactions, genetics pioneer Craig Venter said Tuesday.
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08/19/2008
Senior Citizens and Diabetes (KHON 2 Honolulu)
Hawaii has a higher incidence of diabetes than the rest of the nation. That is true for our senior citizens as well. Chances are very good some of these adult day care residents are dealing with diabetes - age and ethnicity have a lot to do with that.
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08/19/2008
Turkey's Gul urges Sudan leader to end suffering (AP via Yahoo! News)
Turkey's president urged Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir during talks Tuesday to act responsibly and to end the suffering in the devasted Darfur region.
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08/20/2008
In the World (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey's president urged Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir during talks yesterday to act responsibly and to end the suffering in the devastated Darfur region.
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