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- Byline: LIZ LAMB THEY always say you can tell old money from nouveau rich. Those born with a silver spoon are said to be rich folk, of good breeding and oldfashioned manners, while the other lot, are brash and common. If you needed any proof of this...
- Research articles 2008-07-12
- Letters from British royals sold at auction of servant's collection
- LONDON AFP — Memorabilia belonging to a former British royal servant -- including a letter from the late princess Diana after the birth of Prince William -- shattered pre-sale estimates at auction Saturday. William Tallon, known as Backstairs Billy, served the royal family for 51 years until his death...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Palestinian pay delays linked to letter to EU: Israel
- JERUSALEM AFP — An Israeli minister confirmed on Tuesday that a transfer of tax revenues to the West Bank was delayed because the Palestinian premier urged EU nations not to boost ties with the Jewish state. Finance Minister Roni Bar-On said the monthly transfer, used to pay Palestinian civil...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- Israel delays payments for Palestinian civil servants: Fayyad
- RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — Israel has delayed transferring tax funds used to pay Palestinian civil servants, Palestinian premier Salam Fayyad said on Monday, citing a reported link to his call for the EU not to boost ties with the Jewish state. Fayyad said the funds should have been...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- Police dogs are civil servants, Norwegian supreme court rules
- OSLO AFP — Police dogs should be considered civil servants and any acts of violence against them therefore merits the same punishment as attacks on human police officers, Norway's Supreme Court ruled Thursday. "The police officer and dog work ... as a single unit and ... an attack on...
- Research articles 2008-06-05
- Becton; autobiography of a soldier and public servant
- Becton; autobiography of a soldier and public servant. Becton, Julius W. Naval Institute Press 2008 318 pages $29.95 Hardcover E840 Retired US Army General and former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Julius Becton Jr. presents his autobiography. In addition to...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Houston Woman Pleads Guilty to Forced Labor Charges
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 HOUSTON, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rozina Mohd Ali pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal district court in Houston, Texas, for her role in holding an Indonesian woman in forced labor as a...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Fog of confusion as officials misplace Newcastle
- LONDON AFP — A Staffordshire town is refusing to pay back over a million pounds in grants on Thursday after embarrassed civil servants confused them with another English city. The Department for Communities and Local Government mistook the market town of Newcastle-Under-Lyme -- with a population of just 74,000...
- Research articles 2008-02-14
- South Africa's home affairs department, a red tape nightmare
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — When Kabelo Thibedi finally reached breaking point and pulled a gun on a civil servant at South Africa's home affairs department, his act of desperation achieved instant results. "If I had not done so ... I would not have gotten my ID book. It was delivered...
- Research articles 2008-01-30
- Malawi pays to improve nutrition of HIV-positive workers
- BLANTYRE AFP — Malawi, one of Africa's poorest countries, is to give civil servants carrying the HIV virus an extra 35 dollars a month to help them improve their nutrition, a top health official said Tuesday. "It is not extra pay but a workplace programme for nutritional support for...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Egypt tax collectors call on Mubarak to resolve dispute
- CAIRO AFP — At least 2,000 striking civil servants on Saturday called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to help resolve a dispute over low wages, a union official told AFP. "We sent President Mubarak a letter asking him to help end our suffering," Al-Sayed Al-Badawi, a local leader of...
- Research articles 2007-12-08
- Release aviation data
- NASA's refusal to publicly release a survey of airline safety is sadly indicative of a sense of confusion many public servants have about who exactly it is they serve. A letter of refusal, sent to the Associated Press, which had sought the data under the Freedom of Information...
- Research articles 2007-10-24
- Vietnam's civil servants told to mind their manners
- HANOI AFP — Communist Vietnam's public servants have been told to improve their manners, stop shouting at people and refrain from cooking in government offices, state media reported Friday. Responding to public complaints about the rudeness of some stamp-wielding bureaucrats, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a new...
- Research articles 2007-09-07
- Statement by the President
- To: FOREIGN EDITORSContact: White House Press Office, +1-202-456-2580 WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Paul Gillmor's life was an extraordinary example to service and leadership. From working as an Air Force Judge Advocate during the Vietnam War to championing legislation in the halls of Congress, Paul devoted his career to...
- Research articles 2007-09-06
- Hamas pays civil servants in Gaza
- GAZA CITY AFP — Hamas said on Sunday that it has begun paying Palestinian civil servants who were hired after the Islamists formed their first cabinet more than a year ago. "Yesterday and today, we began paying the salaries of civil servants with private contracts. They number around 2,000,"...
- Research articles 2007-07-29
- Japanese scratching heads over men's room mystery
- TOKYO AFP — Japan was awash with speculation Thursday on the identity of a mystery alms-giver who has left the equivalent of some 35,000 dollars in men's bathrooms. Newspapers conjectured that the unorthodox charity drive was the work of an older man, possibly a retired government employee or the...
- Research articles 2007-07-12
- Palestinians pay first full salaries in more than a year
- RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — Palestinian civil servants began receiving their first full salaries in 17 months on Wednesday, keen to start paying debts that piled up during a crushing Israeli economic boycott. Relieved Palestinians queued en masse outside banks, checking to see whether their names were on a...
- Research articles 2007-07-04
- Dispute over knighthood for Beckham
- LONDON AFP — Officials in Britain are wrangling over whether former England football captain David Beckham should be given a knighthood, London's Evening Standard reported Thursday. Civil servants have been asked to consider whether he is suitable for the top honour, awarded by Queen Elizabeth II, but some have...
- Research articles 2007-05-31
- Business smiling in glum Myanmar capital
- NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar AFP — Myanmar's dusty new capital Naypyidaw is filled with glum civil servants shuttling between their stifling new apartment blocks and faceless ministries. But some wily business people are smiling. Entrepreneurs from around the country have spotted an opportunity and their profits are soaring at the...
- Research articles 2007-04-21
- See work as a virtue, Malaysian civil servants told
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Malaysia's deputy premier has told the country's civil servants they need to work harder and spend more time at their desks, according to a report Tuesday. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak told a gathering of civil servants, who are frequently criticised for their seven-hour days,...
- Research articles 2007-04-02
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