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- EC to investigate "illegal" Danish subsidy
- AN investigation has been launched by the European Commission EC following accusations that Danish State Railways DSB has received illegal subsidies from the country's Transport Ministry. Arriva and Connex have filed a complaint through Danish Collective Transport alleging that DSB has been exempted from a tax based on wage...
- Research articles 2008-10-01
- The Daily Record News Briefs: September 25, 2008
- Zerhouni to leave NIH post Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, the director of the National Institutes of Health since May 2002, said he will leave the nation's principal biomedical research agency at the end of October to pursue writing projects and explore other professional opportunities. Born in Algeria, Zerhouni,...
- Research articles 2008-09-25
- Credit concerns collapse New Orleans-based World Trade Center deal
- Redeveloping the World Trade Center at the foot of Canal Street could be years away, banking and development experts say, without an unexpectedly brisk turnaround of the global finance market or more public subsidy. "This is a hard deal in the current market," said Alicia Glen, managing...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Pa. health care cost council takes political hit
- The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council - nationally known for reporting on the quality and cost of medical care across the state - is now itself in critical condition. Despite wide support from business and labor unions, nearly all of the council's 43 staff members have been terminated due...
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- Race to the bottom? The presidential candidates' positions on trade
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Only when the American people are free to exchange goods unimpeded by the often faulty judgment of politicians will freedom and prosperity prevail." IN RECENT MONTHS, the economy has been in the headlines and in the sights of politicians seeking the presidency. Particularly on the Democratic...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Ride high food prices to cut subsidies, boost production: OECD
- PARIS AFP — Industrialised countries should seize the opportunity of high world food prices to cut subsidies for farm production, the OECD advises in a review of agriculture policies. Published as the World Trade Organization gears up for an attempt to break through agriculture, subsidies and other issues blocking...
- Research articles 2008-06-28
- Message to the House of Representatives returning without approval the "Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008"
- June 18, 2008 To the House of Representatives: I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 6124, the "Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008." The bill that I vetoed on May 21, 2008, H.R. 2419, which became Public Law 110-234, did not include the title III...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Developing countries gloomy on WTO farm talks
- GENEVA AFP — Brazil and other developing countries have complained that agriculture proposals at the World Trade Organisation do not open up markets enough, dimming prospects of a deal being reached this year. "The options on the table do not seem to fulfil the mandate for substantial improvements in...
- Research articles 2008-06-21
- Drawing upon substantial support from congressional Republicans, the House and Senate overrode President Bush's veto of the farm bill, thereby enacting an expansion of farm subsidies at a time when high food prices have sent farm incomes 51 percent higher
- Drawing upon substantial support from congressional Republicans, the House and Senate overrode President Bush's veto of the farm bill, thereby enacting an expansion of farm subsidies at a time when high food prices have sent farm incomes 51 percent higher than their previous ten-year average. The bill extends the direct-payment...
- Research articles 2008-06-16
- Malaysia's Petronas to open books to public: report
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Malaysia's state oil company Petronas will open its books to the public after a decision to hike fuel prices by more than 40 percent set off days of protests, news reports said on Monday. The reports come with a major opposition party still calling for...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- EU to open anti-dumping probe into US biodiesel imports
- BRUSSELS AFP — The European Union will on Friday open anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imports of biofuel from the United States, European sources said. The move came after the European Commission investigated industry complaints that the US action was hitting Europe's biodiesel industry. The European Biodiesel Board...
- Research articles 2008-06-12
- Malaysia's Petronas urges end to energy subsidies
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Malaysian state energy firm Petronas said on Monday that subsidies which cause excessive consumption and distort markets must be removed. Amid the fallout from a 41 percent fuel price hike in Malaysia last week, Petronas president and CEO Hassan Marican said that while the industry...
- Research articles 2008-06-08
- Oil price crisis: world powers trade blame, skirt responsibility
- PARIS AFP — Leaders of the world's major powers voiced alarm on Saturday after the unprecedented one-day hike in the price of crude, expected to jolt world economy, trading blame but taking no responsibility. "We are in such an upward spiral that governments are being hounded by the public...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- Congress sends Bush farm bill -- again
- WASHINGTON -- Congress on Thursday sent a $290 billion farm bill to President Bush for a second time, in an effort to fix a printing error that has threatened the delivery of U.S. food aid abroad. To ensure that the aid continues amid a global hunger crisis, Congress...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- Malaysia's PM clings to power but subsidy cuts a new blow
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Malaysia's premier is clinging to power after disastrous polls, but disarray in the ruling party, a strong opposition and deep subsidy cuts make his future highly uncertain, analysts say. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been beset by calls to resign since general elections in...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- EU/US : NEW FARM BILL MORE TRADE-DISTORTING THAN OLD ONE.
- Trade-distorting subsidies to American farmers are set to increase, following the US Congress' adoption of a five-year Farm Bill last week. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have decided to largely stick with the current countercyclical' payment mechanism under which farmers receive subsidies once the market price...
- Research articles 2008-05-29
- Malaysian to ban border fuel sales to foreigners: reports
- KUALA LUMPUR, May 27, 2008 AFP — Malaysia will ban petrol stations on its borders with Thailand and Singapore from selling fuel to foreigners, in an attempt to contain the spiralling cost of subsidies, reports said on Tuesday. Domestic Trade Shahrir Samad said the ban on sales to foreign...
- Research articles 2008-05-26
- Message to the House of Representatives returning without approval the "Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008"
- May 21, 2008 To the House of Representatives: I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 2419, the "Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008." For a year and a half, I have consistently asked that the Congress pass a good farm bill that I can sign....
- Research articles 2008-05-26
- Indonesian president defends fuel price hike
- JAKARTA AFP — Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday defended his unpopular fuel price hike as necessary to avoid an economic meltdown similar to the 1997 financial crisis. Workers and student groups have attacked the government over the 28.7-percent average rise in the price of subsidised fuel which...
- Research articles 2008-05-25
- Angry protests as Indonesia hikes fuel prices
- JAKARTA AFP — Angry students hurled molotov cocktails at police after Indonesia hiked the cost of gasoline by 33 percent Saturday to rein in subsidies that are exploding along with world oil prices. More than 100 protesters were arrested as students burned tyres and threw homemade fire-bombs outside the...
- Research articles 2008-05-24
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