| Pakistan wants better market access for its product in EU markets: PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan wants better market access for its products in the European Union markets and looks towards UK for support in this matter. Talking to Alan Duncan, British Shadow Secretary of State for Trade, Industry and Energy who called on him here Monday, the Prime Minister added Pakistan attaches high importance to its relations with UK, which is Pakistan's fourth largest trading partner and one of the largest investors in Pakistan. The Prime Minister said the two countries need to make efforts to further tap the huge potential in the areas of trade and investment. The Prime Minister said Britain is Pakistan's development partner and a number of British institutions particularly DFID are supplementing Pakistan's efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS).
South Africa: Growth Beyond the Comfort Zone
IS GOVERNMENT's Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (Asgi-SA) bold enough? One year after the launch of this important intervention, two questions must be asked: are Asgi-SA's priorities the right ones, and is there sufficient determination to identify and cut across competing priorities within the state? Asgi-SA aims to halve poverty and unemployment in SA by 2014. Its approach is to identify constraints on growth and encourage initiatives to remove these blockages. Asgi-SA was widely welcomed at its launch and is a positive intervention. Selecting the binding constraints was difficult for policy makers, who are rightly concerned with losing focus if the list is too long. Six obstacles to growth were identified, encouraging government to focus on the most important issues. The chosen constraints, with some accompanying comments from senior officials in the Presidency, are: .
Trump Entertainment Resorts Names Ravneet Bhandari Senior Vice ...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ NMS: TRMP) announced today that Ravneet Bhandari has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Revenue Management. In this role, Mr. Bhandari will be responsible for all integrated Revenue Management strategy for the Company, including planning and directing the implementation of the automated hotel revenue management system, as well as other complementary functions including hotel sales, business analytics, centralized reservations and all E-Commerce initiatives. "As a Company, we have set forth a strategic plan that will allow us the ability and flexibility to profitably optimize the hotel and revenue management systems that we have now put in place," said Mark Juliano, the Company's Chief Operating Officer.
Words of Wisdom From Sista Souljah
In celebration of International Woman's History Month we went digging in the crates and pulled up some old yet timeless tapes of Sista Souljah. Many of y'all may know her as an author. She's given us two incredible books called 'No Disrespect' and the 'Coldest Winter Ever'. Others may know Souljah as an uncompromising activist/ Freedom Fighter who was the brunt of unsavory remarks from former President Bill Clinton back in 1992 after the Rodney King uprisings. Homeboy was definitely out of line as we later came to discover that Clinton took her remarks out of context and then dissed her as a way to show white America that he was willing and able to stand up to Black people and Black interests. She was the convenient scapegoat. His repudiation of her became known as a Sista Souljah moment.
US must move out of Iraq-WB must take over
By Nowell Marufu AND Correspondent On Friday 30 March 2007, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, long known for his virulent anti-American sentiments, rebuked the United States for instigating four years of poverty and violence in Iraq. This rebuke and a call for protests against the US will definitely have serious ramifications for the Bush administration. There is a very strong likelihood that USA forces in Iraq may become targets, and that the USA involvement in Iraq will increasingly become mired in controversy. Iraq's Sadr in his speech blamed the U.S. for the poverty and violence that is raging in Iraq. The fiery cleric urged Shiites to protest against the US on April 9. The Shiites have long viewed US actions in Iraq as something out of character, and they strongly believe that the Bush administration must not involve itself in the domestic scene of Iraq.
Pauli, glamour queen of politics, stumbles
Berlin (dpa) - Just a few weeks ago, Gabriele Pauli, 49, was the rising star of German politics, emerging from the obscurity of the provinces to wreck the career of one of the nation's principal power-brokers, Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber.
It wasn't just that she won her daring one-woman campaign by articulately hammering away at Stoiber on national television till he announced he would resign. Germans were also mesmerized by Pauli's sex appeal.
Dressed in short skirts, heavy jewellery and thick eye-liner, the glamourous chestnut-haired conservative is the antithesis to understated Chancellor Angela Merkel, 52, who usually wears sensible trouser suits and at most a few pearls.
Now, a few short weeks later, the vamp persona has been Pauli's undoing, and her own career is in trouble because of magazine photographs that shows her in long black latex gloves associated with kinky sex, or stretching herself on a massage bench.
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