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Growing up near Taree, Ken Henry would wade out, with his father and brothers, in the river estuaries of the NSW North Coast and stand there, up to his armpits, to catch flathead late at night on the turn of the tide. That was 35 years and more ago. He learnt early to move with stealth among predators. Henry still risks deep water. He still lives with sharks. And he still stalks flathead fish and, at times, boofhead ministers. This week was one such time. The Howard Government appointed Henry head of the Commonwealth Treasury on April 27, 2001. At 43 he was already one of our most respected bureaucrats. He has an honours degree in commerce and a doctorate in economics. For five years in the late '80s and early '90s he was Treasury adviser to Paul Keating. Now, at 49, he has 22 years in Treasury and Peter Costello is his sixth treasurer.
Pakistan Day Celebrated with Great Zeal, Renewed Pledge
ISLAMABAD: The 67th Pakistan Day was celebrated on Friday in all-over the country and by Pakistanis living overseas – reiterating the pledge to play greater role for the development of the country in accordance with the ideas of Quaid-i- Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
The major event of the Day was the magnificent joint services parade at Jinnah Sports Complex.
With gun-salute heralding the historic Day in the capital city of Islamabad as well as the provincial metropolis of Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta, the day dawned with special prayers in mosques and other sites of worship for the solidarity, peace, progress and prosperity of Pakistan.
People also prayed for global peace with the peaceful solution of global issues – being faced by the Islamic world.
Bio-Rad opens first ASIA-pacific plant in Singapore
SINGAPORE, 4 April 2007 - Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostics products today held the grand opening of its first manufacturing plant in the Asia-Pacific region. The new Bio-Rad plant is located in Singapore. Occupying approximately 20,000 square feet of industrial space at Kaki Bukit View, the new facility will manufacture a variety of life science instruments used in medical and biological research labs worldwide. Bio-Rads life science products are based on technologies used to identify, separate, purify and analyse biological materials such as protein and DNA. Some of these technologies include electrophoresis, imaging, immunoassay, chromatography, microbiology, bioinformatics, transfection, amplification, real-time PCR, microarray analysis, and DNA hybridisation.
The Political Economy of Carbon Trading
Universities contain rooms and buildings that academics never enter, such as boiler houses. At my university, Edinburgh, some of the meters in these boiler houses now have two roles: as well as determining our gas bills, they measure, indirectly, our emissions of carbon dioxide. The meters have become part of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme, and thus are part of a microcosm of what may become a worldwide carbon market. One doesn’t usually think of universities as big carbon dioxide emitters, but the capacity at two of Edinburgh’s three highly efficient combined heat and power centres pushes them over the 20 megawatt threshold of European emissions trading. This means that, like other operators of combustion installations of that size or larger in the EU, the university has to hold permits to emit carbon dioxide.
Caribbean American Heritage Month But Does Corporate America Even ...
Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. April 6, 2007: On June 1, 2007, the second annual Caribbean American Heritage Month will be marked across the U.S. But while Caribbean nationals and second-and third-generation Caribbean-Americans number more than 25 million, corporate America continues its dismissal of this economically-viable and commercially-vibrant marketplace much to the frustration of Caribbean promoters, marketing specialists and media owners. For many, the frustration lies in U.S. Census figures -- which puts the West Indian migrant population at a mere 3 million. That number has hardly grown in recent years and the further lumping in of Caribbean nationals into the Asian and African American or Hispanic demographic has not helped the cause. But according to research by the Strategy Corporation, the number of first-, second- and third- generation Caribbean nationals are closer to 25 million.
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