700 undergo training to be liaison officers for S2006 700 civil servants are being put through protocol and business etiquette training to prepare them to be liaison officers at the high-powered World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings to be held in Singapore in September.
House limit placed on Net wagers WASHINGTON - The House voted yesterday to forbid the use of credit cards to settle online bets, an effort to halt mushrooming interest in Internet gambling.
Kenya, Uganda Economies Wilt as Drought Cuts Crops (Update1) July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Azaliya Wagweku's farm on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has for decades produced enough coffee to provide for his family of five. Not this year.
Personal Finance Daily -- July 10 Time was when your kids would have had to have an awfully lucrative year collecting paper-route tips or babysitting fees to run into a tussle at tax time. Few kids held mutual funds or other investments. What little teens earned, or collected in interest on their savings, wasn't likely to trigger any tax-filing requirements.
Borrowing builds up in MayChicago Tribune, United States - 1 hour ago... The figures suggest Americans are using their credit cards to finance more purchases as rising interest rates and slowing increases in real estate values ...
