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Switzerland's Crucial Climate Law Vote Amidst Melting Glaciers
The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, are expected Sunday to approve a new climate bill aimed at swiftly steering the country towards carbon neutrality.
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Switzerland Eyes Exchanging Banking Information With 21 More Countries
Switzerland, which has been working to end its years-long practice of banking secrecy, said Thursday it aimed to dramatically increase the number of countries it cooperates with towards international fiscal transparency.
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OECD Urges Panama To Live Up To Tax Transparency Pledges
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development called on Panama to meet international tax transparency standards on Monday, saying it was failing to live up to promises to share information with other countries.
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US Should Work Comprehensively To Integrate Indian Economy: Expert
With India becoming an increasingly central economy, the US should work more comprehensively to integrate the country in global economic institutions, Alyssa Ayres, a top American expert on South Asia has said.
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India Biggest Exporter Of Doctors, Nurses To Europe: Report
India has emerged as the largest exporter of doctors and nurses to European countries, a media report said on Monday.
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Japan's Tiny Refugee Community Urges Tokyo to Open Doors Wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.
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Many Hurdles to Paris Deal on Climate Change
Almost 200 nations will meet in Paris from November 30-December 11 for a summit on climate change, seeking a turning point away from an increasing reliance on fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution.
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CO2 Emission Reduction Plans Not Enough to Meet Targets: International Economic Organisation
Plans published by rich nations and major emerging countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are not enough to limit a rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said today.
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Who Funds The Trillion Dollar Plan of The UN's New Global Goals?
As world leaders brandish a hard-fought new set of global goals designed to improve lives in all countries, the question of who foots the trillion-dollar bill remained open on Saturday as financial pledges started rolling in.
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Computers Don't Improve Performance of School Students: Study
A report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development was published on Tuesday.
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On Reform, Europe Asks Greece to Go Where Many Fear to Tread
Greece's new bail-out deal imposes a stiff dose of budget rigour and market deregulation which critics say few leaders of Western Europe's biggest nations have dared serve their own voters.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Visit France, Belgium
China's Premier Li Keqiang is to visit France and Belgium on a wide-ranging trip starting this weekend, the foreign ministry said today.
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India, Others Need to Wait Till 2017 for Automatic Tax
As they continue their efforts to clamp down on the menace of black money, India and other countries will have to wait at least till 2017 before the new global standard for automatic exchange of tax information comes into effect.
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Switzerland's Crucial Climate Law Vote Amidst Melting Glaciers
The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, are expected Sunday to approve a new climate bill aimed at swiftly steering the country towards carbon neutrality.
-
Switzerland Eyes Exchanging Banking Information With 21 More Countries
Switzerland, which has been working to end its years-long practice of banking secrecy, said Thursday it aimed to dramatically increase the number of countries it cooperates with towards international fiscal transparency.
-
OECD Urges Panama To Live Up To Tax Transparency Pledges
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development called on Panama to meet international tax transparency standards on Monday, saying it was failing to live up to promises to share information with other countries.
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US Should Work Comprehensively To Integrate Indian Economy: Expert
With India becoming an increasingly central economy, the US should work more comprehensively to integrate the country in global economic institutions, Alyssa Ayres, a top American expert on South Asia has said.
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India Biggest Exporter Of Doctors, Nurses To Europe: Report
India has emerged as the largest exporter of doctors and nurses to European countries, a media report said on Monday.
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Japan's Tiny Refugee Community Urges Tokyo to Open Doors Wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.
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Many Hurdles to Paris Deal on Climate Change
Almost 200 nations will meet in Paris from November 30-December 11 for a summit on climate change, seeking a turning point away from an increasing reliance on fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution.
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CO2 Emission Reduction Plans Not Enough to Meet Targets: International Economic Organisation
Plans published by rich nations and major emerging countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are not enough to limit a rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said today.
-
Who Funds The Trillion Dollar Plan of The UN's New Global Goals?
As world leaders brandish a hard-fought new set of global goals designed to improve lives in all countries, the question of who foots the trillion-dollar bill remained open on Saturday as financial pledges started rolling in.
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Computers Don't Improve Performance of School Students: Study
A report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development was published on Tuesday.
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On Reform, Europe Asks Greece to Go Where Many Fear to Tread
Greece's new bail-out deal imposes a stiff dose of budget rigour and market deregulation which critics say few leaders of Western Europe's biggest nations have dared serve their own voters.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Visit France, Belgium
China's Premier Li Keqiang is to visit France and Belgium on a wide-ranging trip starting this weekend, the foreign ministry said today.
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India, Others Need to Wait Till 2017 for Automatic Tax
As they continue their efforts to clamp down on the menace of black money, India and other countries will have to wait at least till 2017 before the new global standard for automatic exchange of tax information comes into effect.
