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Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... taken within the first 48 hours, and incidents are reported almost immediately (during the SARS outbreak in 2003, China's Ministry of Health tried to conceal reported cases in the country). Like SARS and many others before it, the swine flu would be ...

Norway SWF adopts ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... more tools and new measures, at the same time as we are maintaining the existing instruments," said Halvorsen. Norway's Ministry of Finance is also signing up to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and is going to participate directly ...

China caps executive pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... bonds and save their economies could also look to the Asian tiger to solve the problem of excessive executive pay. The Ministry of Finance in China has ordered all state-owned financial institutions to cap pay for top executives at 90 percent of the ...

SWFs finalise principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... a set of voluntary principles which aim to shed some light on the investment activities of the sector. Speaking at a Ministry of Finance of Chile conference, John Lipsky, first deputy managing director of IMF said the International Working Group (IWG) ...

ING's Kincaid promoted

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... her HR career in New Zealand where she spent 10 years working in the public sector with the Reserve Bank of NZ and the Ministry of Commerce in HR and training and development roles. Kincaid replaces the previous executive director, Brendan Keys, who ...

India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... fund, it's timely to walk through the Indian economy's fundamentals. The Latest monthly economic report from the Indian Ministry of Finance said GDP growth is dipping during 2007-08 to 8.7 per cent, down from 9.6 per cent last year. Reflecting the drop ...

Iraqi economic growth to hit 7 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... barrels per day. These governance reforms include re-establishing the Iraq National Oil Company and reorganising the Ministry of Oil. But in one of the IMF's more bizarre statements, they complained that, "there are some delays in data provision and ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... recent election campaign was education policy while this thinking may also have been the idea behind the Gillard super-ministry of industrial relations, education and training. This boost to education-productivity policy may however require a bit more ...

Hello kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2007
... billion, (A$3.4 billion) investment in the US private equity group Blackstone. According to company sources, China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) will keep pouring foreign exchange into the new company. The company's management have so far not disclosed ...

Nipping at the Tiger's tail

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
... Australia. The almighty Temasek Holdings, the investment arm of the Singapore Government, is 100 per cent owned by their Ministry of Finance and has a controlling stake of almost $23 billion worth of Australian assets. There's a savings and investment ...