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Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... in Canada, a few in New Zealand and in Spain could morphed into warnings of global catastrophe. The World Health Organisation has raised the alert level from 3 to 4 - the highest being 6 where the human population is all but vapourised. Not surprisingly ...

ASF appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... time to address market dislocation," he said. "Securitisation markets have a critical role to play in Australia's and the world's economic recovery. However, we will not see a return to healthy credit flows and business investment until we see investor ...

G'day Vietnam

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... very solid goal to become a fully fledged market economy. Governance has not been an issue since its accession into the World Trade Organisation where it drafted new investment laws requiring greater transparency," Nguyen said. "The Vietnamese government ...

Tobacco shares up in smoke

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... conflict to the long-term goals of a shareholder, and inconsistent with New Zealand commitments to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and as a result, the board resolved to divest from the sector," Orr said in a statement. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... to soften from the 3.3 per cent achieved last year to 2.2 per cent this year has been followed by the announcement by the World Trade Organisation to say that it expects international trade to slow from the 8 per cent achieved last year to 6 per cent. ...

Vignette to merge interactive content

... content. Unlike static web pages, multimedia content can positively impact a company's brand image and give that organisation an avenue to establish more personal connections with their customers," said Leo Brunnick, the global senior vice president ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... behind". Deveson is speaking at the 20th International Counterparts Conference, which brings together organisations around the world that are similar to CEDA, including senior executives and academics from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Columbia ...

Goldman Sachs choose greener pastures

... endorsed Goldman Sachs for being the first global investment bank to adopt the most comprehensive environmental policy in the world and secondly, the first in the financial sector to acknowledge the 'degradation of ecosystems services'. Similar to recent ...

Survey reveals difficulties in measuring non-financial performance indicators

... Touche Tohmatsu and the Economic Intelligence Unit. The study, "In the Dark: what boards and executives don't know about the health of their businesses" revealed that although 75 per cent of board directors said their companies were under increasing ...

EU asks WTO to intervene in Australian quarantine dispute

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
The European Union formally asked the World Trade Organisation today to set up a panel of experts to rule on its simmering trade dispute with Australia on quarantine measures restricting imports of food products. The first request for a disputes settlement ...