India may keep income tax rates moderate-official
NEW DELHI, Dec 6 – India is likely to keep income tax rates moderate to boost revenues but may tighten scrutiny to prevent evasion, a finance ministry official said on Thursday.
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China’s entrepreneurship, finance, trade revolution: what is next?
Is booming Chinese economy and finance sustainable? What is behind rising China? Are the Chinese going to dominate world finance, trade, outsourcing, commerce, technology, investment, labor, politics in this century? Talk to leading thinker George Zhibin Gu.
South Africa: Joburg in Top 50 Commerce Hubs
Johannesburg has been ranked 47th out of 50 cities worldwide in a new study of the centres of commerce that shape the global economy.
doha ? Finance ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states decided to press ahead with plans to launch a common regional currency, but avoided discussions on de-pegging the currencies of their countries to a tumbling dollar.
Malaysia Confident Of Meeting Growth Targets In 2007 & 2008
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (Bernama) — Malaysia is confident of achieving its growth targets of 6.0 percent this year and 6.0 to 6.5 percent next year as inflation and external negative factors are not seen as a major setback, Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said Monday.
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Euro starter kits available for small businesses
Euro starter kits valued at Lm56.24 (?131) are now available for small businesses from all bank branches, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Finance Tonio Fenech announced on Saturday. BOV expects to sell approximately 15,000 retailer kits in the coming four weeks. Meanwhile, Parliamentary Secretary Tonio Fenech announced that mini-kits for consumers valued at Lm5 (?11.65) will be …
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Supervisor Bays questions decision to build, finance jail
NORWICH ? After unanimously passing next year?s $79.2 million budget on Wednesday, a member of the Chenango County Board of Supervisors addressed the board about what he called ?a haze? surrounding the decision to move forward on building the new Public Safety Facility.
Papadakis awarded by Chamber of Commerce
The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce has chosen University President Constantine Papadakis to receive the 2007 William Penn Award based on the bold actions he took to improve Drexel University, according to a GPCC news release. Papadakis will officially get the award, which was instated in 1949, at the William Penn Awards Gala April 18.
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PM Lee to relinquish Finance Minister post, Tharman takes over
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will relinquish his appointment as Finance Minister from 1 December.
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WASHINGTON—-The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s 1/ Monthly Leasing and Finance Index , which reports equipment finance activity showed that overall new business volume for October was virtually flat when compared to October 2006.
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