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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The US Toy Industry Association, whose members include Mattel Inc. and Lego A/S, said its board unanimously approved a plan for a new testing system following the recall of tens of millions of Chinese-made toys last year.
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Thirteen Police Officers hit several crime hot spots around the Island over the weekend, apart of Operation Safer Streets which netted an arrest and the recovery of a dangerous weapon.
Since the launch of Operation Safer Streets in January, six blade...
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The director-general of the World Health Organisation yesterday met with officials in Angola in a bid to improve cooperation in the fight against AIDS, malaria and other common diseases in the African nation.
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A teacher made sick by mould who won a legal battle against Government after refusing to return to work at CedarBridge Academy has been offered a job back at the school.
Ulama Finn-Hendrickson's lawyer received an e-mail from the Attorney General's c...
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DOHA (Bloomberg) — Qatar is accumulating shares in Credit Suisse Group and plans to spend as much as $15 billion on European and US bank stocks over the next year, the Gulf state's prime minister said in an interview.
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Finance Minister Paula Cox told business people yesterday that she had striven to limit Government spending in the face of hefty financial requests from her Cabinet colleagues.
And she added that the large increases in Government current account spen...
DATE: Feb 19, 2008
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Ron Sandler will continue as chairman of Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore despite having been appointed by the British government to run the ailing Northern Rock Bank.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown selected former Lloyd's of London chief executive of...
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PARIS (Bloomberg) - Societe Generale SA's Fimat unit began investigating Jerome Kerviel's trades through broker Moussa Bakir four months before the bank blamed Mr. Kerviel for a record loss.
The head of Mr. Bakir's desk initiated an "internal study" ...
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An inquiry has been launched into claims that two Corporation of Hamilton members are ineligible to serve — with both alleging that a witch hunt is being carried out against them.
Common councillor Graeme Outerbridge, whose right to be on the Corpora...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Regulators' plans to break up bond insurers into "good" businesses covering municipal debt and "bad" businesses liable to subprime-related losses may trigger "years of litigation," Bank of America Corp. analysts said.
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