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As the first month of 2023 draws to a close, Gorvins is considering all the legal changes waiting in the wings for the rest of the year. As always, we [...]

Byline: Ira Kassiel On Feb. 1, the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, joined by the College of Liberal Arts, invited students, staff, and faculty to [...]

Byline: Ira Kassiel On Feb. 1, the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, joined by the College of Liberal Arts, invited students, staff, and faculty to [...]

In a legislative session where public safety has received significant attention, the omnibus sex offender and criminal justice bills are rapidly moving forward. The original omnibus crime bills, H.F. 2028, [...]

SEOUL, Jan 13 Asia Pulse - South Korea should not stay optimistic about inflation situations for this year, the nation's finance minister said Friday, urging all government agencies to do [...]

NEW DELHI, Nov 24 Asia Pulse - After corporate leaders, leading foreign investors, rating agencies and research firms raised the red flag over 'policy paralysis' and a slow pace of [...]

CANBERRA, March 29 Asia Pulse - The Australian Greens will move to scrap the federal government's planned cut in the corporate tax rate for big business, saving A$18 billion (US$18.41 [...]

TAIPEI, Oct 8 Asia Pulse - Taiwan will continue to work toward the goal of reclaiming the top position among Asia's 'four little dragons, ' a goal which according to [...]

CANBERRA, May 7 Asia Pulse - Rising interest rates and falling popularity means Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan will shoulder the hopes of the government in his pre-election budget on Tuesday. [...]

CANBERRA, March 9 Asia Pulse - Australia's Federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has refused to speculate on the future direction of company taxes, but he says the trend has been [...]

CANBERRA, Nov 5 Asia Pulse - Australia Treasurer Wayne Swan says the economic downturn will reduce business investment by about A$42 billion (US$38.3 billion), providing him with another argument for [...]

SYDNEY, Nov 2 Asia Pulse - Economists say the Australian federal government may be overly cautious in its economic outlook and unemployment may be closer to peak than forecast. But [...]

SEOUL, Oct 29 Asia Pulse - The lackluster performance of South Korea's ruling Grand National Party (GNP) in Wednesday's parliamentary by-elections is expected to deal a blow to President Lee [...]

CANBERRA, July 24 Asia Pulse - In a political irony, the opposition is talking up the Australian economy while the government is downplaying any good news. The merchants of doom [...]

CANBERRA, May 11 Asia Pulse - Economists expect to burn the midnight oil unravelling federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's second budget on Tuesday that will aim to spend now, but return [...]

CANBERRA, April 24 Asia Pulse - It is becoming more like a Monty Python sketch with each argument. This week's row between our pollies has been about whether we are [...]

SEOUL, April 20 Asia Pulse - A seven-member South Korean delegation is set to visit the North for the first cross-border talks in over a year, a spokesman said Monday, [...]

SEOUL, Nov 25 Asia Pulse - An anonymous Internet pundit is being hailed as an economic prophet by South Koreans suffering from economic turmoil and drawing a cult following among [...]

CANBERRA, Nov 12 Asia Pulse - Treasury head Ken Henry has flatly rejected suggestions his department's forecast for economic growth was manipulated to suit the federal government. Opposition frontbencher Andrew [...]

CANBERRA, Oct 16 Asia Pulse - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will meet with business and industry leaders tomorrow to thrash out further ideas to protect the economy against the global [...]

CANBERRA, Oct 9 Asia Pulse - The Australian government is underestimating the unemployment outlook, with more jobs at risk as the global economic slowdown hits domestic growth, economists say. New [...]

DHAKA, May 5 Asia Pulse - London-based Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has said political scene in Bangladesh will remain unsettled during the early part of 2008-09, as mounting discontent over [...]

CANBERRA, Oct 15 Asia Pulse - Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Peter Costello are today outlining a five-year plan for a major restructuring of the tax system. In [...]

CANBERRA, Aug 24 Asia Pulse - Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If the timing of the election was based solely on key economic indicators, the federal government should have cut [...]

(Analysis from Asia Today, Australia's regional business magazine. Contact: asiatoday(at)asiatoday.com.au) BANGKOK, Nov 23 Asia Pulse - He was the most popular leader in Thailand's brief democratic history. He was also [...]

TAIPEI, Nov 14 Asia Pulse - International rating agency Fitch Ratings kept Taiwan's sovereign rating unchanged at 'A+' Monday. Fitch Ratings affirmed Monday Taiwan's long-term foreign and local currency Issuer [...]

BANGKOK, Oct 2 Asia Pulse - In a new economic analysis in the aftermath of Thailand's military coup, UNESCAP, the Asia-Pacific regional UN headquarters, had forecast a growth rate of [...]

TAPEI, June 28 Asia Pulse - Political instability may cause Taiwan's economic growth to stagnate this year, Fitch Ratings predicted today. Speaking at the agency's Sovereign and Banking Conference in [...]

MANILA, March 2 Asia Pulse - Philippine Presidential Palace Malacanang said Wednesday it is encouraged by Goldman Sachs Group's bullish outlook for the peso notwithstanding last week's failed attempt to [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT On April 4th Angola marked the first anniversary of the cease-fire agreement signed by the Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (MPLA) government [...]