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  • Pakistan's Ashraf government

    PAKISTAN, 2013/03/17 Pakistan's PM has hailed as "a victory" for democracy the completion of a full term by an elected government for the prime time in the country's history. "No-one will be able to harm democracy in next," Raja Pervez Ashraf said.

  • Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

    JAPAN, 2013/02/25 Japan's government is likely to nominate Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda, an advocate of aggressive monetary easing, as its next central bank governor. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is as well seen filling one of two deputy governor posts with Kikuo Iwata, an academic critical of Bank of Japan policy and an advocate of unorthodox monetary easing steps, the Nikkei newspaper reported.

  • Park Geun-hye as president

    SOUTH KOREA, 2012/12/24 The foreign business community hoped for better days under a new government in South Korea, but expressed lingering doubts over the next, citing the bleak external market conditions. “The good thing about having elected Park Geun-hye as president is that the risk factors, such as exactly how much change would be delivered to the corporate sector, has been pretty much eliminated,” said source in the foreign industry who wished to remain anonymous.

  • Training on the role of elected bodies in budgetary process

    VIETNAM, 2012/12/22 Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly recently held a training course for representatives of the People's Councils of provinces and cities about the role of elected bodies in budgetary process.  At the training course, participants listened to Dr. Anwar Shar, Senior Advisor of World Bank, give lectures on budgetary planning, assessment and approval; Reform of budgeting methods and practices; Budgetary implementation-the process of law enforcement agencies; budget implementation-Parliamentary oversight. Dr. Jaya Josie, Former Vice Chairman of South African Finance Committee lectured on the topic “Towards fiscal decentralization - a lesson from South Africa; Country development: Implications for Parliament and the legislatures in South Africa.

  • ADB loans support development programmes

    VIETNAM, 2012/12/22 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$251 million in loans to help Vietnam improve education quality, enhance power transmission network capacity, and strengthen flood and drought risk management and mitigation The three loans agreements were signed in Hanoi on December 21 by Nguyen Van Binh, Governor of the National Bank of Vietnam, and Tomoyuki Kimura, ADB Country Director for Vietnam.

  • United States and European Union to lift sanctions against his government

    MYANMAR, 2012/06/18 He believes her election and the presence of a strong NLD opposition will strengthen Burma's parliament, bring reconciliation to the country and help persuade the United States and European Union to lift sanctions against his government. In an interview on the eve of the election, President Thein Sein's leading adviser Nay Zin Latt told The Sunday Telegraph it was "significant" that the Nobel laureate who has spent the best part of two decades under home arrest becomes an effective opposition leader in the parliament.

  • Kyrgyz Deputy Energy Minister dismissed 2012-03-16

    KYRGYZSTAN, 2012/03/16

  • Timor-Leste to go to the polls 2012-03-01

    EAST TIMOR, 2012/03/01 The question hanging over this process is whether it will mark the formal consolidation of democracy in the once deeply troubled territory, or whether it will signal a return to the problems of 2006–07 — which have been a common feature in a lot of other post-conflict, post-colonial states.  

  • Kyrgyzstan’s president-elect to take office in December 2011-11-16

    KYRGYZSTAN, 2011/11/16 Kyrgyzstan’s president-elect to take office in December in first peaceful handover of power

  • Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev has won the presidential election. 2011-10-31

    KYRGYZSTAN, 2011/10/31  PM Atambayev wins Kyrgyzstan presidential election
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