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...What is Shin Corp.? It's a conglomerate that owns Thailand's biggest mobile-phone operator and Internet provider. Thaksin ran it until he became Prime Minister in 2001, when he transferred his stake to family members and household employees to comply with a ban on cabinet ministers owning shares in firms deemed to be in the "national interest," like telecoms...
...soldiers in Iraq as they raid a wedding, machine-gun the guests, and take survivors to a prison where a Jewish doctor removes their organs for rich people in the West. Subtle it ain't, but Turks are in a frenzy over it. Advance tickets sold out weeks ago; cabinet ministers, businessmen and even the Prime Minister's wife and daughters packed the glitzy premiere in the capital Ankara. Turkey and the U.S. are traditional allies, but relations have been tricky since the onset of the Iraq war, when Turkish M.P.s refused to allow U.S. troops to use Turkey...
...when Republican Representative Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, met with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Josh Bolten to press for more money for scientific research, Boehlert found Bolten unexpectedly receptive. Later that day, four Cabinet Secretaries showed up for a meeting on scientific research held at the Commerce Department. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman surprised Boehlert by staying all day. Although the Congressman has been advocating increased scientific research for years, Boehlert says, "Now it was getting the visibility." Soon Bush himself was pushing the proposals through the OMB, which often rips such initiatives apart...
...president-elect appointed Velasco, who is on sabbatical from the Kennedy School, to the cabinet position on Monday...
...Bachelet also announced the rest of her cabinet, fulfilling her promise of gender equality by offering half of the posts to women...