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...this year and will list on the stock exchange, beginning with Vietcombank in a few months, according to Le Duc Thuy, governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, the country's central bank. State-owned players are getting additional help from the government: in April, Hanoi plans to raise charter-capital requirements for banks from $5 million to $70 million. The move is being made to ensure banks are financially sound, but in effect it will also make it more difficult for start-ups to enter the market and challenge the incumbents...
...veiled, witty critiques of his country's Stalinist government. But the weirdest and most influential role the vocal Marxist played was as the inspiration and lyricist for a seminal Czech underground rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe. The arrest of the Plastics at a 1976 rally sparked Charter 77, the Havel-led protest movement that in 1989 toppled the communist regime...
...rare business suit - gathered at a church in downtown Prague to celebrate an act of courage they jointly undertook 30 years ago. In 1977, a decade after Soviet tanks had crushed the last flowering of free expression on their city's streets, these men and women signed Charter 77, a human-rights declaration demanding freedoms suppressed by the totalitarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia...
...freedoms will gradually be extended to citizens from the 12 countries that joined since 2004. This means working to the same rules, too; though national legislatures had taken the lead, the Treaty itself enshrined the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women, while the 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights proclaims workers' entitlements on issues from labor mobility and collective bargaining to equal opportunities...
...should make it known to those that attend charter schools that we are ready to receive them back,” he said...