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...that many companies use to entice foreign talent overseas. "I'm beginning to see more expats downgrade to smaller and cheaper apartments," says Michael Ciola, an Australian real estate broker who caters to foreigners. The second luxury to be dropped is the private club. The cost of a transferable membership at the Singapore Island Country Club has slumped to $100,000, down nearly a third during the past 18 months, according to the Business Times Golf Index, a widely followed local benchmark. (See pictures of Singapore...
Although the IOP and the Dems have roughly equal membership between the sexes, only one-third of UC representatives are female...
...There have been substantial attempts to recruit, but our view was that, until now, this was not a massive increase in membership," says Lord Alderdice, who serves on the Independent Monitoring Commission, which evaluates intelligence on paramilitary activity. "We've not been talking about substantial organizations." A security source concurs, saying the threat emanates from a "relatively small number of individuals," in groups that may be harder to detect because they "are fragmented and geographically segmented." Sinn Fein has called on its republican supporters to assist the police in combating the dissidents' efforts to reignite violence in Northern Ireland...
...Kosovo and Serbia are certainly not ready for EU membership right now and probably will not be for some time–-at least until Serbia agrees to at least a de facto recognition of Kosovo’s independence and Kosovo can govern itself without the assistance of NATO forces deployed there. Nevertheless, the EU can and should play its own role in shaping the politics of this region by showing Kosovo and Serbia that it intends to extend EU membership to both of them when they are ready. This is the only way to permanently bring stability...
...dangling the prospect of a high-profile strategic role for Ankara, Obama can help ensure that Turkey gets back on track on issues that matter: E.U. membership, fully addressing the grievances of the country's large Kurdish minority and better democracy. And a more stable Turkey can only strengthen its position as a moderate role model for the countries to its east...