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Last year, the UC held several emergency sessions, including one in the fall to pass that fall’s concert allocation bill, and one in the spring to debate and pass the UC reform package...
...Paul Gewirtz Director, China Law Center, Yale Law School Legal reform in China is crucial to many aspects of China's development?advancing a market economy, protecting human rights, fighting corruption, encouraging foreign investment, and fully integrating China into the world community. People outside of China, as well as inside of China, have a stake in these things. So it would be valuable for President Bush to emphasize the importance of the rule of law when he meets President...
...Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung Member of the Legislative Council, Hong Kong I think President Hu should tell Bush to respect human rights. And President Bush should tell Hu to make dramatic political reform...
...lead her Labour party to victory on Sept. 17 in a general election, she will be free to continue the frugal economic management and progressive social makeover that have been the hallmark of her winning ways since 1999. After the country's stagnation in the '90s, and the reform shocks of the preceding decade, the Clark era has been a prosperous one. "There is no mood for radical change in our country," Clark declared at her campaign launch in Auckland on Aug. 21. Economic output has grown by an average of 4% a year; the country's unemployment rate...
...Kiwis a week heading for "Aussie." Cullen pulls a stream of numbers out of his head to build a picture of stability, progress and the job ahead. Earlier in the day, Cullen outlines a difficult global outlook for the tiny nation, with no room for policy adventures; economic reform is by rights now incremental. Cutting spending on services is very difficult - and politically hazardous. "Government is like running an aircraft carrier," he tells Time. "You can only change direction very gently - otherwise the planes fall off the deck." Voters have only a few days left to decide whether Helen Clark...