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...early test of his resolve. Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko say they will re-examine the privatization of the company and dozens of other formerly state-owned firms, many of which were sold off to Kuchma allies over the past six years. Last week, Ukraine's Supreme Court upheld previous decisions to undo the Kryvorizhstal deal; Pinchuk and Akhmetov are appealing. The giant steel mill could just be the first reprivatization. Potentially, some of the largest and most profitable companies in Ukraine could be up for grabs, including two big aluminum plants, and a major mining firm worth...
...Concerns about the quality of agents are being addressed through a compulsory examination introduced just over a year ago, says David Mawson, ceo of the Migration Institute of Australia, a division of which registers migration agents. Complaints against 2% of the 3,300 agents nationwide are upheld each year. "The visa applicant may or may not tell the migration agent everything, and the agents themselves may in some circumstances embellish what they are told," says Mawson. Sometimes, he says, people don't tell their stories in full because they don't trust the migration agent. If an asylum seeker...
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...property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned judges and Chinese officials on the workers' behalf, and in some cases even hired lawyers to appeal for lesser sentences. The court upheld the convictions, but rescinded the original prison terms, saying simply they had been "heavy sentences." All 10 workers walked free on New Year's Eve. "There's so much unrest now all over the place," says an employee from a multinational shoe company who monitors working conditions in Chinese factories...
...most E.U. nations in 2003 after the bloc decided to invite dissidents to embassy functions in Cuba, in protest at a crackdown on opponents of the regime. In December, the E.U. advised dropping that policy after a number of jailed dissidents were released. Slow Justice CHILE The Supreme Court upheld an indictment on charges of kidnap and murder against former dictator Augusto Pinochet, relating to his 1973-1990 period in office. MEANWHILE IN SPAIN... E.U.-1, Skeptics-0 The government kicked off a campaign to publicize the proposed European constitution ahead of a national referendum in February - by giving...