New prices increases will make the poor suffer more
Sugar up 20 sen, RON95, diesel and LPG up 5 sen each Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle UPDATE2 Back to the wall, Prime Minister Najib Razak has been forced to further slash subsidies and hike the prices of consumer essentials as the slowing economy fails to respond to the financial stimuli he has prescribed since [...] Related posts: Subsidy cut will make the poor suffer more Taken from ...
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Kicking Daisies benefit concert sold out, but The Sun to host live stream of the show tonight
Teen pop-rock group Kicking Daisies will perform a benefit concert for The Fairfield Arts Council tonight, Dec. 3, at the Fairfield Theatre Company. The proceeds of the show will go to the council, and towards the creation of a new teen music center for the town. Although the event is already sold out, The Sun will stream tonight's concert live, on our Web site, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
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Organic Gluten-Free Snack Wins 2010 “GreatGearTM” Awards
For a third year in a row, Jungle Grub Snack bars have won awards for great taste and nutrition from ShapeYou.com’s Gear Awards. This year all three flavors, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Peanut Butter Groove and Berry Bamboozle won the honor of a “Great Gear” Award. “This is a tremendous award, especially for a gluten-free product to win for taste and nutrition, even when evaluated against [PR ...
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Lights, camera, courtroom!
It's 2010. Do you know what your courts are doing? I didn't think so. Sure, some newspapers and broadcasters send reporters to courts, who then give you their limited impressions of what's going on.
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Montreal gas prices jump overnight
Gas prices in the Montreal area have shot up, with the cost of regular gas at some stations reaching .24 per litre on Saturday morning, according to MontrealGasPrices.com, which tracks prices in the region.
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Congress moves to outlaw 'mystery charges' for Web shoppers
Senate passes bill this week that tries to close door on unscrupulous Web retailers and marketers who charged credit cards without the expressed say-so from cardholders.
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Bamboozle Festival announces dates, some mainstage performers for 2011
Saed Hindash/The Star-LedgerParamore fans at Bamboozle 2010. Here's a warm spring breeze on a cold day: the Bamboozle has just announced its upcoming dates for 2011. The massive pop music festival, which drew 80,000 ecstatic fans of rock, skatepunk, electro,...
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Bush tax cuts
Re: Eugene Robinson ’s Dec. 3 column, “The Grinch who stole the nation's capitol,”: Robinson makes a claim that is repeated frequently by those who want the Bush tax cuts to expire. He states that extending the tax cuts for the richest Americans will increase the deficit by 0 billion. So let's break down this claim.
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Store food labels 'still confuse'
Shoppers are still being bamboozled by differing food labelling systems on supermarket shelves consumer group Which? has warned.
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