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Ruling majority partners “pressured”

Dragan Marković aka Palma exerted pressure on his ruling coalition partners because of the court procedure against Svetlana Ceca Ražnatović. This is according to a report today in the Belgrade-based Blic newspaper.

Singapore Banks’ NIMs to remain pressured – DMG

Following MAS decision to guide SGD higher at slightly faster pace, DMG says foreign investment funds will flow in, SIBOR will remain soft, meaning narrower NIM for Singapore’s 3 banks, particularly DBS (D05.SG), which has lowest loan/deposit ratio, says Dow Jones. 

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“Holland sovereign, can’t be pressured”

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele has suggested to a Dutch parliament committee to support Serbia’s EU candidate status bid. Dutch officials say theirs is a sovereign country that makes its decisions independently, and cannot be pressured.

“Serbia pressured to further soften resolution”

The opposition DSS party says the government is under increasing domestic and international pressure to soften the draft Kosovo resolution. The document has been submitted to the UN General Assembly and will be debated on September 9.

Android Smartphones Pressured Nokia, RIM in Q2, IDC Says

Nokia and BlackBerry-maker RIM continued to lead the smartphone market in the second quarter, but it was Android-running phones from HTC, Samsung and others that aggressively drove up sales figures, IDC reports. – IDC has seconded recent
second-quarter smartphone sales estimates that device shipment numbers have
been soaring upward, with particular momentum coming from handsets running
Google’s Android mobile operating system.
The overall smartphone market grew 50 percent year over year, IDC
reported Aug…


Af nudged by US to resolve political cris The political crisis in Afghanistan that has been marred by possible rigging, come to a point of being pressured by the International community with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a word from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on further situation on Tuesday. As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of Hamid Karzai’s votes from the August Presidential polls, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Afghan President will “set the stage” for resolving the political crisis by announcing his intentions on Tuesday. Clinton also hoped that the crisis in the war-torn country would be resolved soon. “He is going to announce his intentions. I am going to let him do that, but I am encouraged at the direction the situation is moving,” Clinton told reporters at the State Department after meeting with Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki. She was responding to questions about the political crisis in Afghanistan in the wake of a UN-backed panel deciding to cut Karzai’s share of the vote to 48 per cent, below the threshold for an outright win. “I am very hopeful that we will see a resolution in line with the constitutional order in the next several days,” Clinton said. “But I don’t want to pre-empt in any way President Karzai’s statement, which will set the stage for how we go forward in the next stage of this,” she said, when asked whether Karzai has decided to accept the findings of a UN- backed fraud.is

The political crisis in Afghanistan that has been marred by possible rigging, come to a point of being pressured by the International community with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a word from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on further situation on Tuesday.
As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of [...]

Hillary Clinton Pressured British Government To Not Reveal Details Of Gitmo Detainee’s Treatment

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, warned David Miliband that America would consider cutting security co-operation with the UK if a British court releases information about a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, two judges have been told.

White House Pressured To Fix Postal Budget Crisis

Postal workers say a congressional plan to fix the budget shortfalls at the United States Postal Service (USPS) is short sighted and have asked the White House to broker a better solution.