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Cole to improve beauty regime

Cheryl Cole2Cheryl Cole is determined to improve her beauty regime in the new year because she always forgets to take her make-up off after a night out. The “Promise This” singer admits she is lazy when it comes to removing her make-up but has vowed to take more care in the future because she hates how [...]

Mufti: Regime creating new Kosovo

Islamic Community in Serbia Chief Mufti Muamer Zukorlić says that Belgrade regime could make a “new Kosovo” out of Sandžak thanks to its ignorant behavior.

He said that it was very hard to establish stability if the government did not believe them.

Nov. 19, 1981: Marcos Regime Puts the Kibosh on Games

1981: Citing their socially destructive effects, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos bans videogames in his country. Filipinos are given two weeks to hand over or destroy their game consoles.
Marcos was no stranger to imposing draconian solutions. The Philippines lived under martial law throughout the 1970s, Marcos’ way of dealing with the increasingly radical elements — mainly [...]

Wathelet, Dačić: Visa regime not threatened

The visa liberalization regime the European Union has with Serbia has not been brought into question, Serbian and Belgian officials said today in Belgrade.

“Serbia must prevent abuse of visa regime”

For the time being, the European Commission is not intending to limit visa-free travel to the European Union for Serbian and Macedonian citizens. The issue was raised because of the sudden influx of “asylum seekers”.

10 years since fall of Milošević regime

Today marks ten years since the fall of Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević’s regime, brought about by demonstrations staged on October 5, 2000. An estimated half a million people from all over Serbia took to the streets that day to protest, led by the 18-party opposition coalition dubbed DOS (the Democratic Opposition of Serbia), in a bid to force MiloÅ¡ević to concede his defeat in the presidential elections held on September 24, 2000.

IMF says Singapore’s exchange-rate regime remains ‘appropriate’

The International Monetary Fund, in a report on Singapore’s economy, said the country’s exchange-rate regime “remains appropriate” and that staff saw the currency as “somewhat weaker than its medium-term equilibrium level.”

The report also noted that “the Singapore dollar would likely strengthen in real effective terms over time as reforms promote faster productivity growth and the domestic economy continues to expand.”

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Serbia, Turkey abolish visa regime

The Serbian government abolished visas for Turkish citizens and vice versa, according to a statement given to the Tanjug news agency. According to the statement, the government discussed the issue and agreed that visas for Turkish visitors should be abolished on Friday.

Singapore says yuan move won’t affect currency regime: Update

China’s decision to allow greater flexibility in its currency won’t affect Singapore’s exchange- rate policy, the Southeast Asian nation’s central bank said.

The People’s Bank of China on June 19 indicated it’s abandoning the 6.83 yuan peg to the dollar adopted during the global crisis to shield exporters. The central bank said while there’s no basis for “large scale” moves in the currency, the exchange rate will be allowed increased “flexibility.”

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North Korea’s regime stumbles

An embarrassing climb-down puts North Korea’s Kim Jong Il in a difficult position

HOWEVER loathsome his neighbours find Kim Jong Il, the nuclear-armed North Korean dictator, there are few who do not also admit that beneath the big hair lurks a tactical genius with a flair for survival. At home, North Koreans are smothered by his ruthless personality cult. With the outside world, he is an adept blackmailer: act mad enough to be dangerous; then be conciliatory in exchange for cash.

Recently, however, on both counts he has made tactical mistakes. None of these are serious enough to endanger his regime, diplomats say. But they are encouraging to those who believe they can eventually push North Korea back to talks about dismantling its nuclear arsenal. And they reaffirm the benefits of what the Americans call “strategic patience”: waiting until North Korea is desperate enough to offer concessions. …

SAP Intends to Restore Market Trust Under New Management Regime

SAP’s new management team will have the task of getting the company growing again and restoring a sense of trust in the enterprise applications maker among SAP employees, partners and customers, according to Hasso Plattner, chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board.
– A new SAP management team will focus on
restoring trust inside and outside of the enterprise business software company
that was lost over the past couple of years as a result of policies that
led to discontent among SAP employees as
well as customers, according to Hasso Plattner, chairman of th…


NS: Ilić’s attacker “regime sympathizer”

New Serbia (NS) said that the person who attacked party leader Velimir Ilić is a “regime sympathizer.”
The party also called on the authorities to give information on the motive behind the attack, stating that it was a planned incident.

Fresh opposition protests, clashes in Iran

Reports from Iran say protesters have clashed with supporters of the regime on university campuses for a second straight day. RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports that the protests started at a Tehran engineering school, where members of the hard-line Basij militia attacked students with tear gas.

Ambassador talks visa regime, and “customs with Kosovo”

The system for administering the “borders between Kosovo and Serbia” must be implemented “in order to enable freedom of movement,” Sweden’s ambassador says. “The EC report on Serbia’s progress towards the ‘white Schengen’ stated that for freedom of movement, there must be a system of administering the border between Kosovo and Serbia and a part of administering of these borders is the customs control,” Ambassador Krister Bringeus told Belgrade daily Danas.

Milošević regime figure back in business

Ruling Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) official Aleksandar Nikačević has been given the job of acting secretary general of the AMSS. Belgrade daily Blic says that Nikačević was “one of the hated figures of the regime of Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević”, and reminds that he was president of the Association of Students in 1991 during anti-MiloÅ¡ević student demonstrations in Belgrade.

Nine years since fall of Milošević regime

Today marks the 9th anniversary since the mass opposition protest in Belgrade that brought down the regime of Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević. A coalition of opposition parties, dubbed the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), called the rally for October 5, 2000, in front of the then Federal Parliament building, over the regime’s decision not to recognize the results of the September 24, 2000, presidential elections.

Iranian regime accused of using torture, murder and rape to suppress opposition

The father of an Iranian student, who died in jail after being arrested for protesting against President Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election, has claimed that his son was beaten, got his bones broken and toenails pulled out while in prison.
Amir Javadifar, 24, was so badly beaten that he had to treated in hospital before being taken to [...]

Analyst on visa regime and Kosovo residents

Coordinator of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, DuÅ¡an Janjić, said that visa liberalization is not possible for residents of Kosovo currently. He added that the reasons for this is that Serbia “has no control over the province”.

“Serbia could introduce visas for black list countries”

Daily Danas writes that harmonizing the Serbian visa regime with the EU “means introducing visas for those countries which require EU visas”. “Serbia does not have to introduce visas for some countries which the EU has a strict visa regime for right after getting on the white Schengen list, but it would be good to do this as soon as possible,” former director of the government Office for European Integration Tanja Miščević told the Belgrade newspaper.

Twitter Revolution – Iran

Twitter and Youtube are the main weapons used by Iranian dissenters in their protest against the regime. Digital dissent vs. bullets and batons – will the new technologies bring change in Iran?