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Pakistan is indeed a free country. For everyone including people involved in piracy of Videos and textbooks. This is not a surprise for anyone here in Pakistan to witness photocopied ACCA textbooks in few institutes and on book shops, a serious problem for publishers who invest a considerable amount behind their work.
But things are different in China. According to Shanghai Daily, police detained 35 suspects for pirating thousands of copies of international accountant and financial assoc
August 30, 2012
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By Zehra Abbasi
China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy last quarter, capping the nation’s three- decade rise from Communist isolation to emerging superpower.
Japan’s nominal gross domestic product for the second quarter totaled $1.288 trillion, less than China’s $1.337 trillion, the Japanese Cabinet Office said today. Japan remained bigger in the first half of 2010, the government agency said. Japan’s annual GDP is $5.07 trillion, while China’s is more
August 16, 2010
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By Michelle Murdoch
How Deloitte see the Global Economy in third quarter of 2010? Is there a global slow down or a false alarm?
The global economy continues to grow but uncertainty has gripped observers about the sustainability of growth in the world’s three biggest markets: the United States, Europe, and China. In the United States, growth has been disappointing and the job market appears to be going nowhere. In Europe, the sovereign debt crisis and the policy response
August 4, 2010
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By Bilal Siddiqui
According to ChinaPost, The International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that Asian economies were at risk of overheating as strong capital inflows fan inflationary pressures and raise the risk of damaging bubbles.
The IMF urged regional leaders to return to “more normal” monetary policies after the global financial crisis, and increase the flexibility of their exchange rates to counter speculative funds flowing into their economies.
The IMF raised its gro
June 3, 2010
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Ufone has revised its postpaid packages, while adding more on-net and off-net free minutes, SMS bundles and IDD buckets. Calls are charged on per minute basis. Amongst all other previous packages, Unite remains there with almost the same pricing. Here goes the details.
Package Details
With an FUP (Fair Usage Police0 of 10,000 mins/month (over and above 10,000 minutes the rate will be Rs 0.2/min+tax)
**With an FUP of 10,000 SMS/month (Over and above 10,000 SMS the rate will be 0.2
April 29, 2010
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ACCA's live Student Engage webcast to hear ACCA's regional heads of education and tuition support manager give their top tips for passing ACCA exams.
Visit www.accaglobal.com/studentengage to view the webcast live on Friday 16 April at 12.00 (UK), which is equivalent to
16.00 in Pakistan
19.00 in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia
13.00 in South Africa
11.00 in Ghana
Watch highlights from our September
April 15, 2010
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According to Asia Times, A record surge in Chinese property prices has added new tension to China's high-wire act of maintaining the economic growth required for social stability while warding off overheating and at the same snubbing demands from the United States that the government allow the Chinese currency to appreciate.
Property prices rose at a record pace in March, up almost 12% from a year earlier, ac
April 14, 2010
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For the first time in six years, China announced on Saturday that it has suffered a trade deficit. Chinese authorities announced a deficit of $7.2 billion for the month of March.
Chinese officials were quick to use the opportunity to show that western governments were wrong in their claim that Chinese trade surpluses were driven on the strength of a weak currency. China has now made a deficit on the basis of the same unchanged value of the currency.
Yao Jian, a spokesman for
April 10, 2010
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Internet activists, tech geeks, private-sector information technology companies and foreign policy wonks have joined hands this week in an initiative that sounds more ungainly than it is. For the first time, the United States is officially encouraging its Internet and technology companies to align themselves with American diplomatic policy, giving them new tools to operate in places where repressive governments reign.
Based on recent experiences in China, Egypt, Iran, Sudan and elsewhere, mem
March 9, 2010
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I noticed one thing whenever I heard the term banking, people also mention Islamic Banking. A latest surge in the services of Islamic banking profits few groups but if you ask me personally, I am still waiting to see a clear distinction between Islamic and conventional banking. Anyways, the news that is surprising for the most of accountants is the latest move by the Indian government to not to implement Islamic banking in country!
India on Friday ruled out introducing Islamic banking in the
March 7, 2010
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