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Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Nepal (AHN) – Nepal’s government has banned smoking and chewing tobacco in any public places. The law becomes effective after 90 days, according to the Nepali legal provision. With the implementation of the law, tobacco companies must allocate 75 percent of the space on packets, wrappers or labels of [...]

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The nation’s jobless economic recovery has kept workers who lost their jobs on unemployment compensation longer, draining state coffers and leading many states to consider curbing benefits. When state unemployment funds ran dry, many states had to borrow money from the federal unemployment [...]

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Rome, Italy (AHN) – Students in Italy staged a nationwide demonstration Wednesday to protest the passage of an education reform bill. The demonstrations, staged in several cities including Rome, Naples, Turin, Palermo and Salermo, were generally peaceful. There was one reported clash between students and police in Palermo [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Senate Republicans signaled willingness on Sunday to a compromise with Democrats about extending unemployment insurance and Bush administration tax cuts. The GOP blocked Democratic attempts the previous day to keep tax breaks for the middle class, arguing that tax cuts for higher-income earners [...]

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Paris, France (AHN) – The French Senate on Friday approved a controversial pension reform bill by a vote of 177-153. Now it is up to a conference committee of seven senators and seven members of parliament to hammer out differences between the Senate and National Assembly versions of the [...]

AHN News Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – The federal government of Canada will announce on Thursday that it will lift the freeze on Employment Insurance premiums. The freeze was part of the economic stimulus package offered by Ottawa to battle the recession. The lifting of the freeze was originally scheduled Jan. 1, 2010, but [...]

In these troubled economic times, the question is whether any bank or financial institution is making loans to small businesses. This article we will discuss what loans are available in light of the new Stimulus Bill as to the creation of a secondary market.