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Conscription urged to fight crime, fires
Singapore :: Singapore | 23 days ago
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Young men and women should be forced into the military through a universal conscription scheme after completing their high school exams, says Les Twentyman, a Melbourne social worker and former teacher who is pitching the controversial idea to the Federal...
Tags: national services, Mr Twentyman, military services, Singapore, Armies, Military service, National service, Military sociology, Nationalism, Conscription, Politics
Ben-Simon quits as Labor faction chair
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago
Credibility MK Daniel Ben-Simon announced his resignation as Labor faction chairman at a Knesset press conference Sunday afternoon. In a letter sent earlier to faction members, Ben-Simon said that the party's goals within the coalition were to promote the peace...
Tags: Labor Party, faction chairman, labor faction, National Service, MK Daniel Ben Simon, MK Daniel Ben-Simon, press conference, Ehud Barak, MK Ben-Simon, Knesset Ben-Simon
Finance minister: Israel has right to defend its citizens
Niš :: Serbia | about 1 month ago
Credibility This is an attempt at anti-Semitism – what is permitted to the US in Afghanistan and Russia in Chechnya is prohibited for Israel, and we will not allow this to happen," Steinitz said ahead of a government meeting on the Goldstone report. (Roni Sofer)...
Tags: National Service, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yuval Steinitz, Treasury, Israel, Rachamim Zeevi, prime minister
National Service budget won't lose NIS 45 million
Niš :: Serbia | about 1 month ago
Credibility This, following an agreement struck with Director General of the Prime Minister's Office Eyal Gabai. The sum was meant to be deducted as part of a lateral government budget cut for the purpose of addressing security needs and swine flu treatment. "I...
Tags: National Service
Aharonovitch: No local police forces outside existing command structure
Jerusalem :: Israel | 3 months ago
Credibility We are also entering the haredi community," he revealed. "There, we will go in the direction of national service, and there are currently advanced contacts under way so that national service will be done with the Israel Police." But Aharonovitch's revelation...
Israeli Arab volunteers rising
Jerusalem :: Israel | 3 months ago
Credibility Israeli officials said the number of Israeli Arab volunteers shot up to 1,050 last year from 240 when the program first opened in 2004, Ynet reported. "The numbers certainly speak for themselves," said Lior Shohat, the public affairs coordinator in the...
MK Yuli Tamir calls for Lieberman resignation
Jerusalem :: Israel | 3 months ago
Credibility Knesset Member Yuli Tamir (Labor) is calling on Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to resign his post, following his plan to withhold those who have not served in the army or completed national service from applying to his ministry's cadets' course. ...
Tags: Israeli Radio, national service, foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, Foreign Ministry, minister avigdor, completed national, lieberman caused
Obama to fire inspector general of AmeriCorps
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama plans to fire the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs. The move comes amid a controversy between the IG and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball...
Tags: Barack Obama, inspector general, AmeriCorps, national service, investigating americorps, service programs, Kevin Johnson, nba basketball, sacramento mayor, mayor kevin
$8M For National Service Training and Technical Assistance
The Corporation for National and Community Service announced recently the availability of approximately $8 million in funds to support national providers of training and technical assistance for community service programs that use service and volunteering...
Tags: Nonprofits, Volunteers, Training, National Service, Federal funding
417,000 ex-NS trainees for gathering
Kulim :: Malaysia | 6 months ago
Credibility Some 417,000 former national service trainees who attended the programme over the last five years will be regrouped to gauge whether they still have the patriotism spirit. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the gathering next month...
Tags: National Service
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