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The South Korean military is keeping a close eye on reports of unrest in neighboring North Korea, sources say. Local and international reports have indicated the North Korean military was put on heightened alert after a sudden currency revaluation by...
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A pro-Pyongyang newspaper confirmed on Friday the secretive North has revalued its currency, a move analysts said was aimed at curtailing a burgeoning market economy and clamping down on merchants. The communist North's official media has kept mum over...
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Colorado — With a new building in Avon complete and its budget under control, one Vail Valley taxing district is going to drop its property tax rate for 2010. The Eagle County Ambulance District Board of Directors recently approved its mill levy, or property...
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A state senator says Kittitas County government should work to grant lowered property values to all Upper County rural property owners adversely affected by the state’s moratorium on new, exempt wells. Yet the county assessor has explained the county...
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North Korea has confirmed a drastic reform of its currency in what's widely viewed as an attempt to control a growing black market and curbing runaway inflation. Amid recent reports of protest and violence in Pyongyang among members of a small but restive...
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The markets, which have gradually emerged across North Korea in recent years, have become a profitable business for some traders. But their growth outside of government controls is believed to have unnerved authorities. Faced with mounting food shortages,...
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South Korea Tuesday questioned North Korea's calls for a peace treaty with the United States, declaring its real aim is to buy time to make more nuclear weapons. The comments by Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan came six days before a US envoy is scheduled...
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China's ballooning stock market bubble, fuelled by excessive liquidity, is likely to burst in the first half of 2010, punctured by economic concerns arising from higher-than-expected inflation, Morgan Stanley Asia executive director Jerry Lou said on...
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Two out of three business rates will fall next year as a result of revaluation, the Government has announced. Ministers said no extra money will be collected as a result of the 2010 revaluation, with a million bills being lower than this year.
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The Prosser City Council will consider tonight raising the city's property tax levy 1 percent. If approved, the city's property tax levy will fall from $3.33 per $1,000 of assessed property value, to $3.25 per $1,000 of assessed value. Prosser's property...
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