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Act MPs on stage at the partys annual conference Photo: RNZ/ Katie Scotcher Hundreds of supporters gathered for the partys annual conference - Honest Conversations - in Auckland yesterday, where the success of last years election was still very much front of mind. Act received 7.6 percent of the vote, meaning leader David Seymour was joined by nine new MPs. Its the biggest caucus ACT has had since 2002, when it had nine MPs under leader Richard Prebble. But after six years as a one man band,...

8:12 pm GMT+12, 19/05/2021, Samoa Samoa Head of State, Tuimalealiifano Sualauvi Va’aletoa II, has agreed to convene Parliament after meeting with the Fa’atuatua ile Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party today. The Chairman and founder of FAST, La’auli Leuatea Schmidt, confirmed the positive news from the Head of State’s residence late this afternoon. In an interview with the Samoa Observer La’auli confirmed a second meeting with the Head of State this week was initiated by the party; FAST h...

The Information Management Working Group (IMWG) supports the Humanitarian Coordination Task Team (HCTT) to strengthen the coordination of information management activities with government and non-government actors, across different clusters/sectors and areas of responsibility. The IMWG is co-chaired by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the UN Resident Coordinators Office (UNRCO), and aims to bring together information management focal persons from government, national and internatio...

Social Share A face-off between the Speaker of the House, Rochelle Forde and Leader of the Opposition, Dr Godwin Friday, over a government senator’s presence in the House of Assembly this Tuesday ultimately led to Friday having to leave the Chamber. The senator in question, Ashelle Morgan, also holds the office of Deputy Speaker of the House and was recently alleged to have been involved in a matter in which a resident of Diamond was shot in the leg. “It is also a general princi...

Proposal to register more than 51m informal workers in Pakistan National May 13, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The Labor Welfare and Social Protection Expert Group (LWSPEG) has recommended to the PTI led government that Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division (PASS) should be mandated to devise a mechanism for registering more than 51 million informal workers in Pakistan. It recommended to register them with NADRA with the provision to initiate contributory pension and provide them medical coverage ...

THE NUMBER of people outside keeps growing. Where there had once been a harmless handful, there is now a good-sized crowd. And they keep coming. More and more of them. You can hear car doors slamming, footsteps, the soft murmur of exchanged greetings. These people can’t quite believe what they’ve been told, so they’ve come to see for themselves if the story is true. It was unavoidable: this growing chorus of disquiet. The moment Nanaia Mahuta set the wheels in motion; the moment the relev...

PUDR Demands Withdrawal of Draft Rules of Code on Industrial Relations The civil rights group said that invitations for ‘objections and suggestions to the notified Draft Rules of the IR Code constituted a "sham exercise" as several affected workers and trade unions across the country would be unable to respond. A student climbs a scaffolding at an outdoor classroom at the Larsen & Toubro (L&T) construction skills training institute in Panvel, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra Nove...

Minding your PQs: Whats Question Time in Parliament and why should you care? Toggle share menu Advertisement Minding your PQs: Whats Question Time in Parliament and why should you care? After the Singapore Parliament posted on Facebook recently about whats involved in Question Time, CNA delves deeper into how the session works and what MPs do with answers to the issues they ask about. Parliament House, Singapore. (Photo: Hanidah Amin) 09 May 2021...

THE STANDARD POLITICS Wajir Governor Mohamed Abdi Mohamud. [Courtesy] Embattled Wajir Governor Mohamed Abdi Mohamud has been served with the charges brought against him by the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs). The special committee probing the county boss impeachment will convene from Wednesday next week to consider the matter and retreat to write its report over the weekend. According to the committee chairman and Nyamira Senator Okongo Omogeni, they will begin the sitting on May 12 fo...

Reps relieve 12 committees of duties over non-performance Published 6 May 2021 THE House of Representatives on Wednesday withdrew from 12 ad hoc committees the various tasks given to them over their failure to conclude assignments given to them and submit reports before the chamber. The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, said after dealing with the non-performing ad hoc committees, the standing committees would be the next. The substantive committees are now to submit their reports on or before May 25...