A criminal injustice?: provision must be made for travellers as society and lifestyles continue to change

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Planners need to consider how structure and local plan provisions can be altered to allow private sites to be developed by gypsies themselves. This would mean defining appropriate housing and involve the issues of health, educational and social provision. The definition of gypsies has been complicated by other nomadic groups, such as tinkers, didikoi and new age travelers. There is expected to be larger movements of people in the future and the Council of Europe is debating such issues

author: Breakell, Mike
Social aspects, Romanies

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Fiber-optic control: key to 'smart' buildings

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Unibank A/S' newly built headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, boasts of an intelligent network equipped with fiber-optic lighting controls that governs such functions as ventilation, climate control and lighting automatically. With the construction, the second-biggest bank in Denmark has set a new standard for building engineering and design. Unibank's smart building is design to provide comfort at optimum energy and operating efficiency.

Commercial Banking, Denmark, Commercial Banks

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India's new government pledges to continue economic reforms: but investors worry a fractious coalition will be bad for business

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Formation of Congress led coalition government having Left leaning parties as partners has created doubts about continuance of reform programs in the business communities. The country's new prime minister Manmohan Singh did initiate the economic reforms during his term as financial minister and now he is seeking to assure domestic entrepreneurs as well as foreign investors of the continuance of the economic reforms.

author: Singh, Vir
India, Analysis, Political activity, Political aspects, Political reform, Singh, Manmohan

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