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...Already, the rubber stamp for Japan Inc has diminished. Now, environmentalists are teaming up to play offence and use their ballots to fight global warming....
...It took an election to rid the US of Trump’s policies, an indignity that Xi will not have to suffer because the Chinese Communist party congress will rubber stamp an unprecedented third five-year term in...
...Investors typically rubber-stamp companies’ pay votes with at least 90 per cent support....
...On Thursday, China’s rubber-stamp parliament is expected to pass a motion to draft a sweeping national security law that legal scholars say violates the territory’s mini-constitution and undermines the rule...
...They are often seen by critics, as reliable rubber-stamps for private equity firms....
...The state’s utility regulator has already begun an investigation into PacifiCorp’s latest Integrated Resource Plan, a vision for future generation that normally receives a rubber stamp....
...Office; to short-notice “seminars” in Shenzhen, the mainland Chinese city bordering Hong Kong; or to Beijing for grander sessions such as next month’s celebrations and the annual March session of China’s rubber-stamp...
...Nguyen Manh Hung, Vietnam’s minister of information, last week told the country’s rubber-stamp parliament that Vietnamese citizens should not create “cybertrash” and must “clean up after themselves online...
...The amendment was approved in late February by the National Legislative Assembly, the then military government’s rubber-stamp parliament, to create a business-friendly environment, according to the government...
...stamp the Temenos deal to the last possible moment....
...Baidu, the dominant search engine, and Netease, the games company, publicly declared their support for listing in mainland China, speaking on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China’s rubber-stamp parliament...
...Much of the work is still done on paper, sometimes with a rubber stamp. Ship sinkings are recorded in a ledger with a quill pen....
...The meeting to rubber stamp the sale of Imagination Technologies, which develops graphics processor technology for smartphones and tablet computers, to the Chinese-backed fund Canyon Bridge, lasted less...
...But Macron is showing that, previous career notwithstanding, his is not necessarily a rubber stamp administration. It is worth watching the backlash in Italy too....
...Yet, generally speaking, both the votes to approve the annual report and auditor are treated as rubber-stamp affairs....
...But this otherwise hot topic appeared too sensitive for discussion at last month’s annual session of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, during which Mr Cao did not speak out on the issue and cancelled a scheduled...
...He and Mr Kenny saw the cabinet meeting as essentially a rubber-stamp for a decision already taken by the government to launch the appeal....
...Analysts say the agency is all but certain to rubber-stamp their recommendation in September....
...One imagines the peer banging down a very big rubber stamp on a ledger entry for £1 paid by scratch buying team Retail Acquisitions....
...Yahoo spent much of last year pursuing a plan to spin-off the Alibaba business, only to drop it after it became clear it would not get a rubber stamp of assurance from the US tax authorities that the arrangement...
...Voting rights for the 1,200-seat election committee that selects the territory’s leader are allocated to various business and social sectors and to people holding largely ceremonial posts in China’s rubber-stamp...
...“I felt like we were expected to rubber stamp what the management and the government wanted, that’s it,” says one EDF board member....
...• The world’s largest asset managers are continuing to rubber stamp excessive pay awards for US company bosses....
...Yahoo initially planned to spin off its stake in Alibaba but reversed course after US tax authorities declined to rubber stamp the deal in advance, raising the possibility of a hefty tax bill....
...Yahoo was responding to pressure from large shareholders who were concerned that the US tax authorities refused to rubber stamp the deal in advance....
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