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British Airways give medals to Flight 38’s crew

Thursday, July 10, 2008 The three members of the flight crew and thirteen members of British Airways Flight 38 have been awarded with the BA Safety Medal. The airline considers the award to be its highest accolade and has only awarded it three times before. On January 17 the Boeing 777 airliner was on final […]

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Wikinews interviews Ubuntu developer Fabrice

Saturday, October 9, 2010 The 10.10 version of Ubuntu (codename Maverick Merkaat), a free operative system is to be released in the next few days. French Wikinews contributor Savant-fou (Baptiste) has interviewed Fabrice (fabrice_sp on Ubuntu), an Ubuntu’s MOTU (Master Of The Universe), member of the development team of the operative system. Ubuntu is a […]

Posted in Public Relations

Function Room Success

Here’s An Opinion On: Behaviour Change Campaign Submitted by: Catherine James Why do we do Awards evenings? Often, as employees, we go along to these functions with a fair degree of trepidation, particularly if we have a spouse in tow. The short answer to this question is that we arrange award functions and submit ourselves […]

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2008 COMPUTEX Taipei: Three awards, One target

Monday, June 23, 2008 2008 COMPUTEX Taipei, the largest trade fair since its inception in 1982, featured several seminars and forums, expansions on show spaces to TWTC Nangang, great transformations for theme pavilions, and WiMAX Taipei Expo, mainly promoted by Taipei Computer Association (TCA). Besides of ICT industry, “design” progressively became the critical factor for […]

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Wikinews interviews Peter “Shamino” Tan from Singapore about overclocking

Monday, December 10, 2007 Last Saturday, the “Intel Taiwan Overclocking Live Test” took place in the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, which drew many spectators to come and see the hardware experts at work. Overclocking (running computer hardware at a higher clock rate than normally) is more of an enjoyment for senior gamers […]

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California teamsters picket Orange County transit system in contract dispute

Sunday, July 8, 2007 In an ongoing labor dispute from May of this year in California, United States, Teamsters Local 952, which represents the Orange County Transportation Authority‘s 1,200 coach operators, went on strike at 12:35 a.m. (0035 hrs) PDT Saturday morning after a cooling-off period declared by State Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger expired. Sanctioned picket […]

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Australian government paves way for nuclear waste dump in Northern Territory

Thursday, December 8, 2005 The Australian Senate has passed legislation to force a national nuclear waste dump on the Northern Territory (NT). Despite opposition from Aboriginal land owners, the NT government, environment groups and Labor the Federal Government can now officially build a nuclear waste repository in the NT after the legislation for the waste […]

Posted in Workplace Policy

Biometric / Fingerprint Time Recorder To Monitor The Employee Attendance

Here’s An Opinion On: Workplace Info By Ramya Dilip In any company it is very important to monitor the employee’s attendance for accurate payroll & discipline. It is very efficient to have a fingerprint time recorders to track the employees attendance instead of having manual punch card. The biggest advantage of using the fingerprint system […]