• Public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) was established under British rule in 1928 and operates as a government department.

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  • They know they face a further storm in October when more detail will be provided on savings, government department by government department, as a result of the comprehensive spending review.

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  • The lawyer's argument is that the officer is a former military judge and now works for the civilian government as a prosecutor for the Department of Justice, which has its own case against Pte Manning.

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  • Any foreign company doing business with a government designated by the U.S. State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism should not receive any not one penny of taxpayer dollars.

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  • Any foreign company doing business with a government designated by the U.S. State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism should not receive any -- not one penny -- of taxpayer dollars.

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  • Beleaguered by tax issues or charges of impropriety, three of Obama's appointees withdrew their names, including Tom Daschle who would have led the Health and Human Services Department, Nancy Killefer, nominated as a the chief government performance officer, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped to head the Commerce Department. iReport.com: What do you think of Obama so far?

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  • Do you feel that you have the ability if you choose to be critical of the U.S. government as you're going on a State Department tour?

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  • To the contrary, he has energetically supported the establishment of a Palestinian unity government between Fatah and Hamas - which the US State Department has since 1995 designated as a foreign terrorist organization to which US citizens, including the US president, are required by law to give no quarter.

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  • As for credit-card costs to the government, a Treasury Department agency handles all government credit-card transactions and negotiates costs.

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  • In the latest development, former French Education Minister Luc Ferry was talking to police as a witness Friday at the department for the protection of minors in Paris after suggesting on national television that a former government minister is known to have abused children in Marrakech, Morocco.

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  • Other parts of state government, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, a bugbear for Californians queuing to renew their licences, are tiny, with 2% of state employees.

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  • The National Security Agency has always had two sides to its personality: a national enterprise that meets the needs of policymakers across the U.S. government and one that serves as a combat support agency for the Department of Defense of which it remains a part.

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  • The Pentagon has tried to nominate James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, as a key player in the interim government, but some at the State Department are said to be appalled at the notion of putting a former spymaster in a foreign government.

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  • To understand what the Senator was up to, it is important to understand that the Government Accounting Office is a department of Congress and, as such, is obligated to create reports to the specifications of its bosses the Members of Congress.

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  • He was giving evidence on 6 December 2010 as part of a session on a revision to the Department for Communities and Local Government's code of practice on local authority publicity.

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  • State Department officials believe the Cuban government instituted the high fees as a revenue source, because they are almost always paid by Cuban American-families in the United States who are eager to bring their relatives over.

    CNN: graphic

  • In the 1980s, as the government squeezed university budgets, this relatively well-resourced department, plus a big nearby teaching hospital where drug trials can be done, attracted more scientists.

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  • Other contentious issues at the hearing dealt with a Justice Department investigation of Associated Press phone records as part of alleged leaks by government officials, and a probe into whether the IRS unfairly targeted conservative advocacy groups seeking tax-exempt status.

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  • The cuts are being considered as a result of the government's Comprehensive Spending Review which fixed spending budgets for each government department up to 2014-15.

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  • But a former spokesman for the Department of Justice who worked as an aide to Holder defended the government's actions.

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  • To laughter, Mr McFadden replied: "Comrade Digby, as we call him in the department" would be a very vocal and effective voice in the government.

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  • Since September Lord Marland has been an unpaid junior minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - acting as the government's business spokesman in the House of Lords - having previously held a similar role in the Department for Energy and Climate Change.

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  • The role as head of the civil service will be hived off, after a competition, to a top mandarin running a government department.

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  • The Canadian government should vigorously and publicly embrace the existing State Department analysis and strongly oppose attaching Keystone XL as a rider to the transportation bill.

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  • In making the government's subpoenas public Monday, AP denounced the effort as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion by the Department of Justice into the news-gathering activities" of the company.

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  • In making the government's subpoenas public Monday, AP denounced the effort as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion by the Department of Justice into the news-gathering activities" of the news organization.

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  • Under heavy pressure from unions to rule as it did, the administration made its decision following a Labor Department assessment that public sector work, from cleaning streets to processing government forms, qualified as work under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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