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Although the central government's official position is that it supports music education among children, music is viewed as blasphemous by Taliban mullahs and some Afghan government officials, and girls face an even-stronger backlash.
WSJ: Young Afghans Face Backlash Over Music
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There may be no official Olympic cultural events in 798 it is still too edgy a scene to be endorsed by the conservative ministry of culture but local officials understand that visitors will want more than the central government's staid official arts programme.
ECONOMIST: Art for the Olympics
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At the time, Mr Wen was a mid-ranking official in the central government.
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The profit motive has never been a comfortable bed fellow with government, either central or local, as the official blog of the University of Birmingham's Institute for Local Government Studies (INLOGOV) points out.
BBC: Midlands councils go into business to offset grant cuts
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The index is compiled on a quarterly basis using official government statistics or central bank data where available.
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"Both the state and central government have been responsible, " says an official.
CNN: A New Kind of War
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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A Japanese aid worker who was abducted in east-central Afghanistan has been found dead, a local government official said Wednesday.
CNN: Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan found dead
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The official government list of victims from this week's earthquake in central Italy reached 287 on Friday, as Italians held a mass state funeral to lay the victims to rest.
CNN: Thousands mourn Italian quake victims
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Far too often Western media or businessmen blame the central government or argue there is a systemic problem because of the actions of a single local official.
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"Increases in the official defense budget are roughly consistent with GDP growth and constitute a declining percentage of central government expenditures, " wrote Adam Liff, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and Andrew Erickson, an associate professor at the U.S. Naval War College.
WSJ: China's Xi Courts Military