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Law on home mortgage financing passed

Accra, Nov. 13, GNA - Parliament on Thursday passed a bill that would provide a uniform system of home mortgage financing into law. The Home Finance Mortgage bill would regulate the activities of financial institutions, which provide financial assistance related to the acquisition of residential property.

Lands Commission and Pension Bills passed into law

Accra, Oct. 29, GNA - Parliament on Wednesday passed the Lands Commission and National Pension Reform Bills into law. The Lands Commission Bill seeks to create a one-stop-shop for land administration and the provision of services by bringing together all the seven institutions responsible for land management in the country. A parliamentary report said the fragmentation of the services of agencies such as the Land Title Registry, Land Valuation Board and Lands Commission over the years, had made the provision of land services very difficult.

Full base rate cut passed on by Halifax

The full Bank of England base rate cut is to be passed on to borrowers with Halifax standard variable rate (SVR)

Law set up to protect trade secrets

Parliament on Tuesday passed a Bill that seeks to protect business ideas from theft. For a Bill that has been on the parliamentary shelves for a year and a half, it was a remarkable development on Tuesday, as MPs swiftly passed the Trade Secrets Protection Bill in less than an hour.

Art Deco music box 'fabulous' piece

Q: This illuminated music box belonged to my grandfather who passed it down to my father in the 1930s. He then passed it on to me. The song it plays is Stardust. The band and the dancer are made of metal except for the dancer's face, torso and hands. It's 43 cm tall and the base and support for the dancer are made of marble. -- Lori, Oshawa

UK May Still Adopt '3 Strikes' Anti-Piracy Law - When at first you don't succeed...

The entertainment industry has been working very hard on a global scale to force ISPs to adopt three strikes policies. In some instances, ISPs do this voluntarily (like Cox), while in other instances, the industry has convinced governments to force ISPs to enact such rules. Efforts in Europe to do this recently stalled, the EU Parliament recently deciding that such laws would interfere with individual privacy and civil rights. Given that they couldn't get the law passed honestly, the entertainment industry is now trying to get the law passed covertly through the back door via a suite of new "telco reform" laws.

Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air

longacre writes "A new $1,200 machine that uses the same amount of power as three light bulbs promises to condense drinkable water out of the air. On display at Wired Magazine's annual tech showcase, the WaterMill 'looks like a giant golf ball that has been chopped in half: it is about 3ft in diameter, made of white plastic, and is attached to the wall. It works by drawing air through filters to remove dust and particles, then cooling it to just below the temperature at which dew forms. The condensed water is passed through a self-sterilising chamber that uses microbe-busting UV light to eradicate any possibility of Legionnaires' disease or other infections. Finally, it is filtered and passed through a pipe to the owner's fridge or kitchen tap.

Broad passed fit and faces India

Coverage: Test Match Special on BBC Radio Four (analogue and digital), 5 live sports extra, BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website (UK only); Live text commentary on BBC Sport website; Also live on Sky Sports 1

Apple passed RIM in smartphone market in Q3

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Lands Commission And Pension Bills Passed Into Law

The Lands Commission Bill seeks to create a one-stop-shop for land administration and the provision of services by bringing together all the seven institutions responsible for land management in the country.

Palm's Time May Have Passed

Remember when Palm - maker of the Pilot and Tungsten PDAs and later the Treo smartphone - was the dominant player in the handheld device business? Today, it’s a completely different landscape. Apple’s iPhone has recently dominated the smartphone space. RIM is making a big push with the launch of consumer-friendly versions of the Blackberry. And Google (GOOG) has now entered the space with its Android operating system and the G1 device for T-Mobile. For Palm (PALM), pretty much a minor player these days, the future doesn’t look so hot.

EMA-supported Intellectual Property Rights Act passed

NOV. 4 | The following summarizes key government affairs activities during October of the Entertainment Merchants Assn.

HSBC boss warns emergency interest rate cut may not be passed onto customers as banks refuse to cut rates

Gordon Brown hints at global emergency interest rate cut amid warnings that UK unemployment will hit 3million

International: Icon architect dies The Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House has died: Jorn Utzon, aged 90, passed away in his sleep

The architect who designed the Sydney Opera House has died. New South Wales premier Nathan Rees says Jorn Utzon was a visionary responsible for a masterpiece. The Danish architect, aged 90, died in his sleep in Denmark.

Senegal reaches over 5 mln mobile subscribers

Senegal passed the milestone of 5 million mobile customers in September, finishing the third quarter with a total 5.01 million. The market added over 289,000 new customers in the third quarter, taking mobile penetration to 47.35 percent of the population. Orange leads the market with 3.188 million customers, up from 3.042 million in June, while Sentel, which has seen the government recently threaten to revoke its licence, ended September with 1.822 million users, up from 1.679 million in June.

Malware authors play Mario on Daily Mail website

We passed on a reader tip about a possible infection on DailyMail.co.uk to anti-virus firm Sophos, which confirmed that a strain of the Mario family of worms was being offered by an Israeli advertising network used by the Daily Mail.

Samsung overtakes Motorola in US mobile phone market

Samsung Electronics passed Motorola in the third quarter to became the leading mobile phone handset vendor in the United States, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Friday.

Samsung overtakes Motorola in U.S. market

Samsung Electronics passed Motorola in the third quarter to become the leading cellphone handset vendor in the United States, the research firm Strategy Analytics said Friday.

Shoppers defy the downturn blues to join Leona at 1.7 billion mall

Teeming throngs passed through the doors of the new Westfield centre, which spans 43 acres and nine London postcodes, to hear Leona Lewis perform

Newsweek: NSA classifies 'public' wiretap report

When Congress passed a landmark electronic-spying bill last summer, the measure included a key provision that ordered the inspectors general of U.S. intelligence agencies to produce the first-ever public report on President Bush's warrantless-surveillance program.

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