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Korea should speed up job market and social protection reforms to strengthen inclusive growth

Korea’s economy has progressed rapidly over the past 40 years, catching up with the level of well-being in most OECD countries. It now needs to continue and speed up the reforms of its labour market in order to strengthen its social safety net, create better quality jobs and boost inclusive growth, according to a new OECD report.




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Korea making notable progress on fighting foreign bribery; further improvements needed, says OECD

Korea has improved its information and intelligence gathering capacity in foreign bribery cases, but should be more proactive in investigating allegations, according to a new OECD report.




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International Anti-Corruption Day Statement by Drago Kos, Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery

International Anti-Corruption Day provides us all with a unique opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made over the past year in the global fight against corruption, but also to think about the work that remains to be done in the years ahead.




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Statement by Drago Kos, Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, on the 20th anniversary of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Corruption facilitates some of the most important global threats of our time, such as terrorism, climate change and the refugee crisis. It’s vital that we ramp up our fight to contain this threat to our economies and societies.




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Education: Korea tops new OECD PISA survey of digital literacy

Korea tops a new OECD PISA survey that tests how 15-year olds use computers and the Internet to learn. The next best performers were New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong-Kong China and Iceland.




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Education: Korea should improve its vocational education programmes, says OECD

Korea should reform its vocational education and training programmes to ensure that students leave college with the skills and expertise that companies need in today’s rapidly changing labour market, according to a new OECD report.




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Education at a Glance 2012: Country Notes - Korea

Korea has reduced the share of individuals without upper secondary education while the proportion of tertiary-educated individuals increased rapidly over the past 14 years.




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Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education - Lessons from PISA for Korea

The story of Korean education over the past 50 years is one of remarkable growth and achievement. Korea is one of the top performing countries in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey and among those with the highest proportion of young people who have completed upper secondary and tertiary education.




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Singapore and Korea top OECD’s first PISA problem-solving test

Students from Singapore and Korea have performed best in the first OECD PISA assessment of creative problem-solving. Students in these countries are quick learners, highly inquisitive and able to solve unstructured problems in unfamiliar contexts.




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Korea: Promote inclusive growth through greater employer involvement in the employment and skills system, says OECD

Korea has made significant progress towards decentralising the management of employment and training programmes, but can still do more to create stronger links with employers at the local level, according to a new OECD report.




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Korea’s future prosperity depends on skills (OECD Education Today Blog)

The Korean economy has seen significant growth in the past decades. However, much of the economic growth has been supported by intensive labour resource utilisation. Korean workers work the second longest hours among OECD countries. This is not sustainable in the long-term because Korea’s working age population is projected to decline from 2017 onwards.




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Education Policy Outlook - Korea

This policy profile on education in Korea is part of the Education Policy Outlook series, which presents comparative analysis of education policies and reforms across OECD countries.




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Emily Ratajkowski goes braless and teases her fans (Photo)

Emily appears to be braless in the snap as she poses in what appears to be a delicate negligee. She gazes seductively into the camera in the snap.




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Korea: a strong national urban strategy could drive resilient economic growth

Korea has weathered the shocks triggered by the global recession and its economy is recovering more quickly and vigorously than most other OECD countries.




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Turkey: Supporting small business development in the province of Manisa - The role of KOSGEB

Many areas like Manisa suffer from a local lack of sophisticated demand in terms of expressed SME requirements. This leaves considerable scope for demand and supply side initiatives set within KOSGEB’s framework that will assist in shaping intervention and promoting a coherent approach to SME development.




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Korea: Promote inclusive growth through greater employer involvement in the employment and skills system, says OECD

Korea has made significant progress towards decentralising the management of employment and training programmes, but can still do more to create stronger links with employers at the local level, according to a new OECD report.




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Maersk CEO Soren Skou on surviving a cyber attack

After a stormy summer, the chief is shaking up the world’s biggest shipping company




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Jim Bankoff, Vox Media CEO, on moving into TV

In an industry obsessed with algorithms, the media boss is focusing on quality




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The Fast Lane: what you can learn from Bangkok

Your boss and possibly you have a completely outdated view of the Thai capital and need to give it a fresh look




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Coronavirus latest: China detects new cases near North Korean border







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Qantas plane on its way to Wuhan to rescue hundreds of Australians touches down in Hong Kong

A Qantas plane is en route to Wuhan to rescue some of the 600 Australians trapped in the Chinese city plagued by coronavirus. 




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Qantas suspends flights to Shanghai, cuts services to Hong Kong, Singapore over coronavirus

Qantas flights from Sydney to Shanghai will remain suspended until at least the end of May as the coronavirus claims more lives. Services to Hong Kong and Singapore will be reduced.




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Qantas cancels MORE flights including routes to Hong Kong and Auckland amid coronavirus fears

Qantas said on Friday it will cut more international flights this month including to Japan and New Zealand amid falling bookings because of coronavirus fears. 




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UFC star Niko Price suffers gruesome eye injury in defeat to Vincente Luque

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The Hybrid was felled in the third round and, with his eye noticeably swelling shut, the welterweight clash was called to a halt.




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South Dakota governor gives Native American tribes 48 hours to remove checkpoints on highways

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (bottom right) threatened legal action against the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes over checkpoints set up on roads leading to their reservations.




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The Branch Managar State Bank Of ... vs The Managing Director Nakoda ... on 21 January, 2020

>. Learned counsel for the appellants has also filed written notes of arguments and in reply a further written note of arguments has been filed by learned counsel for the respondent. The respondent, as an account holder in the State Bank of India (SBI), suffered a loss of Rs. 18,35 lakh through 20 internet transactions and the money was transferred to 20 accounts, all with the SBI. The account holder/complainant filed Petition No. 1 of 2013 before the leamed A.O./Secretary to Government, Information Technology, Electronics and Communications Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh. After hearing the parties in detail and taking into consideration the defence of the Bank, which is the appellants herein, and all the relevant documents, learned A.O. by the impugned order dated 12,3.2014 has allowed claim of the complainant who is respondent herein and directed SBI to pay the entire amount of Rs. 18.35 lakh with interest from the date of loss ie. 13.5.2012 till the date of payment along with the costs of Rs. 39,750.00. The rate of interest is 18% per annum. Admittedly, nothing has been paid by SBI so far.




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Abhiraj Associates Private ... vs Eastern Railways, Kolkata on 28 February, 2020

Case No. 37 of 2019 1

2. The Informant, a private limited company, is engaged in the business of export of stone aggregates/ boulders and has stated that it exports stone aggregates/ boulders through rakes allotted by OP. For allotment of rakes, the Informant places indent itself or through its consignor at respective railway sidings. The Informant also stated that OP follows quota system for dispatch of rakes. Under such a system, the Informant got rakes allotted to it at various sidings in Howrah and Malda Division of the Eastern Railways, which is OP in the present case.

3. The Informant alleges that from July 2019 onwards, OP stopped allotment of rakes to it and instead, the rakes were allotted to Orient Exports Pvt. Ltd. as per the directions of the Indian Railway Board contained in letter No. 2017/TT- III(M)/71/D/10/Quota dated 18.07.2019. The Informant claims that this decision was taken by Indian Railway Board as per the request of the Bangladesh Railway Board. The Informant has stated that non-allotment of rakes has impacted its goodwill amongst its customers as it is not being able to meet its prior commitments.




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Sefali Singh & Ors vs Kolkata Municipal Corporation & ... on 18 March, 2020

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She files affidavit of service to show copy of the application was served on Chief Law Officer, Legal Cell, Kolkata Municipal Corporation. It be kept with records.

The writ petition has been listed along with the application. Sum and substance of applicant's submission is that she fears being dispossessed. In that context Court has perused letter dated 14th June, 2018, written on behalf of petitioners and communication dated 18th July, 2018, impugned in the writ petition, appearing respectively at pages 67 and 71. It appears, by impugned communication, made in reference to said letter dated 14th June, 2018, assessee number of premises occupied by, inter alia, applicant, has been automatically cancelled on amalgamation of premises.




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Humayun Kobir vs The State Of Assam on 8 May, 2020

2. The Court proceedings have been conducted by means of creating a Virtual Court with the help of technology, so as to maintain distance between the staff, Advocates and the Presiding Judge.

3. I have heard Mr. S Munir, learned counsel for the applicant and Mr. NJ Dutta, learned Page No.# 2/3 Additional Public Prosecutor, Assam for the respondent.

4. I have gone through contents of the FIR. The applicant has been named as accused No.1 in the FIR and is stated to be aged 27 years.

5. The FIR has been registered at the instance of father of the victim to the effect that on 19.8.2019, at about 7-00 PM, the applicant took his minor daughter to his house by tempting her that he would get married to her and had sexual intercourse with her. The other accused thereupon got angry on seeing her and they abused her using abusive language, surrounded her, threatened her, pulled her with hair and drove her away.




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Ramdayal Rajak vs Eastern Railway (Kolkata) on 9 May, 2020

1. The appellant filed an application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) before the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), Eastern Railway, DRMO Howrah Division seeking information on two points, including,

a) To provide a copy of S.DPO/HWH Letter No. E/Engg/OC/Policy/Pt.IV/2nd Phase dated 31.07.2015, 07.08.2015, and,

b) To provide a copy of seniority list of Track Maintainer III and IV from 2007 to 2015.

2. The CPIO, vide reply dated 27.04.2020, provided requisite information to the appellant. The appellant filed a first appeal dated 24.04.2018 on the ground of no information furnished by the CPIO. The first appeal was not disposed of by the FAA. Thereafter, the appellant filed a second appeal u/Section 19(3) of the RTI Act before the Commission on the ground of non-receipt of information and requested the Commission to direct the CPIO to provide the information sought for.




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Debashis Dutta vs Eastern Railway (Kolkata) on 9 May, 2020

1. The appellant filed an application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) before the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), Eastern Railway, Sealdah Division, Kolkata seeking information on two points pertaining to his representation dated 31.05.2018, including,

a) Whether his aforesaid representation dated 31.05.2018 addressed to Sr. DOM/SDAH has been considered or disposed of, and

b) If disposed of, please serve a copy of the same at the earliest.

2. Having not received any response from the CPIO, the appellant filed a first appeal dated 25.07.2018. The first appeal was not disposed of by the FAA. Thereafter, the appellant filed a second appeal u/Section 19(3) of the RTI Act before the Commission on the ground that no information has been furnished by the respondent and requested the Commission to direct the CPIO to provide the information sought for and take appropriate legal action against the CPIO and the FAA.




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Prasenjit Mondal vs Eastern Railway (Kolkata) on 9 May, 2020

1. The appellant filed an application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) before the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), Eastern Railway, DRMO, Howrah Division seeking information on two points, including,

a) To provide a copy of S.DPO/HWH Letter No. E/Engg/OC/Policy/Pt.IV/2nd Phase dated 31.07.2015, 07.08.2015, and

b) To provide a copy of seniority list of Track Maintainer III and IV from 2006 to 2015.

2. The CPIO did not provide requisite information within stipulated period to the appellant. The appellant filed a first appeal dated 24.04.2018 on the ground of no information furnished by the CPIO. The first appeal was also not disposed of by the FAA. Thereafter, the appellant filed a second appeal u/Section 19(3) of the RTI Act before the Commission on the ground of non- receipt of information and requested the Commission to direct the CPIO to provide the information sought for.




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Bhaskar Roy vs Eastern Railway (Kolkata) on 9 May, 2020

1. The appellant filed an online application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) before the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), Eastern Railway, Kolkata seeking information regarding General Conditions to Contract applicable to the works (contracts) under Eastern Railways for the year 2000, 2003 and 2010-2018.

2. The CPIO, vide letter dated 13.07.2018, offered inspection to the appellant. Being dissatisfied, the appellant filed a first appeal dated 30.07.2018 requesting to provide the information sought for. FAA, vide order dated 28.08.2018, upheld the reply of CPIO. Thereafter, the appellant filed a second appeal u/Section 19(3) of the RTI Act before the Commission on the ground of incomplete information furnished by the CPIO and requested the Commission to direct the CPIO to provide complete information sought for and take appropriate legal action against the respondent.




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Anand Mishra vs Eastern Railway (Kolkata) on 9 May, 2020

1. The appellant filed an online application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) before the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), Eastern Railway, Kolkata seeking information on seven points regarding reduction of pension of the Pensioner Shri Ganesh Chandra Mishra with PPO No. 02101265992 including,

a) Reason for 75% reduction of Pension,

b) Whether any inquiry was held against the Pensioner due to which pension was reduced,

c) Copy of Notice issued to the pensioner informing him that he is subject to an inquiry,

d) Receipt of confirmation showing Notice received by the Pensioner,

e) Transcript of the inquiry and report of inquiry, if any, held against the pensioner,




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Pratik S/O. Rameshwar Kopulwar ... vs The State Of Maharashtra And Anr on 8 May, 2020

2. Since arguable points are made, the appeals are admitted.

3. By consent the appeals are taken up for final disposal. ::: Uploaded on - 08/05/2020 ::: Downloaded on - 09/05/2020 11:31:54 :::

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4. Both these appeals have been filed by the original accused in Crime No.03 of 2020 dated 08-01-2020, registered with Mahur Police Station District Nanded for the offences punishable under Section 143, 147, 148, 149, 506 of Indian Penal Code and under Section 3(1)(3), 3(1)(s) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 on the basis of the First Information Report lodged by present respondent No.2. These appeals have been filed as per the provisions of Section 14-A of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.




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BRITs 2020: Mollie King serves up beachy boho glamour in a kooky ruffled tangerine mini-dress

The former The Saturdays singer, 32, added fashionista to her credentials as she stepped out at the 2020 BRIT Awards at London's O2 Arena on Tuesday evening.




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Koenigsegg's new Gemera has four seats and the biggest scissor doors you've ever seen

The Swedish hypercar builder has coined it as the first 'Mega GT' car. It uses a plug-in hybrid powertrain packing 1,700bhp and can accelerate from standstill to 62mph in a mere 1.9 seconds.




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Grigory Rodchenkov dismisses allegations he acted as a medical adviser to Jessica Ennis-Hill

A journalist on an English-speaking Russian radio station made the extraordinary claim earlier this week and by Thursday it was gaining some traction on social media.




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Jonathan Kodjia ruled out for three weeks after Aston Villa striker sustains fractured cheekbone

Aston Villa will be without striker Jonathan Kodjia for up to three weeks after he sustained a fractured cheekbone in a training-ground collision.




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Canelo Alvarez will climb two weight divisions to light heavyweight to take on Sergey Kovalev

Alvarez, who currently holds titles at 160 pounds, will try to become a champion in his fourth weight class when he meets Kovalev in a scheduled 12-round fight at the MGM Grand.




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Mako Vunipola and Maro Itoje's future with Saracens up in the air with both yet to sign new deals

England stars Maro Itoje and Mako Vunipola are yet to commit to playing for Saracens in the Championship next season. Two French clubs have already expressed interest in Itoje.




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Emily Ratajkowski is a sheer summer goddess as she flashes her backside in thong swimwear 

Even though summer plans are being hampered due to the coronavirus pandemic, this model is still banking on the hopes that consumers will snatch up the gorgeous swimsuit looks she's selling.




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Khloe Kardashian elaborately toilet papers sister Kourtney's mansion amid worldwide shortage

Amid the worldwide toilet paper shortage, Khloé Kardashian plastered her older sister Kourtney's home with the highly sought-after paper good. 




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Kobe Bryant's daughter Natalia honors John Altobelli on his first birthday since helicopter crash

Kobe Bryant's daughter Natalia took to social media and honored the late coach John Altobelli on what would have been his first birthday since deadly helicopter crash in January.




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Scott Disick worried about kids after Kourtney Kardashian and sister Kim's explosive fist fight

'I'm trying to understand about Armenia because obviously it has to do with my children,' Scott Disick asked Kim Kardashian, ahead of her trip with sister Kourtney.




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Emily Ratajkowski puts on a leggy display in floral as she enjoys drive with Sebastian Bear-McClard

Emily recently told British GQ of quarantine with Sebastian: 'But my husband and I are in a good partnership. And I think that I've learned a lot about myself being married, for sure.'




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Elle and Dakota Fanning wear masks as they head out together in Los Angeles

They have been self-isolating together amid the coronavirus pandemic. And Dakota, 26, and Elle Fanning, 22, were glimpsed stepping out together in Los Angeles this Saturday.