Cutting Sunday rates for workers in the entertainment, hospitality and retail sectors, while retaining them for other industries like health care and emergency services, was one of the 46 recommendations unveiled in the productivity commission's draft report into workplace relations last month.
The breakdown in relations last month between Qatar and its neighbors Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt was the boiling point for a situation which has been simmering for years.
In addition to sending non-combat medical military personnel to Afghanistan and joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in 2010, Malaysia signaled a heightened interest in strengthening bilateral relations last month by elevating the relationship to a Comprehensive Partnership.
Yet relations between Hugo Chavez and Bush deteriorated to the point of breaking off diplomatic (but not economic) relations last September.
There has been a large increase in the number of Cubans trying to get to the US since the announcement of renewed diplomatic relations last December.
The United States and Cuba restored diplomatic relations last July, more than five decades after they cut diplomatic ties amid Cold War tensions in 1961.
For instance, even though the United States and Cuba formally reestablished diplomatic relations last July, Congress is dead-set against lifting the economic embargo against the island that has been in place since 1960 and that, according to an International Trade Commission study in 2001, costs the U.S. economy $1.2 billion a year (not to mention what it costs Cuba).
A beaming Mr. Li celebrated the restoration of diplomatic relations early this month in Indonesia and visited Singapore to prepare for the establishment of formal ties there within the next few months.
After a period of warmer relations since last November's Geneva summit, the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, spoke harshly this week of Mr. Reagan and United States aims, and tonight Mr. Reagan outlined an equally harsh view of the Soviet Union.
The company also announced that Frank Golden, its director of investor relations, left last month.
Because the two countries didn't maintain formal diplomatic relations until last month, neither of those missions has been headed by an ambassador in 54 years.
