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Kyu Won Shim

Britain Turns to Reckoning With Rioters as Cameron Faces Parliament - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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britain riot

shared by Kyu Won Shim on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Thursday that over 1,200 people had been arrested, the bulk of them in London.
  • Britain’s second-largest city, where the police and political leaders worried about a potentially explosive new pattern of interracial violence that could be set off by the past days and nights of mayhem
  • Three young men of Pakistani descent were killed in Birmingham on Tuesday night when a car crashed into a group of residents who had gathered to protect local businesses from attack
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  • Meanwhile, politicians braced for the fallout from the convulsion of violence as Prime Minister David Cameron faced the most severe crisis of his 15 months in office.
  • While many Britons had initially blamed the violence on unemployed youth, however, one surprise was the presence of young men and women with regular jobs among the riot suspects lined up in police wagons outside courthouses in London and other cities
  • Ahead of the emergency House of Commons session on Thursday, Mr. Cameron declared a “fightback” against what he condemned as the “groups of thugs” who had driven the riots
  • Kyu Won Shim on 11 Aug 11
     
    The riot in Britain is getting more serious, and a lot of people were injured or died.
Hye Rin Bae

Google says it would pay more tax in UK - Telegraph - 0 views

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UK google would be willing to pay higher taxes

shared by Hye Rin Bae on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Dr Eric Schmidt said Google would be willing to pay higher taxes.
  • The technology giant has come under heavy fire for using tax laws to avoid paying a more
  • The technology giant has come under heavy fire for using tax laws to avoid paying a more significant level of corporate tax in the past.
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  • tax in the past.
  • significant
  • level of
  • corporate
  • Mr Schmidt told the Edinburgh Television Festival yesterday that Google "loves" Britain and would pay more tax if it were legally required to do so. He said the company's hands were tied by Britain's low tax demands.
  • "It is true we could pay more tax but we would have to do so voluntarily. It's called paying the legally minimum amount of tax required," he said.
  • Mr Schmidt's comments come after months of
  • surrounding the UK's corporate tax system, which has seen campaign group UK
  • controversy
  • Uncut
  • target high street chains including Vodafone, Boots and Barclays.
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