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Unstable ICT Industry Main Reason For HR Shortage (BruDirect.com) - Bandar Seri Begawan - Uncertainties in Brunei's information communications technology (ICT) industry is one of the main factors why the Sultanate is facing difficulties to attract local and foreign ICT human resources, said Universiti Brunei Darussalam's ICT Centre director here yesterday.

Industry official: Fire deliberately set (The Beaver County Times) - INDUSTRY — A fire that destroyed a concession stand at Industry’s municipal park has been ruled an arson.

Scotland’s tourism industry ‘hampered by lack of trained chefs’ (Sunday Herald) - of trained chefs is threatening the growth of Scotland's hospitality trade, a leading industry figure has claimed.

Vindictive policies will hurt the steel industry (Deccan Herald) - The Government is threatening to impose several controls on steel industry in a bid to curb inflation. N N Sachitanand explains why the Centre's action is unwarranted.

Government cracks down on credit card industry practices (AP via Yahoo! News) - The Federal Reserve and other regulators are moving Friday to crack down on "unfair and deceptive" practices in the credit card industry that have added billions in debt to people already struggling to cope with the economic downturn.

LIC`s poor show drags industry growth (Business Standard India) - The PSU's first premium income rose only 6 per cent during 2007-08. A poor show by the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) – in fact, the worst in nearly a decade — slowed down sales for the life insurance industry.

Liquor Industry Ad Uses Lindsay Lohan's Mugshot (Fox News) - Lindsay Lohan, who has been in and out of rehab, was prominently featured Friday in a political ad paid for by a liquor industry group

Md. seeks federal assistance for crab industry (Baltimore Sun) - O'Malley seeks U.S. aid to provide jobs for watermen while industry recovers Gov. Martin O'Malley has asked the U.S. commerce secretary to declare the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab fishery a federal disaster, a move officials hope will generate $15 million to create jobs for watermen.

Sex changes everything; Government crackdown on exploitation another example of an industry facing major changes (Barrie Examiner) - The sexual landscape has changed a lot since "Claudia" was a stripper. The whole sex industry is in flux, with illegal massage parlours popping up regularly and escort agencies becoming more in vogue, not to mention the rise in Internet porn. But it was the introduction of [...]

Fed Moves to Crack Down on Credit Industry (Fox News) - The government is proposing the most far-reaching crackdown of "unfair" credit industry practices in decades.