As an index of political energy, the first day of the fourth annual session did nothing to counter the feeling that South Africa's parliament is losing its fizz.
Since the CPPCC's annual session began on 3 March, about one-tenth of roughly 5, 000 proposals submitted concern environmental protection, including plans to tackle severely polluted groundwater, China Daily reports.
For starters, the global economy seems to have become so unpredictable that the organisers ditched one of the forum's big opening events, the annual session making an economic forecast for the year ahead.
The second event, hosted by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations during the annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women, focused on effective prevention and responses to intimate partner violence.
The trend of surging prices this year has been controlled, said Yao Jingyuan, the former chief economist with the National Bureau of Statistics, during the annual session of the China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce held on Thursday in Shenzhen.
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Just a week earlier, India's ruling Congress Party was in Jaipur too, for its annual brainstorming session.
Such incidents have thrust the environment onto the agenda of this year's National People's Congress, China's annual legislative meeting in session in Beijing.
After much stonewalling by the Sudanese government, the UN's fact-finders were finally allowed into Darfur last month, but human-rights groups claimed that this timing was merely intended to blunt criticism of Sudan by the Commission on Human Rights during its recently ended annual six-week session.
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This was a topic of a session at the annual conference of the Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy ( ARPA-E).
Considering the inter-session data, the annual appreciation was a mere 1.15 percent when market expectations are for the currency to gain by around 5 percent.
BIO's annual conference usually features a crowded session on patent law.
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And the Education Committee (at 9.30am) has a session on the 2012 Ofsted Annual Report, with Sir Michael Wilshaw, HM Chief Inspector, .
The BMA has been campaigning against sunbed use since 2003, arguing that just one session a month doubled the average individual's annual dose of UV radiation.
The Eagles arrived in the country last Tuesday to prepare for the annual clash but prop George Rose missed the tourists' first training session with gastric problems and a number of other players, including Shane Rodney and Glenn Stewart, also fell ill.
The leaders were taking part in a session called Africa: From Transition to Transformation, at the annual gathering of economic, business and political leaders at the ski resort of Davos in Switzerland.
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