"Once I gave a lecture to leaders at a government bureau, " Mr. Yang recalls.
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The government said Federal Bureau of Investigation agents use GPS tracking devices in thousands of investigations each year.
The court rejected a challenge to an earlier ruling allowing him to sue the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) over his treatment.
Prime Minister John Key apologised after an official report into the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) surveillance of Mr Dotcom and his involvement with Megaupload.
It's the equivalent of the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics deciding to formally compete with Wall Street firms and other private entities that do economic analyses and research, or of the U.S. Postal Service using government money to drive UPS and FedEx out of business.
The Shanghai government partnered with the Bureau International des Expositions to build a massive 35, 000sqm World Expo Museum.
The law firm was turned down flat by the government's trademark bureau.
Other major Federal institutions to be severely affected by a government shutdown include the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
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Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, of the government's National Cyber Bureau, said hackers had mostly failed to shut down key sites.
Other U.S. government agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are dumping Blackberries for iPhones.
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Mr. Anjum Pervaiz, Provincial Director of USAID Teacher Education Programme, Mr. Javed Soz, Executive Director, Sindh Community Foundation and Mr. Abdul Majeed Bhurt, Director, Bureau of Curriculum, Government of Sindh.
With the support of teachers, all 102 of the school's seminarians went from their campus on the dusty industrial outskirts of Hebei province's capital to the downtown office of the government's religious-affairs bureau.
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These problems had been known about for some time, but two devastating reports, one from the Parliamentary Ombudsman, the other from the Citizens' Advice Bureau, forced the government to acknowledge that all was not well.
The government called in America's Federal Bureau of Investigation.
There was a secret deciphering office in London, a successor to the Post Office's foreign letter office, and another code-breaking unit in the Admiralty, both of which cracked Napoleon's codes, as did the bureau noir attached to every European government (though the Austrians reckoned their best intelligence came from the emperor's pillow talk).
The first Univac customer was actually a government entity, the U.S. Census Bureau.
The whole point of the creation of the bureau was to consolidate authorities scattered across government to create real accountability.
The bureau's summary reiterates a local government assertion last year that Johnson Controls had used more lead in its manufacturing than was allowed by a local quota.
Public choice theory explains the incentives and behavior of the tens of thousands of government employees who work in the bowels of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Treasury, Office of Management and Budget, Economics and Statistics Administration, and countless other agencies who generate and massage spreadsheets day in and day out.
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In September, the government ordered India's top federal investigation agency Central Bureau of Investigation to probe a series of attacks on rhinos by suspected poachers during last year's floods in the state.
There is lots of government work and most of the operations of the federal Bureau of Public Debt, which does the actual borrowing of the money requested by Washington, are done in Parkersburg.
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That is the conclusion of new research I have just completed based on an analysis of state taxes, spending and debt policies and their economic consequences based on data provided by the Tax Foundation, Sales Tax Institute, U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. government.
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In recent years, the U.S. government has assigned a private-sector organization, the National Bureau of Economic Research, to determine when the economy is contracting.
He came to our New York bureau to talk about one area of reform that his government has undertaken, reforming the police.
The bureau is already receiving complaints but is directing them to other government agencies.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation became involved in the case after the Singapore government asked it to review evidence.
Under this proposal any early expenditures by government would be quickly recouped from bond issuance registration fees, and the Bureau will be self-sustaining.
Irina Bokova underlined the willingness of UNESCO and its Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, based in Bangkok, to support the Government in meeting its objectives.
Five of these, including projects at the Veteran Health Administration and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, have been nominated for the 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award.
Not long ago, the great economist Milton Friedman (a right-leaning libertarian) touted the virtues of a divided government to my left-leaning colleague, Quentin Hardy, the Forbes Silicon Valley Bureau chief.
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