The issue of BP's preparedness is sure to be a prime topic at the hearing, according to Senate staffers.

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Calls to make Singapore more conducive to bigger families had been echoing through the island since Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong brought the topic up yet again in his National Day Rally message in late August.

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This was a topic of extensive discussion between myself and Prime Minister Noda.

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And if I may, sir, on an unrelated topic, if I could get your reaction to Prime Minister Netanyahu's comment that the P5-plus-1 had given Iran a freebie with this additional time.

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Japan has been perhaps the most popular equity market topic in the past six months, ever since current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came back with a vengeance, bringing with him promises of unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus to get the Japanese market back on its feet.

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When the British Prime Minister got together with Continental leaders, Mr Amis wondered, was this topic part of "the European conversation"?

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The Russian-Belarusian nuclear power plant project, estimated to have a capacity of 2.4 gigawatts (GW) and set to be commissioned in 2018, has been a controversial topic given that the project was signed between Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the midst of the Japanese nuclear disaster.

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