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SINGAPORE Nike Air VaporMax Red Mens , Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Singapore government will build 45 new childcare centers across the island in 2014, Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing said Thursday.

This does not include the private centers that may come on board this year.

The government has been trying to increase the supply of quality childcare services for the households.

Chan said the government is "on track" to meeting its target of 20,000 more places by 2017, or enough places for one in two children.

It is paying particular attention to Punggol and Sengkang where there are many young families with children.

In Punggol, where there are 30 centers Nike VaporMax Flyknit Mens Sale , some 17 centers will be built by end-2017. In neighboring Sengkang, which has 73 centers, another 19 are expected to be built by the end of 2017.

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NEW DELHI, July 1 (Xinhua) -- India early Saturday rolled out its biggest ever tax reform in its 70-year history after achieving independence from British rule in 1947.

The new tax regime known as Goods and Services Tax (GST) replaces more than a dozen state and federal levies to unify an economy of 2 trillion U.S dollars and 1.3 billion people into a single market.

"GST would lead to a modern tax administration which is simpler, more transparent Cheap Nike VaporMax Flyknit Mens , and helps curb corruption," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address ahead of launching GST said.

GST is a comprehensive indirect tax on manufacture, sale and consumption of goods and services across India, replacing existing indirect taxes levied by the federal and state governments. It is a destination-based, value added taxation system proposed as dual levy.

Prior to implementation of GST there was no uniformity on tax across India as duties and fees were levied at different rates across India's different states.

"The new law will bring a uniformity of taxes - one country Nike VaporMax Flyknit Mens , one tax - and it is expected to make things easier for doing business among different states," said Imtiaz Ahmad, a tax consultant. "States will now be bound to levy tax as per federal directive, for the new law has ended the state's fiscal autonomy."

With the implementation of new tax regime all goods and services will be placed in four basic rates - 5 percent (for essential items), 12 percent and 18 percent (for Standard goods and services) and 28 percent (for luxury and sin tax items). Most agricultural and food products will attract zero percent tax.

Each product will now attract a single tax rate across India.

Experts say the GST will improve India's gross domestic product growth.

Modi Cheap Nike Vapormax Off White Mens , during his recent visit to the United States, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that a "unified, continent-sized" Indian market would make it much easier for foreign businesses to invest.

GST was first proposed in 2003, but the idea could not take off in wake of stiff opposition from opposition parties. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Modi before coming to power were sharply opposing the GST.

Although the tax reform will have a long term benefit, however Nike Vapormax Off White Mens Sale , the rollout at present seems to be in disarray.

With opposition from political parties outside government, the business community says it was not given enough time to prepare for the new change and comply with the new system.

"So far none from sales tax office has come to us to make us aware about this GST ," Rakesh Shukla, a stationary shop owner at New Delhi's Gautam Nagar said. "What I understand is this new law will increase the paperwork, which is highly irritable for all the businessmen."

Even there are unfounded assertions that the prices of goods would increase.

"For filing the returns and to get acquainted with new system Nike Vapormax Off White Mens , I have to hire services of an accountant and save every paper slip," said Shukla. "Last year it was the ghost of demonetization and this year it's GST. I fail to understand why this government doesn't plan things properly."

But the new law has not been implemented in Indian-controlled Kashmir. where the local government is struggling hard to get opposition parties and other stakeholders on board.

Traders in Muslim majority areas of the region on Saturday observed a daylong strike to oppose GST.

Police have detained a trade leader along with his dozen supporters in Srinagar for leading a protest demonstration against GST in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The traders feel implementation of GST will erode the financial and political autonomy of the restive region.

Meanwhile, India's former finance minister P Chidambaram Saturday said GST would put a burden on the common men and hugely affect small, medium and micro businesses and entrepreneurs, besides being inflationary with multiple rates.

"There will be inflation. What is the government going to do about it?" Chidambaram said. "Small Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Black Mens , medium and micro scale entrepreneurs and traders will be affected in a big way because they are not ready for the roll out of the new law."

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BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Beijing has promised to deliver an "athletes-centered, sustainable and economical" Winter Olympic Games if it wins the right to host the 2022 Games.

Beijing on Tuesday submitted its 2022 Winter Olympic Games official bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne Nike Air VaporMax Black Mens Sale , Switzerland.

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