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TAFE Western, in western New South Wales, says it is not experiencing a teacher shortage, despite advertising new positions.
The acting director of TAFE Western, Kate Baxter, says it is looking for new teachers as a pre-emptive measure in case there is an increase in enrolments later in the year.
Ms Baxter says it is looking for [...]

Amsterdam (Netherlands)/ Trivandrum (Kerala), Sep 14 (ANI/Business Wire India): SunTec, the leading provider of convergent transaction pricing and billing solutions for the Communication, Media and Entertainment industry, has partnered with [...]

London, September 11 (ANI): A leading British doctor is in full support of the BMA’s call to ban alcohol advertising, as he feels that such publicity campaigns do have damaging effects on young people.

“(It is) a logical recommendation to attempt to reverse the all embracing pro-alcohol culture that [...]

Washington, Aug. 28 (ANI): Americans are more sceptical about President Barack Obama’s health care reform than they were about Bill Clinton’s health care proposals in 1994, a survey conducted by a Republican polling firm has found.

Thirty seven percent of Americans are opposed to the Obama plan compared [...]

London, Aug 26 (ANI): A provocative television commercial by PETA that makes a satirical comparison with teen sex in order to promote the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats who face an uncertain future in severely crowded animal shelters has been banned [...]

Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): By 2015, at least 2.1 million people will die each year because of tobacco-induced cancers, revealed The Tobacco Atlas, Third Edition.

Published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, the Atlas has estimated that tobacco use kills some six million people each year (more than a third of whom will [...]

London, Aug 25 (ANI/Business Wire India): Pressmart, a leading provider of multi-channel news publishing services, today announced the availability of eEditions compatible for reading on eReader devices like Kindle and Sony.

This unique technology enables news publishers to attract new subscribers who wish to read news and [...]

London, Aug.24 (ANI): England’s Ashes-winning cricketers are now hot commercial properties.

According to John Taylor, chairman of Sports Impact, a leading consultancy, “Brands want to be associated with winners and the whole country will see England’s cricketers in that category again now.”

When England won the Ashes in 2005, the stars were Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen. [...]

Melbourne, Aug 21 (ANI): The Aussie Government is said to have decided not to take any action on banning raunchy music videos and sexual images that have been described as being too sexually explicit for children.

A Senate committee wanted stricter advertising controls [...]

Washington, Aug 21 (ANI): A new US study has revealed that ads for beer, spirits and ‘alcopop’ are frequently aired when more teens were watching television.

This is the first study to demonstrate an association between ad placement and teen cable TV viewership.

“Alcohol advertisers have pledged to avoid audiences [...]

London, July 15 (ANI): Simon Cowell is in talks to sign a 100million pounds-a-year ‘American Idol’ contract, which could make him the highest paid star in TV history.

By sealing the US deal with Fox, Cowell will quadruple his current 25million pounds a year, which means that he would rake in a whopping 2.2million pounds an [...]

New Delhi, July 13 (ANI/Business Wire India): Mint, HT Media Ltd’s business daily in an exclusive content partnership with The Wall Street Journal, is now national.

With the launch of the Chennai edition on July 13, Mint now has a national footprint that includes New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chandigarh and Pune.

With an introductory [...]

Melbourne, Jul 1 (ANI): Air New Zealand has come up with a novel way to get their passengers to pay attention to safety instructions – by having their flight attendants read them out wearing only body paint.

In the video, the [...]

Washington, July 1 (ANI): A print advertisement of Burger King’s sandwich in Singapore has come under fire because of its “distasteful” and unappetizing references to oral sex.

The ad for the “BK Super Seven Incher” shows the “mind-blowing” sandwich near the open mouth of a [...]

Melbourne, June 25 (ANI): Owing to a rather ‘ironical’ ad campaign, an Amsterdam hotel, which claimed to be ‘the worst hotel in the world’, has become a huge hit with travellers in the city.

The campaign, by advertising agency KesselsKramer, paints the Hans Brinker budget hotel in Amsterdam as dirty, uncomfortable and lacking basic necessities [...]

London, June 21 (ANI): British Grand Prix racer Jenson Button’s girlfriend Jessica Michibata has revealed that the part of his body which she likes the most is his lips.

“He’s an amazing boyfriend as well as a great driver. The part of his body I like the most is his lips. They are gorgeous and I [...]

London, June 21 (ANI): An imminent departure of Cristiano Ronaldo has thrown Manchester United’s Asian tour into chaos, as some of the fans in the Far East have even asked for their money back.

Manchaster United is due to play in Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and China next month in lucrative pre-season friendlies.

But, the 80-million-pound-man Ronaldo, [...]

Islamabad, June 20 (ANI): The Pakistan People’s Party government has finally set up a complete infrastructure to monitor private channels in the country and have hired a private company for this purpose.

Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has confirmed that it was after the government’s nod that Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) hired [...]

Washington, June 19 (ANI): Being heavily focused on keeping up appearance might serve as a successful “advertisement” for attracting mates, however, in some species, like stickleback fish, it’s the caring ones who score.

Yale scientists theorize that when males must provide care for the survival of their offspring, the males’ signals will consistently be honest – [...]

London, May 29 (ANI): Lingerie fashion model Natalie Suliman is the mystery face behind UK fashion brand Marks and Spencer lingerie billboard campaign.

The 23-year-old stunner said when she first saw herself on the billboards she nearly crashed her car.

“I nearly crashed [...]