New Thai economic adviser quits
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A newly-appointed Thai economics chief resigns after protests over his links to the former prime minister.
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Northern Rock chief executive Adam Applegarth resigns from his job at the housebuilder Persimmon.
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President Bush's top economic adviser is leaving his post to return to academia, the White House announced Wednesday.
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Japan's farm minister resigned on Monday over illegal dealings at a farmers' group he headed, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet.
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Japan's agriculture minister resigned Monday only a week after his appointment because of a scandal involving misuse of farm subsidies, the fourth Cabinet minister to step down in the past year.
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The president of the Manila-based Asian Development Bank on Tuesday announced his resignation from the multilateral bank, effective next year.
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Thailand's deposed premier resigned from his once all-powerful party in a letter faxed from London on Tuesday, after more than 200 colleagues quit the organization in the wake of a military coup.
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Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas resigned Monday in a procedural move as the country's new parliament convened for the first time, the presidential information bureau said.
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Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra quit as head of the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party on Tuesday, signaling the de facto collapse of a political machine that had dominated the country until last month's coup.
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Ukraine's Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk resigns after a power struggle with PM Viktor Yanukovych.
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The Thai opposition leader quits as Thaksin Shinawatra's party looks set to win enough votes to rule alone.
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Japan's agriculture minister resigns after only a week in office, in another blow for PM Shinzo Abe.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy, who had offered to quit over a controversial cabinet reshuffle, submitted his resignation Wednesday.
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Pakistan&#39;s interim Prime Minister Chaudhry Shaujaat Hussain has announced his resignation, paving the way for his successor Shauket Aziz.
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Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, quits amid reports of growing differences with the president.
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BUDAPEST Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy resigned Thursday after a key member of Hungary&#39;s governing coalition said it no longer believed he was the right person to run the country.
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NAIROBI -- Kenya's top anticorruption official quit yesterday, dealing the biggest blow so far to President Mwai Kibaki's election pledge to root out public corruption hobbling East Africa's largest economy.