China: Hong Kong: Government portal due for upgrade
The government is planning a revamp of its electronic government portal in a bid to boost online access to public services through a more "customer-oriented" website.
Bahrain to process work permits within 48 hours
Similarly, labour and occupational labour complaints will also be processed within 48 hours, Assistant Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Shaikh Abdulrahman bin Abdulla Al Khalifa has said.
Estonia pulls off nationwide Net voting
Estonia--which has a population of roughly 1.4 million and is geographically about the size of New Hampshire and Vermont combined--counted a total of about half a million votes in its local government council elections, according to preliminary numbers on the Estonian National Electoral Committee's Web site. Roughly 6,000 of those votes were cast online, according to preliminary town-level tallies posted at the site.