South Africa's International Relations Department said the Chief of State Protocol, Bruce Koloane, had been placed on suspension while an investigation took place.
In February, the heads of China's three state-controlled oil and gas majors -- China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) -- met one of Russia's most influential players in the energy sector, Igor Sechin, chief executive of state-owned oil company Rosneft.
Hickenlooper appointed Clements as chief of the state's prison system in January 2011, according to Clements' online state biography.
Olson named Carey McWilliams, a Los Angeles attorney, writer, and reporter, as his chief of the California State Division of Immigration and Housing.
His assistant in Connecticut, where he is the emeritus chief of the state police, wrote in an e-mail that Lee is out of the country lecturing until June and unreachable for comment.
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Then last month the chief of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, a division of the central bank, removed any ambiguity when he stated that China would make the renminbi convertible on the capital account in five years.
In Alabama, Mr Pryor ordered the removal of the chief justice of the state's Supreme Court for not complying with a court order to get rid of a Ten Commandments monument he had installed in the lobby of the state's courthouse.
In the same article Winerip refers to the Council of Chief State School Officers and the American Association of School Administrators.
Common Core grew from an effort by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to create a list of college- and career-ready skills that students should possess before high-school graduation.
Saturday's protest, organised by campaign group Kesri Lehar, aimed to draw attention to the fate of Bulwant Singh Rajoana, who was sentenced to death in 2007 for his role in the 1995 assassination of Beant Singh, the chief minister of Punjab state, in India.
An initial report by the Press Trust of India which was later corrected, cited the main reason for the investigation to be the link between the developer and associates of Madhu Koda, former chief minister of the state of Jharkhand, who was arrested Dec. 1 on corruption charges.
This gives urgency to an effort already under way: the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) are in the midst of drafting common standards.
In Gujarat, the emergence of BJP leader Narendra Modi - who recently won a fourth successive term as chief minister of the state - as a potential prime ministerial candidate appears imminent.
One of them, the deputy chief minister of the Malaysian state of Penang, was recognised as the guest of honour at one of the smaller sessions.
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In 2011 Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state, visited China to drum up investment.
First, this trip is paid for entirely by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Pearson Foundation.
The UK's high commissioner in India has met Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state, ending a 10-year boycott of the controversial leader.
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Bhagwati Prasad, the chief justice of Jharkhand state until retiring from the bench in 2011, said that judges, like anyone, are influenced by their social conditioning.
The chief minister of this state, Dr J Jayalalitha, is a big-time - albeit retired - film actress, who is as unpredictable as she is shrewd.
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She has been chief minister of that state for nearly a year, and makes a sport of blocking any reforms she considers bad for the poor.
The present chief minister of the state, J Jayalalitha, was once a star actress and her mentor MG Ramachandran, who also ruled the state, was a stage actor turned movie star.
He resigned as chief minister of Selangor state in 1997, after being arrested at Brisbane airport in Australia for failing to declare a suitcase of money he had with him.
John Dingell and Sander Levin, both Michigan Democrats, asked the chief executive of the state's Blue Cross affiliate to provide details about the company's recently approved premium hikes and its top executives' pay.
The fund-management industry, with trillions of dollars of other people's money in its care, has seen surprisingly little fraud, points out Alan Brown, global chief investment officer of State Street, an American fund-management firm.
Both Ms Banerjee and Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar state, model themselves as champions of federalism, but have had no "qualms in using central intervention powers to suit the interest of their respective parties", observes Mr Kailash.
He said too much power was still in the hands of the chief constable and the secretary of state.
And I think it's a reflection of that experience as chief executives in each of your state that makes you able to work together so effectively in this organization.
The IMF highlights several areas of concern, chief among them the parlous state of Iraq's budget.
James MacPhee is the president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, as well as chief executive of tiny Kalamazoo County State Bank in Schoolcraft, Mich.
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