In 2000, KPMG were commissioned by the British Government to produce a report on the offshore financial industry generally, and the report indicated that nearly 41 % of the offshore companies in the world were formed in the British Virgin Islands.

A recent ( October 2000 ) KPMG report titled " Review of Financial Regulation in the Caribbean Overseas Territories and Bermuda " states that the island's legislative framework is not compliant with international standards, giving evidence of Bermuda's commitment to the facilitation of money laundering and other financial crimes.

For example, in response to the KPMG October 2000 report on the UK's Caribbean overseas territories, Bermuda enacted the Trust ( Regulation of Trust Business ) Act 2001.

* On April 19, 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission “ announced that KPMG LLP has agreed to settle the SEC's charges against it in connection with the audits of Xerox Corp. from 1997 through 2000 .” As part of the settlement, KPMG paid a fine totaling $ 22. 475 million.

* On April 19, 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced “ that KPMG LLP has agreed to settle the SEC's charges against it in connection with the audits of Xerox Corp. from 1997 through 2000.

In February 2000, KPMG were appointed as provisional liquidators of Airdrieonians.

For example, the creation of argon fluorohydride ( HArF ), a marginally stable compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen, was reported by researchers at the University of Helsinki in 2000.

* In November 2000, nuclear spin temperatures below 100 pK were reported for an experiment at the Helsinki University of Technology's Low Temperature Lab.

In the 2000 Census, 11, 941 people reported they were of Aleut ancestry ; nearly 17, 000 said Aleuts were among their ancestors.

The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency.

The Congressional Budget Office reported budget surpluses of $ 69 billion in 1998, $ 126 billion in 1999, and $ 236 billion in 2000, during the last three years of Clinton's presidency.

During the 1990s, the first peak was measured with increasing sensitivity and by 2000 the BOOMERanG experiment reported that the highest power fluctuations occur at scales of approximately one degree.

In February of 2012, it was reported in Turkish newspapers that another Syriac manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas had been found in Cyprus in 2000, in an operation conducted by police against smugglers ; and, having been kept in a police repository since then, had been deposited in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara.

A 1942 eyewitness description spoke of " a low grove of dead and decaying kou trees " on a very shallow hill at the island's center, but 58 years later ( 2000 ) a visitor accompanying a scientific expedition reported seeing " a flat bulldozed plain of coral sand, without a single tree " and some traces of building ruins.

By 2000, the beacon was reported to be crumbling and it had not been painted in decades.

The number of reported murders rose 80 % from 136 in 2000 to 245 in 2001.

A series of support poles and stanchions were inserted to give extra stability to the top tier of the stand after movement of the tier was reported at the start of the 1999 – 2000 season.

( Winner, Hetland, Sanni, as reported in The Arts and Academic Achievement-What the Evidence Shows, 2000 ) However recent findings by Dr. Levitin of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, undermines the suggested connection between musical ability and higher math skills.

The Maasai population has been reported as numbering 840, 000 in Kenya in the 2009 census, compared to 377, 000 in 1989 and 400, 000 in 2000.

Between 2000 and 2010, four out of ten households ( 41 %) reported having experience displacement: 29 % reported displacement caused by armed groups ’ movements, 9 % identified ridos ( blood feuds ), and 9 % identified other causes, such as economic displacement ( 3 %) or natural disasters ( 2 %).

The first stable compound of argon was reported in 2000 when argon fluorohydride ( HArF ) was formed at a temperature of.

North Korean press reported in 2000 that fiber-optic cable had been extended to the port of Nampho and that North Pyong ' an Province had been connected with fiber-optic cable.

According to the United States 2000 Census, 667, 414 Americans of age 5 years and over reported Polish as the language spoken at home, which is about 1. 4 % of people who speak languages other than English or 0. 25 % of the U. S. population.

The hot fusion reaction using a uranium target was first reported at Dubna in 2000:

In April 2000 it was reported in the Guardian that " Railtrack is adopting a deliberate ' culture of defiance ' against the rail regulator ".

The Colombian human rights organization CINEP reported that FARC-EP killed an estimated total of 496 civilians during 2000.

One report from the British Parliament, dated 2000, reported that Spain blocked the inclusion of Gibraltar Airport in the Single European Sky, meaning the whole package was suspended.

In 2000, British Intelligence reported that the ISI was taking an active role in several Al Qaeda training camps.

In an unrelated incident, reported in 2000, a girl's Tinky Winky toy reportedly said " I got a gun.

During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

Public demonstrations usually take place without government interference, though one rally in November 2000 by an opposition party was followed by the arrest and imprisonment for a month of its organizer.

In implementing its strategy to regain political dominance over post-Soviet countries by taking over their economic infrastructure, the Russian state, since 2000, has acquired several key assets in the energy sector and Soviet-era industrial plants.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

Despite its troubles, in 2000 Aon bought Reliance Group's accident and health insurance business, as well as Actuarial Sciences Associates, a compensation and employee benefits consulting company.

* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

According to the 2010 census, its population was 5, 145, a decrease of 17. 8 % from 6, 260 in 2000.

The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

After showing its first growth since the communist era in 2000, Bulgaria ’ s industrial sector has grown slowly but steadily in the early 2000s ( decade ).

Map showing the historical retreat and expansion of Basque within the context of its linguistic neighbors between the year 1000 and 2000

In 2000, Major League Baseball reversed its decision, ruling that the statistics which were recognized in each year's official records should stand, even in cases where they were later proven incorrect.

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

In 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( AZA ) upgraded the bongo to a Species Survival Plan ( SSP ) Participant and in 2006 named the Bongo Restoration to Mount Kenya Project to its list of the Top Ten Wildlife Conservation Success Stories of the year.

Cameroon's Marine Nationale République modernised and increased its capabilities during 2000 with the acquisition of a number of small Rodman patrol craft and the retirement of some small older craft.

From the year 2000 onward, Chile completely overhauled its criminal justice system ; a new, US-style adversarial system has been gradually implemented throughout the country with the final stage of implementation in the Santiago metropolitan region completed on June 9, 2001

While the 1990 constitution remains in force, it has been amended four times since its adoption — in 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2010.

Under its 1990 constitution, Croatia operated a semi-presidential system until 2000 when it switched to a parliamentary system.

* God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser ( 2000 ), a biography of Mary Baker Eddy and a history of the Christian Science church from its founding to the present day, with a detailed section on the " child cases " of the 1980s.

In 2000, the British publisher Gollancz Science Fiction issued a two-volume, complete edition of Howard's Conan stories as part of its Fantasy Masterworks imprint, which including several stories that had never seen print in their original form.

On 8 December 2000, the show celebrated its fortieth year by broadcasting a live, hour-long episode.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

In recent times, its teaching has been most notably expressed in the Vatican II council documents Unitatis Redintegratio ( 1964 ), Lumen Gentium ( 1964 ), Nostra aetate ( 1965 ), an encyclical issued by Pope John Paul II: Ut Unum Sint ( 1995 ), and in a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus in 2000.

Pope John Paul II on October 2, 2000 emphasized that this document did not say that non-Christians were actively denied salvation: "... this confession does not deny salvation to non-Christians, but points to its ultimate source in Christ, in whom man and God are united ".

Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledging company and served as chairman of the board for 18 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas who served as the last Chairman and CEO until its merger with HP.