In February 2008, the Malaysian government announced the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy plan to harvest the virgin hinterlands of Northern Borneo.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

The members of the P4 ( Chile, Singapore, New Zealand, and Brunei ) also plan to conclude a chapter on finance and investment in 2008.

Subsequent to the resolution of the dispute, the Gibraltar telephone numbering plan has been increased to eight digits for land lines, adding a prefix of 200 to the existing Gibtelecom five digit numbers which is required to be dialled from October 2008.

In June 2008, the Kiribati president Anote Tong said that the country has reached " the point of no return "; he added: " To plan for the day when you no longer have a country is indeed painful but I think we have to do that.

However the fund failed to meet the required target of £ 100, 000 by the end of December 2008, having received just over £ 33, 000 in pledges, and the plan was abandoned.

In order to further coordinate their efforts, in April 2008 the riparian countries which form the Niger Basin Authority adopted a Niger Basin Water Charta, a basin-wide 30-year investment plan and a 5-year priority investment plan.

The investigation portion of the response plan was completed with the release of the final report on 7 World Trade Center on November 20, 2008.

In August 2008 Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment appointed Deutsche Bahn of Germany to plan a railway network in Qatar.

In 2008, President David Leebron issued a ten point plan titled " Vision for the Second Century " outlining plans to increase research funding, strengthen existing programs, and increase collaboration.

The plan was first announced by the Samoan government in September 2007 and was confirmed on 18 April 2008 when Samoa's parliament passed the Road Transport Reform Act 2008.

The team members carried the Sealand flag in the 2007 DI Global Finals Opening Ceremony and plan to do so again at the 2008 event.

On April 11, 2008 the Trinitrain consortium announced it would plan and build 105 km two line Trinidad Rapid Railway.

The email stated that Sony would adopt a Windows Media format ; this plan was to be completed by March 2008, affecting customers and their Walkmans in the North American and European regions.

Most testing done now in 2009 will be for the 2008 plan year and compare employees ' 2007 plan year gross compensation to the $ 100, 000 threshold for 2007 to determine who is HCE and who is a NHCE.

In recent years, there has been a comprehensive effort on behalf of the City Hall to boost road infrastructure and according to the general development plan, 2, 000 roads have been repaired by 2008.

In an internal e-mail apparently sent August 18, 2008 to NASA managers and leaked to the press, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stated his belief that the Bush administration had made no viable plan for U. S. crews to participate in the International Space Station beyond 2011, and that Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) were actually seeking its demise.

The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d ' ar brezhoneg on 24 January 2008.

On 11 September 2008, BBC Radio Four's Document programme claimed to have unearthed a secret plan – codenamed Doomsday – which proposed to cut all of the United Kingdom's constitutional ties with Northern Ireland and transform the province into an independent dominion.

Auguste Perret ( 1874 – 1954 ), a formative architect-turned-town-planner was commissioned to oversee the reconstruction of the city centre and town plan in January 1945 by Raoul Dautry of the MRU ( Kuhl, Lowis & Thiel-Siling 2008, p. 61 ).

The NeXT scheme ( 2006 – 2008 ) was the recovery plan for France Telecom which aimed at, among other things, reducing costs, especially wage costs, carrying on a converging policy for its products and services, and grouping together all the brands under a unique one ( Orange ), except for the activities dealing with fixed line telephone which would stay under the designation France Telecom.

* 2008 Chinese economic stimulus plan

Armenia's national debt has increased significantly since 2008 when public external debt consisted of only 13. 5 percent of GDP.

Even in the last pre-crisis year, 2008, the Bulgarian economy was growing rapidly at 6. 0 %, despite significantly slowing down in the last quarter.

Internet penetration has been rising significantly over the past few years: the ratio of households having an internet connection has risen from 22. 1 % ( 49 % of which was broadband ) in 2005 to 48. 4 % ( 87. 3 % of which was broadband ) in 2008.

Windows Server 2008 builds on the technological and security advances first introduced with Windows Vista, and is significantly more modular than its predecessor, Windows Server 2003.

Most foreign and domestic corporate debt indices also suffered in 2008, posting losses significantly worse than the average hedge fund.

In 2008, the suppliers of the custom fuel failed to tender for a renewal of the transit agency's contract, leading to a negotiated contract at a significantly increased cost.

The hypothesis was significantly expanded in the 1960s by Soviet linguists, notably Vladislav Illich-Svitych and Aharon Dolgopolsky, termed the " Moscovite school " by Bomhard ( 2008 ), and it has received renewed attention in English-speaking academia since the 1990s.

Both exports and imports of fish and sea products grew significantly in the recent years, reaching correspondingly $ 2, 415 and $ 2, 036 millions in 2008.

In addition, the Albers EDGE program ( Education for Global Executives ) was honored in 2008 as the only academic institution to receive the President's " E " Award, which recognizes persons, firms, or organizations that contribute significantly in the effort to increase United States exports.

In 2008, inflation was tracking at 20. 3 % for the first half of the year, higher than the 3. 4 % in 2000, but down significantly from 160 % in 1988.

During Putin's first premiership and presidency ( 1999 – 2008 ), real incomes increased by a factor of 2. 5, real wages more than tripled ; unemployment and poverty more than halved and the Russians ' self-assessed life satisfaction rose significantly.

In October 2008, " An updated lifecycle assessment study for disposable and reusable nappies " by the UK Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs stated that reusable diapers can cause significantly less ( up to 40 per cent ) or significantly more damage to the environment than disposable ones, depending mostly on how parents wash and dry them.

Attendance at the pride parades has been increasing significantly since 2008, with an estimated participation of 3, 500 people in Delhi and 1, 500 people in Bangalore in 2010.

In 2008, the team at GANIL, France, described the results from a new technique which attempts to measure the fission half-life of a compound nucleus at high excitation energy, since the yields are significantly higher than from neutron evaporation channels.

According to Sendall ( 2008 ), blogs, wikis, and social networking skills are found to be significantly useful in the classroom.

But in June 2008 a series of heavy rains led to flooding of the Chariton, and more significantly, left flash flood waters of Spring Creek and Davis Creek to back up from the river into Novinger.

In September 2008, the DØ collaboration reported detection of the, a " double strange " Omega baryon with the measured mass significantly higher than the quark model prediction.

Mill operating margins have been significantly affected in the 2006 – 2008 time-frame by rising energy costs.

Finally, in 2008, a spectroscopic measurement gave a significantly lower value of 46 %.

A phylogeographic study in 2008 of 1150 volunteer Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups appeared to support the idea that the number of forced conversions has been significantly underestimated, as 20 % of the tested Iberian population had haplogroups consistent with Sephardic ancestry.

In December 2008, NS & I dropped significantly the interest rate ( and therefore the odds of investors winning a prize ) due to the corresponding significant drop in the Bank of England base rate during the " credit crunch ", leading to strong criticism from Members of Parliament, financial experts, and holders of premium bonds ; many claimed that Premium Bonds were now " worthless ", and somebody with the maximum £ 30, 000 invested who has " average luck " would win only 10 prizes per year compared to 15 in the previous year.

Slow progress in UWB standards development, the cost of initial implementation, and performance significantly lower than initially expected are several reasons for the limited use of UWB in consumer products ( which caused several UWB vendors to cease operations in 2008 and 2009 ).

For a general idea on how an empowered women can impact a situation monetarily, a study found that of fortune 500 companies, “ those with more women board directors had significantly higher financial returns, including 53 percent higher returns on equity, 24 percent higher returns on sales and 67 percent higher returns on invested capital ( OECD, 2008 ).” This study shows the impact women can have on the overall economic benefits of a company.

In a review of the Department of Finance Robert Wright, a Canadian economist, singled out the policies of the PD's and Fianna Fáil's 2002 election manifestos as contributing significantly to the 2008 property market crash.