As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The UDF government also failed to stop the growing negative account balance, which has since then continued to increase, reaching a negative of $ 12. 65 billion in 2008.

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.

As of 2008, Canada ’ s total government debt burden is the lowest in the G8.

In a paper written in 2008, Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote of appropriate government responses to conspiracy theories.

The UK's National Health Service announced in 2008 that more therapists would be trained to provide CBT at government expense as part of an initiative called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT ).

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.

It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.

On the 19th of November 2007 the Senato della Repubblica passed a class action law in Finanziara 2008, a financial document for the economy management of the government.

In South Australia, on 30 July 2008 the government introduced legislation to scrap parts of its double jeopardy law.

The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.

In 2008, the most popular majors were economics, government, history, psychological and brain sciences, English, biology, and engineering sciences.

The government is planning to start the process for licensing a second national operator for voice and transport services by 2008, with a view to this company starting operations in 2009.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

Afghanistan has signed a copper deal with China ( Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd .) in 2008, which is to a large scale project that involves the investment of $ 2. 8 billion dollars by China and an annual income of about $ 400 million dollars to the Afghan government.

In August 2008, it was announced that the Solomon Islands intended to open a High Commission in Suva, and in December the government of Fiji announced that it had " formally endorsed the establishment of a Resident Diplomatic Mission in Suva by the Government of the Solomon Islands ".

In January 2008, the Fiji Times Online reported that the government of Fiji had announced in a cabinet statement that it will establish full diplomatic relations with four nations: Iceland, Latvia, the Dominican Republic and Estonia.

Luanda taxi called " Candongueiro " after heavy rainfalls, 2008

In 2008, Ice-T and Black Silver toured together as Black Ice, and released an album together called Urban Legends.

In a seminar at the Charles Schulz Museum on November 8, 2008, Lazarus called his experience at Toby " the five funniest years of my life.

An annual private media summit called Captivate, renamed from Gamers Day in 2008, is traditionally used as a platform for new game and business announcements.

Switzerland has been ruled by a coalition of the four strongest parties in parliament from 1959 to 2008, called the " Magic Formula ".

: On November 11, 2008 The Walt Disney Company released a limited pressing of 39, 500 issues of The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh in DVD format for the first time as a part of the Disney Treasures collection, and was now called Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on March 5, 2008 called the announced movement of Colombian forces in Ecuador a " war crime ," and joined Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.

On July 8, 2008, RedBrick announced a new line called Age of Legend 4e, a port of the Earthdawn setting for use with the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition rules.

* The 2008 documentary film called Frederick Douglass and the White Negro tells the story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland and the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War.

In 2008, Foster's was introduced with a widget called a " scuba " placed into the can to ensure good mixing.

Singer prepared an NIPCC report called " Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate ," published in March 2008 by the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank.

From 2004 until 2008, HBC also owned and operated a small chain of off-price stores called Designer Depot.

The government called early elections in September 2007 ( normally, elections would have been held in March 2008 ), and New Democracy again was the majority party in the Parliament.

In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI called this topic " so controversial, yet so crucial for humanity's future ".

In February 2008, Kemp was associated with a group called " Defense of Democracies " that was advocating an electronic surveillance bill that failed in the House of Representatives.

The lawsuit claimed that Blakeman had given a copyrighted screenplay called Go November to Grammer in 2006, and that Grammer agreed to develop the project and star as a Republican president but instead ended up playing a similar role in Swing Vote, which was released on August 1, 2008.

April 6, 2008, p. 4 ; excerpt, "... a skyscraper that Nouvel ( adapting a term from the artist Brâncuşi ) called the “ tour sans fins ,” or endless tower.

On August 26, 2008 Dr. Lederman was video-recorded by a science focused organization called ScienCentral, on the street in a major U. S. city, answering questions from passersby.

In April 2008, the United States Geological Survey released information concerning a newly found fault line south of downtown Abbotsford, called the Boulder Creek Fault.

As of August 2008, an 18-story condominium high-rise called Capitol Club Tower is in the design phase with the adjacent parking structure already having been approved by city council and purchased by the developer.

MySQL ( " My S-Q-L ", officially, but also called " My Sequel ") is the world's most used open source relational database management system ( RDBMS ) as of 2008 that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.

With the addition of sack-leader Jared Allen in 2008, the dominant front four began being called by several nicknames, including " Thunder and Plunder " and " Shock and AWWE " ( an acronym of their surname initials ).

In 2008, the BBC created a television series, also called Merlin, where Merlin is portrayed by Colin Morgan.