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.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

In April 2008 Stephen Jones told a reporter, " I don't think I have a political bone in my body.

* Finlay, Stephen & Schroeder, Mark ( 2008 ).

* 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

* Stephen F. Burgess, ' Fashioning Integrated Security Forces after Conflict ', African Security, 1: 2, 69 — 91 ( 2008 )

* 2008 – George Stephen Morrison, American admiral ( b. 1919 )

* Stephen King ( 2008 ), Duma Key

Rush was interviewed by Stephen Colbert and they performed " Tom Sawyer " on The Colbert Report on July 16, 2008.

In March 2008, Sondheim and Rich appeared in four interviews / conversations in California and Portland, Oregon titled " A Little Night Conversation with Stephen Sondheim ".

The New Yorker Obama cover was later parodied by Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the October 3, 2008 cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine, with Stewart as Obama and Colbert as Michelle, photographed for the magazine in New York City on September 18.

In a remake of The Dam Busters by Peter Jackson announced in 2008, Stephen Fry, the writer of the screenplay, said there was " no question in America that you could ever have a dog called the N-word ".

Other players, including Stephen Milne ( also after a match in Perth late during the 2008 season ) and Ted Richards suffered similar injuries later on, meaning they had to return to their home states by ground.

" Anne Roe's papers are in the American Philosophical Society archives in Philadelphia ; those records ( as noted by Stephen Goranson on the American Dialect Society list 12 / 31 / 2008 ) identify the interviewed physicist as Howard Percy " Bob " Robertson ( 1903 – 1961 ).

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

In October 1942 Peck married Finnish-born Greta Kukkonen ( 1911 – 2008 ), with whom he had three sons, Jonathan ( 1944 – 75 ), Stephen ( b. 1946 ), and Carey Paul ( b. 1949 ).

On September 30, 2008, Seattle's Light in the Attic Records released A World of Peace Must Come, a collaboration between Wilson and Stephen Kalinich, originally recorded in 1969, but later lost in Kalinich's closet.

* DeMEGO 003 Stephen O ' Malley & Attila Csihar: 6 ° FSKYQUAKE CD ( 01. 2008 )

* Brian Dooher and Stephen O ' Neill – key members of the 2003, 2005 and 2008 All-Ireland winning Tyrone Gaelic football teams.

* Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison ( January 7, 1919-November 17, 2008 ) grew up in Leesburg and was the father of Jim Morrison ( James Douglas Morrison ) ( December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971 ) of The Doors ( 60's Rock band )

On July 21, 2008, Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report made a comment about John McCain making a campaign stop in Canton, Ohio, and " not the crappy Canton in Georgia.

White Cloud is featured in episode 4 of the 2008 television documentary Stephen Fry in America.

On July 21, 2008, Stephen Colbert made a comment on The Colbert Report about John McCain making a campaign stop in Canton, Ohio, and " not the crappy Canton in Georgia.

" The comment resulted in a local uproar, which prompted Stephen to apologize for the story during his July 30, 2008, show, insisting that he was incorrect and that the " real " crappy Canton was Canton, Kansas, after which he made several jokes at the town's expense.

Jane's Addiction performed at the first-ever NME Awards USA on April 23, 2008, with the reunited core line-up of Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins.