President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov congratulated people of Uzbekistan with the new year 2008.
Summing
up the results of the past year, which was proclaimed the Year of
Social Protection, the head of the state said it was “successful in
many aspects and left an indelible trace in the life of the country and
the society”.
General Motors, the world's largest carmaker, has announced a joint
venture with UzAvtoSanoat to assemble and distribute Chevrolet cars in
Uzbekistan, the central Asian republic and part of GM Europe region. A
press conference on this occasion was held at InterContinental hotel in
Tashkent on 8 October.
The joint venture, which will be called GM Uzbekistan, will extend Chevrolet's rapid expansion in Eastern Europe and Asia.
"Chevrolet has become the fastest growing brand in Europe,
demonstrating its strong appeal especially in the opportunity markets
of Eastern Europe", said Carl-Peter Forster, President of General
Motors Europe. "The start of operations in Uzbekistan and the launch of
a series of new Chevrolet models will help us continue our rapid
growth."
OTTAWA - Canadian forces in southern Afghanistan have arrested
several bomb makers and militants in a series of raids over the last
month, a senior military officer said Thursday.
But despite these
successes, he said the Taliban remained a substantial threat in
southern Afghanistan and predicted some "tough slogging" before this
year's fighting season ended with the arrival of winter weather.
Charles Spencer was in Cape Town with his four young children
when he learnt his sister had been in a car crash in Paris. A few
sleepless hours later, he got a phone call confirming the worst. He
braced himself to deliver the news to his children.
"I said, 'I've got some dreadful news'," Spencer recounts. "
'I'm afraid Aunt Diana's been killed.' They looked at me,
absolutely incredulous, and then Eliza, who's the elder of my
twins, said, 'But not in real life, Daddy?' "
The reaction of Eliza Spencer, then 5, was the same as many upon
hearing reports that the Princess of Wales was dead. It didn't
quite feel like real life.
Australian researchers will head to East Timor to teach local
specialists how to protect much-needed crops from disease and pests
amid a food shortage.
Lack of food is threatening to destabilise the troubled nation,
with the World Food Program (WFP) estimating a production shortfall
of 30 per cent in staple grains.
A severe shortage of rice in February this year raised concerns,
and the WFP believes up to 220,000 people, or one-fifth of the
population, will be suffering from severe hunger and need emergency
food aid by October.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Monday formally launched her
government’s poverty reduction strategy with a call for more
international support. President Sirleaf said the program is not a
social welfare or a reinforced broadened safety road for the poor.
Lawrence Bropleh is Liberia’s minister of information. From the
Liberian capital, Monrovia, he told VOA that the new poverty reduction
strategy would serve as the government’s road map in meeting the needs
of the Liberian people.
“President Sirleaf came to power and her passion and
compassion are to improve the lives of every Liberian irrespective of
whence they’ve come. And so her poverty reduction strategy is one that
is going to guide us in our agriculture sector, to guide us in
rebuilding our economy, to guide us in improving our health care
delivery system, to guide in improving our education system,” he said.
Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe’s three-day visit to India from Tuesday (August 21) follows Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan in December last year. Manmohan
Singh's visit was preceded by prime minister Jericho Koizumi's visit to India in
April-May 2005. Manmohan's visit to Japan culminated in the signing of the
"Joint Statement Toward Japan-India Strategic and Global Partnership".
In his book, A Beautiful
Country, Abe proposes an Asian order that groups together Australia, India,
Japan and the United States. As Japan reformulates its foreign policy in the
quest to assume a greater leadership role in Asia, it finds it shares an
unprecedented convergence in interests, values and strategies with a rising
India that is eager to "look east" and integrate itself into Asia and Asian
institutions.
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian left for a weeklong
Central America haul Tuesday seeking to cement ties with diplomatic
allies who are under increasing pressure from China to switch sides.
Chen said the trip was especially important
after the recent defection of longtime ally Costa Rica to Beijing.
“Facing China’s ruthless suppression and
blockade, we must be brave . . . and tell the world firmly and
loudly that Taiwan is a sovereign country and the Taiwanese people
have a right to join the international community as equals,” he
told reporters at the airport.
VERACRUZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean raced through Mexico's
southern Gulf on Wednesday, whipping up wild winds and roaring seas
around oil platforms that produce crude for export to the United States.
Dean
hammered Mexico's Caribbean resort of Tulum and swallowed sand from the
famous beach at Cancun before crossing the Yucatan Peninsula out into
the Gulf of Mexico where state oil company Pemex has several hundred
wells and other installation.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Bush said Tuesday
the federal government will use its power to accelerate Minnesota's
recovery from a bridge disaster and flash flooding.
Bush's comments here, after a briefing from
federal and state authorities, were meant as a boost of confidence for
a state that has dealt with twin crises this summer.
OSAKA — Much has been made of the massive defeat Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party suffered in the July 29
Upper House elections. But as the smoke from the vote dissipates, it
has become clear that the real victor is neither the leading opposition
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) nor the electorate. Instead, it is
Japan's bureaucrats who are celebrating.
The aim of these entrenched mandarins is to block
Abe's plans for extensive civil-service reforms intended to inhibit
them from parachuting into lucrative post-retirement jobs in the public
corporations and private firms that they once regulated. They also want
to stop Abe from dismantling and privatizing one of their central
fiefdoms, the Social Security Agency.
In this struggle, the mandarins are aligning
themselves with the DPJ, at least to the general public's eye, because
it has proposed merging the Social Security Agency with the National
Tax Agency, a move that would ensure government jobs for the former's
employees.
President Vladimir Putin said Russia
will challenge Europe and the United States in aerospace as the country
rebuilds an industry that once rolled out a quarter of the world's
commercial aircraft fleet.
Russia "has new economic possibilities" to
gain a greater share of the global market for civilian passenger and
transport airplanes and "keep its leadership in producing combat
aircraft," Putin said at the opening of the Moscow Air Show. More than
780 domestic and foreign producers from 110 countries are participating
in the biennial event, Putin said yesterday at the once-secret Zhukov
airfield near the Russian capital.
Russia, the biggest arms
supplier to developing countries, plans to manufacture and sell 4,500
civilian and military planes worth US$250 billion (HK$1.95 trillion)
over the next 18 years, Alexey Fyodorov, chief executive of Unified
Aircraft Corp, said last week. By 2025, annual output will reach 300
airliners, 100 transport planes and more than 100 combat aircraft.
On 17 August, on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic
of Indonesia, the country's Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to Uzbekistan Mr. Sjahril Sabaruddin spoke to
UzReport.com about the roots and history of friendly Indonesian-Uzbek
relations, and the achievements of his country.
A training meeting of the disaster relief teams of Karakalpakstan,
Tashkent city, Khorezm, Bukhara, Jizzakh, Surkhandarya, Samarkand,
Andijan, Tashkent, Ferghana, and Namangan regions of the Red Crescent
Society of Uzbekistan is being held in the village of Yangiobod on
20-25 August.
The event is financially supported by the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO).
The volunteers of the Society, members of the teams totaling 77 people
who have passed the first aid and reaction programme at the Society's
study centres are participating in the training.
On the instruction of the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly
Berdimuhamedov, the Turkmen government delegation led by Vice Premier,
Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov will visit Tashkent on
29 August.
For the six months of the current year we have
produced goods totaling to an amount of 4 billion 544 million 948
thousand soum, and the plan had been over accomplished, - says
Kh.Gafforov, deputy chairperson of the open stock company "Khonkadon
mahsulotlari".
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who says relations with India may become more important than Japan's links with the U.S. or China, will lead his biggest corporate mission to the South Asian country Tuesday. Abe travels to New Delhi with 243 executives from companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Canon Inc., more than the 175 he brought with him to...
LONDON: Barcelona and Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o on Friday insisted
that Europe's highest profile players are worth every penny of their
colossal salaries.
The Cameroon international, who has been a target of clubs around
Europe this summer following the arrival of fellow striker Thierry
Henry at the Nou Camp from Arsenal, believes that salary capping could
ruin the game.
While Eto'o admits that the money divide between the big and small
clubs can cause problems, the introduction of a wage limit would not be
fair for those players who are a commercial success, he said.
Charles Spencer was in Cape Town with his four young children
when he learnt his sister had been in a car crash in Paris. A few
sleepless hours later, he got a phone call confirming the worst. He
braced himself to deliver the news to his children.
On 17 August, on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic
of Indonesia, the country's Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to Uzbekistan Mr. Sjahril Sabaruddin spoke to
UzReport.com about the roots and history of friendly Indonesian-Uzbek
relations, and the achievements of his country.
