July 28th, 2010
North Korea’s iconic leader Kim Jong-il hailed his country’s “shining victory” and sang patriotic songs while attending a concert on Wednesday, according to official media outlets.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il attended a concert yesterday celebrating the 57th anniversary of the Korean War as the two main adversaries from that conflict conducted war drills off his country’s eastern coast. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 27th, 2010
The Ukrainian government has decided to liquidate its unprofitable coal mines, closing down 107 of them in 2010.
“The government funds which was use to spent on unprofitable mining enterprises support will be going to modernization of those mines, which can be successfully privatized in the near future,” a government official explained. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 15th, 2010
The Ukrainian parliament is moving to ratify the pro-EU natural gas market liberalization law in all three required readings.
According to the law, state-run NJSC Naftogaz in order to give an equal access to gas pipelines for each market participant, will be divided to three different enterprises by type of activity: marketing, extracting and transportation. Read the rest of this entry »
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