In breif [Archives:2006/927/Business & Economy]
Aden Customs Office recently seized 22 large motors smuggled into Yemen. Aden customs control director Omar Al-Hababi said the machines were discovered hidden in a rice shipment from Sayoun district in Hadramout governorate. He explained that bringing the machines into Yemen represented two violations: first, they were smuggled and second, they violated government regulations preventing importing used machines.
Within the past week, customs authorities at Al-Baqa border crossing seized 312 motorcycles and used spare parts quantities during an attempt to smuggle them into Yemeni territories.
Adel Mohammed Abdullah Saad, deputy general manager of Al-Baqa customs area, stated that authorities also retained 45 palm seedlings at the customs offices. The seedlings were intended to be smuggled outside Yemen from Marib governorate. Saad added that customs also seized large quantities of smuggled medicines and other quantities of coffee bound for Yemeni territories.
Dr. Awadh Ba Matraf said the Shoura (consultancy) Council, head of the State Authority for Developing Yemeni Islands, will send recommendations to official parties calling for grouping Yemeni islands situated in both the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea into one administrative entity to be called the Socotra and Islands governorate.
In a statement to Saba News Agency, Ba Matraf made clear that recommendations also include supporting the inhabited islands' infrastructures, as well as boosting the authority's institutional structures with technical and material support to enable it to manage and develop the islands and investment promotion for them, according to international regulations.
The trade unionist committee for Watani Bank workers and employees have denounced the Central Bank-appointed committee's decision to take control of the bank that stipulated freezing 300 Watani Bank employee and workers' wages.
In a statement, the committee warned against the measure, saying it represents a challenge of the Commercial Court's authority to the capital secretariat which previously issued a court decision to halt Watani Bank for Trade and Investment's liquidation procedures until a verdict is issued on the legality of taking control of the bank.
The General Authority for Aviation and Meteorology has completed a study on the new $70 million Taiz Airport runway project. The new runway will replace the old one, situated between Sabr and Al-Kaeda mountains, which pose dangers to the airport's landing operations.
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