Press Review [Archives:1999/08/Press Review]

Sanaa, weekly 18/2/99
(Yemen Armed Forces)   Main Headlines:
-Planning Undersecretary Hisham Sharaf has announced that the EC has approved a 19 million dollars grant to Yemen.
-50,000 new telephone lines will enter service in Aden within the coming two weeks at a total cost of four billion Yemeni rials.
-Security authorities have detained 250 violators of residence rules in Yemen.
-Work on the Yemeni-Chinese friendship bridge in Sanaa is expected to commence by mid March.
-The five-day national conference for education and vocational training is to open on Tuesday 23 February at the police officers club with the participation of a number of Arab and international personalities.
-There will be no power cuts in Aden next summer, according to the electricity director in that governorate.
-Abyan governor Ahmed Ali Mohsen has said that a steel factory will be soon established in his governorate.
-About five thousand Yemenis will perform Haj (pilgrimage) this year, according to Minister of Awqaf (Endowments) and Guidance Sheikh Nassser Mohammed Al Shaybani.
-The Council of Ministers has decided to fire any employee who is working in more than one government institution after giving him a chance to chose between his multiple posts that ends in April.

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