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US Department Of State Post Report
Newcomers are met on arrival in Lomé. An orientation tour and interview are conducted soon after arrival. New arrivals are escorted to various Mission activities and will meet all Mission members socially within a few days. All newcomers/families are assigned a Mission sponsor who will assist them in settling in. The CLO assists all newcomers and provides welcome packets and any other necessary information they may need. ... New officers often retain a predecessor’s servants. Other domestic help can eventually be found, particularly by asking servants of other Embassy families to recommend friends. The Community Liaison Office (CLO) has a file of persons seeking employment. Domestic help is readily available and cheap, but well-trained servants, especially cooks, are not easy to find. Employees should plan to train new staff members in standards of cleanliness for food preparation and personal hygiene. Servants occasionally speak some English as well as advanced French. Need for servants depends on the employees’ official positions, family size, and needs. A more senior officer with a family might employ a cook, housekeeper, gardener/day guard, and nanny for small children. The average household employs a combination cook-housekeeper, a gardener/day guard, and a nanny if small children are present. Wages may vary according to skill and experience. Because the Embassy provides only night guards at all homes ... [Read More]
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Newspapers, Magazines, and Technical JournalsLast Updated: 4/12/2005 11:18 AM Paramaribo features four daily newspapers, both in Dutch. Other newspapers, periodicals, and Government publications are also in Dutch. English-language newspapers are unavailable in Suriname. However, the government cultural center has, in the past, maintained a public library with a limited collection of English editions. A few very expensive English-language paperbacks and hardcover books are sporadically available from one or two retail outlets in Paramaribo. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
One newsmagazine and three newspapers are published in Swaziland. All are published in English; most are privately owned. The Nation is an independent monthly newsmagazine. The Guardian of Swaziland, an independent online newspaper, is available at http://www.theguardian.do.sz. The Swazi Observer and the Times of Swaziland are published daily from Mbabane. The Observer is owned by a crown trust; the Times is independent. South African newspapers reach Mbabane approximately 6 hours after publication in Johannesburg. London newspapers, as well as international magazines, such as the Economist, Newsweek, and Time are available 1 week after publication. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
The American Cultural Center has an Information Resource Center (IRC) containing about 5,000 books, 55% in English and 45% in French, and subscribes to many magazines and journals in English and French. The IRC also has new sections such as the Commercial Library for businesspersons and the Cyber Cafe for training and research purposes. The American Cultural Center’s English-language program has an enrollment of 667 students. “The Jim Lehrer Newshour” is shown every Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. It also hosts shows by international performers several times a year. ... [Read More]
China (includes Hong Kong and Macau)
By year's end, the Government had not promulgated any regulations governing news provided by Internet content providers. However, the Propaganda Department issued warnings to some providers who carry foreign media reports. One representative of a Western Internet content provider operating in the country stated that, while his organization will not completely stop using foreign media reports, it will focus on international and entertainment news when relaying foreign media reports, rather than on domestic affairs. However, web sites are restricted in their ability to post foreign news stories. In October 1999 new rules restricted Chinese news sites from creating links to foreign news sites. The links disappeared temporarily but were back in December 1999. During the year, such links sometimes were blocked and sometimes were available. In January the Government issued regulations requiring any commercial web site with a cyber news service to fir ... [Read More]
Croatia
In June 2003, the GOC passed a new foreign exchange law. One of the main new features is that the Croatian National Bank and/or the Cabinet of Ministers are granted authority to impose capital restrictions (restrictions on repatriation of profits, capital etc.) if they assess that outflows or inflows of capital could cause significant problems to conducting monetary policy or carrying out foreign exchange policy. This is described under articles 47 and 48 of the new law, an English translation of which is available at the National Bank website at www.hnb.hr. Also, under article 9 the law defines FDIs. For example, use of retained earnings for new investments/acquisitions is considered FDI, whereas investments made by institutional investors such as insurance, pension and investment funds are not considered FDIs. The law also liberalizes foreign exchange transactions for Croatian entities and individuals allowing them to invest abroad. Generally, this law liberalized foreign exchange tr ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Serbia and Montenegro has set a new course for itself. In Montenegro, reform was initiated in the late 1990s (following the political break between Milosevic and Djukanovic). In 2001 after the fall of the Milosevic regime, the new Federal and Serbian Governments focused on initiating a new reform program and the process of reintegration into European and global markets. ... The television signal is PAL/BG. Thus, if you do not wish to purchase a TV set on the local market, a multi-system TV set is needed. An NTSC-only set will not work. In Belgrade, there is cable penetration in some areas offering a wide range of English-language channels: CNN, Sky, NBC, MTV Europe, Cartoon Network, MSNBC, Discovery, and Animal Planet. All urban areas in Belgrade can pick up satellite channels with a satellite dish and a digital receiver which are available locally. American videotapes (NTSC) can be viewed only on multi system VCR's (PAL/SECAM/NTSC). Region-free DVDs are also widely available in local stores. Newspapers, Magazines, and Technical JournalsLast Updated: 2/28/2003 6:00 PM There are nine, more or less influential, dailies in Serbia: [Read More]
Gambia, The (01/05)
The Gambian national army numbers about 1,900. The army consists of infantry battalions, the national guard, and the navy, all under the authority of the Department of State for Defense (a ministerial portfolio held by President Jammeh). Prior to the 1994 coup, the Gambian army received technical assistance and training from the United States, United Kingdom, Peoples Republic of China, Nigeria, and Turkey. With the withdrawal of most of this aid, the army has received renewed assistance from Turkey and new assistance from Libya and others. The Gambia allowed its military training arrangement with Libya to expire in 2002. ... [Read More]
US Diplomatic Mission to Ghana: Attorneys in Ghana
Dr. Asante’s work spans a period of over thirty-five year. He has been Solicitor-General and Deputy Attorney-General of Ghana (1969-1977). He was an attorney in the legal department of the World Bank (1966-69); Chief Legal Adviser and later director of the United Nations Center on Transitional Corporations, New York (1977-92). His last assignment at the United Nations was director in charge of the division of Natural Resources, energy He is currently chairman of the Public Utilities Regulatory commission, and chairman of the newly-created Ghana Arbitration Center. He has extensive experience in handling both governmental and private agencies in Ghana and the United States. He and his firm, S.K.B. Asante & Associates, specialize in corporate and investment law, international business transaction, comparative law, international commercial arbitration, development law and human rights. ... [Read More]
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