Bulgaria Computer Distributor

AMERICAN FIRMS REPRESENTED IN ETHIOPIA Africa Jazz Institute P.O. Box 12826, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: 71-48-56, Fax: 51-40-98 Location: Franklin Roosevelt Street General Manager: Ato Mulatu Astatke U.S. Firm Represented: SIT Strings Activities: Import of Musical instruments [Read More]

J) Europe and Central Asia

Policy Initiatives. The increase in drug seizures and decrease in direct drug-related crime apprehensions in Latvia this year is partly due to greater police targeting of wholesale drug operations—usually carried out by established Organized Crime (OC) groups as opposed to targeting local distributors. Fewer apprehensions might actually matter more as “bigger fish” have been arrested. But the decrease in drug-related crime apprehensions is also due to changes in distributor selling tactics and methods, making activity in the illicit drug market more difficult for drug enforcement to follow. ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

Campion School is an all-age, coeducational international school run on British lines, admitting pupils of any race or nationality. Senior pupils are prepared for the "A," "O," and AP level exams and the SAT. Campion is registered in Massachusetts and has been a member of the Governing Bodies Association in the U.K. since 1970. Bus service is available. One-third of the student body is British; the remainder represents 50 other countries. Computer and technical studies are available, and a particularly wide range of foreign languages is taught. Campion has one campus with grades PreK-12 in Pallini, 16 km from the American Embassy. The mailing address is: ... [Read More]

Belgium

Belgian workers are highly unionized (63 percent), and usually enjoy good salaries and benefits. According to a recent study, Belgian wage and social security contributions, along with those in Germany, are among the highest in Western Europe. In recent years the unemployment rate as measured according to the EU's definition has gone down slowly (in December 2004 it was 8 percent, against 9 percent within the Euro-zone). High wage levels and pockets of high unemployment coexist, in large part because most of Belgium's long-term unemployed are virtually unemployable without major retraining. (Their overall education level is significantly lower than that of the general population.) As a consequence of the high wage costs, over the years, employers have tended to invest more in capital than in labor. At the same time, a shortage exists of workers with training in computer hardware and software, automation and marketing. The resulting bottlenecks cause wage pressures. ... [Read More]

Report on Global Anti-Semitism

January 5, 2005 Executive Summary I.  Anti-SemitismAnti-Semitism has plagued the world for centuries. Taken to its most far-reaching and violent extreme, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of millions of Jews and the suffering of countless others. Subtler, less vile forms of anti-Semitism have disrupted lives, decimated religious communities, created social and political cleavages, and complicated relations between countries as well as the work of international organizations. For an increasingly interdependent world, anti-Semitism is an intolerable burden. The increasing frequency and severity of anti-Semitic incidents since the start of the 21st century, particularly in Europe, has compelled the international com ... [Read More]

International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports

FINANCIAL CRIMES AND MONEY LAUNDERINGMONEY LAUNDERINGOVERVIEWIn 1992, the major trends affecting money laundering policy were: (1) further sophistication of money laundering practices; (2) greater investment of drug and other illicit proceeds into established businesses, both to conceal money movements and to capitalize on illicit profits; (3) the internationalization of money laundering networks whose operations involve an ever larger number of countries and territories, regardless of their importance as financial centers or as drug producing or transit countries; and (4) the intensified involvement of the Sicilian Mafia and other criminal organizations in Europe, Asia and the Western Hemisphere who comingle proceeds from many crimes to confound investigators, and are now acting as brokers for funds unrelated to their own trafficking activities. These trends have made it more difficult to differentiate between drug-related money laundering and other forms of illegal money m ... [Read More]

American Embassy Hanoi - Bilateral Trade Agreement

Distributors: Under a distributorshiparrangement, the question of legal protection and recourse is clearer. TheVietnamese distributor buys the goods from the foreign supplier for resale inVietnam and thus is liable for the full amount of the goods purchased. Unlike some agents, distributors normallyprovide after sales service/support. Adistributorship arrangement is considered a “foreign trade contract” and mustbe structured in compliance with Vietnam’s regulations on foreign tradecontracts. In principle, it is legally binding upon signing. ... [Read More]

Political Violence Against Americans: 1999

At 9:45 p.m., an anonymous caller to the Greek newspaper Elefthrotypia and Star Television advised that a bomb would explode at the Rainbow Computer System offices. Approximately 1 hour later a bomb exploded causing no injuries and only minor damage to the building's front gate. The company is Greek owned but is a distributor for Apple Computers and the name Apple Computers is plastered all over the front of the building. ... [Read More]

Turkey

Defense lawyers did not have equal status with prosecutors. In SSCs and heavy penal courts, prosecutors sat alongside judges, while defense attorneys sat apart. In courts with computers, prosecutors were provided with computers and had access to the hearing transcript; defense attorneys were not provided computer access. Judges and prosecutors lived in the same government apartment complexes, and some defense attorneys claimed that the social bonds between judges and prosecutors disadvantaged the defense in court. ... [Read More]