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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend around Euro 100 million to Turkey’s ministry of national education, to help the country continue improving its primary schools by installing information technology equipment into 6,800 classrooms.

This plan is part of a much larger programme of the ministry to introduce IT classes in Turkey’s compulsory education system, which was extended from five to eight years by the country’s Basic Education Law (1997); the law also aims to boost quality in primary education.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
1902-1912

British American Tobacco was created on September 29th 1902 as a joint venture between Imperial Tobacco Company of the UK and the American Tobacco Company of the US following a fierce trade war. The parent companies agreed not to trade in each other’s domestic territory and to assign trademarks, export businesses and overseas subsidiaries to the joint venture.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY minute of every day a million smokers light up a cigarette made by BAT and the company’s goal is that every one of them is perfect. How does BAT manage this, and at the same time meet its production, technical and environmental challenges when operations are on such a colossal scale ?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is investing US$10 million in Turkish tiles manufacturer Eczazibasi Karo Seramik A.S (EKS) to help the company overcome working capital shortages, improve production efficiency, and boost exports. The is part of the corporation’s ongoing support for Turkey’s private sector following last year’s financial crises, which restricted the flow of international capital.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REPRESENTATIVES from the governments of Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey have attended training courses staged by the EU’s Joint Research Centre, designed to improve their performance in combating the illicit trafficking of nuclear material.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
The European Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey (TMMT), a subsidiary of the Toyota Motor Corporation, approximately Euro125 million to modernise an existing vehicle manufacturing plant in Adapazari, western Turkey, 120 km east of Istanbul.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has sought to allay fears that it is dragging its feet over the implementation of liberalisation commitments it made when it was admitted into the World Trade Organisation. It has released explanatory notes to the European Union and Canada, who have raised concerns over the opening of textile import quotas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FINANCED global action plan to improve safety in the nuclear energy sector has been approved in principle by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency. A number of countries have pledged around US$4.6 million to fund its programmes, although this falls far short of the US$12 million price tag claimed by the IAEA, which also wants a fund of US$20 million established to handle security emergencies.…

Keith Nuthall
THE CANADIAN government has sought to dispel fears that it has unfairly retained trade restrictions on textile and clothing imports from China and Taiwan following last year’s decision to allow them to join the World Trade Organisation. In two letters to the WTO’s Textile Monitoring Bureau, Ottawa has claimed that remaining “quantitative restraints” comply with the two new members’ accession deals and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LITHUANIA has imposed safeguard duties on imports of non-dried pastry yeast. Special tariffs of 22 per cent will be imposed from March to December, and 16 per cent from next January to December. Lithuania has been particularly concerned about increased imports from Germany, France, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Turkey, Italy and the Czech Republic.…