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Business forum to discuss attraction of Asiatic monies to Russia.
HONG KONG, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - Opportunities for bringing
investments from Asian countries to the Russian market is the main theme of an investment forum that opened here Tuesday.
It has brought together more than 150 businessmen from Russia, other
countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Singapore, People's
Republic of China, and Japan.
Participants in the conference that has been organized by the Russia
media group RBC are expected to meet at plenary sessions at the Grand
Hyatt hotel. Their attention is drawn to the post-crisis recovery of the
economy in Russia and in Asiatic countries, to Russian-Chinese
cooperation, to legal aspects of doing business, to the role of banks, and
the situation in commodity markets.
As a separate issue, they will consider the prospects for Russian
banks' getting to the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Singapore.
The organizers say convocation of the conference in Hong Kong was not
at all a matter of random choice. The local stock exchange became the
world's largest trading floor last year in terms of the number of Initial
Public Offerings /IPO/.
The Russian aluminum industry giant RUSAL became the first Russian
company to getting into listing there in January 2010.
sian academician to get UNESCO medal in Paris.
2/11 Tass 23
PARIS, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova
is expected to hand a medal to the Russian Nobel Prize winning physicist,
Zhores Alfyorov, whon the agency has awarded for contribution to the
development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.
UNESCO awarded the medal to Alfyorov in March 2010, and now it is time
for the laureate to get it.
After the official ceremony Dr Alfyorov, who is a full member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, will give a lecture on the prospects for the
development of science in the 21st century.
He received the Nobel Prize for his works in the field of
semi-conductor structures that can be used in super-fast computers.
Dr Alfyorov's interest has always been concentrated on the physics of
semiconductors, the semiconductor and quantum electronics and technical
physics.
.Latvian parliament of new convocation to have first session Tuesday.
RIGA, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - Latvia's parliament, the Saeima of the
new convocation will have the first session Tuesday, and President Valdis
Zalters, who is due to take the floor at it, will name the official
candidate to the office of the Prime Minister.
According to the parliamentary press service, the Saeima will elect
the parliament presidium and speaker at the first session. Each of the 100
MPs will go up to the rostrum and give an oath of allegiance.
After the President names the candidate for the Prime Minister's post,
the incumbent Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis will announce the
termination of powers of his cabinet.
Upon the results of October 2 parliamentary election, Dombrobskis's
Unity party received 33 seats, the Harmony Center that represents the
interests of Latvia's Russian-speaking community got 29 seats, and the
Union of Greens and Farmers go 22 seats.
The National Alliance party and the union For a Good Latvia have eight
seats each.
Unity and the Union of Greens and Farmers agreed to form a coalition
government, as they have 55 seats all in all.
Unity members are expected to take the helm at seven ministries -
finance, foreign affairs, economic, defense, culture, Interior and justice.
The Greens and Farmers will get six portfolios - land, environment and
regional development, education and science, welfare, communications, and
education.
Monday, Dombrovskis filled the President in on the government
declaration.
"If all goes according to the plan, we'll be able to endorse a new
cabinet November 3," he told reporters after the meeting.
Earlier, he held talks on the coalition with Harmony Center and All
for Latvia.
Harmony Center rejected the Prime Minister's terms, the list of which
included "a recognition of the fact of Latvia's occupation" /from 1940
through to 1991/.
A coalition with All For Latvia failed to come into existence because
a constituent part of Unity known as Society for Other Politics turned
down the idea.
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investments from Asian countries to the Russian market is the main theme of an investment forum that opened here Tuesday.
It has brought together more than 150 businessmen from Russia, other
countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Singapore, People's
Republic of China, and Japan.
Participants in the conference that has been organized by the Russia
media group RBC are expected to meet at plenary sessions at the Grand
Hyatt hotel. Their attention is drawn to the post-crisis recovery of the
economy in Russia and in Asiatic countries, to Russian-Chinese
cooperation, to legal aspects of doing business, to the role of banks, and
the situation in commodity markets.
As a separate issue, they will consider the prospects for Russian
banks' getting to the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Singapore.
The organizers say convocation of the conference in Hong Kong was not
at all a matter of random choice. The local stock exchange became the
world's largest trading floor last year in terms of the number of Initial
Public Offerings /IPO/.
The Russian aluminum industry giant RUSAL became the first Russian
company to getting into listing there in January 2010.
sian academician to get UNESCO medal in Paris.
2/11 Tass 23
PARIS, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova
is expected to hand a medal to the Russian Nobel Prize winning physicist,
Zhores Alfyorov, whon the agency has awarded for contribution to the
development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.
UNESCO awarded the medal to Alfyorov in March 2010, and now it is time
for the laureate to get it.
After the official ceremony Dr Alfyorov, who is a full member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, will give a lecture on the prospects for the
development of science in the 21st century.
He received the Nobel Prize for his works in the field of
semi-conductor structures that can be used in super-fast computers.
Dr Alfyorov's interest has always been concentrated on the physics of
semiconductors, the semiconductor and quantum electronics and technical
physics.
.Latvian parliament of new convocation to have first session Tuesday.
RIGA, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - Latvia's parliament, the Saeima of the
new convocation will have the first session Tuesday, and President Valdis
Zalters, who is due to take the floor at it, will name the official
candidate to the office of the Prime Minister.
According to the parliamentary press service, the Saeima will elect
the parliament presidium and speaker at the first session. Each of the 100
MPs will go up to the rostrum and give an oath of allegiance.
After the President names the candidate for the Prime Minister's post,
the incumbent Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis will announce the
termination of powers of his cabinet.
Upon the results of October 2 parliamentary election, Dombrobskis's
Unity party received 33 seats, the Harmony Center that represents the
interests of Latvia's Russian-speaking community got 29 seats, and the
Union of Greens and Farmers go 22 seats.
The National Alliance party and the union For a Good Latvia have eight
seats each.
Unity and the Union of Greens and Farmers agreed to form a coalition
government, as they have 55 seats all in all.
Unity members are expected to take the helm at seven ministries -
finance, foreign affairs, economic, defense, culture, Interior and justice.
The Greens and Farmers will get six portfolios - land, environment and
regional development, education and science, welfare, communications, and
education.
Monday, Dombrovskis filled the President in on the government
declaration.
"If all goes according to the plan, we'll be able to endorse a new
cabinet November 3," he told reporters after the meeting.
Earlier, he held talks on the coalition with Harmony Center and All
for Latvia.
Harmony Center rejected the Prime Minister's terms, the list of which
included "a recognition of the fact of Latvia's occupation" /from 1940
through to 1991/.
A coalition with All For Latvia failed to come into existence because
a constituent part of Unity known as Society for Other Politics turned
down the idea.
-0-kle
