active agriculture: 86% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 35% of the active male wage earners work in South Africa industry and services: 14% (2002 est.) www.exxun.com/Lesotho/e_ec.html
active Liechtenstein has no military forces, but is interested in European security policy and is an active member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) www.exxun.com/Liechtenstein/h_ml.html
active ... New Democratic Macau Association [Antonio NG Kuok-cheong]; United Forces note: there is no political party ordinance, so there are no registered political parties; politically active groups register as societies or companies www.exxun.com/Macau/d_gv.html
active 18 years of age for voluntary military service; standard obligation is 2 years of active duty and 5 years of reserve service (2007) www.exxun.com/Malawi/h_ml.html
active active volcanoes on Pagan and Agrihan; typhoons (especially August to November) www.exxun.com/NorthernMarianaIslands/b_mp.html
active active volcanism; situated along the Pacific "Ring of Fire"; the country is subject to frequent and sometimes severe earthquakes; mud slides; tsunamis www.exxun.com/PapuaNewGuinea/b_mp.html
active astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year; landslides; active volcanoes; destructive earthquakes; tsunamis www.exxun.com/Philippines/b_mp.html
active ... Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. With its transformation to a democratic, market-oriented country largely completed, Poland is an increasingly active member of Euro-Atlantic organizations www.exxun.com/Poland/a_fg.html
active ... of illicit cannabis and opium poppy and producer of methamphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active illicit crop eradication program; used as transshipment point for Asian opiates, cannabis, and Latin American ... www.exxun.com/Russia/i_ti.html
active active volcanism on Tristan da Cunha, last eruption in 1961 www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/b_mp.html
active occasional typhoons; active volcanism www.exxun.com/Samoa/b_mp.html
active typhoons, but rarely destructive; geologically active region with frequent earthquakes, tremors, and volcanic activity; tsunamis www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/b_mp.html
active 20.49 million economically active (2007 est.) www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/e_ec.html
active ... rising steeply from the sea, are rugged and mountainous; South Georgia is largely barren and has steep, glacier-covered mountains; the South Sandwich Islands are of volcanic origin with some active volcanoes www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/b_mp.html
active ... Mining has declined in importance in recent years with only coal and quarry stone mines remaining active. Surrounded by South Africa, except for a short border with Mozambique, Swaziland is heavily dependent ... www.exxun.com/Swaziland/e_ec.html
active ... ties with its neighbors. However, the country did not officially become a UN member until 2002. Switzerland remains active in many UN and international organizations but retains a strong commitment to neutrality www.exxun.com/Switzerland/a_fg.html
active Congress of the People [Winston DOOKERAN]; Democratic Action Congress or DAC [Hochoy CHARLES] (only active in Tobago); Democratic National Alliance or DNA [Gerald YETMING] (coalition of NAR, DDPT, MND); Movement for National ... www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/d_gv.html
active 18 years of age; universal except for active government security forces (including the police and the military), people with mental disabilities, people who have served more than three months in prison (criminal ... www.exxun.com/Tunisia/d_gv.html
active a Y-shaped chain of four main islands and 80 smaller islands; several of the islands have active volcanoes www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/b_mp.html
active ... significant narcotics-related money-laundering activity, especially along the border with Colombia and on Margarita Island; active eradication program primarily targeting opium; increasing signs of drug-related activities by Colombian insurgents on ... www.exxun.com/Venezuela/i_ti.html
active 18 years of age (male) for compulsory military service; females may volunteer for active duty military service; conscript service obligation - 2 years (3 to 4 years in the navy); 18-45 years of ... www.exxun.com/Vietnam/h_ml.html
active strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes www.exxun.com/Yemen/b_mp.html
active ... Party [Abdal Malik al-MAKHLAFI]; National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party [Dr. Qasim SALAM]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih MUQBIL]; note - there are at least seven more active political parties www.exxun.com/Yemen/d_gv.html
actively ... and is competing on an international scale with Malaysia as a worldwide banking center. Bahrain is actively pursuing the diversification and privatization of its economy to reduce the country's dependence on ... www.exxun.com/Bahrain/e_ec.html
|