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
actively
... minimal, though awareness about trafficking appeared to be increasing in the country; the government does not actively investigate cases, work to identify trafficking victims among vulnerable populations, or rescue and provide care ...
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/i_ti.html
actively
none (extensive self-rule as part of the Kingdom of Denmark; foreign affairs is the responsibility of Denmark, but Greenland actively participates in international agreements relating to Greenland)
www.exxun.com/Greenland/d_gv.html
actively
... oil production comes from the Indian Ocean. Beach sands rich in heavy minerals and offshore placer deposits are actively exploited by bordering countries, particularly India, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand
www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/e_ec.html
actively
... is attempting to "Omanize" the labor force by replacing foreign expatriate workers with local workers. Oman actively seeks private foreign investors, especially in the industrial, information technology, tourism, and higher education fields ...
www.exxun.com/Oman/e_ec.html
actively
... this underdeveloped country if extraction and delivery projects were to be expanded. The Turkmenistan Government is actively seeking to develop alternative petroleum transportation routes to break Russia's pipeline monopoly. President for ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/a_fg.html
Activists
... Party of Afghanistan [Abdul Rashid JALILI]; New Afghanistan Party [Mohammad Yunis QANUNI]; Peace and National Welfare Activists Society [Shamsul Haq Noor SHAMS]; Peace Movement [Shahnawaz TANAI]; People's Aspirations Party of Afghanistan ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/d_gv.html
activists
... later allowed elections featuring pro-government and moderate religious-based parties, but did not appease the activists who progressively widened their attacks. The fighting escalated into an insurgency, which saw intense fighting ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/a_fg.html
activists
Shi'a activists; Sunni Islamist legislators other: several small leftist and other groups are active
www.exxun.com/Bahrain/d_gv.html
activists
... 2007 unexpectedly increased fuel prices, tens of thousands of Burmese marched in protest, led by prodemocracy activists and Buddhist monks. In late September 2007, the government brutally suppressed the protests, killing at ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/a_fg.html
activists
Guam Federation of Teachers' Union; Guam Waterworks Authority Workers other: activists; indigenous groups
www.exxun.com/Guam/d_gv.html
activists
other: Islamists; merchants; political groups; secular liberals and pro-governmental deputies; Shia activists; tribal groups
www.exxun.com/Kuwait/d_gv.html
activities
Pakistan has built fences in some portions of its border with Afghanistan which remains open in some areas to foreign terrorists and other illegal activities
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/i_ti.html