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...Coca-Cola Company provides healthcare coverage to our employees in Africa, which includes free, confidential AIDS testing; access to antiretroviral drugs; and a local AIDS committee that offers basic training in HIV/AIDS awareness,” said the statement. “Our bottling partners, who are independent companies, are at various stages of developing their AIDS strategies. They are responsible for providing healthcare for their employees and some of their healthcare offerings may differ from ours...
That night on the train in Sukhbaatar I wondered if such concepts as eco-tourism and international development aid seemed distant for Mongolians. The experience of Mongolians has a way of showing that life is more complex than such theories, though life usually centers on very basic and ordinary needs. Even, or especially, in Mongolia...
...BASIC INDUSTRY This highly cyclical group includes Dow Chemical, aluminum producer Alcoa, rubber company Goodyear Tire and metal benders like Caterpillar--outfits that make what sells well in an economic recovery. Because their earnings are volatile, a better way to value such companies is by looking at sales, says John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. Over the past 30 years, he says, this group has traded at a 10% discount to the price-to-sales ratio (price per share divided by sales per share) of the S&P 500. The discount today...
...three other municipalities opted out. Similar ID-card networks are being introduced in Malaysia and Hong Kong with little public outcry. But a survey by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper found that 86% of Japanese were concerned personal information would be misused. For now, the system only allows retrieval of basic information like addresses, but critics say a centralized network could be the first step in aggregating files residing in disparate bureaucratic databanks. The government has yet to draft an accompanying privacy law as promised. Worse, the new registry accidentally leaked information two days after the launch, sending letters to households...
...Korea's agricultural output has fallen dramatically and its infrastructure is crumbling. Most of its factories have shut down and its electric power system is in shambles. The country has one of the worst credit ratings in the world and its currency, the won, is not convertible. Building the basic services that might make North Korea alluring to more foreign investors will take billions of dollars in loans from international lenders like the World Bank...