Yearbook 2008 Latvia. The popular dissatisfaction with the government in the wave of protests last autumn continued. At the beginning of the year, the trade union movement led to a constitutional amendment that would allow the people to take the initiative to dissolve parliament and thus new elections. The proposal received over 200,000 signatures and…
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Laos 2008
Yearbook 2008 Laos. Save the Children published a report in May that said that more than two-thirds (69 percent) of Laotian children did not have access to basic health care. See 3rjewelry.com for Laos travel guide. In particular, in rural areas and among minority people, poverty was more widespread in Laos than in other Southeast Asian…
Kyrgyzstan 2008
Yearbook 2008 Kyrgyzstan. After the big victory in the parliamentary elections before the New Year, the power party Ak Zjol in January decided to limit the right of expression in parliament. Only group leaders, committee chairs, presidents and proposers would debate, which was condemned by the opposition. In February, an investigation report found that the…
Kuwait 2008
Yearbook 2008 Kuwait. All members of the government demanded resignation on March 17, citing difficulties in cooperating with Parliament on the country’s economic policy. The emergency crisis was triggered by the government approving a salary increase of 120 dinars per month (equivalent to $ 466) for all Kuwaiti, both public and private, while Parliament wanted…
Kosovo 2008
Yearbook 2008 Kosovo. At the beginning of the year, Kosovo was formally a Serbian province, placed under UN administration. During the year, the Albanian majority declared an independent state. By the end of the year, Kosovo was a divided country with some unclear status; only 52 of the world’s nations had recognized the new state….
Kiribati 2008
Yearbook 2008 Kiribati. Kiribati is creating the world’s largest marine nature reserve, an area large as California with untouched coral reefs and rich fish stocks that are currently threatened by depletion and climate change. It was at the UN Conference on Biodiversity in Brazil in 2006 that Kiribati President Anote Tong announced the decision on…
Kenya 2008
Yearbook 2008 Kenya. The year began with severe unrest in large parts of the country as a result of President Mwai Kibaki being declared victorious in the presidential elections at the end of December 2007, despite a seemingly confident leadership of opposition candidate Raila Odinga. The violence bore clear features of ethnic cleansing carried out…
Kazakhstan 2008
Yearbook 2008 Kazakhstan. The state-owned oil and gas company Kazmunaigas increased its ownership in the Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea in January. This happened after extended negotiations with the foreign companies that found oil in Kashagan, considered the world’s largest field outside the Middle East. Kazakhstan hopes to double its oil recovery by…
Jordan 2008
Yearbook 2008 Jordan. In April, 24 political parties were dissolved in accordance with a 2007 law that stipulated that each party must be instituted by at least 500 members from at least five different provinces. Only twelve of the country’s 36 parties were allowed to continue operating. In May, the State Security Court sentenced three…
Japan 2008
Yearbook 2008 Japan. In November, happy residents of the Japanese city of Obama celebrated the victory in the US presidential election. But otherwise, the mood was printed in Japan towards the end of 2008. The international financial crisis also became dramatic for Japan, who, however, boasted of learning from his banking crisis of 1989-90 and…