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| Strategy to avert water crises in Yemen
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SANA’A, Oct 10 — Halving agriculture consumption of water, reducing urban water waste by 50 percent, and treating wastewater are the main measures proposed to avert a water crisis in Yemen.
An action plan has been drawn up after a two-year study by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Full Story...
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University students’ distraught over interrupted education
SANA’A, Oct. 10 — Education for students in government universities are likely to be disrupted end of October because of a probable professors strike. The teachers had been demanding an improvement of their conditions for the past two years from the Universities’ administrations, Ministry of Higher Education, and Ministry of Civil Services. Full Story...
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Government policy to stamp out laziness and absenteeism
SANA’A, Oct. 8 —A new government policy is underway to stamp out laziness and absenteeism at ministries and public service units. The Civil Service Minister, Hamoud Khalid As-Sufi, confirmed to The Yemen Times that they have launched an initiative “to correct negative things hindering job performances of the state's administrative system”. Full Story...
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A country run through whims
“Yemen is a state of law and order.” This is one of the many clichés repeated by the president. He claims this as a result of his 30 years of leadership. “We created good laws, whereby everyone is equal”, he keeps saying. However, no one really believes this because everyday life just proves the opposite. Full Story...
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| COMMON SENSE |
| By Hassan Al-Haifi |
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Yemen Times free cyber-postcard
service with several genuine photos from Yemen.
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The
place where you could find information on hundreds of
Yemenis living away from home. |
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Send a
letter to the editor instantly on the web, and have your letter
published on the website (letters to the editor section) and on
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SANA’A, Oct. 9 — There is a high risk that locust infestations will increase dramatically on both sides of the Red Sea in the coming months because of good rainfall since August. 
SANA’A, Oct., 10 — The Yemeni government represented by the Attorney General has released Ameena Ali Abdullah Al-Tuhaif along with her child who was born in the prison. Ameena is one of the citizens of Shibam district, Mahwait governorate. 
