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What Bolivia is after is a largely, if not purely, state-run lithium industry from mining to industrialization, which might even include actual manufacturing of the coveted lithium-ion batteries. Morales recently announced a $5.7 million pilot plant to process raw lithium carbonate, now under construction on the edge of the Salar, which hopes to produce its first 40 metric tons of the material by the end of this year...
...Young. State-run museums in France will be free to anyone 25 or younger starting April 4. There are worse ways to use a fake...
...left-wing Chávez caught Washington by surprise in the fall of 2005 when he announced that Citgo - the Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-run oil firm, Petróleos de Venezuela - would give millions of gallons of heating oil at half price, and eventually free, to struggling households in the American Northeast and Midwest. By this year, the service has expanded to more than 200,000 families in 23 states. The partisan controversy around it has also grown. Republicans grouse that taking fuel from Chávez, America's chief antagonist in the hemisphere, is unpatriotic...
...Whether the government will get the global companies working within its borders to help maintain that "healthy way" remains to be seen. Although the state-run newspaper Thanh Nien reported that Ministry of Information and Communication deputy minister Do Quy Doan will contact Google and Yahoo! about their cooperation, representatives from both companies have said they have yet to be contacted. Google, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo have all been under fire recently for complying with the Chinese government to filter out content pertaining to controversial subjects in the country such as Falun Gong and Chinese occupation of Tibet...
...Zimbabwe THE POLITICS OF DISEASE With cholera deaths in Zimbabwe approaching 1,000 and the country's state-run media blaming the outbreak on Western biological warfare, Britain and the U.S. have urged the U.N. Security Council to condemn President Robert Mugabe. South Africa, which has been mediating its neighbor's political stalemate but faces the threat of infection across its border, has resisted U.N. involvement, though it will give up its temporary seat on the council at the start...