Author: Khoyetsian Rose

ARMENIA’S CHAMPION FAILS

A1+
[12:36 pm] 23 October, 2008

The 2008 European chess championship is drawing to an end in
Calitea. There were high expectations for Armenia’s champion "Mika",
which was represented with a strong team in the tournament, but
lost the chance to move up to the top one match before the end of
the championship.

In the 6th tournament "Mika" faced off with the Russian "Saransk",
which placed 7th in the competition. Out of the 6 games, "Mika"
won 5 and one of them was a tie. Levon Aronian and Gabriel Sargsian
celebrated their victories, whiel Magnus Carlsen, Bahadur Jobava and
Tigran Petrosian lost to their competitors and Boris Gelfand scored
half a point.

Former Armenian champion "Bankayin Arka" scored over the Hungarian
"Haladas" team with 3:5:2:5. Ashot Anastasian and Artashes Minasian
also won in the games. "Bankayin Arka" scored another eight points,
but placed 11th with 24 points.

FIMA lost to the Austrian "Advisori Invest" team by 2:5:3:5 and is
currently at 28th with 6 points. The list is headed by the German
"Baden-Baden" team, followed by the Russian "Ural" and "Saransk",
the Ukrainian "Kiev", the Bosnian "Bosna" and the German "Miulheim
Nord". In the women’s games "Mika" won 4:0 in the game against the
Lithuanian "Panevechus". After this game, the Armenian team is at
8th place with 7 points.

£1.6 MILLION-A-YEAR CITYTRADER IS SUING HIS EMPLOYER FOR £92,000 AFTER CLAIMING HE DID NOT GET A BIG ENOUGH BONUS, IT IS REVEALED TODAY

cle-23575810-details/%C2%A31.6m+trader+sues+for+%C 2%A392%2C000+extra/article.do
21.10.08

Alexandre Mouradian, head of the exchange-traded options desk at
Tradition Securities & Futures, took the brokers to an employment
tribunal over the alleged shortfall in his 2006 performance payment.

Mr Mouradian, 38, won the original tribunal case and an appeal,
but French-owned Tradition has now taken it to the Court of Appeal.

The case comes at a time of unprecedented criticism of the
"irresponsible" bonus culture in the City, which many critics claim
was a major factor in the banking crisis.

Court papers reveal that Mr Mouradian, who earns a basic salary of
£300,000, was given responsibility for dividing up the twice-yearly
bonus pool among himself and his team of seven employees and one
consultant.

For the second half of 2006, he awarded himself £1.32 million –
or 92 per cent of the pool – while three colleagues got much smaller
amounts of £60,000, £47,000 and £2,000. Four others got nothing. Mr
Mouradian is disputing the way in which company costs were allocated,
reducing the size of the bonus pool. He claims he is entitled to
another £92,571.60 .

The trader, who has worked for the inter-dealer broking arm of
France’s Compagnie Financière Tradition since 1997, lives in a £3
million end-of-terrace house in Knightsbridge. A stream of builders
arrived at the house this morning and said that £50,000 worth of
refurbishment had recently been done.

The case is a rare insight into the shadowy world of City bonus
calculation.

Many including Gordon Brown have said that bonuses have to be curbed
to stop traders taking excessive risks.

Last year City workers got almost £8 billion but the payout is
expected to fall this year after banks’ huge losses.

Mr Mouradian has brought his case under the Employment Rights
Act, which prohibits the unlawful deduction of an employee’s
wages. Tradition confirmed the proceedings but did not comment further
and Mr Mouradian refused to comment.

–Boundary_(ID_45qCgl0f5F+nYgnJ3hOmGw)–

SERZH SARGSYAN: THE LEVEL OF TODAY’S ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS IS VERY GOOD BUT I WANT THEM TO BE EXEMPLARY BUT NOT DEMONSTRATIVE

ArmInfo
2008-10-21 15:26:00

ArmInfo. , – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at today’s
joint press-conference with his Russian counterpart Dmitriy Medvedev
in Yerevan.

He also added Armenia’s strategic relations with Russia have never
become an obstacle for establishing cooperation with other states
too. When commenting on the viewpoint according to which Armenia is
forced to have the partnership relations with Russia, Serzh Sargsyan
said he absolutely does not agree to such a view, since one cannot
become friends via force. transparent and reliable. And I think the
force of our friendship is in mutual trust. Just this trust makes
it possible for us to set and develop contacts with states in the
region as well as outside it>, – Armenian president said. For his
part, President of Russia Dmitriy Medvedev added , – he said and
added not only pragmatic international or local account is behind the
Armenian-Russian relations, but century-long friendship which should
be preserved forever.

MINISTER NALBANDIAN, AMBASSADOR SIMMONS DISCUSS KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

armradio.am
20.10.2008 17:07

On October 20 Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian received
Ambassador Robert Simmons, the Special Representative of NATO Secretary
General for the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Greeting the guest, Edward Nalbandian expressed satisfaction with the
level of Armenia-NATO cooperation and the process of implementation
of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP).

At the request of the guest, Edward Nalbandian presented the current
state of negotiations on the Karabakh conflict settlement and the
opportunities of solving the issue.

Minister Nalbandian and Ambassador Simmons discussed the latest
developments in the region.

MEDVEDEV EN ARMENIE: COOPERATION COMMERCIALE ET SITUATION DANS LE CAUCASE AU MENU (KREMLIN)

RIA Novosti
10:09 | 20/ 10/ 2008
Russia

International

MOSCOU, 20 octobre – RIA Novosti. Le president russe Dmitri Medvedev,
en visite en Armenie les 20 et 21 octobre, examinera avec son
homologue Serge Sargsian la cooperation entre les deux pays dans la
sphere commerciale et economique et la situation dans le Caucase,
a appris RIA Novosti aupres du Kremlin.

Cette rencontre, organisee a l’initiative de M. Sargsian, sera la
cinquième entre les deux presidents depuis le debut de l’annee, ce
qui temoigne, selon l’interlocuteur de l’agence, du haut niveau du
dialogue politique et du partenariat strategique entre les deux pays.

"La rencontre des presidents permettra de passer en revue la
cooperation dans le domaine economique et commercial. Sur les huit
premiers mois de l’annee 2008, le montant des echanges a augmente de
13% en glissement annuel, pour atteindre 536,5 millions de dollars. La
Russie est le principal partenaire commercial de l’Armenie, et l’un
des principaux investisseurs dans le pays. Au premier semestre 2008,
les investissements russes ont atteint 428 millions de dollars",
a-t-il indique.

Le representant du Kremlin a rappele que la Russie participait a la
modernisation des chemins de fer armeniens, et que des compagnies
telles que Gazprom, la banque VTB et la compagnie electrique Inter
RAO EES operaient en Armenie.

Selon lui, le partenariat des regions russes est egalement extremement
satisfaisant, environ 70 regions cooperant avec le pays dans les
spheres economique, commerciale, scientifique, et culturelle.

M. Medvedev assistera en outre a la ceremonie d’inauguration de la
place de Russie a Erevan et a la creation du reseau de telephonie
mobile de la compagnie russe Komstar en Armenie.

"Lors des negociations, nous examinerons en outre la situation dans
le Caucase, suite a l’agression georgienne contre l’Ossetie du Sud
et les problemes internationaux actuels", a-t-il indique.

Selon lui, on fera grand cas des accords intervenus lors de la
dernière session de l’Organisation du Traite de securite collective
(OTSC) a Moscou le 5 septembre, visant a renforcer la coordination en
matière politique etrangère, notamment a la lumière de la presidence
armenienne de l’organisation.

Concernant le conflit du Haut-Karabakh, une enclave peuplee d’armeniens
en territoire azerbaïdjanais, la Russie reitèrera "sa position de
principe visant a trouver une solution acceptable pour toutes les
parties".

–Boundary_(ID_mSpgdbnbf5+rZN4 IVEuM2A)–

POLICEMEN USED DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE ON MARCH 1st, ARTSVIK MINASIAN
EXPRESSES OPINION

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. It is clearly seen is in some
episodes filmed during the March 1 events that policemen used
disproportionate force against citizens, member of the RA National
Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on Inquiry into March 1-2 Events in Yerevan,
member of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Artsvik Minasian said at the October
16 press conference. In his words, it is not clear, for example, why
policemen chased people, throwing stones at them in Republic Square
which is pretty far from the place of holding the rally.

Besides, according to him, over 7 months the committee members failed
to find out the purpose of the operation implemented in Liberty Square
on the morning of March 1. He said that the committee is sure of only
one thing: the operation began before 7 am and not at 7 am as the
high-ranking police officials claimed.

As for the statement of the former deputy prosecutor general, currently
imprisoned Gagik Jhangirian to the effect that the creation of a
fact-finding group is a death sentence for the ad hoc committee, S.
Minasian considered this statement as one that "deviates from the
reality". In the opinion of ARF members, the committee worked
efficiently, while the goal of the fact-finding group is to examine the
facts most skilfully.

"I SHOULD LIVE IN RA ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORY LONGER THAN ROBERT
KOCHARIAN AND SERZH SARGSYAN," SARGIS HATSPANIAN SAYS

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. "I have never violated any law, have
respected Armenia’s statehood and as a free person sometimes expressed
a civil position," French Armenian Sargis Hatspanian, a former
freedom-fighter, stated at the October 16 press conference. He affirmed
that former RA President Robert Kocharian signed an order on
expatriating him from Armenia in March only for his publicly supporting
first RA President Levon Ter-Petrosian. S. Hatspanian said that as far
back as in 1998 he applied to the proper bodies with the request to
grant him citizenship of Armenia but was refused with the motivation
that he had not lived permanently in Armenia for 10 years. "Now I am
declaring that I should live in RA’s administrative territory longer
than R. Kocharian and Serzh Sargsyan," the former freedom-fighter said.

According to S. Hatspanian, he took part in rallies and sit-down strike
organized in the last decade of February in Liberty Square to express
his protest together with hundreds of thousands of citizens against the
riggings committed in the February presidential elections. "When S.
Hatspanian went to Karabakh to fight he was good, but when he started
protesting against falsifications he became bad," the former
freedom-fighter said.

GHANA’S NEW AMBASSADOR HANDS COPY OF HIS CREDENTIALS TO RA DEPUTY
FOREIGN MINISTER

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 15, NOYAN TAPAN. On October 15, Ghana’s newly
appointed Ambassador to Armenia Edward Apau Sentey (residence Moscow)
handed the copy of his credentials to RA Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham
Gharibjanian, according to a report to Noyan Tapan from RA FM Press and
Information Department.

During the meeting, the interlocutors discussed the possible ways of
development of relations between Armenia and Ghana, mentioning as
prospective fields espesially the spheres of woodwork production,
healthcare, and education. They have also referred to the issues of
deepening the cooperation between the two countries, within the
framework of international organizations, particularly of the UN.

Edward Apau Sentey has graduated from Ghana Military Academy, is a
pilot by profession and a vice-marshal of air forces. In 1969-2005 he
served in the Armed Forces of Ghana. In 2006 he was appointed Ghana’s
Ambassador to RF. He is married.

T-RAY SCIENCE, INC. FILES PROVISIONAL PATENT ON COUNTERFEIT DRUG DETECTOR
[email protected]

SYS-CON Media
Oct. 17, 2008 01:23 PM
NJ

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 10/17/08 — T-Ray
Science, Inc., ("T-Ray", the "Company") an emerging leader in the
field of TeraHertz ("THz") research, announced today that it has filed
for provisional patent protection with the U.S. Patent and Trade Mark
Office on a Whispering Gallery Mode ("WGM") Resonator.

T-Ray’s WGM Resonator is a sensor system used in analyzing samples
for classification, quantification, monitoring and sensing of health
care products, biologics, and tissue samples.

The Company has sponsored Dr. Suren Gigoyan to advance our research on
this technology. T-Ray has already demonstrated proof of concept with
a prototype and are now focused on developing a compact, low cost,
portable device.

The device will allow pharmacists and consumers alike to verify the
authenticity of solid and fluid dosage pharmaceuticals. The counterfeit
drug industry affects millions of people worldwide, particularly in
developing nations. According to the Center for Medicines in the
Public Interest, counterfeit drug sales will reach US $75 billion
globally by 2010, a more than 90 percent increase from 2005.

"T-Ray’s THz WGM Resonator can greatly reduce the plague of counterfeit
drugs in the market today," says T-Ray President and CEO Thomas
Braun. "This platform technology will be the basis for the future
development of portable scanning devices that can be used in other
industrial applications."

About T-Ray Science, Inc.

T-Ray Science, Inc. is a device-to-system technology development
company that seeks to harness the power of TeraHertz radiation, the
last unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Company
is involved in the design, innovation and commercialization of THz
based products.

About Dr. Suren Gigoyan

Dr. Suren Gigoyan is working at the University of Waterloo as a
Visiting Scientist with other T-Ray researchers. Dr. Gigoyan is a
Fulbright Scholar and Head of the Millimeter and Microwave Laboratory,
Institute of Radiophysics & Electronics at the Armenian National
Academy of Sciences. He was recently awarded a $240,000 grant from the
government of Canada for research in his native Armenia. This grant
was awarded through the International Science and Technology Center,
a nonproliferation program established by international agreement
in 1992.

Forward Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements, including, but
not limited to, statements regarding the future commercialization
of THz based products, the market demand for these products and the
proprietary protections that the Company will obtain with regard to
the technology, all of which statements are subject to market risks,
and the possibility that the Company will not be able to obtain patent
protection or obtain sufficient customer demand. These statements are
made based upon current expectations and actual results may differ
from those projected due to a number of risks and uncertainties. The
Company does not undertake to update forward-looking statements in
this news release to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions
or changes in other factors affecting such forward-looking information.

US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN TERRITORY OF ARMENIA

Panorama.am
18:25 17/10/2008

"I’ve already done my selection and I voted for one of the presidential
candidates," said Arpi Vardanyan, the director of Armenian branch of
Armenian Assembly in America.

On November 4, Arpi Vardanyan won’t manage to leave for US and
they have sent the ballot paper to vote. Vardanyan said that 6
candidates are competing for the president’s position but Obama-Mc
Cain competition is too strong that the rest are left under shadow.

Arpi Vardanyan said that according to some surveys 125-200 million
citizens will vote, 7500 electoral territories and 200 thousands
electoral units are established in America.

"I guess that if Obama is elected then the foreign policy of the US
will be changed," she said, and added that most of American Armenians
are going to vote for Obama, who promised to recognize the Genocide
of Armenia.