Entrepreneurship and Innovation Today

Belarus entrepreneurs rally against economic restrictions

The BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union reports today:

BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union.  London: Dec 10, 2007.  Pg.  1

Excerpt from report by Belarusian privately-owned independent news agency Belapan

Minsk, 10 December: The year 2008 might become the last one in the history of Belarusian entrepreneurship as many sole proprietors will become unemployed," said Viktar Harbachow, head of For Free Development of Private Enterprise movement, speaking at October Square where sole proprietors are holding an unsanctioned rally.

He called on the rally participants "not to pretend that nothing is happening" and rise up against presidential edict No 760, which mandates that starting from 1 January 2008 sole proprietors will be able to employ only close relatives and family members.

He said that sole proprietors should insist on the urgent adoption of a small business law.

[Passage omitted: other business leaders have addressed the rally]

There are currently several hundred people on October Square.  The square is surrounded by the police.

Credit: Belapan news agency, Minsk, in Russian 1053 10 Dec 07

Marriage and tree planting? a new social concept and tradition

Agence France-Presse reports that couples in Indonesia's Sragen district who want to get married or divorced  need to participate in the compulsory tree-planting campaign. The added cost of getting married -5 seedlings. Cost of divorce-the couple must donate 25 seedlings to the government.

Cheaper to get married then divorced. You be the judge.

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