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Men still on top in latest gender study
Men still on top in latest gender study
TALLINN - According to the World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report for 2009, women earn 40 percent less, on average, in comparison with men in doing the same job in Estonia. The latest statistics showed that Estonia ranks 98th for wage equality for similar work among 134 countries which were surveyed for the report. The report measures the size of the gap between women and men in five critical areas including economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, as well as health and survival, based on UNIFEM’s (United Nations Development Fund for Women) fin...  Full story...
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 Oct 28, 2009 - Missing sub resurfaces after 90 years...
Missing sub resurfaces after 90 years
TALLINN - A British submarine which was lost in action over 90 years ago in the Baltic sea has just been found. The submarine HMS E18, taking part in an extraordinary naval operation authorized by Winston Churchill at the outbreak of the First World War never returned from a routine patrol in May 1916. As no one witnessed her sinking, no trace was ever found – until now. The submarine was one of...
 Oct 21, 2009 - Pharmacies face closure under new law...
Pharmacies face closure under new law
TALLINN - According to a study by Faktum & Ariko, completed in September, the decision now under discussion in the Riigikogu, which would allow for the sale of pharmaceuticals, or medicines, in shops, supermarkets and department stores would endanger the business of 90 percent of district pharmacies, with only 3 percent able to manage the change effectively. Today district pharmacies are f...
 Oct 14, 2009 - NATO chief arrives to discuss alliance’s new strat...
NATO chief arrives to discuss alliance’s new strategy
TALLINN - Estonia’s President Toomas Hendrik Ilves’s meeting on Oct. 8 with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen centered on discussions of the alliance’s operations in Afghanistan and the topic of collective defense. “In the course of the Afghanistan operation and in directing it onto the path of success, all of us, i.e. NATO and the alliance’s partners, must demonstrate patience, resolve...
 Oct 07, 2009 - Foreign Ministry strengthens Southern ties ...
Foreign Ministry strengthens Southern ties
TALLINN - Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet signed an agreement for the protection of investments between Estonia and the Kingdom of Morocco while in attendance at the UN General Assembly in New York in September. He also established diplomatic relations with Mozambique, signing a joint communique with the Foreign Minister, Oldemiro Baloi. While signing the agreement for the protection of i...
 Oct 01, 2009 - Ansip says ‘case is closed’...
Ansip says ‘case is closed’
TALLINN - Estonia’s Prime Minister Andrus Ansip has rejected calls for a new inquiry into the 1994 Baltic sea ferry disaster that claimed 852 lives, as claims of a cover-up continue to circulate, reports news agency LETA. “The government has no plan to launch a new investigation, nor to request a study of the wreck” of the vessel, which went down exactly 15 years ago, Ansip said. The ferry Est...
 Nov 04, 2009 - Eesti in brief...
At their meeting on Oct. 30, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and European Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros discussed the need to guarantee greater tran...
 Nov 04, 2009 - Regional chiefs meet to discus...
TALLINN - The heads of government of the eight Nordic and Baltic countries met in Stockholm on Oct. 26 to discuss issues including energy security, an...
 Oct 28, 2009 - Eesti in brief...
Foreign Minister Urmas Paet opened the Estonian Embassy in, Minsk, Belarus, on Oct. 20. Paet said that Estonia would like to “intensify Estonia-Belaru...
 Oct 21, 2009 - Eesti in brief...
Just 14 percent of Estonians are satisfied with the work of the government in fighting the economic crisis, while 51 percent are not satisfied with th...
 Oct 21, 2009 - New energy ideas power discus...
TALLINN - Prime Minister Andrus Ansip on Oct. 14 opened the international energy conference at Tallinn University of Technology called “Baltic Clean a...
 Oct 14, 2009 - Eesti in brief...
The President’s Cultural Foundation announced the winners of its Educational Award 2009 on Oct. 7. The Educational Award is intended for people at all...
 Oct 07, 2009 - Eesti in brief...
According to the Foreign Ministry, Estonia sent an information technology expert to Indonesia, along with the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination ...
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