Неделю назад Ирода, после победы на другом турнире в Вене, с 48-го места поднялась на 34-ое. Но ей не суждено было, в хорошем смысле этого слова, долго задерживаться в четвертом десятке. Поднявшись на 24-ое место, Ирода оставила позади себя таких именитых теннисисток, как Еленe Лиховцеву, Татьяну Панову, Пэтти Шнидер.

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Предприятие станет ежегодно выпускать 3875 тонн труб диаметром от 75 до 225 мм. Половину продукции предприятие намерено экспортировать, в основном - в страны Центральной Азии.

Кредит в 2,1 млн долларов на закупку оборудования предоставлен Национальным банком ВЭД Узбекистана за счет средств кредитной линии ЕБРР.

Первоначально поставку сырья для производства труб взяла на себя фирма LRS. С пуском в строй Шуртанского газохимического комплекса "Джизак ЛРС пласт" начнет работать на узбекском сырье.

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A British company, MEKS Commodities, which is currently working jointly with UzDaewooavto on a project to export Uzbek cars to European markets, Great Britain and countries of the British Commonwealth, is one of Uzbekistan's foreign partners in this.

Uzbek cars - the Tico, Damas and Nexia models - are being tested at the Auto Terminal testing centre in the British city of Southampton to confirm that they meet European Union standards.

Tony Westbrook, chairman of MEKS Commodities: "We reckon that the output of the UzDaewooavto joint venture will have a great future on the world car market. We are very happy with the high quality of your cars, which will enable them to successfully compete with other cars on the market. Next year, the company is planning to buy about 6,000 such cars. Annual car imports are expected to reach 30,000 by 2003."

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Победа в Вене

На прошлой неделе Ирода праздновала успех на турнире Uniqa Grand Prix в Вене, после чего отправилась в Бельгию. Будучи несеянной, Ирода уверенно сыграла на турнире, не проиграв ни единого сета, даже посеянной первой бельгийке Ким Клийстерс, которая является шестой ракеткой мира. На пути к финалу Ирода повергнула (полуфинал) Ким Клийстерс (Бельгия) - 6:0, 6:4, (четвертьфинал) Анхелес Монтольо

(Испания) - 6:2, 6:4, (второй круг) - Марию Хосе Мартинес-Санчес (Испания) - 6:1, 6:4 и (первый круг) - Елену Данилидоу (Греция) 6-3, 7-6. Призовой фонд Sanex Trophy составил 110,000 долларов США.

Ирода, после опубликованного на этой неделе нового рейтинг-листа, поднялась с 48-го на 34-ое место.

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Комитет считает, что невозможно говорить о свободе прессы в Туркмении и Узбекистане, и что отсутствие общественных дебатов по злободневным вопросам политической жизни в республиках региона помогает репрессивным режимам удержаться у власти.

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Both India and Uzbekistan got of to a slow start with the former trailing 10-11 after the first quarter. India outscored Uzbekistan 24-12 in the second quarter to end up the first half 34-23, Xinhua news agency reported.

After the game resumed, the Indians raced on to a 57-37 lead late in the third quarter. However, they were held pointless in the following eight minutes while Uzbekistan surged back with five consecutive three-pointers.

India then had two successive baskets but Uzbekistan bounced back with a 9-0 run, capped by Mikhail Shafenov's three-pointer, to tie the score at 61-61 with eight seconds remaining in the game.

J Murali, who had eight points in 20 minutes of action, hit in a jumper near the baseline two seconds from the end to give India (1-1) its first victory at the tournament.

In the following group a match, China's Hong Kong came from behind to beat Thailand 92-87 in overtime. In another match in group b, South Korea beat Lebanon 97-71 after leading 49-39 at half time.

Uzbekistan will take on Chinese Taipei, who routed India 5-55 on Friday, in the group's final match on Monday.

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Iroda Tulyaganova

It was Tulyaganova's second win in consecutive tournaments following her victory in the Vienna Grand Prix last Sunday. Her only tournament win before that was the Tashkent Open in June 2000. "I have had two wonderful weeks," Tulyaganova told the crowd after her victory.

Tulyaganova -- ranked number 34 in the world to Leon Garcia's 61st -- quickly established her dominance, breaking her opponent's first service game to take a 2-0 lead.

Games then went with serve to 5-2, when Tulyaganova again broke Leon Garcia to take the first set 6-2.

In the second set, Tulyaganova started hesitantly, dropping her serve twice. But the tiring Leon Garcia's serve proved even more fragile as she was broken three times.

Tulyaganova, who beat Belgium's French Open finalist Kim Clijsters in the semifinal, sealed the match with a powerful forehand into the corner and raised her arms in delight.

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The Chinese Taipei five trounced Uzbekistan 79-65 to win first place in preliminary Group C.

The Uzbekistan team jumped out to an early lead but the Chinese Taipei squad pulled away to lead 40-28 at half time.

In the second half, the Uzbekistan team came back to tie the game at 50-50 but the Chinese Taipei team used a fast break strategy to break the Uzbekistan attacks.

In another game, Japan was defeated by Syria and stands second in Group D.

Both Syria and Japan advanced to the quarter finals to be held in Shanghai from Monday.

The Chinese Taipei team will take on Japan at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

A total of 16 teams from Asia are taking part in the 21st Asian Basketball Championship Tournament.

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The 13m-dollar plant was built with the help of the French company Clecstral. The factory's capacity is 20,000 tonnes of cellulose and 12,000 tonnes of writing paper a year, the joint stock company Uzbekbumaga told ITAR-TASS on Saturday [21 July].

Cotton-processing industry waste will be used in the manufacture of cellulose. The factory will export 10,000 tonnes of cellulose mainly to Europe.

The new factory has modern equipment imported from France, Germany and Russia. Writing paper from cotton pulp will be several times cheaper and better than paper made from wood cellulose.

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Industrial production rose 7.5% in the half and agricultural production grew 7.7%. Investment in the economy edged up 2.9%.

Retail in goods was up 8.6% and retail in services increased by 13.5%. The foreign trade turnover grew 3.3% and there was a trade surplus of $76.6 million in the half.

The budget surplus was 0.4% of GDP in the half. The country's GDP is expected to grow 4.5% this year to 3.828 trillion sum. Industrial production and agricultural output growth are targeted at respectively 5.8% and 5.5%.

The state budget for 2001 targets a budget deficit of 1.5% of GDP.

The official exchange rate for July 19 is 392.32 sum/$1.

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