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BORDER TROUBLES
* USA/Mexico - Cross-border trucks might go nationwide - The Transportation Department may start a pilot program to test Mexican rigs operating in the entire U.S.WASHINGTON,DC,USA -The Daily Breeze (Torrance,CA), by Joe Cantlupe -8 Oct 2006: -- The possibility of Mexican trucks being driven throughout the United States has been stuck in heavy bureaucratic traffic for years... Now the federal Department of Transportation is considering options to get its plans moving -- including a possible pilot program that would allow as many as 100 trucks to be driven beyond an existing 20-mile border zone -- a move that truck safety groups vehemently oppose...
* India/Nepal - Truckers protest sees Sunsari customs shut for the third day; daily revenue loss
Bhimnagar,SUNSARI,India -Kantipur Online (Kathmandu,Nepal) -Oct 7, 2006: -- The Bhimnagar check point at Sunsari customs office remained closed for the third day running on Saturday after last night's round of joint talks between the officials from the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), Nepal Police and Truck entrepreneurs failed to make any headway... The Bhimnagar check point at the Sunsari customs, Bhimnagar has remained closed since Thursday, thanks to the double standards in the BSF policy. All vehicles except cycles and rickshaws have been halted while all cargo trucks to and from India have been left stranded in the border area in the both sides...
* North Korea/China: Trade Dwindling
Seoul,South Korea -Donga.com -Oct 9, 2006: -- There is a bridge named “a friendship bridge between North Korea and China,” the biggest trading checkpoint between the two countries... It is the bridge connecting between Shinuiju and Dandong, China. There is only silence in recent days unlike it used to be very busy as trading cars passed by continuously. This is because commodities to support North Korea have been decreased drastically since North Korea’s missile test in July and their recent announcement on nuclear test... One of Chinese traders to North Korea said, “There used to be two hundred trucks passing the bridge a day, but I think there are less than a hundred these days"... However, there were only 20 trucks from North Korea, and merely 40 trucks were waiting in line in front of the customs to enter North Korea...
* Somalia/Kenya border: Swarm amid war fears
LIBOI, Kenya -AFP, by Karen Calabria -Oct 8, 2006: -- Mohammed Hussein winces in pain as he limps through the dusty gravel of this desolate Kenyan border town, an arduous 20-day trek from his home in neighboring Somalia from where he has fled... Tired, hungry and often ill, the new arrivals - who are estimated will surpass 50,000 by the end of the year - threaten to overwhelm the overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp, now home to 153,000 mainly Somali refugees... Like Hussein and his family, most have made the difficult and desperate voyage on foot, bouncing in the bays of cargo trucks and buses crammed with tense Somalis, all eager to make it to Kenya.... (Photo, REUTERS: REFUGEE CRISIS: A Kenyan policeman tries to keep order as Somali women line up to register as aliens in Nairobi)
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