Today marks "World Press Freedom Day. On the occasion, a group of young Hetq reporters took to the streets of Yerevan and distributed copies of the Hetq weekly newspaper. While handing out copies, the reporters explained the importance of having a free ...
Lending Institutions Look to Courts for Redress of Non-Payment During the past few months, banks and other lending institutions have increasingly petitioned the courts, seeking redress for non-payment of loans made to rural residents. They want the courts ...
For the past few issues, we have been presenting our readers stories of individuals who have taken out bank loans, mainly for agricultural purposes, and the financial mess they have wound up in. We have stressed that the loan system is such that rural residents ...
Will the press think twice about what it writes? At the initiative of three Armenian MP’s, the proposed modifications of the RoA Civil and Criminal Codes give the impression that finally, in Armenia, an attempt is being made to regulate the institution ...
The town is a large community where residents mainly engage in industry and commerce, as well as in the service sector (government, sciences, cultural). The town serves as a regional administrative and cultural hub. To categorize a community as a town/city ...
A group of young environmental activists have scheduled a petition drive today to save a piece of green space called the "Student Garden" (formerly known as the Ghukasyan Garden) in downtown Yerevan. The petition drive will start today and continue till May ...
The fact that Armenia rose two points in the latest Freedom House report on the freedom of the press globally is welcomed by Ashot Melikyan, President of the Freedom of Speech Committee, in the sense that things haven’t gotten worse. However, the news ...
Due to the heavy recent rains, rural agriculture in the Ararat valley has been severely damaged. The Ministry of Agriculture has not yet started to assess the monetary damage. Hetq’s roving photographic eye has visited the region and has noted that ...
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