Forum of autumn exhibitions opens in Khabarovsk.

KHABAROVSK, October 8 (Itar-Tass) - About 200 Russian firms and
enterprises as well as 15 companies from Japan and the office of the
Korean National Tourism Organization will participate in a forum of autumn
exhibitions. It's opening in Khabarovsk, the Russian Far East, on October
8.
Seven thematic exhibitions have been unveiled at the city athletics
stadium. The themes include "Small and Medium Business", "Tourism, Sport
and Entertainment", "Information Science, Communications, Electronics" and
"Graphic Arts. Design. Advertising."
Expositions "Children's World", "Youth Policy: Education, Career,
Employment", "The World of Medicine. Health and Beauty" have opened under
the same roof.
The range of goods, services and developments varies from industrial
products and food to collections of children's wear, equipment for sport
and tourism. Banking programs of support for entrepreneurs and the latest
educational programs are also presented.
Valery Cherepanov, the general director of the Khabarovsk
International Fair, said that Russian and foreign firms would hold
presentations and seminars and roundtable meetings would be organized.
A health action called "The Health Fair" will be held for the
residents and guests of Khabarovsk on Saturday, October 10. All of them
will be able to undergo free primary diagnostics, measure blood pressure,
undergo express blood tests for sugar and receive consultations of eye and
speech specialists as well as other doctors.
The forum of autumn exhibitions will be held in Khabarovsk on October
8-11. Its organizer is the Ministry of Economic Development and External
Relations of the Khabarovsk territory. The best goods and developments
will be awarded the Golden Medals of the Khabarovsk International Fair.


.Koreans from Sakhalin leave for historical homeland.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, October 8 (Itar-Tass) - The first group of Korean
wartime veterans from the Sakhalin Island will on Thursday be dispatched
to the Republic of Korea, their historical homeland, under the 2009
repatriation program.
The group includes 29 Koreans of the fist generation who had been
brought by the Japanese to work in Sakhalin Island under a forced labor
mobilization plan before 1945 (the southern part of Sakhalin was under
Japan's governance from 1905 to 1945). The oldest returnee was born in
1926.
The chairman of the public organization of divided families of the
Sakhalin Koreans Sergei Li Su Din told Itar-Tass that 24 Korean returnees
from Khabarovsk, Moscow, Almaty and Vladivostok would leave for South
Korea on October 8. These people had lived and worked in Sakhalin before
1945 but then they were scattered in the territory of the former USSR. A
total of 588 people will be dispatched to the Republic of Korea in
2009-2010. They will stay at holiday homes, homes for old people and in
ordinary flats in ten cities in South Korea.
A massive campaign to return ethnic Koreans to their historical
homeland began in 2000. Until now more than 3,200 Koreans who were brought
to Sakhalin by the Japanese have left for the Republic of Korea. The
repatriation program is carried out at the expense of the Red Cross
Organizations of Japan and South Korea.

.Politicians, economists & clergy gather for world public forum.

RODOS, Greece, October 8 (Itar-Tass) - More than 400 politicians,
economists, members of the royal families and clergymen from 60 countries
will take part in the Dialogue of Civilizations World Public Forum on the
Greek Island of Rodos on Thursday.
They will suggest their own recipes of fighting the world economic
crisis, preserving the "structural integrity" of the world community,
expanding inter-confessional cooperation and presenting alternative models
of political set-up, a source at the forum's organizing committee told
Itar-Tass.
The forum will listen to the Rodos report - an interim result of work
of the international research group "Possible Future Scenarios." It
comprises world experts in economy, humanitarian and social sciences.
The participants in the forum include Vladimir Yakunin, the head of
Russian Railways and the founding president of the Dialogue of
Civilizations World Public Forum, the former Austrian federal chancellor
Alfred Gusenbauer, Spanish Prince Enrique de Bourbon, the Russian
president's special envoy for the Middle East Alexander Saltanov and
Iranian Ayatollah Muhammad Ali Tashiri.


.Norwegian woman regains senses after falling overboard.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 8 (Itar-Tass) - A Norwegian woman
tourist who fell into the water from a yacht in the Avachinsky Bay in the
Kamchatka region early on October 7 has regained her senses. She is in
hospital under constant medical supervision, a source at the regional
hospital in the Kamchatka peninsula told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
Two people -a man and a woman - fell overboard from the Bisarg tourist
yacht registered in Oslo early on Wednesday. The man overcooled in cold
water and had to undergo through warming procedures. His life is now out
of danger.
The woman was placed in intensive care because seawater had got into
her lungs.
The yacht arrived at the Kamchatka coast on October 6 as part of a
cruise program and is allowed to stay in its waters until October 10.
An investigation into the incident is under way.

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