The number of vehicles registered in Yerevan in three-fourths of this year shows a dramatic increase over the number registered in an entire year only five years ago.

According to Yerevan traffic police, during the first eight months of 2003 over 21,000 cars were registered - 18,000 privately, and the rest for state use. As recently as 1998, less than 1,000 were registered in a year's time.

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Encouraged by Armenia's most powerful political party, thousands of Yerevan residents are expected to sue the Yerevan Water and Sewage JSC, charging that the water company's negligence led to the breakdown of water lines on October 25.

The breakdown affected the routine of approximately 200,000 residents of Arabkir and Central district, where the contaminated water triggered an epidemic of dysentery and sent 260 people to hospital.

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A number of 'Ws' remain unanswered concerning water problems resulting from a ruptured pipe some three weeks ago. Who will take responsibility for the inconvenience of hundreds of thousands of citizens and the hospitalization of more than 200? And, when?

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Over the next two years, World Vision Armenia intends to spend $3.2 million on AIDs prevention, treatment and awareness in Armenia.

Funding for the initiative comes from the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Family of Tigran Naghdalyan and defendants in his murder trial have had their final say and it is now up to Judge Saro Aramyan to render a verdict within the next 10 days.

Naghdalyan, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Armenian Public Television, was shot to death last December 28.

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