December 8 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in the online versions of Bosnian media on Wednesday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy:
NEZAVISNE NOVINE
- The lower chamber of Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat Federation parliament has failed to endorse a draft law for the revision of the war veterans’ benefits, a requirement that is part of Bosnia’s stand-by funding arrangement with the International Monetary Fund. The Federation Prime Minister Mustafa Mujezinovic said if the law is not adopted, the cabinet will be forced to cut budget spending by slashing all benefits by 20%.
- Chinese businessmen are interested in investing in Bosnia’s Brcko neutral district, in particular in the production of goods that has not yet been developed in this area, the Brcko government said.
CAPITAL.BA
- Bosnia’s Sparkasse Bank, a unit of Austrian group Steiermaerkische Sparkasse, said it will open this week two new branches as part of its expansion plan to open 12 new branches in the 2008-2009 period.
- Bosnian Serb Republic’s Investment Development Bank has generated a total of 33 million marka in privatisation revenue since it took over the sales of state-owned assets in the Republic, the bank’s director Bojan Golic said. The Investment Development Bank was founded on December 6, 2006.
(1 euro=1.95583 marka)