Celebrated over 27 years, March 15, World Consumer Rights Day was marked in 2010 under “Our money -our rights” motto. On a level with 180 public and state organizations from 72 countries of the world in charge of consumer rights issues, Armenian National Association of Consumers has been supporting activities of World Consumer Organization (CI) for 12 years.

The government announced plans to connect most of Armenia’s general and secondary schools to the internet and join them into a unified network by 2011. The director of National Center for Educational Technologies Areg Grigoryan said 624 schools are already connected to the world wide web with plans pending to connect 750 more schools to the internet once work on building the dedicated network is completed as part of a World Bank funded project.

February 15 is International Childhood Cancer Day. New cases of cancer in Armenia account for 7000 annually, including about 100 children under 15. The figure is terrifying, although they don’t differ much from the world statistics. Cancer is a very insidious disease without marked initial symptoms. In most cases, the latent period of the disease is durable and it can hardly be detected in the initial stage.