61.   The State Department said Wednesday that Cemex, another Mexican firm threatened under the law, was pulling out of a cement plant it operates in Cuba.

62.   Under the new law, GCC authorities would carry out studies to assess environmental damage from existing cement plants, which constitute the biggest non-oil industry in the region.

63.   Leviste said China Rebar was planning to set up a cement plant and a plant to make aluminum construction materials.

64.   Meanwhile the head of the Egyptian union of entrepreneurs, Mohammad Mahmoud Ali Hassan, announced the construction of the first private cement plant in south Egypt.

65.   Nai Shwe Kyin said he will ask the government to divert some of the gas from the pipeline to a cement plant planned in the Mon state.

66.   Nissho Iwai was expecting to boost the investment placing with a mammoth investment in a cement plant, he added.

67.   Preval announced on Monday that he would allow the sensitive privatizations of a cement plant, a flour plant, an electric company and telephone company.