Gambia News : Gambian students run gas stations

Several customers at the CPC Corp. gas station in southern Taiwan's Chiayi City said it was "new and interesting" to see foreign students working there.

Two of the students are girls - Tsaton Jallow and Astatou Jallow - who have been studying at National Taipei University of Technology for four years, and the other is Madun Sanyang, who studied in Britain for a year before coming to Taiwan, according to Lee Tien-chieh, head of the CPC's Chiayi-Tainan branch office.

They were assigned by the Gambia National Petroleum Company to take a three-week training program Dec. 7-25 on gas station operation and management in Taiwan, in anticipation of the establishment of the first state-run gas station in The Gambia, scheduled to open in 2010.

At present, there are four private companies involved in the liquid fuel retail business in The Gambia.