Voting opens for inaugural Emerging Market Airports

ameinfo-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:56:00 AM CET | info

The Middle East Aerospace Consortium ('MEAC') announces today that voting has officially opened for the first annual Emerging Market Airports ('EMA') Awards, to be held on April 26th 2010 in Dubai....

Dole Inaugurates a Mobile Medical Unit to Attend Rural Communities in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica

earthtimes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:29:00 AM CET | info

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. - Dole Food Company, Inc. (NYSE:DOLE) announced today that it inaugurated this week a mobile medical unit, which now offers some rural communities of the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica access to preventive medicine and specialized health attention. This...

Day4 Energy Reports Fourth-Quarter and Year End 2009 Results / Fourth Quarter Strongest in History with Revenues of $36.6 Million

finanznachrichten Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:16:00 AM CET | info

BURNABY, BC, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Day4 Energy Inc. (TSX: DFE), a solar electric technology developer and supplier of premium solar energy ......

West Midlands landlords join forces 'to smash social barriers'

24dash Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:11:00 AM CET | info

Social housing landlords in the West Midlands have joined forces at a city summit to smash social barriers. Whitefriars Housing Group, Orbit Housing Group and Midland Heart Group have been tackling problems such as debt, unemployment, hate crime and racial abuse head-on as part of the Midlands Cohesion project....

High Profile Speakers Announced for Coface Country Risk Conference in Manchester

earthtimes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:59:00 AM CET | info

Chief Executive of the ICM and leading economists will address delegates on 9th June 2010....

Gulf Aluminium Council launched at MEED 2010

ameinfo-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:47:00 AM CET | info

Two years ago, in 2008, the primary aluminium producers in the Gulf region announced the formation of an organisation known as the Gulf Aluminium Council ("GAC") that would represent, promote and protect the interests of the aluminium industry within the region....

Rural students escape Youth Allowance changes

abc-au Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:34:00 AM CET | info

The Federal Government has agreed to make rural students exempt from changes to its overhaul of the Youth Allowance system in order to win Opposition support....

European Microfinance Facility

euronews-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:09:00 AM CET | info

A new European microcredit programme aims to boost job creation in the EU by backing small company start-ups. Who can go after this microcredit?...

Conference on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

ethioipianreview Tuesday, March 16, 2010 7:27:00 AM CET | info

Advocacy for Ethiopia (AFE) and Ethiopian National Priorities Consultative Process (ENPCP) are pleased to announce the convening of a historic three-day conference on good governance, peace, security, and sustainable development in Washington, D.C, and April 9-11, 2010, at the Double Tree Hotel, Crystal City, VA....

Wales could produce double the energy it needs by 2025

icWales Tuesday, March 16, 2010 7:19:00 AM CET | info

WALES will be able to generate nearly twice as much electricity as it needs entirely from renewable sources, Environment Minister Jane Davidson has claimed....

China stocks up on small-cap buying; HK reverses gains

finanznachrichten-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:59:00 AM CET | info

By Jun Ebias and Lu Jianxin HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, March 16 (Reuters) - Shares in China recovered from a five-week low on Tuesday, helped by retail investor ......

Cluster policing stregnthen partnerships

TheGovernmentOfBotswana Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:47:00 AM CET | info

GABORONE - Cluster policing initiative is said to be strengthening partnerships between the police and the community. Giving a keynote address at the cluster policing awards ceremony at Botswana Police College, the Minister of Defence, Justice and Security said the police alone cannot fight crime.......

Hungary Opposition Party Fidesz Releases Election Agenda

budapestsun Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:29:00 AM CET | info

"Hungary’s leading opposition party Fidesz has identified five key national issues for the next government to address, with top party officials discussing each of the five areas in the agenda just released for the April general ballot. The author of the Economy and Employment chapter is former Economy Minister György Matolcsy....

Alibaba.com Supports U.S. Businesses and President Obama's National Export Initiative

earthtimes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:21:00 AM CET | info

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Alibaba.com (HKSE: 1688), the global leader in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce, today announced its support for President Obama’s National Export Initiative. Alibaba.com is committed to helping facilitate global trade and supporting U.S. exports throughout t...

African insurers canvass adoption of IFRS

vanguardngr Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:56:00 AM CET | info

Insurance operators from 18 African countries have called for an urgent need for insurance industry in the continent to fully adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards, IFRSs, if the continent must rebound from the global financial crisis....

Corning Sees Continued Strength in LCD TV Sales

earthtimes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:17:00 AM CET | info

CORNING, N.Y. - Investors got a first look today inside Corning Incorporated’s (NYSE: GLW) new Generation 10 LCD glass substrate facility in Sakai City, Japan, and heard good news about worldwide LCD TV retail sales. During the facility tour, Jim Clappin, preside...

Edited by Alex Brewer :Back to Stone Age Protectionism

watchingamerica Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:50:00 AM CET | info

Due to U.S. government intervention, EADS (the European Aerospace Defense and Space Company, maker of Airbus aircraft) has withdrawn from competition for the contract to build new U.S. Air Force in-flight refueling aircraft. Leading German newspapers see Obama’s “America First” initiative as the end of the trans-Atlantic West....

Good Support for Clarendon Parish Visioning Symposium

jis Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:25:00 AM CET | info

Under the direction of the Office of The Prime Minister's (OPM) Department of Local Government, the Clarendon leg of the series of Parish Visioning Symposiums was held on Tuesday (March 9) at the Versalles Hotel, May Pen, Clarendon. With 50 agencies from various sectors in the parish participating,.......

Country’s burden has escalated in 2 years: External debt,

dailytimesPK Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:22:00 AM CET | info

liabilities rise 28% By Ijaz Kakakhel ISLAMABAD: The external debt and liabilities of the country crossed $55.266 billion in January 2010 from $43.141 billion in the corresponding period of 2008, showing a net increase 28 percent in the last two years of the present government....

Business laws to be reformed

newtimes-RW Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:21:00 AM CET | info

KIGALI - The Minister of Trade and Commerce, Monique Nsanzabaganwa, yesterday tabled before parliament a proposal to reform business laws and also introduced new ones to facilitate doing business in Rwanda. She told the House that the reforms are aimed at improving Rwanda’s ranking in the World.......

President promulgates new constitution (3/15/2010)

africafiles Monday, March 15, 2010 11:36:00 PM CET | info

The official government newsletter from the Angolan Embassy, London. Some headings: New constitution promulgated; courts returned it to Parliament demanding that the President and Vice president be elected by direct vote; it claims here that these amendments were added before promulgation....

Now, just put up your FDI proposals online

financialexpress Monday, March 15, 2010 11:10:00 PM CET | info

Finance secretary Ashok Chawla on Monday launched a website of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to enable foreign investors file applications electronically....

PM closes works of 7th FEMIP conference

ATAP-en Monday, March 15, 2010 10:37:00 PM CET | info

{mosimage}Tunis, March 15, 2010 (TAP)- Prime minister Mohammed Ghannouchi closed, on Monday afternoon in Tunis, works of the 7th Conference of the Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership (FEMIP)....

Closing the phosphorus loop

theglobeandmail Monday, March 15, 2010 9:15:00 PM CET | info

Why scientists’ scramble to recapture phosphorus has turned into a race against time...

Data Center Consolidation Sees Total Cost of Ownership Fall by up to 40%

7thspace Monday, March 15, 2010 9:00:00 PM CET | info

Cisco today announced that Tele Sistemi Ferroviari (TSF) S.p.A., Italy's leader in the development and management of ICT services for the transport and logistics sector, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing SystemTM in its data center. Serving the ......

Tishman Sofia Airport Center Office 1st to Win Green Award

novinite Monday, March 15, 2010 8:44:00 PM CET | info

The Management of the Sofia Airport Center, a project of Tishman International and GE Real Estate, has presented the first building in Bulgaria to be LEED certificed. A presentation by Tishman International highlighted the new building development at Sofia Airport Center, the international business.......

Uganda: Uganda, Rwanda Border to Run 24hrs

allafrica Monday, March 15, 2010 8:23:00 PM CET | info

Plans are under way to modernize Katuna, the Rwanda-Uganda customs crossing into one-stop border crossing that will operate 24 hours....

Why Mathare are breaking fresh ground

eastandard Monday, March 15, 2010 7:54:00 PM CET | info

Even before the ink dries on the Sh20m deal with Kenyan Data Networks, Mathare United are on the threshold of another corporate coup....