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Algeria’s minister of industry and Russia’s deputy minister of trade and industry yesterday discussed strengthening bilateral industrial and economic cooperation, especially in the fields of mechanical, pharmaceutical and railway industries, Anadolu Agency reported, citing an Algerian Ministry of Industry statement. Algeria’s Minister Ahmed Zaghdar received Russia’s Vasily Osmakov at the Algerian ministry’s headquarters in Algiers, […]

The Indonesian Tourism Minister knows that SMEs MATTER! The World Tourism Network just announced TIME 2023, its first Global Think Tank, Summit and FAM in Bali. Travel & Tourism Professionals in small and medium size companies are in 129 member countries of the World Tourism Network. They are invited to meet in Bali for TIME […]

VACATIONS are not just for adventure or relaxation anymore. Travelers nowadays are more enthusiastic about health and spirituality. According to experts at ‘Planet Cruise’ online searches for ‘Yoha Holiday’ have risen by 376 percent in the last 12 months and the hashtag #yogatrip has been used about 127k times on Instagram. Travel experts at Planet […]

Canberra [Australia], January 31 (ANI): The Australia India Institute on Tuesday announced a new Australia-India Defence Programme which will be launched in Canberra on February 7. The programme will be led by Security & Geopolitics Director, David Brewster and will be addressed by Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles. Also […]

ALGIERS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Participants at the 17th Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (PUIC) urged dialogue and solidarity to promote peace and security around the world at the end of their work here on Monday. The participants adopted a declaration in which they stressed […]

Hatch Innovation Services (Hatch) has launched Seaweed Insights, a practical guide to global seaweed farming, today. It presents the findings of their in-field surveys across the world’s major seaweed producing regions, following the methodology of Hatch’s shrimp farm technology report in 2019. In order to achieve this Hatch’s project manager, Karlotta Rieve, visited over 100 […]

Washington, DC: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved today a thirty-six-month Extended Credit Facility arrangement for Guinea-Bissau in the amount of SDR 28.4 million (about US$ 38.4 million, or 100 percent of quota). The IMF Executive Board decision enables an immediate disbursement of SDR 2.37 million (about US$3.2 million). Disbursements of […]

At the latest United Nations Climate Change conference (COP27), held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, many countries stepped up to increase their targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction – otherwise known as their nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Indonesia, for instance, committed before the conference to a 31.89 percent reduction […]

Issued on: 30/01/2023 – 18:23 In early December, a video showing Rohingyas on an overcrowded makeshift boat made the rounds on social networks. It was drifting in the Andaman Sea, between Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand, but no country came to its rescue – despite appeals from NGOs and the UN. Many boats meet the […]

Dubai-based Abdul Latif Jameel Health, part of international diversified family business Abdul Latif Jameel, has announced a new distribution agreement with iSono Health, a medical technology company in San Francisco, USA, with the vision to transform breast care with automated imaging and artificial intelligence (AI). The partnership, announced on the first day of Arab Health 2023, the […]