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Berlin, July 1st: foodpanda/hellofood becomes a truly mobile company with its revolutionarily upgraded app in a brand-new overall design. The most global online food delivery marketplace released the new generation of its mobile app, offering easy access to the menus of more than 30,000 restaurants in more than 40 countries across four continents. The new …
Montegrappa, the company famous for making the world’s most expensive pen, opened its first boutique in Saudi Arabia, at the Kingdom Centre in Riyadh. Founded in 1912, Montegrappa is Italy’s first manufacturer of luxury writing instruments. The company continues to operate in the same historic building in Bassano del Grappa in the prosperous north-eastern part …
October 5, 2013 Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today at the conclusion of a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the finance ministers and central bank governors of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC):1 “I am grateful for the opportunity to meet with the finance …
New study by Transparency International also finds 85% of them lack effective scrutiny of defence policy Brussels, 17 September 2013—Two-thirds of parliament and legislatures fail to exercise sufficient control over their Ministry of Defence and the armed forces, according to a new report by Transparency International UK’s Defence and Security Programme (TI-DSP). Amongst those, 70 per cent …
Munich, 22 August 2013 – The technology company The Linde Group has been awarded a contract to build the world’s largest carbon dioxide (CO2) purification and liquefaction plant for Jubail United Petrochemical Company (UNITED), a manufacturing affiliate of SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation). The plant will be located in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The …
One of the world’s largest ammonia plants to be built in Saudi Arabia The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) will be utilizing ammonia technology from ThyssenKrupp in its new ammonia plant Ma’aden II, being built near the port of Ras al Khair in the Arabian Gulf. As a sub-contractor to Daelim, ThyssenKrupp Uhde’s scope includes …
The UK government announces a warm welcome for international students whose numbers are expected to grow up to 20 % over the next five years. The estimate is part of the UK government’s new industrial strategy (International Education: Global Growth and Prosperity) for international education. The new report makes it clear that there is no …
Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013 highlights job creation as the major economic challenge for leaders in the Middle East Among the 13 countries in focus, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are leading in overall competitiveness; Jordan slightly improved its performance. Underdeveloped skills, weak institutions and labour market inefficiency are the main factors limiting competitiveness …
Kuwait City – Kuwait, April 08, 2013: SAMENA Telecommunications Council, the tri-regional non-profit telecommunications association for South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, has issued the findings of its region-wide ICT Policy Assessment and Digitization Study. The findings have been compiled into a full regional-level report as well as 10 country-level policy and digitization …