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Saudi Arabian Citizenship for Long-term Expats
[14 Jul 2009]
According to sources, Saudi Arabia is understood to have informed the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Geneva-based world labour body that it has plans of considering its expats into natur
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Trinidad and Tobago Hopeful of Trade Deal with Canada
[13 Aug 2009]
During a seminar held at St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), Carl Francis, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry of T&T said the trade partnership with Canada would make the c
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Tags: Canada FTA T&T SAWP
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Ethiopia to be the Cynosure of African Trade
[18 Sep 2009]
The multi-million dollar Africa International Trade Centre which is coming up at Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa is expected to transform the country to be the trade hub of the African continent. The
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Tags: Ethiopia Africa AEC EU AACCSA AU
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Egyptian Lulav Prices Bring Israel and Gaza Closer
[01 Oct 2009]
The tripling of lulav prices by the Egyptian suppliers during the festive season of Sukkot has forced Israel to allow Gazan exporters to supply lulavim (palm fronds) to fulfil its seasonal demand. Suk
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Tags: Egypt Israel Gazan Jerusalem
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FIFA and SA Allay Fears over World Cup Security
[28 Jan 2010]
The president of South Africa (SA) Jacob Zuma and the FIFA's secretary general Jérôme Valcke at separate occasions informed there was no security threat to the forthcoming football (soccer) World Cup
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Tags: FIFA SA South Africa World Cup WEF Germany
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Haitians Sceptical about US Re-build Formula
[23 Mar 2010]
Most of Haiti’s population, who are left bereft of their loved ones and homes by the Jan 12 devastation of 7.2 magnitude earthquake is seemed to have woken up to the reality that everything happening
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Saudi Arabia Broadens Business with US on a Grand Scale
[29 Apr 2010]
The ongoing two-day US-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum, a first of its kind, has become a venue for the Saudi kingdom to woo US with investment opportunities worth more than $250bn. A delegation of
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Tags: Saudi Arabia business US NUSACC
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Kuwait Out-reaches to South America for Bettering Ties
[14 Jul 2010]
A high profile delegation headed by the Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Nasser Al Mohammed will begin its tour of South America on Wednesday. The three-week trip to nine countries including Antigua an
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Tags: Kuwait KUNA Al Sammak KCCI GCC America
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China Okays Iran Sanctions – Yet Holds Trade with Impunity
[10 Aug 2010]
The recent sanctions against Iran hammered out by the US and like-minded countries targeting energy and banking sectors have become more blatantly farcical when China resumed oil trade with Iran even
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Tags: China Iran Russia Oil Trade Sactions Energy
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Georgian Fir Cone Pickers Get Safe Deal in X-mas Tree Drive
[23 Dec 2010]
The ubiquitous Nordmann fir trees which don most European houses during Christmas are undergoing a major change in their sourcing practice, that risked many fir cone pickers lives for a pittance in th
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Tags: Georgia X-mas Christmas tree Tree Sales Denmark
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Joblessness Stirs Saudization sans Reflecting on Root Cause
[06 Jan 2011]
Saudi Arabias high unemployment rate has once again sparked off an outcry for Saudization after the recent data showed about 43 percent of kingdoms citizens aged between 20 and 24 years were unemploye
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CAFTA Helps Costa Rica to enhance Trade with US
[21 Jan 2011]
The Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Trade (COMEX) stated that the total sales of country’s exports to the US rose 24 percent in 2010. Foreign Trade Minister Anabel González attributed the increase in
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Tags: Costa Rica The Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua
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SMEs seek GST implementation, uniform VAT rates
[07 Feb 2011]
IIA an apex body of Micro, small and medium enterprises has sought GST implementation and uniform VAT rates across all states.
Here are the key demands:
Government proposes to introdu
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Tags: IIA Empowered Committee SAT Turn over tax Surcharge Additional Surcharge
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US trade chamber seeks India's retail opening
[21 Feb 2011]
Seeking opening of India's retail sector, the US India Business Council (USIBC) has set up a sub-committee to focus on leveraging the combined resources of the retail supply chain.
The newly fo
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Tags: USIBC Compass Marketing Retail modernisation
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Businesses will learn to look beyond the BRICs
[28 Feb 2011]
During the run-up to the Iraq war Donald Rumsfeld, then America’s defence secretary, famously distinguished between “old” Europe and “new” Europe. In 2011 a growing number of businesspeople will disti
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Farm Boom Is Leading to Growing Concerns
[01 Mar 2011]
The cure for higher commodity prices is usually higher commodity prices.
The global clamor for corn, wheat, soybeans and other crops has been a stroke of good fortune for the agricultural indus
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Tags: corn wheat soybeans nonfarm wages Kansas City Federal Reserve
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South Asia Forum calls for regional economic union
[19 Sep 2011]
Members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), at the South Asia Forum here Thursday, called for removing tariff and non-tariff barriers to boost regional trade and investmen
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Samsung concentrates on B2B market
[13 Feb 2012]
Samsung is targeting the 30-billion-baht business-to-business market (B2B) with the merger of its corporate product teams into a single unit.
The scheme aims to enlarge the percentage of income
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Samsung Heavy says $471 million FPSO order cancelled
[31 Dec 2012]
SEOU: Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd said an Asian firm which it did not identify cancelled an order for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit worth 505 billion won ($471.71 milli
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