Bangladesh is a maritime nation with 9,000 sq.km of territorial waters, 720 km long coastline. At present 10,000 inland and coastal ships and 36 foreign going ships are plying all over the country, which carries more than 90% of total oil product, (...)
QATAR Airways has today announced a new daily service to the popular city of Luxor, Egypt — effective Oct. 30. The now daily service is an increase on Qatar Airways' current five-times weekly service to the Egyptian city, and will deliver an (...)
FIFA President Sepp Blatter said Brazil might have been the wrong choice as host of the 2014 World Cup if the tournament is affected by social protests like those as at the Confederations Cup last month, according to AP.
Hundreds of thousands of (...)
damaged bridge crossing the intersection of Khurais road and Sheikh Jaber road will be rebuilt in three phases: building a temporary passage, evaluating the damaged bridge and designing and rebuilding a new one.
Asked about the results of (...)
One thing that I enjoy about our weekends in Jeddah is our café cruising on our Harley-Davidson. Over the 26 years of being here, our weekend relaxation has evolved through several different stages: when the children were younger and with us full (...)
mentioning that NWC is the first local company which has succeeded in the adaptation of impeded projects acceleration mechanism; a mechanism that proves its successfulness and effectiveness to several water and wastewater projects in Riyadh and (...)
Dear child, I want you to give up video games for grass stains. I want you to run wild and free through the streets of your neighborhood on a hot summer afternoon, tiring yourself so thoroughly that you can barely make it to the bed before you put (...)
year-old Camilla Deaver loves to read. Ask her how many books she‚?ôs read since the beginning of the school year and she wrinkles her brow while she calculates the number.
‚??Sixty, or something like that,‚?ù she says.
Deaver‚?ôs mother, (...)
It‚?ôs evening and as I walk into the house the sounds, they echo off the walls and reverberate in between my ears, jolting my body. It‚?ôs the children, of course, and it takes me a while to adjust and, really, I don‚?ôt know if I ever do, rather I (...)
pecentage point, a tenth straight move that took it to 3.5 percent.
Auto sales shot up 6.7 percent last month as Ford and DaimlerChrysler joined General Motors in extending employee discounts to all consumers. It was the biggest gain since (...)
party talks can and will work."
China, as an ally of North Korea, is viewed as pivotal to influencing Pyongyang. Some critics have questioned whether Beijing was exerting enough pressure on North Korea.
"Sometimes people move a little slower than (...)
shaped," said David Brown, economist at Bear Stearns.
"The world industrial cycle has considerably weakened over the past few months, with Euroland the worst affected," said Nicolas Sobczak, economist at Goldman Sachs.
Also unsettling investors (...)
US or Israeli goal.
"We are against the policies of Israel, not against Israel itself," Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa said during a visit to Brasilia last month to plan the gathering. "The meeting isn't against anyone."
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they are going to stay on the fence," said Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer of Johnson Illington Advisors.
"It is going to take a decline in oil prices to get investors off the fence."
SunGard Data Systems Inc., a financial services (...)
for-food programme.
Before joining the State Department, Bolton was Senior Vice President at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
The Yale law school graduate was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
In New York, U.N. spokesman (...)