Jordan

April 7, 2004

03:00 GMT

Fayez Abu Tawileh and Sons Co. the agents for Samsung, Conti, and SMEG brands have appointed TRACCS Jordan as their official public relations agency in the Kingdom.   TRACCS Jordan will help Fayez Abu

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Union Properties in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) posted a net profit increase of 21 percent for 2003, reporting a figure of 87.2 million Emirati dinars ($23 million).  Union Properties' core busines

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Gulf Air and Royal Jordanian have signed a new codeshare agreement, effective 1 May 2004, on services between Abu Dhabi and Bahrain to and from Amman.   The agreement was recently signed in Bahrain by

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Arab Banking Corporation, the parent company of the Arab banking group headquartered in Bahrain, announced that at its Annual General Meeting (AGM), held on April 1, 2004 in Bahrain, ABC's shareholder

April 6, 2004

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Jordan's military court on Tuesday convicted eight men and sentenced them to death for the 2002 killing of a U.S. aid official in an attack linked to

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Iran will stop building and assembling centrifuges for uranium enrichment this week, the Iranian nuclear chief said Tuesday after talks with the chief

April 5, 2004

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Dubai-based customer interaction solutions provider RayaTech has been acquired by Computer Network Systems (CNS), a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based systems integrator.   The move will strengthen Raya

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The occupying Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq has introduced a five percent reconstruction levy on most goods imported into Iraq that will be deferred until April 15, 2004.

April 4, 2004

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Jordan's Foreign Minister Dr. Marwan Muasher met on Sunday with UN special envoy to the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, and discussed with him the cur

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The Executive Board of the IMF has completed the second review of Jordan's performance under a two-year $126.26 million Stand-By Arrangement. The Board commended the Jordanian authorities for their co

April 2, 2004

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Suspects detained earlier this week in Jordan are linked to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network and were planning to launch an attack under orders from

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Three Iraqi police officers were killed and three injured by gunmen who fired and threw a hand grenade at them, it was reported Friday.

April 1, 2004

03:00 GMT

In an unprecedented development, Jordanian sources disclosed to <i>Al Bawaba</i> that on Thursday security forces were looking for a car laden with ex

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The Israeli economy has suffered losses between 31- 40 billion Israeli shekels ($8.8 billion) as a direct result of the Palestinian intifada, which began in September 2000, according to a recent Bank

March 31, 2004

03:00 GMT

Jordan's security forces have arrested a number of suspects planned to carry out "terror" attacks in the Kingdom, a security source told Petra news ag