Eighteen foreign correspondents who have long covered Iraqi Kurdistan sharply criticised the region's government on Sunday over a deterioration in the work conditions of Kurdish reporters. In an open letter to the president of the autonomous region Massud Barzani and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, himself a Kurd, they pointed to the so far unsolved murder […]
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Tags: Telecoms/Comms
Italians get Important Role in E-government Project
The General Manager of the Department of External Relations and Information, Ministry of Communications Ms. Khairiya al-Musawi, met second secretary Francisco Fidel from the Italian Embassy, to discuss cooperation between the two countries in the area of e-government . They also discussed the possibility of cooperation in training in Information and External Relations, to take […]
Tags: Italians, Telecoms/Comms
Umm Qasr power link finished
The linking of the barge line of Umm Qasr with an electrical transformer station as been completed, in order to supplement the national grid by 125 MW. The Executive Director of the project said that the work had been completed in spite of obstacles encountered by the engineering and technical staffs during project implementation. Theses […]
Tags: Public Works
Irrigation Projects in Anbar Completed
The Ministry of Water Resources announced that its technical and engineering staff has completed irrigation work assigned to it in Anbar province. According to the statement of the Ministry, it has completed work lining channel A/MC3 (length 4,2 km), as well as the main channel MC1, with four sub-channels plus dam maintenance work. Landslides in […]
Tags: Irrigation, Public Works
Agility's Q1 Profit Falls 52%
Kuwait-based Agility has said its first-quarter profit had dropped 52% and predicted declines in the next four quarters, Bloomberg has reported. Net income fell to KD17.6m ($61m) as revenue dropped 17% to KD127.5m, the firm said. 'Agility is likely to face declining profitability over the course of the next four quarters, as a result of […]
Tags: Industry & Trade, Profit
CBI Dollar Sales Down to $88m
The Central Bank of Iraq’s (CBI) dollar sales went down to reach $88.205 million in its daily auction on Sunday, compared to $137.925 in the previous session. “The demand hit $8.330 million in cash, covered at an exchange rate of 1,183 Iraqi dinars per dollar, and $79.875 million in foreign transfers outside the country, covered […]
Tags: CBI, Iraq Banking & Financial News
Hitachi to Supply Spare Parts for Power Units
Iraqi Council of Ministers authorized the Electricity Ministry to sign a contract with the Japanese based firm, Hitachi, to supply spare parts for the Taji Power Station. “The decision reflects the cabinet’s interest in providing electricity to people,” Dr. Ali al-Dabbagh, the official spokesperson of the Iraqi government, said in a release on Sunday received […]
Tags: Public Works
New Toyota Dealership in Erbil Boosts Kurdistan’s Private Sector
Iraqi Kurdistan Region Prime Minister, Burham Saleh, said on Sunday that the inauguration of an new Toyota dealership in Erbil is a “significant step to develop the private sector in the region”. “The move is indicative of the confidence in the region’s government and its stability,” Saleh said in an address on the occasion. He […]
Tags: Industry & Trade, Kurdistan News
Removing Three Zeros from Iraqi Dinar will Help the Economy
Iraqi banking expert, Abdul Aziz Hasoon, said in phone call with the Independent that the process of removing three zeros from the Iraqi dinar will be positive for the Iraqi economy. He added that there were many countries that took the same step, including Turkey which removed six zeros from it is currency. Hasoon clarified […]
Turkey TPAO Joins CNOOC To Develop Iraq Missan Field
State-run Turkish Petroleum Corp., known as TPAO, has decided to join Cnooc Ltd. the Hong Kong-listed unit of China Offshore Oil Corp. to develop Iraq's Missan oil field complex in southern Iraq, a senior Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday.
Transport Minister Meets U.S. Delegation
Iraq’s Transport Minister Amer Abduljabbar received on Thursday a delegation from the U.S. embassy, with whom he discussed fostering air traffic.
Young Real Estate Entrepreneurs Link US and Iraq
In a high-rise apartment building in Minnesota's capital city, two 23-year-old men check on a couple dozen properties they've listed for sale in Iraq - Half a world away, their colleague, also 23, is already on the move in Baghdad: Showing houses and appraising properties as he navigates around concrete blast walls and police checkpoints.