Iran's PressTV reports that the country's Gas Engineering and Development Company is planning to build a gas pipeline to export gas to Iraq. Ali-Reza Gharibi, the Managing Director of company, said on Friday that "the 48-inch gas pipeline to Iraq, which will run for 220 kilometers, will be a branch of Iran’s sixth national gas […]
Anglo-Arab Insurance Brokers (AAIB) launched the first on-line global travel plan to include war and terrorism cover as standard at the Arab Travel Markets Conference and Exhibition in Dubai on 30th April 2012. Marketed under the 'Frontier Travel' banner, www.frontiertravelinsurance.com offers insurance to travellers in any country in the world except the US and Canada […]
Harris Corporation, the international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a contract to provide a back-up air traffic control system for Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. Harris will supply a back-up Liberty-STAR™ Voice Communication and Control System (VCCS) to the primary Liberty-STAR™ VCCS previously installed by Harris. Featuring a modular architecture, open-platform software […]
Relations between Thailand and Iraq have gradually improved, and the two countries are preparing to re-open embassies in Bangkok and Baghdad. According to a report from MCOT, the Iraqi ambassador to Thailand, Dr Amal Mussa Hussain Ali Al-Rubaye, who is based in Kuala Lumpur, paid a courtesy call on Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at […]
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. […]
The British Business Group (BBG) Joint Committee in conjunction with UKTI cordially invites you to the Regal Ballroom at St Regis, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, 15th May 2012, @ 9am The Joint Committee of the British Business Groups in the UAE (Abu Dhabi and Dubai), with the support of UKTI, is engaged in […]
