The Jakarta Post reports that Indonesia is likely to partner with Iraq to build oil refineries in Indonesia. The director general for oil and gas at Indonesia's Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, Edy Hermantoro, is quoted as saying: "Both deputy energy ministers from the two countries have signed a memorandum of understanding [MoU] for cooperation […]
The conman who made $84 million selling fake bomb detectors to Iraq and other countries has been jailed for ten years by a court in the UK. Passing sentence on Jim McCormick, Judge Richard Hone said: "The device was useless, the profits outrageous and your culpability as a fraudster has to be placed in the […]
By Reidar Visser. 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 […]
By Abdullah Salem. This article was originally published by Niqash. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The controversial governor of Ninawa, Atheel al-Nujaifi, talks about why he thinks elections were postponed and how the current security crisis could be solved. After Iraqi […]
Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 2nd May 2013). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,786 (+2.1%) / $1,819 (+1.7%) (weekly change). The number of week traded shares was 8.2bn and the weekly […]
