By John Lee. Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani has inaugurated the first phase of the 'Eduba' Project, targeting the construction of 600 schools across Iraq. Funded through the Iraq Development Fund, the initiative will be executed by private sector firms, following comprehensive technical and preparatory work. Global consulting firm Meinhardt and Yerim Contracting, one of […]
By John Lee. The Guardian has claimed that a new cache of documents undermines key evidence used to jail a pair of foreign businessmen in Baghdad. Australian engineer Robert Pether and his Egyptian colleague Khalid Radwan have been detained since April 2021. They have been sentenced to five years in prison and jointly fined $12 […]
By John Lee. Singapore-based Electro-Voice has supplied the sound system for the recently opened Karbala Olympic Stadium in Iraq. According to Entertainment Technology Press, audio for the project was provided by Baghdad-based APCO Electronics, which chose a sound system from Electro-Voice, including a multi-zone digital audio system, horn-loaded loudspeakers, amplifiers, microphones and wireless systems. The […]
