The number of visitors on package tours to Jordan jumped by 48.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period of last year, official figures showed on Sunday. The figures, released by the Ministry of Tourism, revealed that some 101,311 tourists on package tours visited the country between January and March compared to 68,279 ...
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said in Phnom Penh on Monday that the country would resume rice export from Tuesday. The ban on rice export for two months is over, Hun Sen said while addressing an inauguration ceremony at the National Institute of Education. However, Cambodia can only export about 1.6 million tons of rice totally this year becaus...
The 8-magnitude earthquake that devastated Sichuan province on May 12 would seriously hamper tourism in affected regions in the short term, industry insiders have said. China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) has ordered all travel agencies to cancel trips destined for, or passing through, quake-affected areas, and the local tourism industry's maj...
The European Union and members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) hoped to establish terms for a free trade zone by the end of the year, officials from both sides said in Brussels on Monday. We are very close to an agreement, said Chairman of the GCC ministers Ahmad Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud, Qatar's minister of state for foreign affairs. ...
The free trade deal with China and mounting concern about securing food supplies are helping New Zealand in its efforts to secure agreements with major Asian economies, Radio New Zealand reported on Tuesday. There have been breakthroughs in speeding up talks with Japan and South Korea, while India hopes to achieve a free trade agreement with New Zeala...
Thousands of Argentine farmers held a protest against an increase in soybean export taxes Sunday in Rosario, northwest of the capital Buenos Aires, local media reported. Argentine farmers took to the streets, warning that if the government does not soften the export restrictions, they could blockade the highways and roads like they did last spring in ...
Russian oil and gas companies are interested in developing the Mediterranean region and are set to expand their presence in the area, an executive of Russia's largest independent natural gas producer said Wednesday according to RIA Novosti. We are interested in working in the Mediterranean, Leonid Mikhelson, Novatek board chairman, said at an internat...
Sweden's Lundin Petroleum, which holds several Russian assets, has commenced drilling of the Morskaya-1 well in the Lagansky block in the Caspian Sea, the company said in a statement according to Interfax. The well's planned depth comes to two kilometers. Lundin Petroleum plans to drill an additional three wells in 2008- 2009. The compan...
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