Archive for August 10th, 2007
Many Asian countries face huge financial costs to clean up the environment because of a lack of investment in sanitation – which is leading to massive pollution of both surface and groundwater, a senior official of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said ahead of a global conference on the issue.
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In December 2007, two COM+ Communication Awards of US$10,000 will be granted by the World Bank: one for a campaign that communicates science for people and the planet; and another for a climate change campaign. Issued by COM+ and thus backed by its members.
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Rüdiger Assion is to be the new Head of Corporate Communications at Deutsche Börse Group based in Frankfurt. The company announced that Assion will assume his new position on 1 September 2007, and will be responsible for PR, internal communication, Marketing Communication and Events.
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China Government Securities Depository Trust & Clearing Co. Ltd, the Chinese central securities depository, is opening a link with Clearstream, the international central securities depository within the Deutsche Börse Group
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The international derivatives exchange Eurex is expanding its European equity option offering, introducing eleven options on Austrian equities on 10 September: Boehler-Uddeholm, Betandwin, Erste Bank, Immoeast, ÖMV, Raiffeisenbank, RHI, Telekom Austria, Verbundgesellschaft, Voestalpine and Wienerberger.
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The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved US $ 62.2 million in Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance for Côte d’Ivoire.
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BNP Paribas, through its Cetelem subsidiary, continental Europe’s leading provider of consumer credit, has announced takeover of the Bulgarian market focused JetFinance International.
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ObjectSecurity, the leading solutions provider for secure information sharing in mission-critical industries has announced plans to partner with Paremus Ltd. that delivers products to meet the demands for distributed service-oriented application runtime platforms.
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Juniper Research – a research company - has forecast that HSPA will dominate mobile broadband network deployments over the next five years, consistently accounting for about 70% of the total mobile broadband subscriber base until 2012.
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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has launched a programme for opening of sales outlets for government securities throughout the country.
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