The Kenyan government has said that it has no intention of censoring what citizens do online or of closing access to social media networks in the country, despite facing challenges of identifying and tracking down people behind online hate ...
If U.S. law enforcement agencies agree to changes in electronic surveillance law to better protect the privacy of stored email and documents, they want several changes in return, including a requirement that email and cloud service ...
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The Mexican Ministry of Economy (SE) endorsed the application of antidumping duties imposed a year ago from 68 to 250 percent on graphite electrodes for electric arc furnaces, which are imported from any country but of Chinese origin and ...
Tags: Graphite Electrodes, steel industry, steel
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday in Caracas after an almost two-year battle with cancer and 14 years of a dominating socialist presidency that leaves the country with the world's largest oil reserves mired in uncertainty. The ...
An investor advisor group is asking HP shareholders not to re-elect two long-standing board members and to oppose the ratification of the company’s audit firm in connection with the controversy over the company’s purchase of ...
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Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S. Congress, the bill's sponsors and leaders of some business groups said. Groups opposed ...
Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups. As promised, Representatives Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, and C.A. ...
Tags: cyberthreat, digital rights, US
Computer security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the European Union's proposed computer security directive which, he says, represents "yet another unfortunate step towards the militarisation of cyberspace". EU security ...
President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, hosted foreign diplomats and representatives of international organizations based in Erbil last week to discuss the latest political and economic developments in Kurdistan and in Iraq and to ...
Group Newsagency Supplies (GNS) has announced details of a new share offer, aimed at raising around $7 million to repay debt and expand its market base. GNS CEO Alex Stewart told Stationery News that the funds raised will be used to: ...
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On 7 January 2013, Genel Energy received permission from the Kurdistan Regional Government to export crude oil from Taq Taq into Turkey by truck. This authority is consistent with the Iraqi Constitution of 2006, the Kurdistan oil and gas ...
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The Kurdistan Regional Government is proud of the achievements of its oil and gas industry since the fall of the former regime in 2003. It expects the federal government of Iraq to be proud of them, too. Since oil exports from the ...
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,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, ...
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The newly appointed chairman of Indonesia's special taskforce for the upstream sector will focus on various issues during his tenure, among them increasing oil and gas production and boosting reserves, he told Platts Monday. Rudi ...
Tags: Indonesia, Skkmigas, Oil, Gas Production
It's inevitable when traveling.You find yourself drawing comparisons to home. I recently had the good fortune to travel to Germany,the Netherlands and Austria as part of a world vegetable forum sponsored by Bayer CropScience. We heard a ...
Tags: agriculture, vegetable, heritage, appreciate home