The Federal and Victorian Governments have agreed to progress planning on the proposed Western Interstate Freight Terminal (WIFT), a facility with the potential to ease congestion around the Port of Melbourne and take more than 700,000 ...
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LG Electronics USA is kicking off its presence at the big game in New Orleans with a series of events that bring fans the ultimate viewing and celebration experience. From must-have game-viewing tips and recipes from Food Network lifestyle ...
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A government body in the U.K. has fined Sony $396,000 for using lax network security when its PlayStation network was hacked in 2011. The Information Commissioner's Office, a public agency to protect information rights of individuals, ...
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Washington Post reports that the mandate and funding of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), which was established in October 2004, is due to expire in March, marking what it describes as the end of an effort to ...
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad hosted two well-known American film directors from January 3 to 14, 2013. Marilyn Agrelo and Roland Legiardi-Laura visited Iraq to show their documentary films and meet with established and aspiring Iraqi ...
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Iraq has allocated 100 billion Iraqi dinars ($86 million) for a project that aims to bring skilled expatriates back to Iraq in 2013, reports Mawtani. The Ministry of Migration and the Displaced announced last week that these skilled ...
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Egyptian authorities have approved 45 trucks carrying construction materials from Qatar to enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, the Peninsula has reported. The trucks were carrying 1100 cubic metres of gravel that will be used ...
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United Parcel Service (UPS) and TNT Express have been informed by the European Commission (EC) that it is working on a decision to prohibit the proposed acquisition of TNT Express. The EC has raised a number of concerns about the merger, ...
The province of Basra has awarded Dewan Architects and Engineers the contract to design the sprawling Al Nakheel City, for which the foundation stone was recently laid. As a modern urban development, the Al-Nakheel City is expected to ...
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December retail sales were up compared to November and also on an annual basis, to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that December retail sales at ...
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Red Hat on Tuesday announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, a new update to the company's popular open-source enterprise platform. Though the software maintains backwards compatibility with hardware and software ...
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Globalfoundries is to build an R&D facility at its Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County,N.Y which it calls its Technology Development Center(TDC). The TDC will cost nearly$2bn,increasing the total capital investment for the Fab 8 campus to ...
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IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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In 1941, a Crown corporation created by federal legislation called Wartime Housing Ltd., which later became the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, constructed over 32,000 houses to provide what was originally planned as emergency ...
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Sergei Kuznetsov has been CEO of both Severstal International and Severstal North America since July 2009.He joined Severstal in 2002 to head the business planning group created to acquire foreign assets and develop international ...
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