Over 50 people were killed in a traffic accident along a highway in Afghanistan's northern province of Samangan on Thursday, police said. "A long-distance bus collided with an oil truck on a bridge at around evening. The bus plunged into ...
Tags: Traffic Accident
A signing ceremony was held here Wednesday for China's donation of 1 million U.S. dollars in cash for quake relief in Afghanistan. A 7.5-magnitude devastating earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan in late October this year, leaving ...
Tags: quake relief, assistance
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met with Vice President Li Yuanchao in Kabul on November 3. Li Yuanchao passed on the oral message from President Xi Jinping to President Ghani. President Xi Jinping sent his best regards and wishes to ...
The Government of India has agreed to provide all necessary assistance for developing the textile industry in Afghanistan, as per a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two nations. The MoU was signed by Mazamil ...
Tags: clothing, cotton, man-made fibre, Textile
UK Police investigating the case of 35 Afghan migrants, found trapped inside a shipping container at the Port of Tilbury, say the container was delivered to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, its point of departure to the UK, by a truck. The ...
The top U.S. aid agency wants to step up its use of smartphones, satellite imagery and GPS cameras to oversee tax-funded development projects that aid workers no longer will be able to observe with their own eyes due to the ongoing exit of ...
Tags: smartphone, GPS cameras, Consumer Electronics, monitoring project
The top U.S. aid agency wants to step up its use of smartphones, satellite imagery and GPS cameras to oversee tax-funded development projects that aid workers no longer will be able to observe with their own eyes due to the ongoing exit of ...
Tags: smartphone, GPS cameras, Consumer Electronics, monitoring project
Domestic cement dispatches in Pakistan during February 2014 increased by 8.7% y/y compared with February 2013, totalling 2.135 million t – the highest figure ever recorded. A spokesperson for the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, cement
Afghan Iron & Steel Consortium, which includes seven Indian companies and is led by India's state-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), is scaling back its iron ore investment in Afghanistan, according to media reports. The Indian ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
Three cooperation agreements were signed between China and Afghanistan on Sunday. The signing ceremony took place in presence of President Hamid Karzai and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Dr. Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, Afghan advisor of ...
Tags: economy, Cooperation
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group, is insuring a cashmere scouring and disinfection facility in Heart province of Afghanistan. The MIGA-supported project will ...
Tags: Miga Insures
An extra large dog house is one that is designed for the very large dog breeds, such as: Afghan, Bloodhound, Doberman Pinscher, Great Pyrenees, Greyhound, Irish Setter, Mastiff, and Saint Bernard. Regardless of the actual breed, the house ...
The silkworm project is based in Herat, in western Afghanistan, an area that has a long history of silk production and was once a stop on the Silk Road trade route. The area is ideal as the mulberry trees which the silkworms feed on ...
Bike shops in Colorado and Pennsylvania are gathering donated gear for the Afghanistan cycling team. Mountain biker activist Shannon Galpin, the founder of Mountain2Mountain, will bring the gear back to the country this spring. Galpin has ...
The second phase of the major iron processing factory in Herat has been inaugurated.The project,costing USD 11mn,was inaugurated by local officials and the Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industries branch in Herat. Speaking at the ...