The Dutch Ambassador Gerben de Jong opened a new vocational training center in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This training center is an initiative of C&A and fully funded by the C&A Foundation. The new facility introduces a new course, specifically ...
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Gas prices may be rising, federal sequestration looming, and perhaps another meteor will strike. Bad things are happening, but not so much to Software as a Service providers. A recent Gartner report showed that even in the poorest ...
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A recent Gartner report showed that even in the poorest segments of the SaaS market, the annual growth rate is at 11 percent. The reasons IT executives are turning to the cloud-based technologies can be seen in the decisions being made at ...
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The GSMA today published its first in-depth assessment on the impact of the mobile industry on the Arab States, highlighting the explosive growth of mobile services in the region. Based on research from Deloitte, the report attributes a ...
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New research has revealed that there is a huge shortfall in funding for energy-saving programmes that would help alleviate the burden on families in fuel poverty. The figures, compiled by National Energy Action (NEA), found that the ...
Energy bills are continuing to go up, which is really hitting the pockets of the poorest families in the UK and the latest inflation figures compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) does little to temper fears. This data ...
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Global carpet tile manufacturer Interface, Inc. and conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are celebrating the successful completion of a pilot project and the start of a commercial venture with both conservation and ...
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The color rendering index (CRI), sometimes called color rendition index, is a quantitative measure of the ability of a light source to reproduce the colors of various objects faithfully in comparison with an ideal or natural light source. ...
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According to the Planning Commission, the Indian power sector is one of the most diversified in the world. India is the fifth largest producer of electricity in the world and, while the State Governments account for 51.5% of the total ...
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In many rural areas of the world, there is no electricity – which also means there is no clean drinking water, no access to information, education or modern forms of communication. For five years exactly now, SolarWorld AG has been ...
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The establishment of a US$ 300 million apparel industrial park project in Caracol township to the north of Haiti, about 160 km from the capital, Port-au-Prince, has put Haiti back on development track. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony ...
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Computerworld-Apple's iPad and iPad Mini took top honors in a pair of tablet battery shootouts conducted by consumer watchdogs in the U.S.and the U.K. Consumer Reports,in the U.S.,and Which,from the U.K.,have recently run dozens of ...
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BS reported that 8 years ago, Ms Kada Majhi, a tribal woman of Kinari, a village in the Kalahandi district of Odisha eked out a living with paltry wages as a daily laborer. When Vedanta Aluminium started constructing a 1 million tonne per ...
Bloomberg reported that the International Monetary Fund halted the Democratic Republic of Congo's USD 532 million, three year loan program after the government failed to publish details of a 2011 mining deal. The lender, based in ...
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Nestle UK and Ireland has said it will double its commitment to Fairtrade by gaining certification for its two-fingered Kit Kat brand from January. Nestle's four-finger Kit Kit has been using Fairtrade cocoa since 2010, but this latest ...
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