Q-Re, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qatar Insurance Company (QIC), has awarded a contract to Xuber for delivery of its International Reinsurance and Insurance System (Iris) to help streamline its operational efficiency. Selected after a ...
Tags: Q-Re, Qatar Insurance Company, Xuber
Internet freedom could be at stake at a secretive meeting of governments that begun on Monday in Dubai. The United Nations International Telecommunication Union will negotiate new international telecom regulations, including Internet ...
Tags: Dubai, highlightedpost, internet, Internet meeting, Internet freedom
The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to approve a resolution aimed at preventing any efforts to hand the United Nations more power to oversee the Internet. The resolution by the lower house of the US Congress had ...
Tags: Internet, US, power, United Nations
Negotiations on the future governance of international telecommunications will continue through the night at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai. The international conference is attempting to revise ...
Tags: Dubai, highlightedpost, internet, treaty, wcit
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) has been dealt another blow as an influential European parliamentary committee rejected its adoption. The International Trade Committee voted against the proposed Acta legislation by 19 votes ...
An IT system integrating disparate national border controls has reduced visa abuse across the borderless Schengen Area of continental Europe. The Visa Information System (VIS) is used by the European Commission (EC) to enable states in ...
Tags: IT system, border controls, Schengen Area, Europe, VIS
Three key European parliamentary committees have voted against adopting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta). The agreement is aimed at setting an international standard for tackling large-scale infringements of intellectual ...
Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...
The US is prepared to"press the nuclear button"and walk out of talks in Dubai to establish a new global telecommunications treaty. Further reading ITU agrees deep-packet inspection of internet traffic UN and ITU intensify battle for ...
Tags: global telecommunications, Internet, ITU
The final treaty of the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai includes a new provision that the treaty does not address content-related aspects of telecommunications, but retains a controversial proposal on fostering ...
The US has announced it will not sign the global telecom treaty being negotiated at a UN gathering in Dubai because it opens the door to governmental regulation of the internet, the US delegation chief said today. “The United States ...
Tags: telecom treaty, internet, US delegation, teleconference, telecom
Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has again requested of the Energy Community Secretariat the immediate initiation of consultations over the South Stream gas pipeline project which runs counter to Ukraine's national interests. ...
Tags: gas pipeline project, unified energy market, gas-transport system
Transatlantic Holdings(TransRe),a New York-based subsidiary of Alleghany Corporation,has acquired a minority stake in Bermuda-based insurance asset manager,Pillar Capital. The company also confirmed a multiple-year commitment to invest in ...
Tags: Transatlantic Holdings, Alleghany, insurance
IDG News Service-Russia,China and other countries withdrew a proposal at the World Conference on International Telecommunications that according to some accounts aimed to bring the Internet under the control of the International ...
III . Investment i. Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and ...
Tags: Shananxi, business, introduction to Shananxi, Shananxi economy, survey