Tag Archives: Geneva

No change in India’s negotiating position in Agriculture and NAMA – first priority to conclude Doha Round quickly: Anand Sharma

Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, while addressing the media persons in Geneva last evening, emphasised that there was no change in India’s negotiating position in A......

Particle Beams Once Again Accelerated in Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Particle beams are once again zooming around the worlds most powerful particle acceleratorthe Large Hadron Colliderlocated at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On Nov. 20 at 4pm ......

Anand Sharma meets coalition partners G-20 and G-33 in Geneva – discusses state of play of WTO Doha Round Negotiations

Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, addressed Ministerial meetings of the two major coalitions of developing countries in the WTO agriculture negotiations, namely, the G......

Ogilvy PR partners with UNAIDS in China

BEIJING — Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide/China has partnered with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to launch two reports in China in November, ahead of World AIDS Day ......

Singapore Builds Strong Meetings Pipeline With New Wins

Singapore’s business events sector continues to forge ahead with a momentum of growth. Bolstered by its strong business fundamentals and initiatives to build a vibrant ecosystem of busines......

Pizza Corner announces the ‘Pizza Corner – Tell a Story Competition’

The competition is divided into 3 age groups – 5 to 8, 9 to 12 & 13 to 15 years; The last date to submit entries is 29th November 2009; The stories to be judged on the parameters of o......

The deVere Group welcomes its 1000th client on its growing online trading platform

The deVere Group is pleased to announce that they have recently gained their 1,000th client on their online trading platform. Since the launch of the platform earlier this year, financial advis......

Xenophobic attacks in South Africa draw condemnation from UN agency

The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in ......

More must be done to tackle global ‘crisis’ of road traffic deaths, says Ban

With traffic accidents causing the deaths of more than one million people every year, more than malaria or diabetes, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged greater efforts to better protect th......

deVere Group graduates successfully complete first graduate training and development programme

Further to the launch of its graduate training scheme in June 2009, the deVere Group, the world’s largest financial consultancy group is pleased to announce that the first course was completed ......

Motorola Announces Significant Progress on TD-LTE Trials, Further Accelerating TD-LTE Commercialization

Motorola’s key trial achievements include: • High performance in system equipment platforms such as reaching a peak throughput in excess of 100 megabits per second ( Mbps ) • Successful demonst......

Motorola Selected to Provide Indoor TD-LTE Broadband Coverage at World Expo 2010 Shanghai China

The World Expo, held from May 1 to Oct. 31, 2010 in Shanghai, will be a key arena for a highly visible and sustained live public TD-LTE demonstration. This event has attracted great attention f......

Motorola Expands LTE Solution with New, Frame-based eNodeB

Motorola’s WBR 500 series is an LTE standards-based solution built using Motorola’s fully programmable FLeX Modem technology. The WBR 500 series can be deployed in both new and existing GSM, UM......

Over 117,000 displaced Bosnians kept from returning home by political disputes – UN

Political disputes in Bosnia and Herzegovina are impeding the return of over 117,000 people, dooming them to endure the consequences of wartime atrocities 14 years after the end of the Balkan c......

UN refugee agency calls for end to three-year detention of Lao Hmong

The United Nations refugee agency today called for an end the detention of 158 Lao Hmong, who have been held ever since they were rounded up in Bangkok for deportation three years ago. “UNHCR c......

Banditry jeopardizing humanitarian work in eastern Chad, warns UN

Humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of people in eastern Chad is under threat from banditry, which has led several aid agencies to temporarily halt their operations in the face of atta......

Universality of global pact on mines and other explosive devices vital, Ban says

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for greater efforts to expand the number of signatories, especially among developing countries and States in conflict, to a global pact banning the us......

As fighting escalates in Yemen, UN agency repeats call for humanitarian access

The United Nations refugee agency said today it is extremely concerned about the recent escalation of the conflict between Government forces and rebels in northern Yemen, and once again appeale......

Flooding drives Somalis from their homes amid aid funding shortfall, warns UN

Around 16,000 Somalis have been forced from their homes by severe flooding in the south of the strife-torn country, the United Nations humanitarian arm said today, while underscoring that a fun......

Ban urges more States to adhere to global pact on explosive remnants of war

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on those States that have not yet done so to adhere to the global pact dealing with explosive remnants of war, noting the deadly toll that these weapons......

Number of civilians escaping tribal violence in DR Congo on the rise – UN

The number of civilians fleeing tribal violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into neighbouring Republic of Congo since last week has topped 21,800, the United Nations refugee a......