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Five Chinese enterprises that are currently participating in the 5th China Products Fair in Jordan have expressed interest in investing in product in the country. The economic and commercial counselor at China’s embassy in Jordan, Ma Jianchun, has says that Jordan is included in their plan to reach out to other strategic markets around the [...]
The Health Ministry signed a new health care agreement with the 33 hospitals that had threatened to withdraw from the previous agreement. Renegotiations have been going on since April. The hospitals complained that ministry was not paying them for services they were providing and therefore the hospitals were losing money especially since the cost to [...]
Jordanians and tourists will now be able to see Jordan from a whole new perspective. Royal Aero Sports Club will reopen its doors under new management on Saturday, after being closed two years. The manager hopes that this will inspire Jordanians to take up aero sports, something that country has not experienced before. In addition, this would [...]
The Jordanian government is to refer the Landlords and Tenants Law to the Parliament. This is an amended version that will extend the deadline that tenants have to vacate properties that as of now is December 31, 2010. Article 5 of this legislation states that all rental contracts will be voided by the end of 2010, [...]
Following is an article from the Jordan Times by Mohammad Ben Hussein: The Islamic Action Front plans to hold a public demonstration in downtown Amman after Friday prayers to protest Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, a party official said on Thursday. The event is part of a stepped-up local campaign by the Islamist movement [...]
The following is excerpted from an article by Rana Husseini that appeared in the Jordan Times: Activists and officials agreed last week that uniting and organizing national efforts was the strongest means of combating violence against women in Jordanian society. They proposed that these efforts should be translated into one national plan of action, which [...]
Jordan will finally be hosting the Euro-Med Ministerial Conference on Water on December 22-24 at Dead Sea. The conference was postponed from October 28 because the government wanted to wait until a settlement was reached over the membership and participation in the Union for the Mediterranean. This new date was coordinated between the joint French-Egyptian [...]
With a recent blockade of the Gaza Strip put in place by the Israeli government, there is no way for humanitarian aid to reach the area. A ship from Qatar carrying 3,000 tons of humanitarin aid has already tried to go through the blockade, but authorities sent the ship right back to where it came [...]
The Jordanian Central Bank’s 0.5 percentage point cut in key lending rates went into effect Tuesday, as indications mounted that the cash-strapped Arab kingdom was being hard hit by the global financial crisis. The Central Bank had last week lowered the discount rate to 6.25 percent and the repo rate to 6 percent. It also [...]
Time Magazine reports that the Bush Administration has requested Israel to refrain from any “large scale” operations (read, against Iran) within the last couple of weeks of President Bush’s presidency. President Bush also stated again that he does not want any fighting between those living in the Gaza Strip and Israel; however, tensions have already [...]
