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Cina Bulgaria
It’s the real thing
BUSINESSES have always told stories about their products. But in recent years they have become particularly verbose, bombarding consumers with any small detail that might enhance the brand. Shoppers at Whole Foods can peruse scintillating biographies of the chickens they are about to casserole. Prospective Tesla drivers can learn not ...
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Giappone
Here comes the Son
Son and his anointed son IT WAS a vintage performance from Masayoshi Son, the 58-year-old founder and chief executive of SoftBank, a Japanese telecoms and technology firm. He was speaking to members of SoftBank Academia, an in-house executive school set up five years ago with the chief purpose of finding his ...
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Portogallo
Portugal cai no ranking dos sistemas energéticos mais sustentáveis do mundo
Lista dos países mais sustentáveis no uso da energia continua a ser liderada pela Suíça, tendo Portugal caído do 25º para o 34º lugar entre 130 mercados analisados pelo World Energy Council
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Portogallo
João Vieira Lopes: “Não simpatizamos muito com a ideia de um Governo de gestão”
O presidente da Confederação do Comércio e Serviços de Portugal transmitiu esta manhã ao chefe de Estado as preocupações relativas ao sector, que passam pela existência de um Executivo em funções
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Ghana
Education Minister elected to serve on UNESCO board
The Minister for Education and Chairperson of the Ghana National Commission for UNESCO Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has been elected to serve a four-year term of office on the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). This was announced at the just ended special plenary ...
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Ghana
“Ex gratia came from our own coffers”- Kwesi Nyantakyi
President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, has revealed that money paid to outgoing members of the Executive Committee as ex gratia came from the association’s own largesse. Members of the GFA’s Executive Committee, who served between 2011 and 2015, were paid USD 15,000 in benefits and that ...
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Cina Ghana
Parliament makes ‘U-turn’ on Ebola vaccination
Months after Ghana’s Parliament directed the Ministry of Health to suspend an ongoing Ebola vaccination trial in the country; the law making institution is likely to rescind its decision. This follows a report submitted to the House by the Health Committee in Parliament which among other things recommended that the ...
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Ghana
Ghanaian ISIS recruit greets Facebook friends with ‘joy’
The 25-year-old graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Nazir Nortei Alema, who left home to join the swelling ranks of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, a terrorist organization, has sent a message via Facebook to greet friends and family. Nazir captured local ...
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Ecuador
Selon la directrice du commerce extérieur : « Les Ape vont nous aider à mieux nous intégrer aux chaînes de valeur mondiales »
La directrice du Commerce extérieur, Assome Aminata Diatta, demande au secteur privé et à la société civile de ne pas avoir peur des Accords de partenariat économique (Ape). Elle estime qu’ils vont aider les pays africains à mieux s’intégrer aux chaînes de valeur mondiales. Mme Diatta intervenait dans un débat ...
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Commercialisation des produits bios : Des représentants de communautés rurales de Tambacounda initiés à l’agroécologie
Les représentants des populations des communautés rurales de Koussanar, Sinthiou-Malème, Niani-Toucouleur et de la ville de Tambacounda ont été initiés aux pratiques de l’agroécologie. Ils ont été conviés, tout récemment, à un atelier dont l’objet était de leur permettre de renforcer leurs capacités sur la culture et la commercialisation des ...