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Malta
Losses as a result of counterfeiting and piracy in Malta higher than EU average - report
With around €43 million lost each year, Malta’s rate of money lost as a result of counterfeiting and piracy is higher than the European average, according to an EU report. A series of studies carried out by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) through the European Observatory on Infringements ...
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USA
Turnover, employment of Maltese-owned foreign affiliates grows - NSO
In 2014, turnover and employment of Maltese-owned foreign affiliates grew by 133.1 per cent and 2.5 per cent respectively, the NSO said today.Maltese-owned foreign affiliates generated €1,054.9 million in 2014, up by 133.1 per cent over the previous year. These enterprises employed 6,912 persons abroad, representing an increase of 2.5 ...
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Regno Unito
UK government's Brexit plans in hands of Supreme Court
Prime Minister Theresa May wants to start Britain's divorce from the European Union, but 11 judges may stand in her way.On Monday, May's government will ask Supreme Court justices to overturn a ruling that Parliament must hold a vote before Britain's exit negotiations can begin — a case that has ...
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USA Kenya
Civilians killed during clashes between Seleka groups in CAR
Source: Human Rights Watch Country: Central African RepublicThe fighting displaced up to 10,000 people from Bria, a town of approximately 43,000. At least 7,000 are in a makeshift camp around the UN peacekeeping base in town.Minority Peuhl at Risk, Better UN Protection Needed (Nairobi, December 5, 2016) – Serious fighting in the ...
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Etiopia
Ending Ethiopia’s cash commerce
PSS is a consortium owned by six private banks: Awash, Nib, United, Berhan, Addis, and the Cooperative Bank of Oromia. One of the major visions of the institution is to move Ethiopia from a cash based economy to more people utilizing an electronic payment system, this has involved a lot ...
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Etiopia
Two new state ministers for MoFA
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) acquired two state ministers, appointed by Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn. According to the information that Capital obtained Hirut Zemene, Director General of Business Diplomacy at MoFA, became the second female state minister in MoFA’s history. Hirut is one of the two new state ministers ...
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Etiopia
EXC may add Teff, sorghum, chickpeas
Teff, sorghum and chickpeas may be the next crops traded on the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange depending on the results of a two year study. The study includes the Ministries of Trade, Industry and Agriculture along with exporters. Ermias Eshetu, CEO of ECX told Capital that adding the crops will benefit ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria: ABCON Seeks to Engender Investors' Confidence in Forex Market
[Vanguard] Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has said that it is committed to deepening professionalism among bureaux de change operators in order to engender foreign investors' confidence in the Nigerian foreign exchange market.
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Axa Mansard Pensions Maintains Top Position On Returns On Investment
[Vanguard] Management of Axa Mansard Pensions Limited has said that the company has maintained a top five industry position on returns on investment in the last four years as at December 2014. Assistant General Manager, Business Development, Naomi Aduku who stated this during a media parley at the company's office ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Kidnapping Scaring Foreign Investors From Nigeria - -NGE
[Vanguard] Yola -The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has expressed concern over the upsurge in kidnapping across Nigeria, which has become a national menace that is negatively impacting on the social and economic life of the country.