Year: 2017

Tunisia launches new national employment strategy

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Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announced yesterday, the official launch of a new national employment strategy. In press statements from the capital Tunis Chahed said that employment is a top priority, ” since it is one of the rudiments of the country’s development”. The strategy will be developed in partnership with the government and the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) and the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA). During the post revolution years Tunisia has suffered from increasing unemployment rates in the country caused by a decline in the…

Bangladesh ranks 82nd in Anti Money Laundering Index of 146 countries

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Bangladesh has also secured the fourth position among the 10 fastest developing countries in the index Bangladesh has massively improved in its efforts to counter terrorism financing and money laundering according to a press release published by Bangladesh Bank on Monday. Citing Basel Anti Money Laundering (AML) Index-2017, the press release said Bangladesh has beaten 28 countries and ranked 82nd among 146 countries. Bangladesh has also secured the fourth position among the 10 fastest developing countries in the index. According to the AML’s findings, 10 countries with the highest AML risk are Iran,…

Why not make of Tunisia a tax haven, calls Sophien Bennaceur

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Speaking to Express FM on Tuesday morning, Sophien bennaceur Nidaa Tounès leader and Founder and Chair of the American-Tunisian Business Council gave an account on the solutions to bring Tunisia out of the current delicate juncture at the political and economic level. Mr. Bennaceur said that we have the necessary components to achieve success, namely a nascent and well-established democracy, a first democratic President of the Republic in Tunisia’s history who assumes his role as a guarantor of freedoms and rights uniting all the Tunisian people. The problem lies, according…

What Does Bonvests Holdings Ltd Do and How Does It Make Money?

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It is important to know what a particular company does and how it makes money before investing in it. Investing in a business without such knowledge is akin to travelling to an unknown territory without a map. On that note, let’s check out what business Bonvests Holdings Ltd (SGX: B28) is involved in and how it generates its revenue. Bonvests, as a quick background, owns and manages various prime commercial and hotel properties in Singapore, Australia and a few other countries. It also has a large stake in a waste management and contract…

Coffs a target of Australian Border Force raids

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MORE than 110 illegal workers were found in NSW and ACT after warrants were executed in Coffs Harbour, Sydney, Mittagong and Griffith. The Australian Border Force identified a number of labour hire mediators involved in sourcing illegal labour and sending money derived from this exploitation offshore following Australia-wide Operation Bonasus. More than 225 people were found working in breach of their visa conditions were also located during the operation. The individuals identified working illegally were from Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Vietnam Tunisia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. They were found to be working…

Program coordinators reflect on intercultural summer experience

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Thousands of miles separate Saint Mary’s from the Middle East and North African, but the Study of the United States Institute (SUSI) once again aimed to bridge that gap by inviting 20 women from Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan and the Kurdistan to campus over the summer. According to student program coordinator and senior Marilla Opra, the College’s Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership (CWIL) instills values of confidence and hope in participants, granting everyone the distinct opportunity to grow in understanding. “There are a bunch of different chapters of SUSI, from agriculture…

Thomas Cook relaunches Tunisia holidays for February 2018 -Three years after beach massacre

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The tour operator has started selling holidays to Tunisia again, two years after the Sousse terror attack  Two years after 30 British holidaymakers were killed by a terrorist in Tunisia, one of the UK’s biggest tour operators is to start selling trips there again. Thomas Cook, which first opened an office in Tunisia in 1902, will be offering a small programme of holidays from February 2018. Following the massacre by a lone gunman on the beach in Sousse, the Foreign Office placed the North African nation on the no-go list – triggering…

Turkish volunteers in Africa to help carry out renovation projects

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A group of Turkish volunteers who arrived in Somalia as part of an initiative by the Turkish development agency have started renovating an orphanage and school, reports said Sunday. Consisting of 200 students, the 2017 Africa Experience Sharing Program led by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) will allow volunteers to visit numerous African countries, including Tunisia, Libya, Somalia, Kenya, Algeria, Chad, Sudan, Niger and Ghana from Aug. 5 to 30. As part of the program, seven students arrived in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and visited the Turkish Embassy, the…

Reviving the Tunisian tourism industry: Calling on the force

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Tunisia′s appeal as a holiday destination hit rock bottom a couple of years ago when it became the target of several Islamist attacks. Having rescued a number of Star Wars film sets in south-western Tunisia from sinking into the desert sands, a local tourism agency is now hoping to attract the film series′ considerable fan base. By Silke Wunsch Luke Skywalker is said to have been raised on a non-arable desert planet, beneath two suns, in a landscape formed by heat, sand and dust. On the edge of the Sahara,…

Christianity, Islam and Judaism: They Can Peacefully Co-exist

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The Prophet Muhammad was born in the Arabian Peninsula in a time where complete savagery, the absence of law and order was an everyday fact of life. However, in a short span of time, he became the means to form a bright civilization. He applied the justice revealed in the Qur’an to the inhabitants of countries that were taken over and made agreements with them that would contain both sides. Consequently, the people of these countries, regardless of their faith or ethnicity, were pleased with his justice. Taking him as…