September 3rd, 2018 | 0 commentsHis Majesty King Abdullah II received at the Basman Palace on Sunday, the credentials of six newly appointed ambassadors to the Kingdom. The ambassadors are: Aziz Al-Daihani of Kuwait, Lukas Gasser of Switzerland, Akmad Attah Sakkam of the Philippines, Amir Weissbrod, non-resident ambassador of the Comoros Al-Habib Abbas, non-resident amb...
August 29th, 2018 | 0 commentsThe increase of electricity consumption positively affects the economic growth in the long term, a study by the Jordan Strategy Forum (JSF) on the power consumption in the Kingdom revealed on Monday. The study, titled “Economics of Energy and Electricity Consumption: How and Why Should We Care?”, addressed the volume of electricity consum...
August 13th, 2018 | 0 commentsCanon Middle East (CME), a provider of imaging technologies and services, signed a distribution agreement in Jordan with Logicom, a leading regional distributor of technology solutions and services. As part of the agreement, Logicom Jordan will distribute and promote Canon’s comprehensive consumer product portfolio of photo, video and B2C...
August 6th, 2018 | 0 commentsTrade volume in the Kingdom’s real estate market reached JD3.092 billion until July 2018, dropping by 11 per cent when compared with JD3.467 billion for the same period in 2017, the Department of Land and Survey (DLS) announced on Sunday. Northern Amman registration office ranked first with trade volume of JD647 million, followed by centr...
August 1st, 2018 | 0 commentsThe Arab Potash Company (APC) has announced that its net profits after taxes, provisions and mining royalties amounted to JD52.7 million at the end of the first half of 2018, recording an increase of 30 per cent over the same period of last year. In a statement, APC’s Chairman Jamal Al Sarayrah said the increase in profits was due to seve...
July 25th, 2018 | 0 comments Increasing the price of cement added a new, unbearable challenge to the already deteriorating housing sector, stakeholders have said. On Sunday night, Jordan's five cement factories increased the price of cement from JD38 to JD74 per tonne. The decision to return to previous prices came to put an end to the accumulative losses of the com...
July 18th, 2018 | 0 commentsQatar will provide 1, 000 jobs for Jordanians in two months across five sectors, Labour Minister Samir Murad said on Tuesday, according to a statement by his ministry. The minister made the announcement at a press conference after meeting with Issa Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi, Qatari minister of administrative development, labour and social...
June 27th, 2018 | 0 commentsHRH Crown Prince Hussein, the Regent, on Tuesday opened the visitor centre at Shomari Wildlife Reserve in Azraq, which is considered home for rare and endangered animals species in the Middle East. Prince Hussein toured the centre, which was established under a Royal initiative and listened to a briefing from stakeholders on what the rese...
June 20th, 2018 | 0 commentsThe government will cut public spending by JD150 million this year and will implement a series of projects to improve services, Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said on Tuesday. The premier also announced a series of other decisions that addressed outstanding issues inherited from the previous governments. “It is unacceptable whenever there is...
June 4th, 2018 | 0 commentsJordanian unions and a majority of lawmakers said on Saturday they would press on with demands for the government to scrap a IMF-backed tax bill that triggered protests against price hikes. Reuters reports several thousand Jordanians staged vigils on two successive nights outside the cabinet office chanting anti-government slogans and urg...
