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News of Jordan
Reuters: Palestine PM Fayyad offers resignation
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday following a rift between the two men over government policy, two sources told Reuters. Abbas was due to return to the occupied West Bank from Jordan on Thursday, and it was not immediately clear (...)

11 - 04 - 2013
14 Palestinians killed in Jordan road accident
Fourteen Palestinians were killed on Saturday and 32 were injured, some seriously, when their bus collided head-on with a truck in Jordan, the emergency services in the kingdom said. The passengers had been on the way home to the West Bank from Saudi Arabia where they had performed the Muslim minor (...)

16 - 03 - 2013
BREAKING: UN peacekeepers taken to Syria-Jordan borde - Rebels
A group of 21 UN Filipino peacekeepers captured by Syrian rebels three days ago have been taken to the border with Jordan to be handed over to Jordanian authorities, a rebel source and a violence monitoring group said on Saturday. It was no immediately clear whether the peacekeepers had crossed (...)

09 - 03 - 2013
World Bank grants Jordan $70 mn to ease youth unemployment
The World Bank has granted Jordan $70 million to provide small loans to young people in depressed rural areas who have borne the brunt of the country's sluggish economic growth. With almost 40 percent of Jordan's seven-million-strong population under 15 years old, youth unemployment – which has (...)

06 - 03 - 2013
The MENA ICT Forum 2013 will be hosting the MENA ICT Week
The upcoming MENA region's premier ICT industry event, entitled “MENA ICT Forum 2013" has recently announced hosting The MENA ICT Week building on the event's regular and annual activities in the past period. This event, which is organized by Ijma3; of the Arab ICT Organization, will join efforts (...)

20 - 02 - 2013
Jordan returns lacklustre parliament
Following two years of calls for reform and citizens' desire for change amidst the so-called “Arab Spring”, Jordan's parliamentary elections last week produced a legislature that was described by analysts as the “worst” in the country's history. In other Arab Spring countries, regimes fell and new (...)

30 - 01 - 2013
3 Companies Seek Licence As Telecom Providers
The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission ( TRC ) said on Saturday that three local companies showed interest in obtaining licences to provide mobile telecommunications and fixed wireless broadband services in the Kingdom. The TRC , which recently opened the door for applications to obtain (...)

27 - 01 - 2013
Low expectations in Jordan
Jordan is about a week away from electing its 17th lower house of parliament, and from the look of things — the calibre of candidates and their often lame slogans — most citizens foresee a weak new parliament to come; one that will be hardly capable of meeting public expectations. Politicians and (...)

16 - 01 - 2013
Registration for the MENA ICT Forum 2013 Officially Started
Approaching the launch of the MENA ICT Forum 2013; which will be held on the 6th and 7th of March 2013, registration officially started for public to participate in the forum held under the patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah at the prestigious King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center, Dead Sea, (...)

13 - 01 - 2013
Jordan's opposition demands real power
Although calm was restored in Jordan following days of riots and violent protests against the government's decision to lift subsidies on petrol and fuel derivatives, this calmness is described by some analysts as the “calm before the storm”. For how long this calmness would prevail remains unclear. (...)

28 - 11 - 2012
Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan (int@j) Announces the Date of the MENA ICT Forum to be held in Jordan
Capitalizing on the success of the MENA ICT Forum held in 2010, The Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan (int@j) organized a media roundtable to announce the upcoming MENA ICT Forum. The event will be under the patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah, and will be held on (...)

25 - 11 - 2012
Ghana's Ayew denies West Ham move
Marseille's Ghanaian forward Andre Ayew said on Wednesday he would relish the prospect of playing in the Premier League but insisted that West Ham United had not tabled any offer to sign him. The 22-year-old, who plays for Marseille, shined in the Ligue 1 after producing a string of superb (...)

21 - 11 - 2012
Unrest spreads in Jordan
Nationwide riots, vandalism, blocked roads and the chanting of unprecedented slogans calling for the downfall of the regime were some of the scenes witnessed in Jordan over the past week. The unrest witnessed in the kingdom of 6.5 million people was the worst that has been seen not only since the (...)

21 - 11 - 2012
Sign me a word: hearing loss and discrimination
RAMALLAH: Humans strive to reach an impossible level of perfection. Though perfection has never existed and has never been reached, we still strive to reach this surreal state of mind that desperately drive us to unconsciously seek irrational–sometimes even extreme–measures only to preserve an (...)

13 - 11 - 2012
Freedom Bus travels Palestine, ends in Bet Sahour
DHEISHEH REFUGEE CAMP—On Monday, the Freedom Bus marked the final stop of its tour across the Israeli-occupied West Bank by hosting a concert in Bet Sahour. Over a hundred people came to Bet Sahour's old city to watch Palestinian performers such as the rap group DAM, Haifa-based reggae band (...)

04 - 10 - 2012
Jordan Ahli Bank Sponsors MIT Student Delegation Visit To Jordan
Giving its full support to a wholesome educational and cultural exchange amongst youth, Jordan Ahli Bank collaborated with Oasis 500 and the Royal Scientific Society to host the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MBA student delegation's visit to Jordan. This visit was held as part of the (...)

30 - 09 - 2012
Jordan Seeks Up To $1.5 Billion Through Eurobonds
Jordan plans to raise between $750 million and $1.5 billion by issuing Eurobonds in international markets in order to finance the Kingdom's spending needs, Finance Minister Suleiman Hafez said Wednesday. The dollar-dominated bonds will be paid over a period of seven to 10 years, according to the (...)

13 - 09 - 2012
Angelina Jolie Visits Jordan Camp For Syrian Refugees
The United Nations refugee agency's special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie, is touring a refugee camp in Jordan for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country. The Hollywood star arrived on Tuesday morning in the Zaatari camp, which hosts about 27,000 Syrians displaced by the 18-month conflict. (...)

11 - 09 - 2012
'Gov't, Telecom Operators Exploring Ways To Increase State's Share Of Sector Revenues'
Telecom operators are working with the government to find ways to increase the state's revenues from the sector without harming telecom companies, Umniah CEO Ihab Hinnawi said on Sunday. "We recently met with the government to look into mechanisms that do not negatively affect the profits of (...)

28 - 08 - 2012
Open Source Association To Launch Arabic Educational Website
The Jordan Open Source Association said on Saturday that it had begun creating an online Arabic-language educational portal covering a wide variety of topics and sciences in an effort to improve the quantity and quality of Arabic content on the web. The association is cooperating with Creative (...)

26 - 08 - 2012
'Insurance Firms To Resume Work After Deal Reached With Police'
The Kingdom's insurance firms will resume work on Thursday after an agreement put an end to their one-day strike. The Jordan Insurance Federation ( JIF ) had announced that the entire sector would go on strike on Wednesday and Thursday to pressure the government to take action against "gangs" these (...)

23 - 08 - 2012
Loan Guarantee Fund For Smes Launched
The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation on Wednesday announced the official launch of a credit guarantee fund designed to improve small enterprises' access to financing. The fund, the first initiative of its kind in the Kingdom, seeks to provide entrepreneurs and owners of small- and (...)

23 - 08 - 2012
Arabic Web Encyclopedia To Launch In December With 500,000 Articles
TAGpedia, an online encyclopedia conceived with the aim of increasing the amount of Arabic content on the web, is scheduled to launch in December with about 500,000 articles in Arabic. The Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organisation (TAG-Org), which is producing the encyclopaedia, has already compiled 400,000 (...)

22 - 08 - 2012
Internet penetration tops 55% by end of June
Internet penetration in Jordan reached 55.9 per cent by the end of June with about 3.535 million users, according the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission ( TRC ). New data posted on the TRC 's website on Thursday showed that the country's Internet subscription rate (the ratio of Internet (...)

19 - 08 - 2012
طونى قطان فى حفل غنائى بالأردن اليوم مع لاميتا فرنجية
يحيى المطرب طونى قطان اليوم الخميس حفلا غنائيا فى مدينة مادبا بالأردن بحضور الفنانة اللبنانية لاميتا فرنجية والفنان محمد كريم، بالإضافة إلى سلسلة حفلات فى الأردن وفلسطين وغيرها من الدول العربية، كما يحيى حفلا غنائيا آخر يوم 24 من شهر أغسطس الحالى لأول مرة فى مدينة الزرقاء فى الأردن. كما يحضر حاليا (...)

16 - 08 - 2012
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