Search Results for: Pakistan

BY PAUL COCHRANE

The Iranian tobacco market has been partly opened up to international players in the past five years and growth is expected to rise strongly, but development of the sector is beset by extraordinarily high rates of smuggling and governmental regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank will pump US$52 million into Pakistan’s Dewan Petroleum Ltd, boosting its local upstream oil and gas exploration, development and production. Dewan has interests in the Safed Koh block, the Punjab, including the Salsabil gas/condensate field.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE REIMPOSITION of quota limits last year on some Chinese textile products has driven official overseas sales down, according to European Commission figures. During the first quarter of 2006, China saw an overall decrease in exports to the EU of minus 12% in volume, although unit prices increased by 9%.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi, India

*The Gas-reserves and Gas-production figures in the first table are from BP Statistical Review. Only in case of India’s daily gas production we have chosen a more widely quoted figure from Government of India, which is 15% more than BP’s.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

STRONG demand for leather luggage in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is lining the pockets of tanners in Italy, Pakistan and Thailand.

According to a recent global online survey by marketing data company AC Nielsen, the UAE ranks among the top five countries worldwide for luxury branded luggage bags.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A US$25 million financing package has been signed by the International Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, with Canada-based Rally Energy, supporting upstream oil and gas projects in Egypt and Pakistan. In Egypt, Rally is helping develop the Ras Issaran heavy oil concession, the Gulf of Suez; in Pakistan, the Safed Koh gas block, in the Punjab.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg, South Africa and DAVID HAWORTH, in Taiwan

TRADITIONAL health care systems do not always get a good press, being accused of incorporating superstition and poor medical practice. To some western public health advocates, they are akin to bringing back the leach.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

ONGOING recruitment of South African nurses to the UK is pushing South Africa’s already hard pressed public health system close to the brink of collapse and putting patient care at risk, the country’s lead nursing union and health experts have warned.…

BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing

"Build nuclear power, enrich the people", proclaim the billboards at China’s Qinshan nuclear facility in the south-eastern province of Zhejiang. Qinshan, a 120 kilometres south of Shanghai, is the centre of China’s nuclear sector and home to five of the country’s nine operational reactors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INVENTOR of a new ergonomic carpet loom reducing Pakistan weavers’ work injuries, making them less likely to force their children to work, has been honoured internationally. Saeed Awan, Pakistan’s Centre for the Improvement of Working Conditions and Environment director won the Tech Museum Prize, of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California for socially beneficial technological advances.…