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By Scott Bobb (VOA Tel Aviv) In recent months, Israeli leaders have stepped up their rhetoric about Iran's nuclear capabilities and increasingly are warning that Israel might attack Iranian nuclear installations to prevent...

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Germany airport operator Fraport AG on Friday declared its traffic figures for January 2012, which showed that Frankfurt Airport served 4.1 million passengers in January 2012, an increase...

Tokyo, Feb 9, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Pioneer Corporation today announced its consolidated third-quarter and nine-month business results for the periods ended December 31, 2011. Consolidated Financial Highlights ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (In millions of...

President Obama gave his annual assessment of the US last month and so we felt it an opportune time to also review the state of the union a little closer to home and...

Tokyo, Feb 7, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) today announced financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2011. On a consolidated basis, net revenues for the nine...

Tokyo, Feb 6, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC) and SAP Japan Co., Ltd. (SAP Japan) today announced a global business partnership agreement to provide billing services through SaaS that operate...

Methanol Holding Int'l (50%), MAN Ferrostaal of Germany (20%) and Omzest (30%) are grouped in Oman Methanol Co. (OMC) which has a 3,000 t/d methanol plant built in Sohar in late 2007. Instead...

Iraq's crude oil output in 2012 is set to average 3.4m b/d, including 175,000 b/d from Kurdistan. With oil accounting for almost all Iraqi state income, Baghdad is preparing to become the world's...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism hopes to see a recovery in tourist numbers to between 12 and 13 million this year, bringing in $11 billion, despite ongoing street violence and more than 70 deaths...

As a result of a growing number of industries setting up in Sohar, Muscat in 2008 created of a new economic zone in Sohar. It had already attracted a number of projects to...

The opening of a downstream plastics manufacturing plant in the Salalah free zone in December 2006 marked the beginning of a new phase in the region's petrochemical industry. It caught many by surprise...

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS German carrier airberlin on Thursday announced that it will become a full member of the oneworld airline alliance from 20 March 2012. Member of the airberlin group, Austrian...

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Australian carrier the Qantas Group on Thursday released details on its response to the European Union (EU) and Australian carbon pricing schemed and increased fuel costs. Higher jet...

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Australian carrier the Qantas Group on Thursday released details on its response to the European Union (EU) and Australian carbon pricing schemed and increased fuel costs. Higher jet...

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS German carrier airberlin on Thursday announced that it will become a full member of the oneworld airline alliance from 20 March 2012. Member of the airberlin group, Austrian...

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS German carrier Lufthansa on Wednesday announced that it is resuming services to Tripoli as of 2 February 2012. Three times a week services will be operated with an...

Tokyo, Feb 2, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation today announced its sales and financial results through the third quarter of the 2011 fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 and its...

CNOOC's battery unit invested $300 million in a venture with Spanish solar power company Isofoton to develop photovoltaic plants across Asia. CNOOC, China's biggest offshore energy explorer, will take a 51 percent stake...

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS German carrier airberlin on Wednesday announced that it is flying the last passenger service from Berlin's Tegel Airport. The final passenger service from Tegel Airport is scheduled for...