The influx of prime real estate onto the Chinese market has very little to do with supply and demand and everything to do with the harsh stance Beijing’s new leadership is taking against corruption. Frightened by the government’s focus on rooting out corruption within the party, officials have been rushing to sell homes linked to crooked dealings, the Telegraph reported.
In a sharp reversal of an established trend, undocumented immigrants in the United Kingdom are now paying human trafficking gangs to smuggle them out of their adopted countries, the BBC’s Panorama reported in a new investigative documentary, “Immigration Undercover.”
Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, labour markets remain deeply depressed with no improvements in sight. Uncertain economic outlook and inadequate policy responses hold back job creation.
German businessman Stefan Laxhube told Hetq that he was not pleased with an Armenian court’s examination of his legal suit against Gagik Tsarukyan, alleging that the defendant has exerted pressure on the court.
When the Prosperous Armenia Party, ARF-Dashnaktsutyun and Armenian National Congress announced that they would not participate in the presidential election with their own candidates or support any other candidate, it became obvious that the first and second presidents of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Robert Kocharian, are leaving the stage for a while.
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated today the government has drafted a long-term plan of action to develop the agricultural sector in Armenia and that this mandates an in-depth census of agricultural lands, livestock, equipment, facilities and other resources.
A new civic initiative group “NO to Cyanide in Meghradzor” has launched the collection of signatures opposing the construction of a cyanic plant in Meghradzor.
Located in Northern Armenia, Alaverdi, an industrial city of pure copper is inhabited by 16.500 people. The factory, reopend by "Vallex" group, works 24 hours and produces about 30 tons of copper a day.
Stoyangolo said that according to a preliminary review, Armenia’s Electoral Code has all prerequisites for organizing and conducting the elections in full compliance with international principles and democratic norms.
Karapetyan, who heads the Yerevan branch of the NGO Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA), credited this approach of Armenians to the homeland as a deficiency of the public education system in Armenia.
A fire in Yerevan’s Media Building broke out yesterday causing 1.5 million AMD in damage.
The web-site Nayiri.com today released digitized versions of the 4- volume Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian (published by the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in Yerevan between 1969-1980) and the 2-volume New Dictionary of the Armenian Language (published by Donigian printing house in 1992 in Beirut).
Turkey's Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) filed a motion yesterday to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the murder of Hrant Dink. The move comes just days after the sixth anniversary of Dink's murder was commemorated in Turkey.
Vangold Resources Ltd. and joint venture partner Blackstairs Energy PLC today announced that they have received the first two year extension of their Petroleum Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement with the Government of the Republic of Armenia.
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