Organized crime groups are behind the increased trafficking in great apes - which include gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees, and orangutans - out of West and Central Africa, according to a United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) report. The publication states that while great ape trafficking is not a new phenomenon, the scale of the problem merits increased international attention and a concerted response.
Greater information sharing, trust, cooperation, and enforcement are the keys for the EU in its fight against corruption, according to a speech given Tuesday by Cecelia Malmström, the European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs,
In a courtroom in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, a telecommunications executive and his employer have been fighting a pitched battle to see who is dirtier.
Vardan Setrakyan, a candidate who ran in the February 18 presidential election in Armenia, has just been arrested on suspicion of ordering the January 31 shooting of Paryur Hayrikian.
A cold wet snow didn't keep a few thousand people from attending today's Barevolution Rally at Freedom Square in Yerevan. Speakers called for the opposition to unite and turn the current movement to unseat the ruling regime into an unstoppable people's struggle for radical and real change in Armenia.
From March 5 to 9, Armenian high-tech companies will represent the "High-Tech Armenia" brand at the world's largest digital trade fair, CeBIT, held annually in Hannover, Germany.
In a courtroom in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, a telecommunications executive and his employer have been fighting a pitched battle to see who is dirtier. Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunication giant, claims Thomas Lundin, their former general manager in Romania, pilfered $7 million from them.
Giragosian did credit Raffi Hovannisian for injecting a new political set of tactics into Armenia by taking his message to towns and rural communities outside of Yerevan. He said that residents in the provinces are mostly overlooked by Armenian politicians in non-election years.
On February 18 2013, Armenia held presidential elections that were accompanied with gross violations reported by a numerous organizations and individuals. In this respect, Europe in Law Association and Transparency International Anticorruption Center voice their concern over the reluctance of the Armenian law enforcement bodies to detect criminal cases and the illegal acts tended to conceal the crime.
On the heels of a Hetq report revealing widespread food safety violations at the Getamej chicken processing plant, the Food Safety Service of the RA Ministry of Health has circulated its own scathing summary of the plant’s entire operation.
His speeches are filled with platitudes and contradictions. Rather than announcing plans, he is asking the crowd: What do you want to do? Stay for an hour or longer? He says he will stand and wait until the "outgoing" President Sargsyan comes and "recognizes the peoples' victory." The next day, however, he walks to the president's office for a closed-door meeting with the incumbent.
The RA Ministry of Health today reports that it has found jobs for 35 out of the 70 Syrian-Armenian health professional (physicians, nurses, pharmacologists) who have registered with the ministry.
On March 3, 2013, Raffi Hovannisian addressed Armenians assembled at the St. Mary's Armenian Church, Glendale, California via Skype from Yerevan.
What I am going to reflect in this article are my assessments, analyses and suggestions as a free and critically thinking person, specialist and activist, who has been actively participating and leading a constructive and determined struggle in universal and particularly Armenian reality for freedom, justice, dignity and solidarity for more than 20 years, in an attempt to counterbalance the global oligarchic and domination agendas and projects...
On March 4, representatives of the “Armenian Community of Georgia” organization met with Sozar Soubari, political secretary of the “Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia” coalition.
Turkish police have arrested a suspect in the recent spate of attacks against elderly Armenian women in Istanbul. According to the Turkish press, the 38 year-old man, identified as Murat Nazaryan, is a Turkish citizen of Armenian origin.
Bulgarians marched in the streets en masse on Sunday in protest of corruption and poverty in the EU’s poorest country, despite the resignation of the previous Prime Minister and his cabinet, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Outgoing Prime Minister Boiko Borisov resigned after two weeks of protests that saw Bulgarians chanting slogans of “mafia” and “resign” in front of Parliament, the Economist reported.
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