AFP — SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) — Iraq's three-member presidency council on Friday approved a long-delayed provincial election law, clearing the final hurdle for polls to go head early next year, an official present at the meeting told AFP.
"The presidency council has adopted the provincial election law," said the official, who is a member of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of KurdiMore…
HotFrog (persbericht), Netherlands — Tarin Hills
A first-of-its-kind, fully integrated modern community in Erbil. Tarin Hills is the first fully self-contained master planned community to be developed across 170 million sq. ft. of land. A conglomeration of residential, retail, commercial, hospitality, entertainment, health and sports components interwoven within the picturesque terrain of Erbil in Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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AFP — KHANAQIN, Iraq (AFP) — For Iraqi Kurdish mathematics teacher Mohammed Aziz, two wrongs can make a right. After decades of forced exile by the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, he is back with a vengeance.
Aziz was just four years old in 1975 when his family was evicted from Bawaplawi village, near the northern city of Khanaqin, and Arab settlers grabbed their home.
Now schoolteacher Aziz is bMore…
RedOrbit, TX — Seoul, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) - South Korea's state-run oil company on Thursday [ 25 September] signed a pact with the autonomous government of Kurdistan to link oil development with social infrastructure construction in the war-torn Middle Eastern region.
The definitive deal signed in downtown Seoul between the Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) and Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani outlines developmeMore…
Kurdish Globe — Papers will not be shut down, more press freedom will be granted, and penalties against journalists will be reduced in the newly amended law.
Kurdistan parliament approved the journalism law in Monday's session after amending articles that had been criticized by Kurdish journalists.
"The parliament opened a wider door to freedom and the chance granted to journalists must be used to rebuildMore…
International Water Power and Dam Construction, UK — Kurdistan is planning three projects with combined installed capacity of 260MW and has called for tenders to undertake the feasibility studies.
The projects are Gali Balinda (111MW), Delga (97MW) and Halwan (52MW).
Gali Balinda would be built on the Shamdinan river, the principal tributary of the Greater Zab. The site is near Suri, approximately 73km east of Dohuk in the Governorate of DohukMore…
Kurdish Globe — Masrur Barzani, director of the KRG's Intelligence Agency, the Parastin, speaks of his agency's participation in securing the region and stabilizing Iraq.
In an interview with the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharaq Al-Awsat, chief of the Kurdistan Region Protection Agency (or Parastin, in Kurdish), Masrur Barzani, denied the existence of any American CIA or Israeli Mossad operatives inside More…
Kurdish Globe — The Kurdistan Coalition has called for the removal of paragraph 2 of Article 23 of the Iraq-U.S. security pact, which states that Iraq can sign a similar pact with neighboring countries.
Sahdi Barznji, an Iraqi MP with the Kurdistan Coalition (KC), called for the removal of paragraph 2 of Article 23 of the security pact between Iraq and the U.S., saying it "does not serve the interests of the More…
Kurdistan Regional Government — The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry for Electricity invites companies to submit tenders (bids) for the supply of 12 generator air coolers for Derbandikhan Hydropower Plant in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq.
Purchase of tender documents
Interested companies with the relevant experience can purchase a copy of the tender documentation for this project by visiting the KRG Electricity More…
