Tunis, January 5, 2009- During his meeting with the Prime Minister, Mr Mohamed Ghannouchi, on Monday, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali focused on the government program for 2009.
He stressed the importance of promoting the legal framework, in order to develop human resources as well as reinforcing infrastructure, especially in industrial and technological areas and premises, with a view to providing job opportunities.
He also reiterated the importance of following up on the world financial and economic situation and to implement measures ...
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Tunis, January 5, 2009- The newspaper Le Temps reports in Monday’s issue that the UK- based low-cost airline, Easy Jet has submitted a request to Tunisia ‘s civil aviation authorities (OACA) to operate a service from certain European cities such as Geneva, Paris and Frankfurt to respectively Tunis, Monastir and Djerba.
The new service is expected to start in summer 2009.
After Transavia, Ryanair and Thomsonfly, Easy Jet is the fourth low-cost airline to operate a service to major Tunisian cities.
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Tunis, January 5, 2009- Born in Bizerta on January 2, 1909, Tawhida Ben Cheikh, the first Tunisian and Arab female physician, celebrated on Friday her hundredth birthday.
Tawhida Ben Cheikh* is also the first Tunisian woman to have successfully passed the Baccalaureate exam in 1928.
After studying physics and biology in Paris for three years, she took up medicine and graduated as a gynaecologist in 1936.
Upon her return to Tunisia, she opened her own medical cabinet and later became one of the ...
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Tunis, January 5, 2009- In spite of the world economic crisis, the Tunis stock exchange has progressed by 10,7% in 2008 , the third best performance in the world, according to the French news agency AFP.
In 2008 the Tunis Stock Exchange ranked third in the world only after Accra, Ghana and Quito, Ecuador, according to the French business magazine Challenges.
In October 2008, the TV channel Bloomberg, ranked the Tunis Stock Exchange second in the world after Accra.
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Tunis, January 4, 2009- A Tunisian cargo plane carrying emergency relief items for the population of Gaza, has landed on Saturday morning at the El Arich airport, North Sinai, in Egypt.
This initiative comes in implementation of a presidential decision to send emergency aid in solidarity with the Palestinian population in Gaza that is experiencing difficult circumstances as a result of the Israeli aggressions.
The plane took off at dawn from the El Aouina military airport, loaded with 16 tons of medicine, basic ...
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