http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com Tunisiaonlinenews...your source of news and information about Tunisia today... Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:31:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/2009/01/05/president-ben-ali-focuses-on-government-program-for-2009/ 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 ... http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/2009/01/05/easy-jet-to-launch-tunisian-service-in-2009/ 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 ... http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/2009/01/05/first-tunisian-female-physician-celebrates-100-th-birthday/ 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 ... http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/2009/01/05/tunis-stock-exchange-boasts-third-best-growth-among-world-bourses/ 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 ... http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/2009/01/05/tunisian-emergency-relief-plane-lands-at-el-arich-in-egypt/