Camarillo, California (ots/PRNewswire) - BNK Petroleum Inc. (the "Company" or "BNK") , is providing an update on its Tishomingo Field, Caney oil shale operations in Oklahoma as well as its Polish shale gas project. Oklahoma - Tishomingo Field BNK's strategy for its 2013 Caney drilling program was to prove the productivity of the Caney formation in our Tishomingo field. The Company's efforts were focused on increasing the ...
Berlin (ots/PRNewswire) - Scientists in Europe are stepping up their efforts to bring Golden Rice into production, with its promise to alleviate one of the world's scourges, vitamin A deficiency. They have organized a nine-city European tour led by Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder and former leader of Greenpeace. ...
Fédération des Barreaux d'Europe (FBE)
Strasbourg, France (ots) - - Mr. Ümit Kocasakal, President of the Istanbul Bar Association and nine Board members are being prosecuted for their fight to guarantee the right of defense in Turkey - The European Bars Federation (FBE), representing 250 European Bars with more than 800.000 European lawyers sees the ...
2014 International Summit of Cooperatives
Quebec City (ots/PRNewswire) - Current topics and vital issues! The 2014 International Summit of Cooperatives just unveiled a diverse and relevant program. From October 6 to 9, presentations, forums, and round tables will allow participants from around the world to discuss subjects that speak to cooperatives and mutuals of the 21st century. "The themes for this second edition of the Summit were selected to promote the ...
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) welcomes the confirmation by Greece's highest court - the Council of State - that public service broadcasting in Greece must be put back on air. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130613/621657 ) The ruling reinforces the EBU's belief that every day without a public service broadcaster is a day of weakened democracy. The EBU urges all stakeholders to ...
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - European public service media (PSM) today welcomed a ruling by the top administrative court in Greece ordering the Greek government restore national broadcaster ERT to air immediately. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130613/621657 ) The Council of State suspended the government decree ordering the closure of ERT last Tuesday (11/6). ...
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Grand Saconnex, Switzerland (ots) - The Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Ingrid Deltenre, today condemned the threat of legal action made by the Greek government against satellite operators that transmit the ERT signal over Europe and Asia. "We urge the Greek government to withdraw the ...
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Largest single investment to eradicate under-nutrition by a private foundation - Hundreds of millions of children and families to benefit worldwide - Donors at Nutrition for Growth high level meeting secure new commitments of up to $4.15 billion to tackle under-nutrition up to 2020 The ...
Belgrade, Serbia (ots/PRNewswire) - His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander together with his family would like to inform the public that the process of exhumation and repatriation of his grandmother Queen Maria's remains is in the last stage thanks to the gracious permission of Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II, Dean of Windsor, Anglican Church, Ministry of Justice and ...
Frankfurt, Germany And Hatfield, England (ots/PRNewswire) - The German Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), the decision-making body of the self-governing medical system in Germany, today announced that it considers the additional benefit of Fycompa(R) (perampanel) unproven when compared to two other treatments as ...
Lagos, Nigeria (ots/PRNewswire) - His Excellency the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, applauds a 'noble initiative' and gives the project the full support of the his Government Eko Atlantic, the visionary new city for Lagos, Nigeria drew high-level presidential praise from both the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan and the ...
- Scores High on Key Performance Indicators London And Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Cognizant [http://www.cognizant.com/] announced today that it has topped the client satisfaction and relationship rankings in KPMG's Outsourcing 2012 study of service provider performance across Europe. Cognizant topped the rankings in general satisfaction and relationship ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Government Ignores Deteriorating Health of Federal Justice Workers In protest against repeated human and trade union rights violations, nine union members, five women and four men, began an unlimited hunger strike on 6 May in Algiers, Algeria. Despite urgent requests for meetings, and daily reports on the workers' rapidly ...
Olten (ots) - President Bill Clinton delivered the keynote speech at the Inspire for Excellence conference co-organised by Swiss Marketing and IMD on May 20. In his speech, titled "Embracing our Common Humanity," President Clinton discussed the challenge of globalization and indicated the way toward a common future based on shared goals and values. "There is a growing recognition that although sharp conflict makes for ...
Geneva (ots) - An investigation by World Radio Switzerland has found that executives within Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse have swung their support dramatically behind Republican challenger Mitt Romney to beat Barack Obama in the US presidential elections this November. Executives at Credit Suisse have so far funded the Romney campaign to the tune of $316,160. It's a total which is just above the amount given to the ...
Paris, November 29 (ots/PRNewswire) - On Wednesday 30 November, public sector workers will protest austerity measures in more than 25 European countries, following a call for action by the European Federation of Public Service Unions. Actions will include strikes, demonstrations and public marches. In Britain, unions are planning the largest strike since 1926 - to ...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - - Previewing themes in his upcoming report to G20 leaders, Gates highlights innovations and partnerships as keys to development Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today accepted World Food Program USA's George McGovern Leadership Award for his foundation's efforts to help small farmers in the developing world ...
Zurich (ots) - On the occasion of the state visit of Her Excellency Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil to Switzerland, a meeting between representatives of Indian and Swiss business took place today. The purpose of the discussions was the further intensification of economic relations. The event was organised by ...
Qatar Committee for Alliance of Civilizations
Doha, Qatar and New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Qatar will host the 4th International Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC): The Doha Forum will take place from December 11th to 13th From December 11th to 13th, a powerful network of Heads of States, foreign ministers, young people, civil society organizations, business leaders and global media - ...
World Engineers' Convention (WEC) 2011
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - An energy supply producing only a small amount of CO2 is feasible and financially viable. This is shown by the Call from Geneva of the World Engineers' Convention (WEC) 2011. Engineers from all over the world are invited to discuss the theses. "It is the engineers who render the technology available to the world's population and enable us all to optimally use the ever scarcer resources. ...
Universität Zürich / University Zurich
Zurich (ots) - - Indication: PDF-File can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100020780/?langid=2 - A new democracy barometer from the University of Zurich and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) shows the development of the thirty best ...
Geneva (ots) - At the 5th Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh, Carlos Moreira, founder and CEO of WISeKey, a leading eSecurity company, speaking alongside Jean Chretien, former Canadian Prime Minister, Caroline Daniels, chairman and CEO of Aircraft Technical Publishers, James Turley, chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young and Muhammad Al- Jasser, Saudi Arabian ...
Nyon (ots) - Postal workers, union members, MEPs and concerned citizens will tell the European Parliament in Brussels today to demand an end to post market liberalisation. The groups say the switch from publicly funded post systems to private ownership routinely leads to unemployment, attacks on working conditions and poorer service for customers. UNI ...
Berne (ots) - The Swiss people decided at the weekend to ban the building of minarets in the country. swissinfo.ch has for months been closely following and reporting on the process leading up to acceptance of the people?s initiative. Switzerland?s direct democracy means that it is citizens who have the last word on important political decisions. At the weekend Swiss voted, with a majority of 58 per cent, to ...
- Indication: The full press release can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100007839 - Ecublens/Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - - AC Immune selected as Technology Pioneer 2009 by the ...
IMC - Internet Media Consultants SA
Nyon, Switzerland (ots) - America.com is LIVE, and currently seeking the direct attention of every American in the land, including John McCain and Barack Obama. Internet Media Consultants, SA, led by Mr. Paolo Belcastro, has announced today the officially launch of America.com! "We are honored to be in a ...
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - A federal judge has ordered the Government of Libya and six of its officials to pay a total of approximately US$6 billion in damages arising from the mid-air suitcase bombing of a French-operated UTA Flight 772, DC-10 wide-body jet. The 1989 attack killed 170 people from Europe, ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - The man who could be the next Russian President tells Bloomberg: Planned U.S. Missile System is "a new Berlin Wall." The dispute over a planned U.S. missile system that would include installations in Eastern Europe has plunged Russian relations with the United States and the European Union to lows not seen since the end of the Cold War. BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) explores this issue ...
Rousset, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today that the Korean Finance Telecommunication & Clearings Institute (KFTC) awarded Atmel with a certificate stating that Atmel's manufacturing processes and security comply with Koreans KFTC standards. KFTC was established in 1986, with 12 general members, 10 associate members ...