IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, Austria Launches Outstanding Education Project in Oman

September 24th, 2009 MANAMA, Bahrain - Leading education experts from Singapore and Hong Kong have confirmed their participation as key-note speakers at the inaugural global education conference in Bahrain next month. The speakers include Professor S.

June 28th, 2009 VIENNA - The allocation procedure for the transportation capacities of the Tauern Gas Pipeline project, known as TGL Open Season 2009, starts on 29th June. In this next step of the feasibility study, the market demand will be determined on the basis of binding capacity requests and long-term transportation capacities allocated on a non-discriminatory basis.

May 26th, 2009 WARSAW, Poland - Collaboration on Nanotechnology, Life Science and Intelligent Systems. The Wroclaw Research Center, European Institute of Technology Plus (WRC EIT+) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have agreed today to collaborate on the advancement of scientific research, graduate education and technological development in fundamental and applied sciences.

May 26th, 2009 INGELHEIM, Germany - For Healthcare Media Outside the U.S.A., Canada, and Japan Boehringer Ingelheim announced today that it will become the founding sponsor of the World Stroke Academy, a novel training initiative for stroke professionals being developed by the World Stroke Organization (WSO). This latest educational initiative from the WSO will bring together an international group of stroke experts - led by Professor Michael Brainin of the Danube University Krems, Austria - to provide information about stroke and knowledge for health professionals and medical doctors in order to improve prevention, therapy and management of stroke.

May 18th, 2009 STUTTGART, Germany - New Focus: International Infrastructure Technology&Management In Germany the Master's Degree International Project Management at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences offers an international postgraduate with two focuses. Building Project Management has been running very successful since 2001.

April 19th, 2009 ST. AUGUSTIN, Germany - Researchers in the European research project XPERO have developed a machine learning method, which enables a small humanoid to learn rather fundamental mathematical concepts such as position and orientation in a coordinate system. The algorithm takes the robot's sensor data recorded while it moves through the surrounding world and creates a model, which allows the robot to predict how the objects in its vicinity will change their position relative to the robot when it moves.

April 16th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, today announced that it has won a major contract to provide project management services to the Brazilian mining company Vale (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) for a large project in Sohar, Oman. The contract will be executed through a joint venture (on a 50/50 basis) with a local partner, W.J.

March 30th, 2009 PARIS - OFCE Economic Research Centre Sciences PO Paris - G20, and After... - Revival - Regulation - Reform United Nations, Interactive Thematic Dialogue with the General Assembly, 25-27 March 2009 (www.un.org/ga/president/63/interactive/worldfinancialcrisis.shtml) Recommendations by the Commission of Experts, Joseph Stiglitz (Prize Nobel winner), President of the commission, Research fellow at OFCE, Jean-Paul Fitoussi (www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/fitoussi/accueil_fitou.html), President of the Sub-commission, "Macro-issues and perspectives".

March 30th, 2009 PARIS - In the news release, "OOFCE Economic Research Centre G20 and After" issued on 31 Mar 2009 08:00 GMT, by OFCE over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that an extra "O" was added to the release headline in error. The headline should have read "OFCE Economic Research Centre G20 and After" Complete, corrected release follows: - OFCE Economic Research Centre Sciences PO Paris - G20, and After...

March 24th, 2009 BONN, Germany - German Providers of Vocational Training Visit Potential Cooperation Partners From April 3rd to 8th, 2009 Arab countries work hard to meet the demands of a growing population by introducing comprehensive education reforms and initiatives. German-Arab collaboration in the education sector is of strategic importance for future employability and highly desired on both sides.

January 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Friday said its joint venture in Oman has bagged orders worth $245 million (Rs.11.98 billion). The orders cover construction of a hotel and apartments for the second Asian Beach Games and a mosque and underground cabling in Oman, a statement by L&T (Oman) LLC said.

July 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will chair a five-member jury of the Infosys Science Foundation, set up by IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd, to select winners for its awards in five science disciplines, the company said Wednesday. Sen will chair the jury for social sciences.

April 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study conducted at the University of Granada (Spain) has found that 6 out of every 10 university students, regardless their field of study, present any symptom of anxiety when it comes to deal with mathematics. Also, the study found that there are significant differences between men and women in this sense, as men suffer less anxiety when it comes to deal with mathematical tasks.

August 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Officials of the University of California, San Diego Health Sciences and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have signed a historic preliminary agreement to collaborate in the development of an International Medical Center (IMC) at IIT Kharagpur. This agreement - marked by a signing ceremony in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India - is the beginning of a strong educational, research and clinical partnership between UC San Diego Health Sciences and IIT, Kharagpur.

August 16th, 2009 NICOSIA - Indian Ambassador to Oman Anil Wadhwa has said that bilateral trade between Oman and India is growing steadily and if the recent trade figures are any indication, "it is set to reach 2.5 billion dollars by the end of 2009". In an interview with Oman Daily Observer on the occasion of India's Independence Day, Wadhwa said that the volume of Indo-Oman bilateral trade was 447 million dollars during January-February 2009 against 398.7 million dollars in the same period last year.

April 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Rocket launches in future may require more stringent regulation to minimise damage to the ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere, according to a new study. Today, just a handful of NASA space shuttle launches release more ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere than the entire annual use of CFC-based medical inhalers used to treat asthma and other diseases in the US, said Darin Toohey, professor of Colorado University at Boulder (CUB) atmospheric and oceanic sciences department.

March 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Rapper Chris Brown has denied reports that he's applying for university education. The rumours started off after the 19-year-old singer was spotted visiting Norfolk State University in his native Virginia at the weekend with mother and cousin.

May 25th, 2009 MUMBAI - A Chennai-bound Oman Air flight was cordoned off at the airport here Monday after it made an emergency landing following a crew member finding a note threatening to kill everyone on board. All 110 passengers were on board while the bomb disposal squad and other security personnel carried out checks on the aircraft, said an official of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

February 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's ambitious e-network project, linking leading universities and hospitals in this country with their counterparts in 11 African nations via satellite, was inaugurated Thursday evening by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who termed it a 'shining example of South-South cooperation'. Mukherjee inaugurated the Pan-African e-network with a brief video-conference call with his counterparts in 11 African countries - Ethiopia, Senegal, Seychelles, Benin, Gabon, The Gambia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ghana and Burkina Faso.

September 4th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is expected to lead a business delegation to Oman later this year to discuss developing a port in the state with the Gulf nation's assistance, an official said here Friday. According to the official in the chief minister's office, Modi has accepted an invitation from Oman's Commerce Minister Maqbool Ali Sultan to discuss trade relations and building a port on Gujarat's coast.