The Bridge of Rades

When I generally go from the southern suburb to the north suburb, I often take the new road of “Rades-La Goulette” as most people do. In this road, you must cross the highest bridge in Tunisia and the longest one in Africa. I don't know why every time I pass from that place and the moment when I see the marvellous landscape with the beautiful and the wide sea, the picture of the “Bosphorus Bridge” of Istanbul comes to my mind. And I start asking myself: Why, in Turkey, they have pleasure boats and ferries crossing the sea, a fascinating lighting system of changing colours and patterns while in Tunisia we don’t have any of these? Why a resource like that is not exploitable? Why the sight did not induce any business man to think of establishing...

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Spain: the crisis scared off hundreds of thousands of people

Spain continues its descent into the depths of the crisis. After the downgrade of the sovereign debt of Spain, Friday, October 14, reduced from AA to AA-, it is the turn of the city of Barcelona and the Madrid region of degraded their ratings from AA to AA-.Standard & Poor's also assigned to the two communities a negative outlook, meaning itcould still lower their medium-term notes.These announcements came as the crisis in the euro area is growing and the country has a low growth, very bad finances and regional unemployment...

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New Oppprtunities in changing MENA region

Tunisian-American Chamber of Commerce (TACC), Chair of Mena, hosted recently the annual conference held by The Regional Council of AmCham Mena (American Chamber of Commerce ) on the theme "New opportunities in a changing MENA region." . The event attracted a lot of participants from different Arab countries, international experts and Tunisian businessmen.it discussed the impact of economic integration in the MENA region on the growth of interregional investment, agri-business in the MENA region, the role of private equity in the growth and sustainability of SMEs . The Vice President Mena of the American Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Lionel Johnson, declared that the essential goal of the partnership US-MENA regions is to establish a favorable...

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The dragon fell down

“The data is a signal they need to do a little bit more in terms of restoring confidence and loosening policy,” says Andrew Batson, research director at Beijing-based economic consultancy GK Dragonomics.  The world is just sitting and waiting for the reaction of Beijing, the capital of the Dragon country, toward its flagging economy. The disappointing investments, trading, even the number of output decreases and finally a cut in bank reserve ratio lead to the bottoming of the dragon.  China’s economy grew by 8.1 percent in the first quarter which is the lowest rate since 2009. The central Bank has reduced the bank reserve requirement. This requirement is set by the government. Any changes in the required percentage are used to influence...

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Hiring Up

The number of Tunisians recruited during the first four months of 2012 to work abroad reached 564 against 355 in 2011 and 380 in 2010, according to a statement of the Tunisian Agency for Technical Cooperation (ATCT) arrived yesterday to TAP.Among those recruited, 95 are first-time jobseekers.  The total number of volunteer experts and Tunisian expatriates amounted, therefore, to 11,615 with the management of social and administrative career is provided by the ATCT.In the first four months of 2012, the ATCT received 94 job offers, emanating in particular from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE. These offers are almost 1700 posts in various specialties. The main recruitment affected the health field with 155 recruited,...

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Islamic finance a new vision of the economy in Tunisia

FROM THE PRINT EDITION Lately the concept of islaming finance or Islamic banking wich is An early market economy and an early form of mercantilism , which some refer to as "Islamic capitalism" had keen the economic sector in the whole world not only in the arabic _ Islamic countries but also in the western countries such as usa , france … they did actually a big step in this new way of finacing and banking with starting to teaching it in universities as a new specialitie hoping that it will help them to exceed their economic crise and be a remedy for it . In the other side for oriental countries although the Arab spring has brought political turmoil and economic uncertainty to the whole area : the region has seen revolutions especially...

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Persepolis Trial

A group of citizens came together, this Thursday, May 3 before the Court of First Instance in Tunis to protest against the verdict in the trial of Nessma TV unsatisfactory. Nabil Karoui, owner of the station, was fined 2,400 dinars. In addition, Hedi Boughnim, programming director at Nessma TV, and Nedia Jamal, president of the women’s organization that dubbed the movie, were both fined 1,200 dinars. Protesters judged unfair verdict and expressed their dissatisfaction with what they described as interference with the sacred without disputing the freedom of the press. -Amal Derbel...

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The New Tunisian Car... Waiting...

As all Tunisian citizens, we are proud to let you know about the last tasty fruit of Tunisian industry, the BARKIA car 100% Tunisian made. Its creator is Mohamed Ahmed Barkia, PhD in Engineering-Mechanical Engineering with his 20 years of experience, he made a prototype for this car which can lead Tunisia to be the first heavy industrial country in North Africa or maybe in the MENA region, who knows. The famous construction project of this car will be located near Dokhan (about 30km near Sfax), on a plot of 118 acres near a railway station. This new industry will host 15,200 jobs (8,200 on the production site Dokhan 7000 + distributed over the country). " The second production site (specialized in body parts) is provided at Kasserine...

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Kerim Hmaied, The genius who made the TUNISIAN ROCKET!!

At first glance, he doesn’t look like any other that I have met, a slight smile reflecting self-confidence and bright eyes revealing a mysterious smartness.  Graduated from al Sadikia high school, then he carries his studies in the higher institute of information and communication in Sfax and now he is about to finish his engineering cycle in the ESPRIT University. He is “Kerim Hmaied” the first Tunisian who made and launched a rocket, the famous “Carthage 01”… the first Tunisian Rocket.  How did it begin the passion with rockets?Well, when I was young I was participating in scouts camping, I remember when we were alone in the forest I was always looking to the stars and the moon in the sky and wondering “how could we reach these...

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Al Karama

"The government will work to create a new structure ' El Karama', which members contribute voluntarily to the government (ministers and secretaries of state) and senior executives of the state, with six days of work," said yesterday Hamadi Jebali, head of theprovisional government. He explained in his response to questions from constituents on the economic and social program and the supplementary budget law for 2012, the National Constituent Assembly,that the government ensure, through this initiative, to "lead by example" to all citizens. He urged all Tunisians,...

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Muammar Gaddaafi financed the French Presidential Campaign 2007

The French web site information Mediapart published a document signed by a former Libyan dignitary affirming that the regime of Muammar Gaddafi had agreed in 2006 to finance with "50 million" Campaign Presidential Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.In this document, Musa Kusa, former head of intelligence services outside Libya, state an "agreement in principle" to "support the campaign of presidential candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy, for one amount of a value of fifty million.  "March 12, Sarkozy had qualified as "grotesque possible funding of his presidential campaign in 2007 by Muammar Gaddafi.In this note, surrounded by a green frame, written in Arabic and translated by Mediapart, Mr. Koussa confirms an "agreement in principle" on "instructions issued...

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Clarifications and Promises of Hamadi Jebali

The head of the provisional government, Hamadi Jebali, announced on Friday at the National Constituent Assembly that his government intends to intervene in the pricing of consumer products, whenever necessary.Thus the price of a kilogram of potatoes is 750 millimes from May 2, 2012, while a reference price has already been arrested for eggs, he said. Responding to questions from constituents on the draft supplementary budget law, Mr.Jebali said that the sales transactions of agricultural products will be checked up and a list of agricultural...

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BAC Sport: Celebration turns to Tragedy

These days we are living the return of the BAC sport which is taking place from April the 23rd to May 5th. After it was cancelled last year, this year baccalaureate students are enjoying the event as usual.   After passing the test, it is time for “Dakhla” a celebration in which students sing songs inspired from those of football accompanied with drums, to attack other branches and celebrate their future graduations. Very creative and funny flags are made to decorate the school buildings. Usually students from the same class wear similar tee shirts to appear as a unified team. Rental or personal cars are often used to do tricks in front of the schools. Unfortunately, students sometimes get so excited that they forget about safety and...

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National Television Sit-In

For over 50 days , a sit-in has been standing in front of the locals of the national television. sit-inners were sympathizers with the movement Ennahdha and reminded us of the " professional protestors " seen in any democratic or progressist manifestation raising slogans against the manifestion and insulting manifesters . the reason for the sit-in was to denounce the " media of shame", "purple media" and its "malicious intent" concerning the "great achivements" of the government . Nothing seemed possible to convince the sit-inners who seemed tenacious and determined to "cure" the national television , until  the political adviser to the Prime Minister Mr Lotfi Zitoun succeded to convince them to decamp after only 2 hours of negociations...

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Cultural Activities

I might call this fustercluck , but in our school , we call it rawness. For those of you who may not have noticed we have a board with only one paper on it in desperate need for company with a name written "cultural activities"! Have you guessed? I did . Spotted: lonely paper needs some crowd and they've chosen the right person to fill it .After the revolution, people told us we only care about politics... --Andre Malraux said "Culture is not inherited, it is owned “ did we omit our cultural world by only caring about politics? Well , We did not ! Surprisingly say we didn't ! In fact , there was several events such as in theaters , cinema , fashion , music .. Fashion you say? Yes ! Tunisia still didn't loose it’s love and interest for...

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A seminar with Miss Mariam Laabidi in Tbs

To enrich the culture of students in how to treat with professional life ... the administration of Tunis Business School organized today in the afternoon a seminar with Miss "Mariam Laabidi" a responsible in the AMIDEAST .. Our guest focused on many important points, which benefited the audience, for example: how to prepare for a job interview, the interview significations, structure and its DOs and DON'Ts. For the importance of these points and the guest's experience and the method of reporting informations for students, it is expected that she will return to present other seminars with a bigger number of students Finally we...

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SMIs are on the good way

The sixth Arab Forum for small and medium industries is to be hosted in Tunisia on April 24-26th under the slogan “Small and Medium Industries Locomotive for Employment and Development”, organized by the Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization (AIDMO) in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank and the Tunisia's Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (APII).   Mr. Mohamed Ben Youssef, the general director of AIDMO stated that this forum seeks to put forth visions and ideas and exchange experiences in order to promote the sector of small and medium industries in Arab countries seeing its active contribution to the economic and social development in the Arab world. Mr. Ben Youssef pointed out that...

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