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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Despite the recession, UK is going to continue the austerity

The UK is officially back in recession earlier this year, following a contraction of its economy for the second consecutive quarter. A surprise to analysts, who were counting on a slight increase of 0.1% of GDP, and bad news for the government of David Cameron.   According to an official statement published on Wednesday, April 25th, the British economy shrank by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012, after falling 0.3% last quarter. The country had emerged from recession in late 2009.  This bad news follows an earlier announcement Tuesday by the government listing that public finance in the UK have deteriorated again in March, forcing the country to borrow 18.2 billion pounds (22.3 billion euros) a record since November...

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Tunisian-Brazilian partnership getting real

During his visit to Tunisia, Brazil's foreign minister Antonio Patriota said that the main purpose of the visit is to boost Tunisian-Brazilian co-operation and Tunisia's participation in next June's United Nations on sustained development which will be held in Rio De Janeiro. After a closed work session between Mr Antonio Patriota and Mr Rafik Abdessalem (Tunisian foreign affairs minister), the Brazilian side said ''We wish to convert the friendship relations binding Tunisia and Brazil into a real partnership based on shared values: social justice, respect of human rights and environmental awareness''. He also specified that there are several opportunities to reinforce partnership, especially in agriculture, social and institutional development. For...

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TBS football championship

For the first time on TBS, we, students have organized an interesting sports event where they participated in a Football competition in order to choose the school's team which is to compete against the other universities. Basically, we put an announcement asking those who are interested to form a team and contact the organizers (Youssef Smairi and Mohamed saidani ) within a week . Immediately, teams started applying for the contest, so we set up Monday, April 16th as the starting day. Three games on each day took place on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and eventually, three out of nine teams got qualified for semi-finals. The final game will take place on May 2nd Boujardgua stadium in Morneg , and professor  Kamel  Beji will be...

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Green Finance

"The Tunisian banking sector is able to play a role in the transition to a green economy," said yesterday the director of studies and economic and environmental analyzes to the Department of Environment, Monia Braham.The banks' contribution to green growth is, according to the official, to fund moreenvironmental projects. In Tunisia, banks (29 banks, 8 offshore), which provide nearly 90% of lending to the economy, favor funds that offer the best compensation / risk, namely loans to housingand consumption.To familiarize the Tunisian bankers with...

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Exports Rise 1.6%

The evolution of the sector's exports of leather and footwear at the end of first quarter of 2012 was shy. An increase estimated by the National Centre of leather and footwear at 1.6% over the same period in 2011. This development was around 12.9% in similar period of 2011.Thus, the total value of exports reached 258.3 254.3 MTD against MTD in 2011. On the import side, they have accumulated 144.8 MTD, an evolution of 5.4%. The trade balance shows and a coverage ratio of 178.4% with a trade balance of 113.5 MTD.113.5 MTD would...

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Public Media … For Sale !

After the remarks made by the president of Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi, and the deputy of the movement in the National Constituent Assembly, Ameur Larayedh, about the privatization of the public media, many national organizations and members of the civil society expressed their dissatisfaction about this declaration. The president of movement “ Ennahdha “ has proclaimed in an interview with the Qatari newspaper “ Al-Sharq “ published in in April, 18th that his party’s aspiration consist of finding radical measure in the field of media by the privatization of media, by asking “ why  the democratic regime maintains official media ? “ accusing that some public Tunisian media plot against the willingness of the people. Even the national authority for...

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The right to Health.

THE RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE  This time the article will be a little different, I will speak well on a subject which concerns our health but it is something rational: The right to health.  The right to health is an inclusive right. We frequently associate the right to health with access to health care and the building of hospitals. This is correct, but the right to health extends further. It includes a wide range of factors that can help us lead a healthy life. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the body responsible for monitoring the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, calls these the “underlying determinants of health”. They include: * Safe drinking water and adequate sanitation;  *...

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the financial U.S hands embraces our country

The US goverment would provide a loan guarantee to enable the tunisian Goverment to access significant market financing at affordable rates and favourable maturities with the backing of a U.S guarantee of principal and ineterst (up to 100 %), the US Treasury said on friday. The Ceremony took place at the World Bank immediately following the meeting of Finance ministers of the Deauville Partnership with Arab Countries in transition. "I'm pleased to sign this declaration of intent with Finance Ministers of Houcine Dimassi", said U.S Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. "Last October, President Obama made clear the Uniited States' commitment to supporting Tunisia's historic transformation. This loan guarantee will be pillar of that support,...

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Tunisia's documentary festival is up!

Seven years ago, ''Doc á Tunis'' was born and ever since the crowd has always been at the rendezvous. It is for this passionate audience, heterogeneous and require that the festival continues.  ''Doc á Tunis'' has become, over time the involvement of many teams who gave it its identity, a meeting place for lovers, producers and documentary professionals.  Never the eyewitness account has had such importance. World War III will certainly be a war of images. The worldwide television continue to stream video and stories still underdeveloped. This is where the role of the documentary makes sense of an art of reality.  The documentary is the art of making visible the complexities of the human, to discover its hidden facets in the...

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Korean Supermarket: First Virtual Store

South Koreans spend more hours on work than workers in many other countries, they are always on the move.For this reason, many of them find it hard to save time for even the most basic chores , like for example grocery shopping. Therefore virtual stores allow them to save time.                                                     The virtual store was developed in Korea and more precisely in Seoul by a Korean supermarket chain ‘’ Homeplus’’ an affiliate of British firm Tesco .These days,...

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