Day: November 26, 2016

Closing of JTC 2016: special incentive awards to support Tunisian productions

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After a daily marathon of theatrical performances in the capital and in 19 Tunisian cities with an affluence of a cosmopolitan public, the 18th edition of the Carthage Theatre Days ended Saturday evening in Tunis with attendance of a large number of Tunisian artists and guests of the 2016 edition. Although it is non-competitive, this edition (November 18-26, 2016) was marked by the presentation of a series of special incentive prizes awarded by Tunisian and foreign organisations to encourage local theatrical productions. The Prize of the Tunisian General Labour Union…

Credit Suisse Research Institute published Global Wealth Report 2016

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  The Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI) published its seventh annual Global Wealth Report. According to the publication, the overall growth in global wealth remained limited in 2016, continuing the trend that emerged in 2013 and contrasting sharply with the double-digit growth rates witnessed before the global financial crisis of 2008. In the mid-term, only moderate acceleration is expected. Switzerland once again ranked as the global leader in terms of average wealth per adult in 2016. As the latest edition of the CSRI Global Wealth Report shows, total global wealth…

Club de Madrid supports the “InspiringTunisia” campaign for succes of “Tunisia 2020” conference

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Former Premier Mehdi Jomaa addressed to Club of Madrid members a message entitled “Inspiring Tunisia”, to rally international solidarity for Tunisia, on the occasion of the International Investment Conference “Tunisia 2020” to be held on November 29-30 in Tunis. The message, delivered by Jomaa on Thursday, was signed by 11 figures including former leaders of Spain, South Korea, Netherlands, Portugal, Mexico, and Uruguay… The signatories affirmed their commitment to turn words into actions by helping Tunisia achieve its democratic process and stressed their readiness to use their official relations network…

Switzerland has returned US$ 2bn of illicit funds stashed in its banks by dictators

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With a new law to help seize and repatriate illicit wealth stashed in Swiss banks by foreign dictators and a positive – but slow – track record, Switzerland is a leader in the return of illicit dictator funds, a top Swiss official claims. Over the past 30 years Switzerland has returned almost US$ 2 billion misappropriated and deposited in Swiss banks by “politically exposed persons” (PEPs). “This is more than all other financial centres in world by far,” Roberto Balzaretti, the new head of the public international law directorate at…

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90

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Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday. He was 90. A towering figure of the second half of the 20th Century, Castro stuck to his ideology beyond the collapse of Soviet communism and remained widely respected in parts of the world that had struggled against colonial rule. He had been in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearly killed him in 2006. He formally ceded power…

Mystical ‘Rouhanyet’ music festival in southern Tunisia

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The first international festival of mystical music ‘Rouhanyet’ will begin on Saturday in Nefta, southern Tunisia. The festival is the brainchild of its director, the well-known Tunisian actor and Artistic Director Hichem Rostom, and will run through November 29. The idea of such festival was born “of the passion for secular and religious music,” Hichem Rostom told media. This is an opportunity for the Sufi repertoire of Nefta to be under the limelight. Some 18 performances of artists and musicians from Tunisia, Algeria, France, Morocco Turkey, and Canada will be…

Air traffic up 9.6% in October (OACA)

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(TAP) – Air traffic in Tunisian airports recorded a 9.6 % rise in October compared to the same month last year, the Office of Civil Aviation and Airports (French: OACA) said in a press release.  The number of passengers recorded a 18.9 % increase in the same period compared to last year.  The number of chartered flights also registered a 36.5% leap with an estimated number of passengers of 717, 495 in October 2016 against 525,699 during the same period of the previous year. OACA estimates that these indications represent…