Posts Tagged ‘New Year’

Postponement of the parliamentary session third to the eighth of next month

12/26/2012 – 08:29

Authority decided the presidency of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Wednesday, the third postponement of the parliamentary session to the eighth month of next January to coincide with the New Year holiday and the death of Imam Hussein. (more…)

Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, Tuesday, that the project to replace the currency and delete the zeros has been postponed until after the year 2014 (more…)

Author Ninwanews on Saturday, March 31, 2012

Central Bank of Iraq announced that the federal budget, for the year (2013) will be approved with the new currency in Arabic and Kurdish. (more…)

12:03:20 / 03/2012

The sources indicated in a press statement that “the central bank introduced a draft law to delete the zeros to the Chairman of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi, and ensure that everything about this great project which will start work by the process of offering the new currency for circulation early next year, and will continue to drive the replacement of three years.

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06:35:06 20/ 03/2012

Central Bank of Iraq announced that the federal budget, for the year (2013) will be approved with the new currency in Arabic and Kurdish.

The deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Iraq the appearance of Mohammed in a statement to “Khandan”: that put Iraq’s new currency will be in (01/01/2013) and will be in both Arabic and Kurdish with the deletion of three zeros the first of the current currency, indicating the following: that the financial budget of the Federal Iraq will be traded during the ninth month of the current year and recognized in the New Year according to the new currency of the two languages. (more…)

Erbil, January 4 (Rn) – urged the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon Iraqi politicians to resolve the differences and the outstanding issues in a meaningful dialogue that respects Dsturalarac, expressing concern over political tensions, and pointing at the same time that Iraq has begun a new and promising in its history, and has the opportunity to further strengthen its efforts to build a democratically elected institutions and the promotion of peace and stability for the Iraqi people. According to a statement to the UN mission in Iraq.

He said the statement received by the Kurdish news agency (Rn) a copy of it that “The Secretary-General wishes to express its concern over political tensions, the last that can contribute to increased insecurity in the country. It is therefore strongly supports the calls for political dialogue to address the outstanding issues in a spirit of partnership and national unity. ” (more…)

1/4/2012 1:21 PM

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has expressed anxiety towards the current political tension in Iraq, calling on all parties in the country to “act together, in order to settle their differences peacefully andthrough constructive dialogue and presenting some concessions, along with the division of authorities and the independence of the Judiciary”.

The UN Secretary-General said, in a statement published on the UN’s Official Satellite position on Wednesday, that “continued differences are contributing to the increase in the security deterioration in Iraq, which has witnessed a series of explosions in the past period”. (more…)

Just hours away many of you will gather with friends and family or maybe just sit quietly as the New Year draws near. If among friends or in solitude “Auld Lang Syne” will cross your mind as the clock strikes midnight.

It’s a song that is sung every New Years Eve as we say good bye to the old and we welcome in the new but what does this song really mean?

The song was written by poet Robert Burns in Scotland around the late 1700’s. Many say the words are from an even earlier Scottish folk song sung at New Years speaking of friendship. The song soon became tradition in Scotland and as Scots immigrated to the United States this tradition continued.

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   Earlier this year Financial News investigated a series of historical currency union break-ups, asking whether they could offer guidance for policymakers required to plan for a potential fracturing of the eurozone.

However, if the worst happens and European states have to resurrect their drachmas, pesos and escudos in 2012, there is one lesson from more recent history about how to get a new currency up and running in even the most difficult circumstances.

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Congratulated President Jalal Talabani, Christians on the occasion of Christmas and New Year. Talabani said in a congratulatory telegram, according to a presidential statement received the “morning” copy “on the occasion of Christmas and New Year’s Day, we offer our warmest congratulations to the brotherhood of Christians in Iraq, where they are and to the general our people, Mpthlain to God Almighty to make the new year in good and peace.

“He continued President of the Republic:” As we bid farewell to an important year in the national history of the country, the year of the evacuation of the military forces of the United States from Iraq, we are all looking forward to be a new year years take root in which the will of the Iraqis to extend security to all throughout our beloved country, and that we can heal the rift in the political relations between the various forces and starting the will of a united and shared. (more…)

Two Iraqi Msalan said Friday that the blasts that hit the capital, Baghdad, did not affect the size of central bank sales of dollar, and they did not leave a negative impact on the stock market.

The capital, Baghdad, on Thursday a series of car bombings and bomb belts and explosive devices aimed at government institutions and the civilian population, killing more than 70 people and injured more than 200 others were wounded.

The deputy governor of Central Bank of Iraq the appearance of Mohammed Saleh told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the bombings in Baghdad yesterday did not affect the central bank sales, which amounted to $ 300 million even though it hit the Iraqi market.” (more…)

Vietnam devalues dong by 8.5 pct -central bank
VietFinanceNews.com – Vietnam’s central bank devalued the dong by 8.5 percent , dropping the official reference rate to 20,693 dong per dollar from 18,932, effective on Friday. 

The bank also narrowed the trading band for the dong to 1 percent from 3 percent on either side of a midpoint set by the central bank daily.

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Vietnam celebrates its lunar new year holiday this week and the focus when markets reopen on Tuesday, Feb. 8, will be the possibility of a dong devaluation and inflation, which holds the key to interest rates.

Vietnam’s annual inflation rate hit a two-year high of 12.17 percent in January, when the consumer price index rose 1.74 percent from December.

The central bank raised its base rate to 9 percent from 8 percent in November, but some economists and the International Monetary Fund have suggested rates should go higher to fight inflation.

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The Chinese New Year, which is just two weeks away, is making at least one American retailer very anxious.

“In China, everyone goes home for the Chinese New Year holiday,” said Mona Williams, vice president of buying for Texas-based The Container Store, a haven for storage and organization products.

That means the hundreds of thousands of factories in the world’s workshop that make everything from toys to televisions will shut down for 15 days straight.

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Nujaifi President receives the Ambassador of Iraq in Kuwait and Iraq renewed desire to establish better relations with the countries of the region and the world

Head of the Iraqi Council of Representatives by Mr. Osama Abdel-Aziz al-Najafi, the Iraqi ambassador in Kuwait, Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum.

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Silver and gold rates hit  record highs on Monday

  • Silver and gold rates hit record highs on Monday.

London: Silver hit multi-year peaks on Monday, driven by pent-up demand on the first trading day of 2011, while gold rose above $1,420 (Dh5,211) an ounce in Europe yesterday, within 1 per cent of its record high.

While a firm dollar limited gains, expectations for more bad news on Eurozone debt, concerns over potential inflation in developing economies and an increased focus on the US deficit are set to maintain surging demand for precious metals, analysts said.

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Said the leadership in the pool and Iraqi MP from the Iraqi List, Zuhair al-Araji said the House of Representatives held a session last week, on Monday.

They said in a statement on Sunday: that the decision to the Federal Court the text of that last Thursday was the last day of the first legislative term, but the failures that took place to form a government for the past eight months the life of the Legislative Council, ,

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