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Prize winners of 2nd Tunis international film festival
The closing ceremony of the 2nd international film festival of Tunis was held, on sunday evening in Tunis.
Third Mediterranean conference on turtle protection
HAMMAMET, October 20, 2008 (TAP) - Works of the 3rd Mediterranean conference on protection of turtles were opened, on Monday in southern city of Hammamet, by environment and comprehensive development minister Nadhir Hamada. This four-day conference is organised by the Sea Sciences and Technologies Institute (INSTM) and the Regional Centre for Specially Protected Areas, within the framework of the Barcelona Convention, the Bonn Convention on the Preservation of Migratory Species and Bern Convention on Europe's natural habitats. The Conference, attended by 100 experts from the Mediterranean countries and others involved in the preservation of turtles, aims at updating the strategy of turtle protection in light of the findings made new researches conducted during the last three years, exchanging successful experiences in matters of protecting turtles and endangered species and discussing the findings of the researches achieved as part of the action plan to protect turtles in the Mediterranean from pollution, the effects of climate change and economic activities which were launched ten years ago, and to reinforce protected areas in the Mediterranean, such as Tunisia's Kuriat Islands. ...First health and services exhibition opens
The first health and services exhibition, organised by the World Exhibitions Company (GECO), opened on Tuesday in Hammamet. ...Co-operation agreement between Tunisian and French universities signed
Higher-education, scientific research and technology minister Lazhar Bououni presided, on Thursday in Tunis, over a signing ceremony of a co-operation and partnership agreement between Tunisian and French universities, notably with attendance of the chargé de mission to the French prime minister Jean-Marc Monteil. ...Boosting co-operation in matters of education
Education and training minister Sadok Korbi conferred, on Monday in Tunis, with director of education in Batina region, Oman, Hamad Ibn Ali Ibn Hamad Sarahani....Financing convention of higher-education professionalisation support programme signed
Tunisia and France signed, on Monday, a convention of financing higher-education professionalisation support and professional integration programme in Tunisia....Forum of Tunisian expat skills
The ministry of higher education, scientific research and technology held, on Monday in Tunis, the third session of the forum of Tunisian expatriate skills, with the participation of Tunisian academics and expatriate researchers....
2008-2009 academic year: a total number of 370 000 students
The new academic year 2008-2009 started on Friday, September 12, while higher technological studies institutes opened their doors last September 6. ...
2 085 700, number of pupils during 2008-2009 school year
Educational institutions will host 45 thousand pupils less than the previous year (2 085 700 pupils compared with 2 125 831 in 2007)....
Start of new school year: data
2 085 700 pupils returned to primary and secondary schools on Monday, that is 45 000 less than last year. The decline recorded in births during the past decade as well as the improvement of the success rates account for this decrease....Boosting scientific co-operation
Higher education, scientific research and technology minister Lazhar Bououni conferred, on Tuesday in Tunis, with Mr. Dominique Mocky, chairman and managing director of French AREVA company and with the director of France's Higher Advanced Sciences and Techniques School, ENSTA....Celebration of Arab Environment Day
Minister of environment and sustainable development and chairman of the Arab environment ministers'council Nadhir Hamada presided, on Thursday in Tunis, over the celebration of Arab environment day saying that the economic, social and environmental effects of climate change will hinder the efforts aimed to ensure food security in the Arab world, which represents a far greater threat in the arid and desert areas. ...UPDEA scientific committee meets in Tunis
Tunisia hosted on October 15-17, 2008, the first meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Union of Producers, Transporters and Distributors of Electrical Energy in Africa (UPDEA), organised at the initiative of the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG) in its position as deputy president of the Union. ...Invest in Med” for the prosperity of the Mediterranean
“Invest in Med”, a new Euro-Mediterranean investment programme of 12 million euros, including 9 million euros provided by the European Commission and 3 million euros by a consortium of Euro-Mediterranean organisations, was officially launched on Friday afternoon in Tunis....Tunisia re-elected at head of FIJET
Tunisia was re-elected, in the person of Mr. Tijani Haddad, to the chairmanship of the World Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers (FIJET) during the Federation's 50th congress which the Slovenian capital, Ljubljna, is hosting on October 17-23. ...
Means to boost co-operation in matters of information and communication examined
Minister of communication and relations with the chambers of deputies and advisers Rafaa Dkhil conferred, on Tuesday in Tunis, with Mr. Majid Ben Mohamed Erraoues, director-general and chief editor of the Omani Press Agency, on a visit to Tunisia at the invitation of Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) News Agency. ...
Fortieth day of death of great poet Mahmoud Derwish commemorated
Minister of culture and heritage preservation Abderraouf Basti took part, on Wednesday evening in Tunis, in a ceremony held on the 40th day of the death of great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Derwish. ...Workers' meeting on celebration of UGTT’s 62nd anniversary
On the occasion of the celebration of the 62nd anniversary of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), a workers' meeting was held, on Saturday in Tunis, under the chairmanship of UGTT secretary-general Abdessalem Jerad. ...Agreement on integration of gender approach signed
A partnership agreement on "integration of gender approach and the fight against violence to women in Tunisia" was signed, on Wednesday, by Tunisia, on the one hand, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Population Programme, on the other. Tunisia is represented by the women, family, children and elderly affairs ministry and the National Family and Population Board. ...Tunisia’s declaration on Arab Women’s Day
Tunisia is celebrating on Friday, February 1, Arab Women’s Day and takes pride in the qualitative change of the conditions of Tunisian women which has strengthened their role in the development process thanks to the political will of president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to make of the principles of equality and partnership, constant values in the societal project of the November 7 Change....Log in
- Prizes of Carthage Forum on Investment awarded
- Tribute to Tunisian astronomer Mohamed Laoucet Ayari
- Head of State receives credentials of new foreign ambassadors
- National Frequency Agency certified ISO 9001
- President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali honours two Tunisian world champions
- Boosting co-operation in matters of higher education and scientific research between Tunisia and IAF
- Tribute to Tunisian astronomer Mohamed Laoucet Ayari
- Breakthrough in study of Parkinson disease: Tunisia featuring on "Lancet Neurology" cover
- Sfax hosts international scientific symposium on biotechnology
- March of gratitude and consideration in Kasserine, following new presidential projects
- Head of State receives greetings messages on Eid El-Fitr Feast
- Tunisia's important part in promoting African-Arab co-operation
- The Mediterranean of Phoenicians, from Tyre to Carthage
- Programme of Arab organisation of communication and information technologies examined
- President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali honours two Tunisian world champions
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