Dead Sea, March 10 (Petra) -- Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah attended the main session of the fifth annual Teacher Skills Forum (TSF), on Sunday, where she met with a number of international professionals working in education.

Held under the patronage of Her Majesty under the theme 'Agile Minds, Turning Tides,' the forum spanned three full days, starting on Friday and concluding on Sunday, at the King Hussein bin Talal Convention Center at the Dead Sea. The Queen Rania Teacher Academy (QRTA) organizes"...

Damascus, SANA- A Memorandum on receiving a grant provided by the Chinese Government to the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry was on Wednesday signed at the building of the Ministry.

The memo was signed by Assistant Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr. Ayman Sousan on behalf of the Syrian side and by Chinese Ambassador in Damascus Feng Biao.

After signing the memo, Sousan"...

AMMAN, (ST)- Syrian People's Assembly (PA) Speaker Hammouda al-Sabbagh on Saturday arrived in the Jordanian capital, Amman, to take part in the 29th Conference of the Arab Parliamentary Union (AIPU) scheduled to be held between March 3rd and 4th.

Al-Sabbagh was welcomed in Amman by his Jordanian counterpart Atef al-Tarawneh.

Al-Sabbagh had earlier received an invitation"...

Governments should focus on the development of human intellectual capital to ensure the prosperity of industries and societies, said experts at the World in the Future conference in Dubai on Tuesday.

“We have a new basis for wealth generation that is intellectual capital. There is a capital of mind and a treasure of data that will grease the wheels of industries,” said Michio Kaku, a US theoretical physicist and futurist.

In"...

Doha
THE Orphan Care Center ‘Dreama’, in collaboration with the Geneva Institute for Human Rights, hosted the second training workshop for departmental heads and social service and care providers recently under the title ‘Mechanism of the Work of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’.
Dr Nizar Abdulqadir and Dr Kholoud al Khateeb delivered the workshop which aimed to enhance the capabilities of the centre’s staff in drafting reports for the UN committee.
The report includes"...

AMMAN — Some fruit and vegetable dealers on Sunday said that exports to Iraq and Syria are being affected by a “tense trade atmosphere” a statement the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply rebuked.

The Jaber/Nasib border crossing with Syria was closed for three years due to the security situation in southern Syria, but it was reopened in October of last year.

The"...

Damascus, SANA – Foreign and Expatriates Minister in cooperation with the Interior Ministry established at the Administration of Consular Affairs a center to issue documents to report movement of arrival and departure needed by citizens living abroad.

The Foreign Ministry said on its Facebook page that citizens wanting to get an “arrival/departure report” document can submit their applications to the Syrian mission in the country"...

Damascus, SANA-The cabinet approved on Sunday a number of decisions that would be a basis for a balanced local development and become a pioneering work during the coming stage in light of the context of President Bashar al-Assad’s instructions to heads of local councils on February 17th, 2019.

The cabinet, during a weekly session chaired by Prime Minister Imad Khamis, discussed the procedures that should be taken to boost the role of the administrative"...

The United States and China have not yet agreed on the critical issue of enforcement in a proposed currency deal that would ensure Beijing lives up to its promise to not depreciate the yuan, four people familiar with the matter said.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday touted the currency pact as the strongest ever, though he offered no details, following two days of high-level talks in Washington between US and Chinese officials. The discussions"...

Damascus, SANA – The People’s Assembly discussed in its session on Wednesday the new draft customs law.

Minister of Finance Ma’moun Hamdan said the new draft law has unified the numerous legislations that existed before it in order to keep up to date with the developing economic life in the coming stage and find solutions to the issues in the previous decrees.

He"...