Canberra, Australia (News4us.com) January 27, 2011 The Australian Export Strategy for Latin America aims to broker and develop sustainable partnerships in the performing arts between Australia and Latin America, with a specific focus on Mexico and Brazil. Managed by the Australia Latin America Foundation, the strategy has set in train a number of pilot projects [...]
Canberra, Australia (News4us.com) January 27, 2011 Minister for Sport Mark Arbib recognised the role of Australia’s most prestigious and well-recognised sporting institution, the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. The AIS was officially opened on Australia Day in 1981 and has proven itself a world leader in its field. “The [...]
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (News4us.com) January 27, 2011 SolarWinds, a USA-based information technology company has chosen Brisbane, Queensland as the location for its Asia-Pacific headquarters. The company is a leading provider of IT management software to more than 97,000 companies worldwide. The Brisbane office houses sales, customer support and services for Australasia and the greater Asia-Pacific region. [...]
Canberra, Australia (News4us.com) January 27, 2011 The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is urging shipping operators to regularly check and replace their container lashing equipment as a result of an incident involving the Hong Kong registered container ship Pacific Adventurer. On 11 March 2009, Pacific Adventurer lost 31 containers overboard during severe weather and large [...]
Canberra, Australia (News4us.com) January 27, 2011 Attorney-General Robert McClelland today announced the Gillard Government will restore the stand alone positions of Race and Disability Discrimination Commissioners in the Australian Human Rights Commission. “For the first time in 13 years, Australia will have a separate Race and Disability Discrimination Commissioners in the Human Rights Commission,” said [...]
Canberra, Australia (News4us.com) January 27, 2011 The Prime Minister today announced the Gillard Labor Government’s response to the immense national challenge of rebuilding flood-affected regions across Australia. Preliminary estimates, following consultation with the Queensland Government, indicate that the Government will need to invest $5.6 billion in rebuilding flood-affected regions, with the vast majority going on [...]
UK (News4us.com) January 27, 2011 The latest severe freeze of November and December 2010 has put a lot of central heating systems across the UK under enormous pressure. In recent years it has not been unusual to have a final cold snap in February and March. It is often the tail end of the winter [...]
Madrid, Spain (News4us.com) January 26, 2011 Riding on the success of CMT’s highly-acclaimed Algae World series, the third Europe conference is scheduled to take place on the 4-5 May 2011, in Madrid, Spain. As a lead-up to the conference, Oilgae has published a report on “Algae: How Far Are We from Commercialization?” that serves as [...]
Issaquah, Washington (News4us.com) January 26, 2011 QuickMedical®, a leading national distributor of medical supplies and equipment announced they will add the Cardiac Science line of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology products. Scott Hanna, CEO at QuickMedical® said, “We are very excited to be marketing and selling Cardiac Science medical devices. Cardiac Science diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology [...]
New York, NY (News4us.com) January 21, 2011 Dolly Drive, the first ever cloud storage solution created specifically for Apple’s backup software Time Machine will be unveiled to the Mac community at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Dolly Drive will be featured as part of MacWorld’s Indie Spotlight. The event takes place January 27-29th. Dolly Drive [...]
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