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2009年12月16日星期三

IBC Gulf Conferences - Running Islamic Finance in the New Investment Destination – Africa

IBC Gulf Conferences will host the Africa Islamic Finance Conference, an action to altercate the advance of Islamic Finance in Africa and apprentice added about Africa as a abeyant investment destination. The accident is appointed to be captivated on 30-31 October 2007 at Park Hyatt, Johannesburg, South Africa.

The accident will be hosted in affiliation with Michael Gassner Consultancy Ltd. beneath the abutment of the Emirates Investment Services. The top akin acquisition is accepting organized with the abutment of the National Awqaf Foundation of South Africa (Awqaf SA).

Africa Islamic Finance Conference includes some of the a lot of eminent professionals from above the globe, who will allotment their thoughts and adventures on Africa as a articulation for Islamic Finance.

The appointment will primarily focus on capacity like Building and Pioneering an Islamic Bank, Investing in Endowed Assets, Islamic Asset Management, Poverty Alleviation and the Role of Islamic Banks, Venture Capital & Private Equity in Africa, Takaful & Retakaful, Pioneering Ethical Asset Management based on Islamic Finance principles, A pan African archetype for Global Islamic investors, Fiqhi issues apropos investment in shares, Islamic Microfinance and an Interactive academic affair on Understanding sharia issues in the African context.
The appointment will run for over 2 canicule with a pre-conference branch on Principles and Applications of Islamic Finance led by Michael Saleh Gassner.

For added advice about the appointment programme and accident updates, amuse appointment our website www.ibcgulfconferences.com or alarm Rudinov Vincent, Conference Producer on +971 4 336 9992 , Mobile: +97150 – 1410899,
Fax: +971 4 336 0116

IBC Gulf Conferences is the Pan Middle Eastern analysis of Informa Plc. amid in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Informa Plc. is an all-embracing operation with over 42 bounded centres worldwide. Informa Plc. as a accessible aggregation is advised to be a apple baton in the accouterment of Business and Management education.
Since aperture the Dubai appointment in 1994, we accept organised an all-encompassing amount of business conferences and training courses aural the Middle East accoutrement a absolute ambit of administration and abstruse topics.
At the affection of all our enterprises is a absolute charge to quality. In an added circuitous business environment, we are always analytic to advance and enhance our articles and to access bazaar share. We pride ourselves on bartering accurate market-led intelligence giving our chump the a lot of admired account of all - the befalling to accomplish abreast decisions.

Expertz in Print - Don't Africa Me columnist faults Holiday Inn ad

Don't Africa Me author, C. Paschal EzeStore this angel in big sizeFrom arduous China’s CCTV9 Culture Express host, Jennifer Hsuing, for calling Africa the “Dark Continent” in October 2007 to auspiciously accepting Assemblies of God World Missions to abolish the byword “galavanting above the ocean to the Dark Continent” from its TalkingDrumsAfrica.org website in January 2008, Don’t Africa Me author, C. Paschal Eze, has connected to accost individuals and organizations he accuses of waging active geo-branding war on the African abstemious and appropriately affliction its accessible barter and tourism.

This time, Eze has angry his absorption to auberge behemothic Holiday Inn for its Africa abusive TV ad that says “My uncle was eaten by an alligator on a cruise to Africa,” accusatory the ad as allotment of the able-bodied accommodating and abiding alarm approach that accomplish investors, importers and tourists about-face abroad from African countries and attenuate livelihoods, advance and development above the continent.

“This affectionate of accusation and the aloof TV images that go with it, acrylic the African abstemious as up to no acceptable appropriately ensuring that abounding humans do not anticipate of admirable African destinations like Ghana and Gambia if they charge a memorable anniversary or African manufacturers and distributors if they charge above goods, and I accept they should no best go unchallenged,” contends Eze whose sixth book, Don’t Africa Me: “Their” geo-branding war, “Our” trade, tourism wounds, and Winning like China not alone shows how the ability of abrogating assuming of Africa stifles advance and development on the abstemious but aswell how African countries like Nigeria and Kenya can challenge the already alarming “communist” China in re-branding themselves.

Eze admits that such assuming has not been the absolute bottle of better-than-thou accumulated media that alone appearance anxiously attempt images of Nigerian and Kenyan barrio and scavengers against those of Chinese factories, top acceleration barrio and boulevards. It has aswell emanated from atramentous immigrants who abuse to forward their contrary accouchement aback to Africa appropriately ancestry a bearing of blacks aloof to African countries, all-around NGOs that asperse Africa to get sometimes abolished donations, and Hollywood celebrities base Africa to re-brand themselves and aggrandize their fortunes.

“Holiday Inn should cull that ad anon and apologize to the 54 African countries aching by such a artful ad,” accepted Eze, a above circadian bi-weekly and account business annual editor-in-chief who runs his own business in Coralville Iowa.

For added advice on C. Paschal Eze, appointment www.paschalezemedia.com or alarm Shanita Michelle at 1-319-936-6140.

Shanita Michelle
Expertz in Print
P.O.Box 5145 Coralville Iowa 52241
www.paschalezemedia.com

Coralville Iowa-based Expertz in Print gives articulation in book to experts.

Continents.Consulting Services - Africa Consulting: Frontier Advisory partnering with Continents. Consulting Services

Store this angel in big sizeContinents. Consulting Services has become the official german accomplice of Frontier Advisory (Pty) Ltd. The affiliation supports companies from the german speaking countries with their bazaar access in Southern Africa.

Africa’s bread-and-butter advance back the about-face of the aeon has been remarkable. Bouyed by bigger levels of political and bread-and-butter stability, favourable all-around bread-and-butter altitude and an advancing bolt boom, the abstemious recorded its fifth beeline year of advance aloft 5% in 2007. Africa is added accepting apparent as the final borderland in all-around barter as adopted countries, a lot of conspicuously China, attending to Africa to sustain advance traveling forward.

Frontier Advisory (Pty) Ltd is a analysis and action aggregation that assists audience to access and accomplish in arising bazaar economies. Frontier Advisory has formed with an arrangement of bunch firms, baby & average enterprises as able-bodied as accessible area audience and has assisted them to analyse, codify and assassinate their business strategies in these new markets through the accouterment of bespoke analysis and acumen into arising bazaar economies.

Frontier and arising economies action new investment opportunities for companies and are fast accouterment new markets for acceptable bazaar capital, technology and administration expertise. These economies not alone affectation new challenges to business but aswell greater or additional or third bank arising markets.

Various casework for a succesful market-entry in Africa are offered by the partnership. For added advice acquaintance Mr. Franci Knezevic at CCS.

Continents. Consulting Services
Mr. Franci Knezevic
Zeilweg 42, 60439 Frankfurt
Email: knezevic@continents-cs.com
Tel: +49 69 530875400

Continents. Consulting Services is a Frankfurt based consultancy and has its amount adequacy in cross-continental consulting of business ventures in South Africa.
Together with our networking ally we action to European as able-bodied South African companies , investors and individuals a pragmatic-customised appointment in questions of law as able-bodied as in the bread-and-butter sector. If you are absorbed to absorb a business, immigration, affairs absolute acreage or a bazaar access in South Africa, we are your reliable contact.

Mox Telecom Group - Mox Telecom AG: Active in new Markets – Expansion Tipped for Success

Expansion of the business into Southern Africa
-Substantial account about-face in Angola afterwards just a abbreviate time
-New attendance alfresco of Europe with representation in South Africa

Ratingen, 5th February 2007 – Mox Telecom AG has connected rapidly with its affairs for all-embracing expansion. It is auspiciously accretion its attendance worldwide, emphasised by the amplification of its all-embracing adumbrative arrangement and acknowledged access into the African market.

When entering a new market, Mox primarily uses administration channels with already accustomed barter partners, appropriately enabling it to abstain the cher and time accelerated assignment of architecture up its own bounded administration networks. This action has accepted decidedly able for the aperture up of the African market. This explains how Mox was able to authorize itself so bound in Angola, South Western Africa. Trading actuality operates via a banker from Portugal. At this point, Mox has already recorded a actual abundant about-face and the bazaar looks acutely promising. Up until now there has been almost little antagonism and abundant college accumulation margins can be realised.

Mox sees top advance opportunities in the African bazaar and with this in mind, has continued its bounded attendance with its aboriginal own representation in South Africa. Born in South Africa, Mr Roy Marques, took up the position of Sales Manager South Africa on 1st February 2007. Mr Marques is an acutely accomplished Sale and Business Development Manager with added than 10 years Sales and Management acquaintance throughout Africa. It will be his albatross to added authorize Mox Telecom as Experts for International Telephony and to consolidate and advance the position already achieved. Mox is assertive that with the accretion of Mr Marques it is headed in the appropriate administration for amplification into this region.

Mox Telecom are the Experts for International Telephony. The focus is telecommunications casework for ambition groups with a top charge for all-embracing telephony. Its business media encompass, alongside the calling card, a alternation of added avant-garde telecommunications services: In the accomplished year for example, Mox succeeded in entering the advantageous adaptable buzz bazaar with its own SIM agenda (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), thereby enabling the accretion amount of adaptable buzz users to aswell account from cheaper all-embracing buzz calls. The aggregation was founded in 1998 and has been listed on the German banal barter bazaar (segment Entry Standard) back the 01st December 2006. Today Mox is a arch provider in the bazaar and internationally able-bodied position. Outside Germany and abounding added European countries, Mox operates auspiciously in the USA, Canada, Australia and, a lot of recently, in Southern Africa.

Contact:
Katharina Kreische
PR/IR & Group Marketing Manager

E-mail: presse@mox.de


Mox Telecom AG
Company HQ
Kaiserswerther Str. 85
40878 Ratingen, Germany
T:0049 2102-8636-15
F:0049 2102-8636-56


Mox Telecom Ireland Ltd.
Sales & Marketing HQ
10 Fitzwilliam Square,
Dublin 2, Ireland
T:00353 1 6615-538
F:00353 1 6615-508

Unterkunft Booking Centre - New South Africa Accommodation Portal southafrica-stay.com

South Africa is the ideal country to escape every day life. Safari, Sun and Shopping – the Rainbow Nation offers aggregate one wishes for.

The Company Unterkunft Booking Centre makes abiding that every South Africa day-tripper finds the absolute acclimation for his vacation. The Online Portal www.southafrica-stay.com has added than 400 accommodation in the accomplished of South Africa listed. From 5 brilliant hotels to Backpackers – the chump will absolutely acquisition something for his specific needs.

The Search action on www.southafrica-stay.com is subdivided into ambit and cities, so that the chump can bound seek for a acceptable accommodation.

Each acclimation has a description and photos, as able-bodied as accepted advice about the acclimation (are accouchement welcome, is there a restaurant on the premises, etc.)

The company’s appointment is anchored in the North of Cape Town and was founded in mid 2005 by Dorothee Meyer (German) and Marcel du Preez (South African).


Contact:
Dorothee Meyer
Unterkunft Booking Centre CC
8 Wedgewood
Summerwood-Pinehurst
Durbanville
7550
Telefon/Fax: +27 21 975 6648
Web: www.southafrica-stay.com
E-Mail: info@unterkunft.co.za

earth television networks - earthTV’s arrangement continues to expand

Lugano - new website for apple television networksStore this angel in big sizeearthTV, allotment of the Telcast Media Group, is continuing its all-around arrangement amplification with the accession of 6 added camera locations. earthTV’s newest cameras are in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi [2 cameras]; Lugano, Switzerland; Plettenberg Bay and Pretoria in South Africa and Arcachon, France. All action amazing angle captured on earthTV’s limited controlled hi-tec, hi-broadcast above cameras. earthTV already serves broadcasters with a ability of over 2 billion television admirers globally - and an astronomic amount of common web users, via earthTV.com and accomplice portals.

Go to www.earthtv.com/en for an incomparable acumen into the apple we inhabit.

Thomas Hohenacker, Telcast CEO and founder, comments “This is already an agitative year for earthTV. Our circadian top above LIVE programmes and charge to abiding relationships serve our ally well. We have, for example, continued our affairs with above companies such as NBC’s Weather Channel whilst our Safari LIVE cameras in South Africa are capturing beauteous wildlife images, calm with advance account on architecture for the 2010 football World Cup. The continuing, amoebic advance of the earthTV camera arrangement is a basic allotment of earthTV’s advancing success and we shall be announcement added amplification account in the actual abreast future.”

NOTES FOR EDITORS ON THE NEW earthTV LOCATIONS

Lugano is in the south of Switzerland aural the Italian-speaking accommodate of Ticino. It lies on Lake Lugano, has about 57,000 citizenry and is acclaimed as both a above banking centre as able-bodied as for its Mediterranean-like ability and balmy summers that allure an ever-growing amount of visitors every year. The earthTV camera is on the bank of Lake Lugano and will action abundant angle over the basin and the bubbler “Lugano-Paradiso”, the abutting mountains such as Monte Bré and the waterfront.

Abu Dhabi / Yas Island - Abu Dhabi is the basic of United Arab Emirates, amid on the arctic east bank of the Arabian Peninsula at the Persian Gulf. Two earthTV cameras are set up at Yas Island with a abundant appearance over a gigantic architecture website area a huge architecture activity for a new Formula One ambit will be accurate by earthTV 24/7. Yas Island’s 2,500 hectares will host the Yas Marina Circuit, area the 2009 Formula One division will ability its acme in November, and added attractions such as a Ferrari Theme Park and Marinas.

Plettenberg Bay / South Africa. - Plettenberg Bay in Western Cape Province lies on South Africa’s Garden Route, about 600 km from Cape Town. It was originally called “Bahia Formosa” (meaning “beautiful bay”) by aboriginal Portuguese campaign and is nowadays a acclaimed day-tripper spot. The earthTV camera is amid at Plettenberg’s Central Beach to abduction images of the active bank life, the lagoon, the basin of Phesang River and Robberg Nature Reserve.
Pretoria / South Africa. - Pretoria, a city-limits of 1 actor souls, is with Cape Town and Bloemfontein one of the South Africa’s three basic cities. earthTV’s new camera is anchored on top of the UNISA building. It offers a ablaze appearance over Pretoria’s Central Business District and the Loftus Versfeld Stadium a 1st and 2nd annular area for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Arcachon / France. - Arcachon in Southwestern France is one of the country’s a lot of acclaimed ability locations with a countless ability farms dotting its civil sea. A admirable attributes assets Arcachon is aswell the website of the acclaimed “Grande Dune du Pyla”, Europe’s better beach dune which is about 3 km continued extensive 107 m in acme and affective civil at a amount of 5 m every year.

earthTV, allotment of Telcast Media Group, is the a lot of acknowledged circadian LIVE programme out of Europe, extensive over 2 billion Television admirers in 200 countries and regions - accessible in any accent and base design, delivered LIVE every hour, 24 times per day. earthTV’s amazing 90 abnormal LIVE programming affectedness on added than 60 TV channels about the world, including CenterTV (Russia), CWTV (China), Al Arabiya (Middle East), France2 (France), Sky Travel (UK), N24 (Germany), SBS (Australia), The Weather Channel (USA) and NDTV (India). earthTV agreeable is aswell accessible on called adaptable and 3G platforms, and on airport media. In January 2007 earthTV launched its new online belvedere www.earthTV.com.

earth television networks
Telcast Media GmbH
Osterwaldestrass 10
80805 Munich
GERMANY

press contacts
Evelyn Dathe, PR & Marketing Manager, TELCAST Media Group GmbH, evelyn.dathe@earthTV.com
Stephen Roberts, Roberts Laurence Tel: + 44 (0) 1780 460777 Email robertslaurence@mac.com

Netsize - Netsize Expands into South Africa and Russia

Netsize mPayment South AfricaStore this angel in big sizeNetsize acquires adaptable casework provider Africa2you’s assets and extends Netsize mPayment with abounding advantage of adaptable arrangement operators in South Africa
-Netsize mPayment offers cable casework announcement with MTS in Russia

Netsize, a arch adaptable business and communications enabler, today announces that it has continued the arrangement advantage of Netsize mPayment, its band-aid for all-around limited payments, with three adaptable arrangement operators in South Africa, Vodacom, MTN, and soon, Cell-C.

The amplification follows the accretion by Netsize of Africa2you’s assets, a wireless casework provider based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

“South Africa is at the beginning of mobile, accepting one of the accomplished advance ante for adaptable agreeable services,” says Stanislas Chesnais, Chairman and CEO, Netsize. “With Netsize mPayment, agreeable providers can use operator-based announcement for charging pay-per-use and cable services.”

In addition, Netsize announces the availability of cable casework announcement with Netsize mPayment on the arrangement of MTS, the better adaptable arrangement abettor in Russia with abutting to 66 actor subscribers.

Netsize mPayment enables audience to ascertain alias, end user amount point, announcement frequency, retry arrangement and accomplishment date. End users affirm their cable account opt-in by sending an SMS MO message. Opt-in through WAP or PIN-code accurate web appeal will be accessible in the fourth division of 2010.

The new casework will be presented in a abide online academy on November 26, 2009.

For added advice and to annals for this academy amuse appointment www.netsize.com.

ABOUT NETSIZE

Netsize is a arch adaptable communications and business enabler. Netsize solutions cover Mobile Messaging, with SMS and MMS accumulation in 200 countries; Mobile Payment through operator-based announcement (Premium SMS, MMS, & WAP) in 28 countries; and Mobile Content Management platforms with publishing & alteration accoutrement to administer messaging casework and adaptable Internet portals. Netsize manages added than 60 actor adaptable affairs per ages for 800 barter worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies. With 200 advisers in 10 offices worldwide, Netsize provides both able-bodied abstruse basement and business ability to abutment this acknowledged deployment on a all-around scale.

For added advice about Netsize amuse appointment www.netsize.com

53, rue Raspail
92594 Levallois-Perret Cedex
France
Ph: +33 1 41 27 56 00
Fax: +33 1 41 27 57 00

Navix S.A - Navix Business Technology opens a Regional Office en Johannesburg, South Africa.

Store this angel in big sizeSantiago. December 1st 2009. Navix S.A., announces the enactment of a bounded appointment which will alike projects in the Southern tip of Africa, mainly South Africa, Namibia in adjoining countries area mining, telecom and technology apple chic companies operate.

Navix’ CEO Eduardo E. Elgueta, states: “Our aggregation already runs projects amid in the across and this move recognizes the growing bazaar for top akin business technology consultancy, decidedly in South Africa”.

As for South Africa’s marketplace, Eduardo Elgueta declares: “Although 2009 can not be characterized as a bang year, abiding appeal of commodites and cogent accessible investments in basement for 2010 World Cup accept mitigated the appulse of all-embracing crisis, authoritative South Africa one of the best positioned nations to crop advantage of reactivation, distinctively those companies counting on able accounts and management”.

Mr. Elgueta foresees: “Our attendance in South Africa will affluence our amplification into that continent, Europe and the Middle East, while allowance us to accommodate an bigger abutment to our all-around customers.”

Navix South Africa will accessible offices in Johannesburg in January 2010 employing bounded abstruse and bartering workforce.

The appointed administrator for this bounded office, Mr. Jèrôme Marcq, adds: “South Africa’s cultural abundance and accent at continental akin accomplish up the adapted ambiance for demography the best out of our practices, new abstruse developments and avant-garde products. South Africans will accommodate the all-important top above able and animal addition that Navix will alarm for while alms jobs, training and able development.”

Navix® S.A. is a abreast endemic business technology close headquartered in Santiago, Chile. Navix® has accomplished connected advance from its establishment, in 1990. With all-around barter in several countries, Navix® is aimed to abetment apple chic companies to acclimatize advice technology with a Focus on Performance®, abacus incomparable activity and decision to management. All mentioned barter marks acreage of Navix S.A

Press Contact:
José Fuentes
Consulting Manager
Fidel Oteíza 1921 Of. 202
Providencia, Santiago
Chile
Phone 56(2)946-0927
Fax 56(2) 946-1179
jfuentes@navix.cl