By Linda Hindi AMMAN - Although girls are consistently higher achievers at the academic level, they lag far behind as active members of the labour force, according to a recently released report. The r…

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN - The number of migratory birds stopping over in the Kingdom is expected to decline this year due to the shrinking wetlands, according to the Royal Society for the Conservation …

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By Dalya Dajani AMMAN - A plan to provide street peddlers with an opportunity to improve their lives is under way at a new social centre in Madaba. Khalid Rawashdeh, director of the Ministry of Soci…

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AMMAN (JT) - A project by three senior engineering students from the King Abdullah II College of Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) ranked first in the mobile phone applic…

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AMMAN (JT) - His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday said Jordan is eager to benefit from the Trade Preferential System the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) plans to implement as of 2009. He…

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By Hani Hazaimeh AMMAN - A total of 2,863 public officials and parliamentarians have fulfilled the requirements of the Financial Disclosure Law out of around 3,600, a Financial Disclosure Department …

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AMMAN (JT) - Her Majesty Queen Rania on Thursday attended a special Silver Book roundtable in Kuala Lumpur, to discuss the role of the private sector in nation building and encourage Malaysian CEOs to…

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BEIRUT (AFP) - Arab mediators unveiled a deal on Thursday to defuse a long-running feud between rival political factions that drove deeply divided Lebanon to the brink of a new civil war. Under the ag…

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By Hani Hazaimeh AMMAN - The Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development (AAAID) will conclude a new feasibility study for a Jordanian project in Sudan within a month, Agriculture Minis…

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By Linda Hindi AMMAN - Jordan is ready to cooperate with Iraq for establishing a joint free zone at the Karama border to ease the future flow of goods between the two countries. Free Zones Corporati…

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