dpa) -US banking giant Citigroup announced plans Friday to cut 9,000 jobs in the wakeof a first-quarter net loss of 5.11 billion dollars. Company chief financial officer Gary Crittenden announced the payroll cut plansfor the bank which employs 370,000 people
ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan presented reappointed minister of culture, Hasmik Poghosyan Friday.T. Sargsyan said he met about 300 cultural workers over the last month and it was a pleasant surprise for him when all them spoke only good
ArmInfo. The head of the permanent parliamentary commission on finances and budget issues, a member of the RPA faction Gagik Minasyan has called Armenian society to unite against Levon Ter-Petrosyan.Making a speech at today's discussions in the National Press Club
ArmInfo Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 310 drams for 1 dollar, 492drams for 1 EUR and 13 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 311 drams for 1 dollar, 494
ArmInfo. 'I am sorry, no suggestion was made to us when forming the new government. The Communist Party has a big number of professionals', - first secretary of Central Committee of Armenian Communist Party Ruben Tovmasyan told journalists in Pastarq
ArmInfo. In a conversation with ArmInfo correspondent, Prefect of Davidashen community of Yerevan Sourik Ghoukasyan said that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan offered him a new job. He said that he will not advance his nominee at the forthcoming election for
ArmInfo. VivaCell, a subsidiary of Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (NYSE: MBT), informs that This year, the festive Month of Women, Maternity and Beauty concluded with a special draw involving mothers who had been presented with Alo MOM prepaid cards from VivaCell.
ArmInfo. Today, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan introduced re-appointed Minister of Town planning Vardan Vardanyan.He expressed confidence that V. Vardanyann will solve all the tasks, included in RA President Serzh Sargsyan's election programme. RA PM especially noted that over the
ArmInfo. Fifty-five comfortable ZONDA buses will soon be serving passengers throughout Yerevan streets, Ameria consulting company told ArmInfo. Thus, the principal means of public transportation in Armenia are buses, trolleybuses, minibuses and metro, with minibuses being the most popular and
ArmInfo. Press-secretary of the headquarters of the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan Arman Musinyan declined to comment on ArmInfo correspondent's question about possible participation of Ter-Petrosyan in tomorrow's rally at Yerevan children's park (former part after Kirov).To recall, Yerevan mayor's
ArmInfo. Raffi K. Hovannisian, leader of the Heritage Party and its faction in the National Assembly, took part from April 14 to 18 in the second part of the 2008 plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
ArmInfo. Today, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan introduced re-appointed RA Education Minister Levon Mkrtchyan.T. Sarkisyan said that the reforms in education are a necessity today. As the Ministry's steps aimed at reformation of the education system, he presented some provisions,
ArmInfo. International scientific conference "Armenian genocide 1915-1923: sight from Tbilisi, Istanbul and Yerevan" will be held in Tbilisi, on 19 April.As press-service of Armenian Centre for Cooperation in Georgia, the conference was organized by the Centre and Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
Pakistani security forces have arrested an Indian man, who allegedly crossed the border in Punjab province. Satta Ram was arrested by the Pakistan Rangers near Billaanwala village last night, police said. The Pakistan Rangers handed him over to police in
The strategic Pak-Afghan highway was reopened to traffic today after being closed for the past few days due to clashes between tribesmen and militant followers of a radical cleric in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Agency. The highway was reopened after the
As the Taiwan market consolidates its recent remarkable gains, linked to the prospect of improved ties with mainland China, the benchmark Shanghai index teeters at the edge of an abyss whose floor was formed at the start of the decade.R
As Microsoft prepares to bring out what looks certain to be its last patch for the aged Windows XP system, smaller rival Apple finds itself on the spot as a Miami outfit puts on sale PCs loaded with Leopard, the
Beset by demons warning of deteriorating mental and cardiac capacity, the idea that the capital gains tax was already 5%, let alone was about to be cut to zero, and hadn't even been noticed, is enough to induce panic. What
Inflation in food products has become the new front in the geopolitical battlefield. Asians can start by blaming themselves for the present mess in which their farmers remain poor, their poorest struggle to pay for basics such as rice, and
