Builders & Environment
- At your request I have put together A set of free lead generation tools in the margins of the leads page. Thanks John Curtis for your blue Book Link. I will be happy to add to your favorite resources there, naming the link after you. Email me with the link.
- I have added some video of Stormwater damage at construction sites.
- New home buyers are jumping to Vacation homes instead of first homes
- Countrywide, a frequent reporter of dire mortgage news, projects good market improvements by the middle of 2008, and a "very healthy" mortgage environment by 2009.
- Commercial Construction continues to be in growth mode in most regions
- The US EPA RSS feed page also has new stormwater videos.
- A Kenya Airways jet went down this past weekend in Cameroon, West Africa.Reports from all over indicated there were African, Chinese, British, French, Indian and European passengers on board. This includes Four officials of the Cameroonian mobile phone company, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) including the managing director, South African Utton Campbell. There are no signs of survivors yet. (More)
- I have been watching an African telecoms data web site, and the data appears to be updated regularly. I think the the data is now reliable enough to put links in the margin of our Telecoms Page to free technical reports on every African Country.
- SES, a large Satellite service provider to Telecoms, has undergone major restructuring. They published a report this week of their recent acquisitions, internal restructuring, satellite re designations, and traffic capacity for each bird.
- EU Funding for all the Africa Fiber Optic Projects appear to have been consolidated into one new organizations called The Infrastructure Trust Fund for Africa. It includes all four fiber projects.
- Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co. (MTC), one of the largest African Telecoms Providers, reported its slowest profit growth in almost two years in the first quarter.
- Two Telecoms In South Africa are providing a case study on what happens when one new telecom takes on a government monopoly. A summary is here.
- A record was set in 2006 when over 14B$ was raised by investors for African and Middle Eastern Telecom Projects. Already in 2007, over 30B$ more has been raised. A conference on telecoms finance is being held in Dubai this month to sort things out.
- Business Without Borders' Servant Entrepreneur Enterprise Devleopment (SEED) Center plan
- The Lausanne Commitee for World Evangelism has announced its Next General Meeting in 2010. This is only the fifth General Meeting since 1966 when it first met in Luassane, Switzerland. The Laussane Occasional Paper 59 was a Catalyst for the Business as Missions ( BAM ) Movement.
- Featured Kingdom Business Professionals -Mark & Michelle. Business as Mission Architect working in Honduras. From BlueFishTV
- Featured Kingdom Business - Prince of Peace Enterprises, creators of the Tiger Balm Brand, Business as Mission Blogspot
- Fiji was invited by the US to Attend Pacific Leaders Conference in Washington DC, though Bainamarama was not invited.
- Since Police have been disarmed by the Army "Organized Crime" is up. The Army will redeploy to their checkpoints and join Police on Foot patrols.
- The wreckage of Kenya Airway's Boeing 737-800 which crashed on Saturday in Cameroon has been found.
- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday promised free public secondary school tuition from next year on, following on his re-introduction of free primary education.
- Muslim leaders continue to condemn the Government following the arrest and confinement of 10 Muslims suspected to have links with terrorism.
- There is an upcoming vote on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA in the African Press). There are Five large NGOs in Malawi that oppose the move.
- The Constitutional Court sitting in Blantyre on Friday pronounced the mandatory death sentence as unconstitutional, inhumane and a degradation to human dignity
- Three Private Companies take on safety in a Malawi-w ide Campaign
- Luiz Telez Mexico's Telecom and Transportation Minister, pledges to move Mexican Telecom to a more competitive environment, and to upgrade systems to digital.
- SatMex, six months out of bankruptcy, is having a hard time finding a buyer.
- Brigadier Noble Mayombo, supported by many to be the next Ugandan Prime Minister, died of multiple organ failure triggered by pancreatitis, under mysterious circumstances. His death is being investigated. He was 42 years-old.
- The World Bank has approved a $125m credit to finance Uganda’s poverty reduction programmes
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