Armenia Plans to Ban Turkish Imports
Armenian MP Mikael Melkumyan called for urgent efforts to ban Turkish imports. Melkumyan, MP of Prosperous Armenia Party said that Armenia should take a serious decision because of regional conflict. He told it is possible to produce Turkish goods in Armenia and there is no need to import from Turkey,“It’s a matter of state and national […]
Turkmenistan and Saudi Arabia sign cooperation pacts
King Salman of Saudi Arabia and the leader of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held official talks in Riyadh on May 1. King Salman underlined the importance of bilateral relations and said that two countries are ready to improve relations on trade, investment, energy, agriculture, tourism, combating terrorism and extremism. Saudi Gazette reports that the monarch praised […]
Samsung Fulfilled its Promises
SAMSUNG, the largest phone maker in South Korea, is also the third largest in the world. This impressed me and other journalists from 50 countries, when we visited one of its Research and Development (R&D) Centres in 2009. A high ranking official at the press briefing then said, Samsung would be launching a hand phone […]
Samsung Faces Tough Competition in Mobile Phone Market of Pakistan
Since the low cost Chinese mobile phones have stormed the mobile markets and grabbed a huge share of the market, leading mobile phone makers like Samsung, Nokia and Sony are struggling hard to hold tight to what they have of the market share. Last few years have seen a rapid increase in mobile phone usage […]
Samsung – Creating Smiles for Tomorrow
I belong to a generation when meanings were symbolized by icons. For us, peaceful resistance was named after Gandhi, black liberation meant Martin Luther King, fighting for independence was called Nasser. It was the same when we were talking about items we use in daily life. Kodak for the world of photos, fridge for refrigerators, […]
Disgruntled Employess Lead to Change
Reports have been trickling into newspapers about disgruntled employees of Samsung India. Their complaints about the punishing work culture and exacting overtime rules have rung alarm bells in the top management of Samsung Electronics. According to a recent report, Samsung has announced big changes. It has taken nearly three years for Samsung to re-think about […]
Samsung: Change Everything but Your Wife and Kids
A recent visit to the Centre for Creative Economy & Innovation in Gyeonggi province of South Korea was revelatory. Bottom-line: Giant corporates are crashing in ranking. Recourse: Co-operate with innovative start-ups to energise the system with dynamism and growth. Samsung India had increased its sales by 30-40% in the past years. It perforce halved its […]
Samsung: People’s View in the United Arab Emirates
Android devices, particularly of Samsung are the most prevalent in the Gulf and particularly in the United Arab Emirates. Here are some views of people in the UAE using Samsung products. Dalal Mohamed (housewife): I have Samsung Galaxy S6 and I think it is the best phone in the market. Excellent screen, great processor, wireless […]
Saudi FM Visited Kazakhstan
Adel al-Jubeir, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia paid his first official visit to Kazakhstan on April 27. Al Jubeir met with his counterpart Erlan Idrissov and president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Two sides discussed bilateral relations, economic cooperation, investment and petrochemical development. Erlan Idrissov said, “This is the first official visit of the Foreign Minister […]
Islamic Organisation for Food Security established in Kazakhstan
Member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) established the Islamic Organisation for Food Security on 28 April in Kazakhstan. The new initiative has been created after the 7th Islamic Ministerial Conference on Food Security and Agricultural Development of the OIC in Astana. Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, Assylzhan Mamytbekov talked at the conference: […]