World English News » Iraq http://worldenglishnews.com International English Language News Articles and Blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:33:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 British-Chinese consortium to develop Iraqi oil field http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/10/19/british-chinese-consortium-to-develop-iraqi-oil-field/ http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/10/19/british-chinese-consortium-to-develop-iraqi-oil-field/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:22:33 +0000 admin http://worldenglishnews.com/?p=1353 The Iraqi government has awarded development rights to a large oil field to British and Chinese firms.

Xinhua reports, “Even more important is the Iraqi Cabinet’s approval of the bid by Britain’s BP Plc and its Chinese partner CNPC to develop the 17.8 billion barrel Rumaila field near the southern city of Basra. The deal was approved late on Friday, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said, without providing further details.”

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]]> http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/10/19/british-chinese-consortium-to-develop-iraqi-oil-field/feed/ 0 Denmark dumps Iraqi refugees in favour of Burmese http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/09/20/denmark-dumps-iraqi-refugees-in-favour-of-burmese/ http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/09/20/denmark-dumps-iraqi-refugees-in-favour-of-burmese/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:31:21 +0000 admin http://worldenglishnews.com/?p=645 The Danish immigration minister has made an about turn on her policy of accepting Iraqi refugees under the United Nations agreement. Just eight weeks ago Immigration Minister Birthe Ronn Hornbech announced that Denmark would be accepting a quota of refugees from the Arabic nation.

However, this week she reversed the decision, saying that priority would now be afforded to refugees from Burma residing in Malaysia. The minister also announced that Denmark would be refusing refugees from fellow Muslim countries Jordan and Syria.

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