Reported by Kushtrim Mehmetaj in Prishtina, Republic of KosovaMinistry of Energy and Mining has announced four shortlisted consortiums interested to build the power plant "Kosova e Re". There was an increased interest from a wide range of companies req

Reported by Jaycee Kruger in JohannesburgFluor Corporation of Irving, Texas, USA has announced that the company has won an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract from Debswana Diamond Company Ltd, a joint venture of the G

Reported by Alexander Tovb in MoscowThe European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has adopted a new strategy for the Russian Federation to give more priority to economic diversification, supporting the real sector of the economy, promotin

The World Bank has approved US million in financing for the Sarajevo Waste Water Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Project will help rehabilitate waste water infrastructure in the Canton of Sarajevo, and repair and replace primary and secondary

The Program Management Academy has announced its next public workshop on Program Management, Achieving Business Success with Program Management, to be held in Portland, Oregon, USA during May 4-5, 2010. The instructor will be Russ Martinelli, author of Pr

The third Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, was successfully launched on Thursday, 4 March 2010 aboard a IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. EST (00:57 GMT March 5) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in

Reported by Rudiger Geist in ZurichThe IPMA Expert Seminars in Zurich are well-known as a place, where new ideas and innovative methods in Project Management were created and nursed, since their revitalization a few years ago. The papers as well as a

The death toll from the strongest earthquake to strike Chile in more than 50 years officially stands at 723 people, according to the public health arm of the United Nations on 2 March. Approximately 80 per cent of the South American country's population w

The Governments of the United States and Germany held a Science and Technology Agreement signing ceremony on 18 February 2010 at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg signed the agreement on behalf of th

Reported by Henry Mkhwananzi in Harare ZIMBABWE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AUTHORITY (ZESA) has secured loans and grants amounting to US2 million from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and African Development Bank (ADB) for rehabilitating the Hwan

Reported by David Mathie in Kurrajong QGC has announced that it will commit to contracts valued at more than US billion in the first half of 2010 as it advances plans for its Queensland Curtis LNG Project on Curtis Island near Gladstone, Queensland, Aus

The Network for Project Managers in Greece (PM-Greece) has announced Early Registration Discount prices for the PM-05: Advancing Project Management for the 21st Century conference in May. The fifth Project Management Conference (PM-05) in Greece with the

Reported by Miles Shepherd in UK U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the U.S. government's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced on 23 February 2010 that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia,

Max Wideman has announced the updates to his popular project management website for February 2010. According to the email from Max, here are the items to be added to his website in March. Are you one of those project managers charged with serious cost c

Reported by Ann R. Miller in DallasThe Executive Education Program at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) has announced that their Managing Projects Across Borders Professional Development series in now available worldwide through two new onl

The Project Management Association of Canada - Association de Management de Projet du Canada (PMAC-AMPC) has announced that Morley Selver has been appointed a "First Assessor" for IPMA certification reviews. PMAC-AMPC represents the IPMA (Internationa

Aaron Cohen, a former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and a former NASA program manager, died 25 February 2010, after a lengthy illness. He was 79. Cohen had a 33-year career with NASA. He was a steady hand at the helm of Johnson

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are evaluating the feasibility of developing renewable energy production on Superfund, brownfields, and former landfill or mi

Reported by Ann R. Miller in Dallas The Town of Addison, a suburb of Dallas, is soon to become the first Texas municipality (and one of the few in the USA) to build a self-powered water tower. The project when completed will double as a piece of art. Wind

A US software company is set to provide a reliable and secure communications system to emergency response teams assisting in the Haitian relief effort under an agreement with the United Nations, the UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has anno