By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, August 16 — On August 16 the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Armenia Vache Gabrielian received the German Secretary of State Jorg Asmussen. Norbert Kloppenburg, Member of the Board of KfW Banking Group, vice president Eve Witt and the German Ambassador to Armenia Hans-Jochen Schmidt were among the members [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, July 30 — Waste recycling factory will open in Yerevan in September, Astghik Avetisian, the PR manager of Cleanland LLC, said. According to her, the factory will be specialized in recycling paper and plastic. Glass and metal waste products will be sent to other factories in Armenia. Today there are waste [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, August 3–The first Youth Summer Olympic Games will be held in Singapore on August 14-26. It will host more than 3,500 young athletes, aged between 14 and 18, who will compete in 184 events in 26 sports. Fourteen young athletes from Armenia will also take part in the Olympic games and [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, July 23–Ameriabank announced that the arrangements of the merger with Cascade Bank are complete, Artak Anesian, the director general of Ameriabank CJSC, said on Thursday during a press conference. According to Anesian the merger of the two banks was planned to be implemented by the end of November. Due to the [...]
BY JEFF MASARJIAN AND JASON SOHIGIAN Armenia is very special to those of us in the Diaspora for a number of different reasons. Not typically high up on that list–due especially to a lack of public awareness–is the enormous diversity of landscape, plant, and animal life that exists in Armenia. Armenia is located at the [...]
YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow.com), March 9–A veteran Armenian boxing champ said he was going to raise the stakes by moving to a higher division or seek a rematch with a longtime Filipino foe after he defended his WBC/WBA super flyweight belts against a Mexican challenger Saturday night. Vic Darchinyan (34-2-1. 27 KOs) looked solid against his younger [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 1—The Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN, Ambassador Karen Nazarian, gave John Holmes, the Deputy Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency, a bank notification for the allocation of the Armenian state budget aid, amounting to $100,000 to the earthquake victims in Haiti, revealed the press service of Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign [...]
