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• Abu Dhabi launches $27m fund to boost farming sector - Banking & Finance - ArabianBusiness.com

  "Abu Dhabi has set up a AED100m ($27m) fund to help support local farmers and develop more sustainable farming methods over the next five years. "

  tags: abudhabi uae gcc middleeast agriculture foodsecurity

• Want People to Be Free? Abolish Visas. - Bloomberg

  "If the U.S. and Europe truly want to support the causes of freedom and global integration that hundreds of thousands of protesters are defending in Kiev, there's one simple thing they could do: Abolish tourist visa requirements for Ukrainians. And while they're at it, for Turks, Russians and everyone else in the world. "

  tags: visas unitedstates europe tourists travel interconnectivity globalization

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• Kraft Foods Authorizes $3 Billion Stock Buyback Program - Bloomberg

  "Kraft Foods Group Inc. (KRFT), the North American packaged-foods company with brands including Maxwell House coffee and Velveeta cheese, authorized a $3 billion stock repurchase program. "

  tags: kraft stockbuyback investment fmcg cg

• Egypt apologises for constitution banner blunder - Politics & Economics - ArabianBusiness.com

  "Egypt has apologised for a banner promoting the new constitution that misspelt the word "Egyptians" and carried images of foreigners instead of locals, embarrassing the government as it tries to rally support for the document. "

  tags: hilarious awful egypt constitution dumb random northafrica middleeast

• Dubai gov't orders 30-100% pay rise for staff - Banking & Finance - ArabianBusiness.com

  "The Dubai Government has increased public employee salaries by up to 100 percent, it announced on Tuesday. Thousands of government staff across 32 departments will benefit from the rise, which will be paid retrospectively back to June 30, the Dubai Government Human Resources Department said in a statement."

  tags: uae dubai publicsector privatesector subsidies

• Amazon warehouses in Kenosha, Wis.: The new factories.

  "But Amazon's remorseless quest for global domination is bringing a different kind of blue-collar work to the region. In October, Amazon announced it will open a 1-million-square-foot distribution center in Kenosha, which is just south of Milwaukee and 60 miles north of Chicago. On Tuesday, Amazon announced it will be opening a second, 500,000-square-foot center in Kenosha. With the help of more than $24 million in state and local tax credits, the company hopes to have the first center up and running by 2015, bringing in 1,100 jobs. The second center would bring in an additional 575 jobs. "

  tags: amazon business logistics books economics revitalization

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