Korean firms in $940m floating power plant agreement

Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:36:00 +0100seatrade-global (en)

Polaris Shipping, Korea Midland Power, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Siemens Energy Solutions have signed a $940m memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) with an integrated power plant. The ‘Mobile Powership’, scheduled to begin operation in....

Malawi: 10 February 2015: World events

Thu, 12 Feb 2015 01:30:00 +0100reliefWeb (en)

Niger - Conflict • Over the last two to three days, active combats between Boko Haram insurgents and a mix of patrols from Niger and Chadian forces took place in Diffa. Although no report is currently available, significant causalities are reported among the civilian population.

Kading: Expand Global Insurance Markets; Oppose Isolationist Regulation

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:49:00 +0100prnewswire (en)

ORLANDO, Fla. Feb. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In remarks delivered today at the Reinsurance Association of America's (RAA) Cat Risk Management Conference in Orlando Brad Kading , president of the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR), the association representing the interests of 21....

NBC anchor Brian Williams may not have misremembered Katrina flooding after all

Sat, 07 Feb 2015 01:03:00 +0100nola (en)

Brian Williams, that once-venerable NBC news anchor under fire for wrongly reporting on several occasions that he had survived enemy fire during a helicopter flight over Iraq in 2004, can now watch his emotive coverage of Hurricane Katrina But his claim that he saw a body float by his French Quarter....

Indonesia: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 26 January - 01 February 2015

Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:53:00 +0100reliefWeb (en)

THAILAND. Drought. 2,091 villages in 8 provinces experienced drought. The affected provinces are Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Sakon Nakhon, Buriram, Maha Sarakham, Sukhothai, Nakhon Sawan and Lopburi. INDONESIA. Flood. Flood affected Bima city and Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara Province. More than 4,000 houses were inundated.