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A new high for FDI in Spain in 2018

Successive annual increases of FDI inflows to Spain culminated in a record year in 2018. Alex Irwin-Hunt reports.




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FDI into Lithuania increases in 2018

Lithuania is enjoying a boost in FDI project and jobs, with the capital, Vilnius, getting the lion's share.




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China FDI into Europe: A cause for concern?

FDI project numbers from China into the EU are on a downward trend, but Europe is still a popular destination for Chinese investment.




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Manufacturing FDI in Mexico stumbles again in 2018

Mexico suffered a second year of dwindling manufacturing, with the US's trade policy taking its toll. However, Mexico remains an attractive location for US companies and their suppliers.




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FDI in Ecuador surges to $1.6bn in 2018

Ecuador's stability was recognised in 2018, as the South American country attracted its highest level of investment since 2004.




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Manufacturing FDI into India on an upward curve

Figures show 2018 was India’s best year for manufacturing FDI in seven years.




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Cyprus sees FDI high in 2018

Cyprus’s record-breaking 2018 was driven by tourism and second-tier cities. 




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Middle East sees increase in investment from US

Investment into the Middle East region by US-based companies showed a notable increase between the beginning fo 2016 and the end of 2018. 




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UK top destination for financial services FDI in Europe

Over the past three years, the UK has led Europe for financial services FDI, with the US as top investor. Emma McCoy reports.




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FDI into Canada reaches four-year high of $41.9bn

Canada has seen a four-year peak in FDI, with the technology, real estate and aerospace sectors enjoying substantial growth. Zara Fennell reports.




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Dubai top for Middle East office openings

Dubai outstrips other Middle East cities as top destination for office openings.




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Global biotechnology FDI on the rise

Global FDI in the biotechnology sector has witnessed year-on-year increase since 2015.




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Lagos sees rebound in FDI

The number of foreign companies investing in Lagos increased in 2018 after four years of decline.




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UAE is manufacturers' top choice in Middle East

The UAE remained the Middle East's most popular destination for foreign manufacturing investments in 2018.




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Cairo standout African destination for foreign business services in 2018

The Egyptian capital Cairo led Africa in 2018, attracting 10 foreign business services investment projects, in its strongest performance since 2012. Joshua Crawford reports.




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Free zone FDI stable in 2019

Foreign investment to free economic zones around the world remained stable in 2019, according to preliminary data from fDi Markets.




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Cistri helps shape the cities and communities of Asia

Australian urban planning and design and economics consultancy Cistri is using its evidence-based insights to help Asian developers design and plan urban communities that enhance quality of life.




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High-flying inspection system lands in Australia

Utilities in Australia are looking to the sky when it comes to avoiding costly network failures and bushfires, enlisting the expertise of investors such as Canada’s Aethon Aerial Solutions to monitor power lines.




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Canadian miner capitalises on golden opportunity in Victoria

Australia’s proud mining history, the quality of its workers and high working standards were instrumental in bringing Canadian mining and exploration company Kirkland Lake Gold to the Victorian gold fields.




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Starware sets up Asia-Pacific HQ in Australia

Dutch company Starware has defied the challenges of COVID-19 and established a subsidiary in Melbourne, Victoria.




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Maeil Dairies makes first investment in Australian dairy facility

Maeil Dairies Australia has invested A$13.5 million to acquire Corio Bay Dairy Group’s partially built dairy processing facility in Geelong, Victoria.




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Wanted: Exceptional individuals and top-tier businesses

Australia is seeking the world’s best and brightest talent to relocate to one of the safest, most economically stable and innovative countries in the world.




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Australia welcomes new animation studio

American entertainment studio Bento Box Entertainment has partnered with Australia’s Princess Pictures to form a new animation studio




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Australian space industry set to rocket to new heights

Australia’s space industry is ready for lift-off, after granting the first-ever launch facility licence to Australian company Southern Launch.




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Israel’s IAI enters into JV with Australian mining services company

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has entered into a joint venture with Australia’s Bis to launch Auto-mate, a new company that will provide autonomous systems to the mining industry.




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Game on with new tax rebate for developers

Good news for games developers: the Australian Government is introducing a 30% tax offset for local and international businesses that develop digital games in Australia.




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New PwC delivery centre to meet Australian demand for cyber services

Australia’s demand for cyber services has prompted PwC Australia to open a new onshore delivery centre in Adelaide, South Australia.




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Create Angular NPM Package and Publish

Are you interested to create and publish NPM packages/libraries to enrich Angular functionality? Take a quick look at this post. You can share solutions with other developers. A simple package can solve many problems and resolve the issue quickly. If you are working with multiple applications? Package approach will help you to solve the components problems easily. In this post I have created the Bootstrap confirm functionality package with control options and published it on NPM repository for global use.





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Deploy NodeJS Express Application to Firebase as Function.

Few days back I posted an article about how to implement restful apis using the Node Express and MySql. In this post I am going to discuss deploying NodeJS RESTful apis with Express framework to the Firebase functions. This is helpful when you deal with external endpoints which need secret keys. Google Firebase functions as an alternate product for Amazon Lambda, and Google Firebase is offering Storage and Real-time databases.





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PUBNUB: Making Engaging Realtime Experiences a Reality in India

Realtime Communication is providing enterprises with an innovative way to deliver better, more cost-effective customer service.
Technology companies in India are racing towards a more connected and always-on world, making it easier, faster, safer, and more convenient for everyday people to do the things they need and achieve the things about which they dream. PubNub’s Realtime Communication Platform provides the backbone that any company can rely on to deliver engaging experiences that users love, including fast-growing companies like Swiggy, Apollo Health and others.





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Github Free Angular React Application Hosting

Developing and hosting your own Angular, React applications has never been easier, but now there are many options like Google Firebase, Heroku and etc. Github Pages is offering some great features with free of cost no credit card required and no bandwidth limitations. Just create a public repository and commit all of your product ready files. It has a custom domain support with HTTPs enforcement.





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Angular Multiple Language Support using Internationalization (i18n)

Modern web and mobile user experiences is a worldwide thing. Localization of your application (supporting multiple languages) will help you to reach worldwide people. Angular is offering Internationalization(i18n) plugins to enrich your application with multiple languages. In this post I will discuss the implementation with lazy loading design pattern with supporting dynamic content. Take a quick look at the live demo and choose the language.





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Publish an Ionic Android App to Google Play Store.

Ionic is a great component framework that can build both iOS and Android apps from the same source code using Capacitor. In this video I have explained how to generate a signed Android release APK version using Ionic application and publishing on Google play store. For this process you need a Google play console subscription that costs $25 for life time. Please try to download the 9lessons demo Android app for testing.





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Upload Files from Ionic Angular to Firebase Storage.

Nowadays Google Firebase is my most favorite application. This is offering great web solutions like hosting, authentication, storage and database in a simple way. This article explains how to upload images(supports video) into Firebase storage with Ionic and Angular applications. This covers the user authentication part to protect storage uploads and improving default Firebase security rules. Take a look at the quick demo and try to upload under 1 mb JPEG or PNG.





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Setup SSH authentication with PEM RSA file without password on ubuntu/linux Raspberry Pi Server

Recently I have been working with Raspberry PI and creating my own home server to host some of my demo projects. This post is about setting up SSH authentication with a PEM certificate file without password on ubuntu/linux server. Implement the following steps and improve the security.





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Environment Variables in Apache and Xampp

Few days back one of my friend's project database credentials got exposed. After some investigation, we realized that it is because of the .git config commit. I would recommend configuring your sensitive credentials with operating system environment variables. This way you can protect information from the code base. This post will explain how to set up an environment variable for an Apache web server.





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Automated Deployment of PHP Application using Github Push.

Nowadays most of my side projects are managed with Github. It has more advantages and flexibility to manage file versions. I am following a different webhook system to automatically deploy my old PHP projects. Not sure about the standards, but the following solution is an alternative approach that may solve your deployment problem for every Github push.





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Cypress UI Automation End to End Testing

UI automation is the most important part of the CI/CD(continuous integration and continuous delivery) process. Integration testing helps you to avoid manual regression testing and improve the application quality. In this post I will explain how to implement UI automation testing to existing Angular projects using the Cypress tool, this is a great alternative for Protractor. Take a look at the video tutorials for better understanding.





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Host a Website on Your Home Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a low cost device and it consumes low power. It can be used as a web server with your home internet and you will have complete freedom to implement ideas. Nowadays popular cloud services are costing high for the same specifications and recently banned some websites for showing some legal terms. This post will guide you how to configure and host a website on your home Raspberry Pi device with AT&T home network. All of my web applications hosted on my home server Raspberry Pi 8GB with external SSD, I usally costs under $99.





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Angular Removing Unused CSS and Obfuscate JavaScript in Post Build Process

Nowadays most applications are developed based on large CSS libraries like Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, etc.. and sometimes multiple frameworks. But your application components are not using all of the styles and it adds more weight to the application performance. This post will explain the Angular post-build process to remove unused CSS and hidden JavaScript files that enhance the application security and definitely improve the app loading time and save the overall bandwidth cost.





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React Removing Unused CSS and Obfuscate JavaScript in Post Build Process

This is continues of my previous post about how to remove unused CSS and convert unclear JavaScript to protect your source code in the post-build process. If you are using CSS libraries like Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, etc.. and sometimes multiple frameworks. But your application components are not using all of the styles and it adds more weight to the application performance. This post will explain how to configure the React post-build process to remove unused CSS and hidden JavaScript files that enhance the application security and definitely improve the app loading time and save the overall bandwidth cost.





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Pocketbase Hosting on Apache or XAMPP

Pocketbase is an open-source application and alternative to Google Firebase. This is offering realtime database, authentication(including social), and file storage for your next web and mobile application. This article is about how to host the Pocketbase application server which usually runs at 8090 port with your existing application server. If you are using Linux and Apache based server, the following steps will help you to virtual host different ports host to the default 80 port.





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Deploy a PHP Application on AWS Lambda Function Serverless

In this post, I will explain the steps to deploy a simple PHP email MX record validation application on AWS lambda function using Bref layers. AWS Lambda natively supports Java, Go, PowerShell, Node. js, C#, Python, and Ruby code, not PHP. You can deploy the lite weight PHP function to improve the application performance and it will reduce cost compared with the EC2 instance. AWS is offering the first one million requests free and you need an AWS account with a payment setup. The only disadvantage is that port 25(mail/SMTP) will not support it.





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Insight – US grants new access for Australian roasted macadamia nuts

The US has granted new market access for Australian roasted macadamia nuts.




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Insight – Australian agricultural exporters set to benefit from AI-ECTA

The Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement opens new market access opportunities for Australian agricultural exporters.




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Insight – Australian agricultural exporters set to benefit from A-UK FTA

Australian agricultural exporters will benefit from tariff eliminations when the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement enters into force.




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Insight – Mexican Government suspends tariffs on agricultural and fishery products

The Mexican Government has suspended tariffs on a range of agricultural and fishery products.




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Insight – Cultural insights help tourism businesses welcome Indian visitors

India is one of Australia’s fastest growing tourism markets. Tourism businesses can realise the potential of the Indian market by learning about travellers’ culture and service expectations.




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Insight – The impact of recent South American free trade agreements on Australian agriculture

Recent South American free trade agreements will have implications for Australian agricultural exports.




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Insight – Opportunities for Australian sheepmeat exports to India

There are strong prospects for Australian sheepmeat exporters, thanks to rising demand and reduced tariffs under Australia’s trade agreement with India.