According to the diamond supervisor of the Trade and Industry Ministry, Shmuel Mordechai Israel exported last year $6.3 billion of polished diamonds

Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Ehud Olmert will visit South Korea and Hong Kong later this month. In a press release the ministry said last Wednesday that the minister will be accompanied by representatives of communications and remote learning compan

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced last week that, El Al Israel airlines will be allowed to operate a weekly cargo flight from Hong Kong to Europe. The announcement came following Minister of Foreign Affairs Silvan Shalom's request to the Hong Kong

Diamond controller Mr. Shmuel Mordechai said last week that Israel's diamond industry continued its trend toward significant growth in November. According to spokesman for the Ministry of Industry

Mr. Gideon Peri director general of GCX told reporters that his company had inaugurated a new express service from Taiwan to Israel. Mr. Peri added that in similarity to the highly successful Chinese operation in Taiwan the company had joined forces with

Mr. Shraga Brosh, chairman of the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute, said that exports of communications equipment in 2004 will rise 16.5% to $2.53 billion. Brosh made the comment last week at the opening of the Telecom Israel 2004 exh

Israel trade with Asia totaled $9.3 billion in January-September. Imports from Asia rose 31% in January-September, compared with that period in 2003, to $5 billion

The latest report issued last week by the World Economic Forum, on Global Competitiveness, ranks Israel in nineteenth place among 104 countries. Israel advanced in the present report one place higher from its rank of 20th in 2003's report