MIDEX AIRLINES has grown rapidly to become the largest charter airline in the Middle East and Europe. Dr Issam Khairallah tells Ruari McCallion how it was done.

The year 2007 may have begun by looking like a good time to start an airline; but the emergence of the banking crisis and the global downturn in trade may have caused some air entrepreneurs to think that it could have been a better idea to have sat on their hands. But not Dr. Issam Khairallah, president of MIDEX AIRLINES.

As Just Refrigeration gears up to expand its marketplace across Africa and Australasia, general manager Chris Turner talks to Gay Sutton about setting the company on a firm corporate footing, and implementing strategies for quality, efficiency and innovation.

Chicken is a valuable and popular source of protein; but its production requires a well-oiled machine, as Alan Swaby discovers.

Let’s start with a guessing game: how many chickens do you think are consumed in your country every week? Whether your guess is accurate or not, the numbers will certainly be enormous and probably far greater than you imagined.

Newmont Ghana Gold Limited is determined to take the lead in both delivering shareholder value and implementing a far-reaching corporate social responsibility strategy. Adriaan van Kersen, group executive, operations for Africa, talks to Jayne Flannery.

Nuclear energy still has an important role to play in the United States’ energy portfolio, according to US Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

The news will go some way to reassuring uranium miners and energy corporations that the US is not about to do a U-turn on nuclear energy, but Chu, perhaps understandably, was rather cautious in his endorsement.

Gem Diamonds is planning major investments at two diamond mines, buoyed by increasing global demand for the precious stones.

The London-based company, which recently announced its 2010 results, is betting on the price of rough diamonds continuing to rise this year. The increase is partly driven by strong demand from Chinese consumers.

Three quarters of respondents to a new survey believe their IT projects are doomed to fail from the very beginning.

The study conducted by software development firm Geneca, entitled Doomed From the Start? Why a Majority of Business and IT Teams Anticipate Their Software Development Projects Will Fail examines why teams struggle to meet the business expectations for their projects.

Geneca asked almost 600 individuals closely involved in the software development process to answer 25 closed questions. Some of the key findings are:

Exploration firm Chrysaor has said it will increase its stake in the Spanish Point licences off the west coast of Ireland.

The London-based company will exercise its option to double its stake to 60 per cent, in return for the drilling of up to two appraisal wells on the discovery, which is owned and operated by Dublin-based Providence.

The licences are situated in the Main Porcupine Basin, approximately 200 kilometres off the west coast in a water depth of around 400 metres.

After predictions of a world shortage of uranium at the Prospectors and Developers Assosciation of Canada's annual convention (PDAC) in Toronto last week, the global mining community must suddenly be reeling.

If there were ever a sure bet, uranium was it—before the earthquake in Japan and the subsequent problems unfolding in its “earthquake proof” nuclear reactors.