A campaign to collect signatures on a request form at Palestinian camps in the kingdom has started to allow residents to elect service committees and to stop appointing their members by the

Residents and farmers in Damia area of Der Alla close to the border with Israel have complained over a bad smell coming from Jordan River side. Residents said that the nature of such smell is strange

Taher Odwan, state minister for media and communications, said that attention to media is key to political reform. “We can’t create democratic institutions without creating free media.” Odwan who was

(Black Iris) Jordan has always seemed to be a country taking one step forward and two steps back. For every “good” thing that happens, there seems to always be a slew of negatives lurking around the

AMMAN - The Lower House Economic and Financial Committee on Wednesday approved the new version of the 2011 state budget draft law presented to the House earlier this month. During yesterday's

AMMAN - UNRWA teachers in Jordan threatened to escalate measures if the relief agency continues with a plan to include the Holocaust in school textbooks. Warning that the plan would hurt the feelings

The committee has stressed that during its upcoming meetings all ideas related to political reform will be open to discussion, but some groups have voiced disagreement with the method of the committee

Minister of Municipal Affairs promises to include participation by all segments of society, and Qashu expects the committee's work to be completed by June.

Tourism is Jordan’s largest productive sector and the second largest in foreign exchange earnings, surpassed only by worker remittances. It is also an important employer of Jordanians and is an

AMMAN - The Jordan Medical Association (JMA) on Monday decided to suspend a strike by public sector doctors, following a pledge by the government to study a proposed payroll system proposed by the