Abu Dhabi launches public programme on art Gulf News | Abu Dhabi: A new series of informal, cultural events is being launched in Abu Dhabi with the first taking on a Picasso theme. | Artscape Picasso will be held on Thursday, August 28, at the Cultural Foundation with free entry for all. | The evening will be packed with activities - for both English ...
Dubai fund boss faces investigation-reports The Guardian By John Irish and Daliah Merzaban DUBAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Dubai mortgage lender Tamweel's former chief executive and head of investments are under investigation for alleged wrongdoing, their current Dubai employer said on Thursday. Tamweel shares fell almost 6 percent on Thursday after media repor...
Bahrain Air, Sama lel Tayaran sign pact Bahrain Tribune Bahrain Air signed a commercial agreement with Sama lel Tayaran. The agreement was penned by Ibrahim AlHamer, airline managing director, and Andrew Cowen, managing director of Sama lel Tayaran. "The agreement is a step forward to facilitate passenger...
Abu Dhabi launches public programme on art Gulf News | Abu Dhabi: A new series of informal, cultural events is being launched in Abu Dhabi with the first taking on a Picasso theme. | Artscape Picasso will be held on Thursday, August 28, at the Cultural Foundation with free entry for all. | The evening ...
BMI eyes global expansion Bahrain Tribune To add 3m customers to portfolio, tap North Africa, Levant markets | Mahmood Rafique | Business Correspondent | Bahrain-based BankMuscat International (BMI) unveiled its ambitious expansion plans and announced that the bank is all set to add three m...
Nuclear renaissance Gulf News | A nuclear renaissance. When I recently read that term, I was amused, because I never quite associated nuclear technology with a renaissance. | The nuclear industry is now into its sixth decade, and on the global front, US presidential candidate Joh...
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Airbus A380 lands in Dubai Arab News | K.T. Abdurabb | Arab News | DUBAI: Emirates' Airbus A380 double-decker touched down on schedule in Dubai yesterday evening. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, chairman and chi...
Airbus eyes Dubai as manufacturing base Gulf News | Hamburg: Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, yesterday revealed its interest to shift some of the aircraft manufacturing operations to Dubai through Dubai Aerospace Enter...
LG expects 40% jump in Middle East and Africa revenues Gulf News | Dubai: LG Electronics expects to record $4.5 billion (Dh16.52 billion) in revenues from Middle East and Africa (MEA) operations in 2008, an increase of more than 40 per cent comp...
Tectura opens Dubai office The Business Review | Business consulting services provider said Monday it opened a Dubai office that will be the base of operations for its business in the Middle East. | The Redwood City-based company said the Dubai office will focus on Tectura's core industry segment...
Tectura opens Dubai office Business Journal > | Business consulting services provider Tectura Corp. said Monday it opened a Dubai office that will be the base of operations for its business in the Middle East. | The Redwood City-based company said the Dubai office will focus on Tectura's core ...
Greenback's recovery reverses dirham's flagging exchange rate Gulf News | Dubai: The appreciation of US dollar against leading currencies has come as a big relief to most expatriates living and working in the UAE as the dirham now fetches more in terms of their respective domestic currencies. | Due to the dirham's peg to the dollar, the dirham depreciated along with the dollar, which meant a fall in exchange rates of t...
Shock waves spread as oil bubble bursts The Australian | THE exposure of the oil price boom as a speculative bubble has been the catalyst for a change in world financial flows, and the ripples are now spreading through currency, commodity and financial markets. | Oil hit its peak of $US147 a barrel on July 11, paused and then started to tumble on July 15, and there has been no sign yet that its fall ha...
