Economics and Policy Hundreds of Egyptian police rallied on Sunday to demand higher wages, in a rare act of defiance of a new protest law which they themselves have been enforcing to quell unrest on the streets. More from Reuters Qatar’s diversifying economy is set to reap rewards with the non-hydrocarbon sector predicted to be worth more than half of the country's GDP by 2015, according to the country’s biggest bank. More from Arabian Business Lebanon has launched a tender to import liquefied natural gas in a bid to cut the country’s energy costs by $2 billion per year, the caretaker energy and water minister has said. More from The Daily Star Companies and Business Middle East carriers witnessed a stellar 14 per cent year-on-year growth in passenger traffic in October, much higher than the global average of 6.9 per cent, according to the latest report released
