Serefe! According to the latest survey from Ipsos KMG, the popularity of alcoholic beverages in Turkey appears to have increased by some 35% in 2007. This rise in popularity of …
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Few people are more welcome in Damascus these days than Chinese businessmen packing large amounts of Chinese investment dollars. Syrian officials are working overtime to deepen economic relations with the …
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If a Middle Eastern business owner came home from his summer vacation to find a stranger sitting on his patio with a business proposal, he might greet him with the …
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Dubai is building a new airport. Surrounded by sand and baking in the summer heat, workers are putting the final touches to the first runway of the Dubai World Central …
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For some observers, a much awaited trend is beginning to take shape in the Middle East: that of Arab countries ditching their pegs to the American greenback in favor of …
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Middle East now feeling effects of global climate change It seems there is as much of a surplus of news stories about global warming being human-caused as there is oil …
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Region looks for its advantage It’s all about energy, its sourcing, its usage, and the consequences thereof. On meadows next to London Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, protesters haggle with police. …
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New indices help investors choose alternatives Alternative energy is not only a priority from the perspective of securing sustainable economic development in emerging markets without wrecking the planet. It is …
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Un Under the shadow of the non-event of St. Cloud that failed to generate any improvement to Lebanon’s crippling disease of politics, the Beirut Stock Exchange did what it has …
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Turkey’s farms face reforms With a 2007 deadline looming, the Turkish government is desperately trying to overhaul the agricultural sector in time to receive structural funds from the EU. By …