This month will see 50 parking meters installed in one areaof the Beirut Central District. The pilot scheme, operatedby Near East Automatic Distributors (NEAD) in an $8 million,2.5-year, World Bank …
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Prison population Convicted adults admitted to prisons Number per 100,000 population Since the 1970s, OECD countries have experienced steady increases in prison population, with the exception of Finland where the …
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Beirut SE: Blom (1 month) Current Year High: 1,713.79 Current Year Low: 1,168.85 The BSE short seems inauspicious to inspire trading volumes these days, but the Beirut Stock Exchange undercut …
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Regional stock market indices Regional currency rates Doha Bank opens representative office in japan Doha Bank, established in Qatar in 1979, opened a representative office in Tokyo, Japan as part …
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Executive talked to Hani Hamid, Marketing Manager at the National Bank of Umm Al Qaiwain, and Yousef Padganeh, Head of the Basel II Project at Bank Saderat Iran in Dubai, …
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Fast growth, cultural specialization, and segmentation are all to be found in the banking sector of the United Arab Emirates, whose results in 2006 reverberated with the dual themes of …
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Middle-Eastern giants Qatar Airways and Emirates have both started operations in Tunisia, and the opening of several new routes connecting Tunis with Europe and West Africa is scheduled in 2007. …
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Figures released this week by the national center for information and statistics show that Algeria registered a record trade surplus of $31.82 billion in 2006, an increase of some 24% …
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Morocco has moved to deepen integration with West Africa, participating in the first conference with the West-African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). The meeting in late January highlighted the growing …
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On January 24, Egypt took a major stride towards revitalizing the country’s long dormant gold mining industry. In a memorandum of understanding signed by Petroleum Minister Sameh Fahmy on behalf …