Economics A senior Qatar aviation official has said that the new Hamad International Airport, which is set to open in April, will be one of the world's best. More from Arabian Business Lebanon’s energy minister has launched the country’s first onshore seismic survey of potential hydrocarbon reserves, bringing the hunt for oil and gas inland for the first time in nearly 50 years. More from The Daily Star Thousands of demonstrators rallied across Lebanon Thursday as a growing number of civil servants joined an open-ended strike to demand the immediate approval of a wage hike. More from The Daily Star Egypt, the world's biggest importer of wheat, said it has enough stocks of wheat to last 101 days and it expects its supply to increase further as more imports arrived. More from Reuters Salaries in Saudi Arabia increased by 5.8 per cent in 2012, according to
