It is a universal sigh of traffic participants on congested streets: where do all those cars come from? Across the Gulf region, the answer increasingly is, from East Asia via …
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Shopaholics of the world are in for a super-sized fix as the city that is the home of 21st century superlatives adds not just one, nay two “shopping-est” to its …
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The Middle East and budget aviation were writ large last month when the world’s air industry met at the venerable Le Bourget airfield near Paris. The circle of Gulf-based full …
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Threatening its way towards Oman for nearly a week, tropical cyclone Gonu had luckily leveled to a category-1 storm when it finally hit the coast of Muscat on June 7. …
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Shopaholics of the world are in for a super-sized fix as the city that is the home of 21st century superlatives adds not just one, nay two “shopping-est” to its …
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Last month, the governor of Kuwait’s central bank, Sheikh Salem Abdelaziz al-Sabah, announced that his national currency would no longer be pegged to the US dollar. It was a shock …
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Bahrain is well on the way to becoming the Islamic banking hub of the Middle East, but the small Gulf island faces stiff competition from Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, …
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The sands of Qatar might as well be gold dust, or so one is tempted to think when contemplating the recent rise of Qatar to one of the world’s three …
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In a region abounding with new wealth and enticing investment opportunities, no market has greater scale and vaster projects than Saudi Arabia. The kingdom’s banks are pulsating with financial energy …
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Over the past 20 years of banking growth, the UAE has become a biosphere of financial institutions – local, foreign, specialized, conventional, and sharia-compliant – to a total sector count …