Abu Dhabi

The rise of Dubai International Airport has been rather remarkable. Initially opened in the 1960s, it remained something of a relative backwater until the turn of the century. Yet in…

While the high-rises, gargantuan malls, five-, six- and seven-star hotels, and abundant glitz and glamour are all telling of Dubai’s place as the center of global aviation, much less known…

Economics The outlook for Lebanon’s banking system remains negative, Moody’s Investors Service said in a new Banking System Outlook published Wednesday. It added that the main drivers of the outlook…

Economics Turkey has banned all Syrian aircraft from its air space as it takes an increasingly firm stance against President Bashar al-Assad, while Syrian rebels said on Sunday they had…

Eithad Airways, the Abu Dhabi-based carrier that recently canceled an order of seven Airbus A350 passenger jets, will reduce its original order with the plane-maker and substitute canceled planes to meet…

The final round of the 2010 Formula 1 Grand Prix Championship, held at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit, could have been pulled from the back pages of an airport novel:…

Dubai has been getting a lot of negative coverage in the media lately. One story stands out in particular, i.e. the frequently spouted ‘3,000 cars abandoned at Dubai airport,’ which…

Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and the largest of the seven, has been overlooked for years by investors and entrepreneurs who tended to consider Dubai a…

During the United Arab Emirate’s economic boom, Abu Dhabi and Dubai sought to bring the best of everything to their country — including healthcare.  With open checkbooks, both the government…

Bubbly can be tasty. Bubbly stock markets are less so as those who have been caught in the implosion phase of market bubbles are known to share. The problem with…