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• in Lifestyle
  Foreign Workers in Gulf Nations Face Uncertain Times
  Expatriate workers in the Gulf states are fearfully wondering what tomorrow holds for them.
  by joycraphael / on Oct 15, 2011
• in Politics
  Eight Kings To Form Club of Arab Monarchs
  Jordan and Morocco will join the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council in an extended union comprising all eight Arab monarchies.
  by coalporter / on May 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “gcc”

 

• Community college consolidation proposal questioned

  
  GazetteNET - News and Information from Northampton, MA by the Daily Hampshire Gazette — Authority: 489
  GREENFIELD - Gov. Deval Patricks proposal for centralizing the states community college administration is causing some concern among local officials. read more
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• GCC says pulling its monitors from Syria mission

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  The League had urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday to step down over his bloody crackdown on a 10-month-old revolt in which thousands of Syrians have been killed. Saudi Arabia had already withdrawn its monitors, and called for “all possible pressure” on Damascus. “The GCC states have decided to ...
  6 days ago

• Gulf states eye 50 percent roaming rate cut within region

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  Telecoms operators attending a meeting in Riyadh earlier this month committed themselves to applying the lower retail prices, Abdullah al-Shibli, GCC assistant secretary general for economic affairs, said in the statement. The statement did not name the mobile firms at the meeting and did not give details of the new ...
  6 days ago

• German-Gcc Bi-Lateral Relations on High-Growth Path as Trade Totals €16.98 Billion.

  
  Your Story — Authority: 489
  Bi-lateral trade ties between Germany and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are strong and expected to grow steadily thanks to the ongoing process of mutual co-operation and engagement between the governments involved and the private sectors within these countries. This was the sentiment expressed by ...
  1 week ago

• You’ll pay for that & other news

  
  Ms Sparky's Mishaps & Misadventures — Authority: 413
  Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" “When I served four years in the military, it wasn’t so that Bechtel, KBR, Halliburton and all the other corporations could make money and buy politicians to further drag out the war and create policies that support all that,” ...
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• 70% of Middle Eastern executives expect double-dip recession

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 119
  Middle Eastern executives were the most pessimistic in the world in a new study by Alix Partners in association with the Economist Intelligence Unit. Seventy per cent expect a double-dip recession compared to 63 per cent of all 500 global senior executives surveyed. This probably reflects the inherent good sense of ...
  1 week ago

• Iran says US presence in Gulf “not a new issue”

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday it considered the deployment of US warships to the Gulf part of their routine activity, apparently backing away from previous warnings to Washington not to enter the area. “US warships and military forces have been in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East ...
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• DIFC gets its Canary Wharf style insolvency moment

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 119
  In the early 90s the developers of London’s Canary Wharf, built to rival The City as a financial zone went bankrupt and the tallest building in the UK was repossessed by their bankers. What happened this week in the Dubai International Financial Centre to its tallest building the 80-storey Index and Limestone ...
  1 week ago

• Al Wefaq Endures Silent U.S. Counterattack

  
  The Trench — Authority: 111
  They didn’t fail due to lack of effort. Whether organizing rallies to condemn international silence or defending deceased individuals who are accused of having “psychological problems,” Al Wefaq officials actively directs global attention to the movement’s cause. Bahrain’s leading oppositional force has ...
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• China’s Wen says Arab popular will should be heard

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  The comments came as Wen toured Gulf Arab states whose regional rival Iran is the target of tighter economic sanctions Washington wants to see enacted over its nuclear programme. They echoed an earlier, cautious acknowledgment of mass political upheaval that has swept the Middle East, and where the threat of further ...
  1 week ago

• Potential Spectrum of Syrian Intervention

  
  The Trench — Authority: 111
  As the dominant powers in a regional asymmetric movement, Western and Gulf nations are inherently allergic to the concept of revolution. Their officials go to great lengths to avoid the word itself, and have fallen back on a guerrilla tactic to protect their interests: false negotiations. Unlike its necessary function ...
  1 week ago

• I speak some coversational French, so I know a thing or two about golf courses….

  
  Robert Thompson's Going for the Green — Authority: 103
  One of my favourite Kids in the Hall skits (yes, the underrated Canadian comedy troop that still gets together upon occasion) is called “Rod Torfulson’s Armada.” Essentially the skit (which you can find here) involves a teen rock band called “Armada.” The father of the drummer, Rod Torfulson, shows up at ...
  1 week ago

• Questionable quality: tackling the region’s food service industry

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  This Sunday, Kipp published an open letter to the Pizza Hut UAE management from a Kipp reader who had a bad experience ordering a combo meal at one of the chain’s branches. This prompted some of our other readers to share some similar experiences. One commenter, Mandarin, agreed with the open letter in terms of ...
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• First drive: 2012 Porsche 911 in the UAE

  
  Drive Arabia : Dubai / Abu Dhabi [UAE, Saudi, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman & GCC] — Authority: 410
  It’s been a while now since the new 2012 Porsche 911 was unveiled to the world a few months ago, so the changes… More>>
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• Saudi Almarai Q4 profits inch up, raw material costs bite

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  Saudi Arabia’s Almarai Co, the Gulf’s biggest dairy firm by market value, reported a small rise in fourth quarter profits on Tuesday, citing the negative impact of higher raw material costs. The dairy giant had net profit of 285.5 million riyals ($76 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31, up 0.6 percent from ...
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• Euro and sterling weakness means Gulf expatriates will focus on dollar-pegged assets

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 119
  Eventually the devaluation of the euro and the pound sterling will throw up some interesting bargains for Gulf expatriates paid in dollar-pegged currencies. But in the meantime investing in the eurozone or UK is a surefire way to lose money on a devaluing currency and so the focus is on assets priced in dollars or ...
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• GM plans new 2.5-litre engine across entire range

  
  Drive Arabia : Dubai / Abu Dhabi [UAE, Saudi, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman & GCC] — Authority: 410
  GM’s comeback has been been successful through two main methods. One method was getting rid of some of their highly-criticized brands. The other… More>>
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• How Syria, Iraq and Russia tricked the Arab League and the Anti-Assad camp!

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 94
  On Wednesday, December 14, Qatar, who chairs the Presidency of the Arab League ( the presidency will end in March this year and goes to Iraq ) decided to transfer the Syrian unrest to the UN-Security Council after Damascus refused to sign the initiative The next day (Thursday), Iraq officially announced a new ...
  2 weeks ago

• How will the Arab Spring affect Middle Eastern growth prospects in 2012?

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 119
  The ongoing impact of the still reverberating Arab Spring protests, civil wars and revolutions on the economic outlook for 2012 was the broad theme of a seminar held in the Dubai International Financial Centre today using ‘Chatham House Rules’ that allow press reporting but not the attribution of actual quotations ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unraveling Mysteries In Bahrain’s Black Hole

  
  The Trench — Authority: 111
  Deftly wielding his influence abroad, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has managed to keep a low profile throughout the Arab revolutions. The island nation is fiercely guarded by Riyadh and Washington, an alliance with far-reaching benefits in the international community and media, and King Hamad’s image as ...
  2 weeks ago

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