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Dubai may see growth of 5% in 2009 - Alabbar

Dubai may see growth of 5% in 2009 - Alabbar

Politics & Economics
Dubai's second $10bn bond tranche in its 'final stages', ruling council member says.

  1. UAE freezone business set-up inquiries seen rising

Dubai plans start-up help for expat entrepreneurs
Construction & Industry
Legalities, branding work for the SME Development plan still in progress - paper.

Westwood leads Race to Dubai at end of second day
Sport
Westwood finishes 9 under par, two shots ahead of rival, Rory McIlroy.

Dubai to act tough on employees’ salary defaulters - paper
Politics & Economics
Labour Ministry to act strict with cos wrongfully claiming to have paid staff salary on time.

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Where have all the optimists gone?
Damian Reilly's on the lookout for someone, anyone, who will tell him everything is going to turn out fine in 2010.

 Damian Reilly  

Sitting at the travel industry's top table
The travel industry's most influential players are revealed in the Arabian Travel News Power 50.

 Gemma Greenwood

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Power play

Nicholas Carter, head of Abu Dhabi‘s Regulation & Supervision Bureau, talks costs, competition and climate change.

Battered, but still fabulous

Harvey Nichols CEO Joseph Wan explains to Arabian Business how an economic "earthquake" forever changed the retail game.


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Banking & Finance

  1. Tamweel, Amlak merger seen in Q1 2010

Construction & Industry

  1. Dubai plans start-up help for expat entrepreneurs

Culture & Society

  1. UAE announces Eid and National Day holidays

Education

  1. $5.34bn plan to build 3,200 new Saudi schools

Energy

  1. $4.4bn Abu Dhabi oil project contracts awarded

Healthcare

  1. Glaxo Saudi's sole supplier of H1N1 vaccine for now

Islamic Finance

  1. Moody's sees 50% surge in sukuk issuance this year

Media & Marketing

  1. Rupert Murdoch signs up to Abu Dhabi media summit

Personal Finance

  1. Credit bureaus combine to form regional group

Politics & Economics

  1. UAE will not drop US dollar peg – cenbank chief

Real Estate

  1. Dubai property market 'may take 10 years to rebound'

Retail

  1. UAE key market for new retailers - survey

Sport

  1. Westwood leads Race to Dubai at end of second day

Technology

  1. Paltel says deal with Kuwait's Zain is off

Transportation

  1. Somali pirates free UAE-owned cargo ship

Travel & Hospitality

  1. Dubai's Jumeirah Group plans hotels in Brazil

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more » BUSINESS FEATURES

Crude concerns

Is Shokri Ghanem's authority at Libya's National Oil Corp being tempered by the conservative old guard?

Flying in the face of adversity

The downturn has clipped the wings of the Middle East region's once soaring aerospace sector.


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  3. Dubai's Jumeirah Group plans hotels in Brazil
  4. UAE will not drop US dollar peg – cenbank chief
  5. Paltel says deal with Kuwait's Zain is off
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  1. UAE announces Eid and National Day holidays 02
    20 Nov ' 09 at 15:56
    Eid and National Day are two great occassions and very close to each other. It would be a great act for the UAE authorities to extend...   More  »
  2. Somali pirates free UAE-owned cargo ship 01
    20 Nov ' 09 at 21:38
    I am sick and tired of hearing about this! I don't understand how a bunch of normal,off the street,run of the mill men can travel these...   More  »
  3. Where have all the optimists gone? 01
    20 Nov ' 09 at 06:49
    In times of recession - where demand is falling back in most sectors, the econmic forecasting as a tool is more to do in digesting the...   More  »

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