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			<title>Mishal Kanoo</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Deputy Chairman, Kanoo Group|With much experience in regional economic affairs and financial markets, Mishal Kanoo is a key speaker at various conferences in the Gulf.]]></description>
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			<title>Banks need to change</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Banks need to change their attitudes to lending and change it fast, agrees Anil Bhoyrul.]]></description>
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			<title>Senior business figure's stark warning over lending</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: UAE banks must resume lending to prevent 'collapse' of businesses - Kanoo.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | News</category>
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			<title>Back to basics</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mishal Kanoo, the Kanoo Group's outspoken deputy chairman, points to short-termism as the cause of current economic ills. But will the downturn prompt more firms to adopt his cautious approach?]]></description>
			<category>Real Estate | Interviews</category>
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			<title>The rat trap</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ If we allow acquiring things to be our main goal in life, then we lose sight of what is truly more important - ourselves, argues Mishal Kanoo.]]></description>
			<category>Culture &amp; Society | Comment</category>
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			<title>One-stop corporate travel shop launched in Dubai</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kanoo Travel has opened its Corporate Services Centre at Kanoo Towers in Bur Dubai, offering a "single point" for regional travel solutions to multinational companies.]]></description>
			<category>Travel &amp; Hospitality | News</category>
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			<title>Inflation is a problem of our own making</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With continuing commotion over the price of steel and cement we have missed the fact that the world has fewer and fewer suppliers. The steel companies became steel titans and they now control global markets.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>What will it cost us?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Every month another spike in the price of cement causes a commotion in the papers. Why the sharp price hikes?]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>Are we all to blame for inflation problems?</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=524394&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We, the consumers are at the mercy of two factors. One we cannot control and the other a folly of our own making.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>SDV forms partnership with Dnata Cargo/Kanoo</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=524171&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[French firm SDV International has joined forces with Dnata Cargo and Kanoo in order to consolidate its Middle East business.]]></description>
			<category>Transportation | News</category>
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			<title>The currency trap</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=520407&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am yet to come across someone knowledgeable in economics who has not thought floating the region's local currencies it is an excellent idea. ]]></description>
			<category>Personal Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>Size matters... in the cruise sector</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With more ships sailing the Gulf, consumer interest in the cruise product is growing, but travel agents should be aware that one size does not fit all in this sector, says Kathi Everden.]]></description>
			<category>Travel &amp; Hospitality | Features</category>
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			<title>Price of privilege</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=518538&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How many times have we seen people who have accomplished nothing being lauded for throwing money at lifeless objects?  ]]></description>
			<category>Travel &amp; Hospitality | Comment</category>
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			<title>Industrial base </title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=517676&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[While every Gulf country is on a bender trying industrialize, they are hardly doing anything to seriously push it through.   ]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>Stating the obvious</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=514254&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  In the Gulf, we have a strange habit of dancing around subjects. For some reason, we seem to avoid stating the obvious.     ]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
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			<title>The best of both economic worlds</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=513719&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Islamic economic model - a school of thought that can yield maximum return while caring for the less fortunate.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
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			<title>The hidden tax and the currency collapse</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=505748&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the Gulf we certainly have a habit of dancing around sensitive subjects - inflation is one of them.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
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			<title>I want to get rich quick</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=505124&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA["I want to be seriously rich". Anil Bhoyrul works out from this year's rich list how he can get the money for his yacht, and his mum.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
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			<title>The curse of sleaze TV is corrupting our culture</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=504597&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[About 17 years a sad event happened that ushered the dawn of a new era - global TV.]]></description>
			<category>Media &amp; Marketing | Comment</category>
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			<title>London calling</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=503155&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Property broker Kanoo International on how its new venture will fill a gap in the Dubai real estate market.]]></description>
			<category>Real Estate | Features</category>
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			<title>Agents unfazed by BA’s zero plan</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=501114&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's travel agent community appears to be embracing British Airways' decision to slash commission to zero from November 1.]]></description>
			<category>Travel &amp; Hospitality | News</category>
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			<title>Clinical performance </title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=496815&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Condition monitoring technologies can check the health of your equipment and pave the way for a proactive maintenance strategy.   ]]></description>
			<category>Construction &amp; Industry | Features</category>
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			<title>Family feuds - the legacy of poor leadership</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=496409&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A phenomenon will rear its ugly head in the near future, one that will have a huge impact on the region's economy.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>Making a smart move</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=12130&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  It is really amazing to see smart, intelligent people do the most stupid things time and time again.]]></description>
			<category>Construction &amp; Industry | Comment</category>
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			<title>The bloody business of war</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=11038&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why none of us are innocent of the blood being spilt in any war.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>Travel agent interview: Zall Koohpaima</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=11424&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Zall Koohpaima, manager at Kanoo Holidays in Bahrain explains why there is no online match for the personal service provided by a travel agent.]]></description>
			<category>Travel &amp; Hospitality | Interviews</category>
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			<title>Kanoo forms JV with Wolffkran crane firm</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=10378&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  UAE-based Kanoo Group has gone into joint venture with German firm Wolffkran to sell its tower cranes in the region.]]></description>
			<category>Construction &amp; Industry | News</category>
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			<title>The benefits of independence</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=9827&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why shock tactics are sometimes the only way to open people's eyes.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>Bahrain seaports deal authorised by Government</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Parliament approves a 25-year concession for APM Terminals to operate Mina Salman and Khalifa bin Salman ports.]]></description>
			<category>Transportation | News</category>
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			<title>A conference trick</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=9094&amp;Itemid=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why local speakers - and the paying public - get a bad deal from the region's conference organisers.]]></description>
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