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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Nasser Alshaali upbeat on recovery, but adds more gov't help needed.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai financial services watchdog says emirate must liberalise and cut fees for funds firms.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[UAE central bank vice chairman says region has weathered the global economic crisis.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[National pride may prevent Gulf bourses from merging. But there will be winners and losers.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[If virtualisation was a hot topic before the financial crisis, discussion has now reached fever pitch, thanks its potential cost savings...]]></description>
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			<title>Designed for excellence</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The design of DIFC's executive educational facility had to take technical, as well as aesthetic, considerations into account.]]></description>
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			<title>On the REIT track</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Is the Middle East ready to embrace Real Estate Investment Trusts as an investment class?]]></description>
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			<title>Money on the move</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Liquidity is improving in the region, as Gulf economies emerge from the shadow of the cashflow crunch. ]]></description>
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			<title>Rise in school enrolment 'disproves expat exodus'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DIFC head says 2% rise in South Asian school enrolment shows expat exodus theory 'empty'.  ]]></description>
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			<title>DIFC governor: 'Dubai has turned the corner'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dr Omar Bin Sulaiman says emirate set for 'quick rebound' from global economic crisis.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rates in privately managed buildings Media City down to AED92-180 per sqft. ]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[New report also reveals more regional trade heading to Asia and away from US.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai bond issue draws international interest</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DIFC chief says interest in next tranche shows global investors still believe in Dubai.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[CEO of DFSA says 'light touch' regulation days for companies over as it aims to bring in more robust regime.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Payments and compliance solutions provider says license will allow it to better serve Dubai clients.]]></description>
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			<title>Wise words for the White House</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Stanley Tate, an Obama insider talks finance, free markets and why US taxpayers shouldn't be bankrolling the bailouts.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai cancels DIFC Week 2009</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Showcase annual event for emirate's financial hub will not happen this year - organisers.]]></description>
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			<title>Penta offers hosted services to DIFC</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Managed application hosting services on offer for companies at Dubai International Financial Centre]]></description>
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			<title>Brush with success</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Meet Sacha Jafri, the youngest living artist to ever be awarded a 10-year retrospective exhibition.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Chief economist says $20bn bond programme will satisfy emirate's 2009 financing requirements.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dr Nasser Saidi says there has never been a better time to start issuing Islamic bonds.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Dubai International Financial Centre Authority chief assures aid to construction, real estate companies.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[From Royal Navy engineer to facilities manager at The Edge Management, Dubai International Financial Centre, and ports of call in between. Paul Collett has a Pusser's with David Rees.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Investment bank unit Jefferies International is one of three to leave Dubai.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Our 'How To' man Benjamin Millington looks at a case study in Singapore where designers created an outdoor shopping mall that utilises a mix of modern and historic cooling theories, and how the technology is being applied in the Middle East.]]></description>
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