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US Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Oman on Tuesday for Raytheon Co's signing of an estimated $2.1bn arms deal and to consult on Syria and Iran, US officials said.Oman is expected to sign a letter...
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have deported more than 200,000 illegal workers over the past three months, it was reported on Wednesday.English language newspaper Arab News, citing the kingdom’s Passport...
Turkey's TAV Construction has said it will imminently bid for airport projects in Kuwait and Bahrain.Middle East director Yusuf Akcayoglu told Construction Week the company is waiting for the release of...
Posted by: Just wondering
May 23, 2013 8:21 PM
[South Africa]
If work on Hamad International has already been completed with only "some final touches remaining", then why has the final opening date not been made public in the media ?
Dubai contractor Arabtec said on Wednesday that it had amicably resolved a labour dispute that resulted in a four-day work stoppage without clarifying whether the workers' demand for higher wages were...
TECOM Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Holding, has announced a new operational structure it says will help it develop further its business parks. The company said in a statement that the...
I wish they would plant a few palm trees, other plants and grass in the TECOM on the Greens side of SZR. So many empty sandy plots still look awful there. A badly planned / unplanned area.
The New York Yankees and Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City have formed a Major League Soccer (MLS) team to play in New York City from 2015, aiming to win over America's largest sports market to the global...
Posted by: veronica chapman
May 22, 2013 1:32 PM
[u.a.e. and u.k.]
Congratulations your Highness, your dedication to sports is the best thing for the children of the world to inherit.
It teaches them for their role in life and so it goes on, handed down, generation after generation.
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and US GlassPoint Solar have commissioned the Middle East's first solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, the project partners said on Tuesday.State-run PDO's first...
Qatar and other Gulf states should consider moving to a more flexible exchange rate from long-entrenched pegs to the US dollar, to better manage inflation risk in the next decade, a senior Qatar central...
Turkish Airlines has apologised to an American couple after they were flown to the wrong city – on different continents – when it mixed up the airport codes.Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo intended...
Yes, it looks like that. It may have perfectly being an honest mistake from a new agent or a temp who got confused when issuing the tickets
This has happened before many times, this time it simply went undetected until too late. Usually this happens with more complex tickets, with multiple stops, but a combination of an inexperienced operator on TA side, some "exotic" destinations that he or she may have entered for first time, and inexperienced travelers could explain this
Honestly anyone who has been flying for a living has seen or experience situations that may have been like this, funny how people who fly maybe once or twice per year think they know what they are talking
The UK sold £575.7m ($874.5m) worth of arms to four GCC countries last year, despite concerns over human rights following the Arab Spring, according to an arms trade watchdog.The greatest fear was directed...
I do wish these screaming liberals and their support groups would just shut up.
Would they prefer instead when these countries want to buy things from us to say "oooh no, we could not sell anything to you beastly people, so keep your half billion pounds we don't need it, and our workers don't need their jobs and our industry and economy is booming without your sales thank you very much"
Which planet do these people live on - because it certainly isn't the same one I do!
As is made clear each and every time a discussion about the need for integration comes up, Westerners are programmed in a way that makes it perfectly okay... more
Nowhere in this article or in any article did Qatar say it wanted to switch to Winter. Whats wrong with people making up assumptions and get frustrated... more
Hopefully there is more oversight in this process than the article seems to suggest. But if not, this 'deportation for traffic violation issue' is a sure... more
The biggest problem is that 99.99% of these blue collar workers are hired by the middlemen who negotiate with them based upon their respective earning... more
As is made clear each and every time a discussion about the need for integration comes up, Westerners are programmed in a way that makes it perfectly okay... more
The enlightened view of some of the commentators(the ones from Pakistan especially) bring me much joy and happiness. We are all fairly clear about the... more
Thursday, 23 May 2013 4:43 PM
- Maulana Abdul Fazl
Amazes me to see no one is commenting on the salary increase the flying crew got! Last week, Emirates flight attendants received a letter from their... more
The biggest problem is that 99.99% of these blue collar workers are hired by the middlemen who negotiate with them based upon their respective earning... more
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Top US official in Oman for $2.1bn arms deal signing
US Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Oman on Tuesday for Raytheon Co's signing of an estimated $2.1bn arms deal and to consult on Syria and Iran, US officials said.Oman is expected to sign a letter...
Read more »What a WASTE of money by Oman?
cruise missile, drone or fighter aircraft attacks - All scaremongering by the West to sell their Arms.
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Saudi Arabia deports 200,000 workers in three months
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have deported more than 200,000 illegal workers over the past three months, it was reported on Wednesday.English language newspaper Arab News, citing the kingdom’s Passport...
Read more »Kudos to the Saudi's to thinking about thier own over illegals. Can they talk to Obama and reason with him about this?
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Turkey's TAV to bid for Kuwait, Bahrain airport contracts
Turkey's TAV Construction has said it will imminently bid for airport projects in Kuwait and Bahrain.Middle East director Yusuf Akcayoglu told Construction Week the company is waiting for the release of...
Read more »If work on Hamad International has already been completed with only "some final touches remaining", then why has the final opening date not been made public in the media ?
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Arabtec says workers have ended four-day strike
Dubai contractor Arabtec said on Wednesday that it had amicably resolved a labour dispute that resulted in a four-day work stoppage without clarifying whether the workers' demand for higher wages were...
Read more »Looks like end of employment for "The Few " ??
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Dubai's TECOM shakes up real estate business
TECOM Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Holding, has announced a new operational structure it says will help it develop further its business parks. The company said in a statement that the...
Read more »I wish they would plant a few palm trees, other plants and grass in the TECOM on the Greens side of SZR. So many empty sandy plots still look awful there. A badly planned / unplanned area.
Read All 1 Comments
Abu Dhabi's Man City seals MLS team franchise
The New York Yankees and Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City have formed a Major League Soccer (MLS) team to play in New York City from 2015, aiming to win over America's largest sports market to the global...
Read more »Congratulations your Highness, your dedication to sports is the best thing for the children of the world to inherit.
It teaches them for their role in life and so it goes on, handed down, generation after generation.
Read All 1 Comments
Solar power brightens Oman oil output prospects
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and US GlassPoint Solar have commissioned the Middle East's first solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, the project partners said on Tuesday.State-run PDO's first...
Read more »"Using the sun to make steam to pump into fields to push out more oil, frees up gas for power generation, desalination plants"
No one else see the irony of that comment?
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Qatar should consider more flexible exchange rate
Qatar and other Gulf states should consider moving to a more flexible exchange rate from long-entrenched pegs to the US dollar, to better manage inflation risk in the next decade, a senior Qatar central...
Read more »Kuwait unpegged from the US Dollar exactly 6 years ago and Qatar's QCB has no idea about this?
He talks how all GCC should do this when Kuwait did it 6 years ago?
Ignorance is still widespread in some places I see. It took Reuters to add the last paragraph in a way to sort of correct this guy's ignorance.
Sad.
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Turkish Airlines says sorry for flights mix-up
Turkish Airlines has apologised to an American couple after they were flown to the wrong city – on different continents – when it mixed up the airport codes.Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo intended...
Read more »Yes, it looks like that. It may have perfectly being an honest mistake from a new agent or a temp who got confused when issuing the tickets
This has happened before many times, this time it simply went undetected until too late. Usually this happens with more complex tickets, with multiple stops, but a combination of an inexperienced operator on TA side, some "exotic" destinations that he or she may have entered for first time, and inexperienced travelers could explain this
Honestly anyone who has been flying for a living has seen or experience situations that may have been like this, funny how people who fly maybe once or twice per year think they know what they are talking
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UK sold $874m of arms to Gulf in 2012 - report
The UK sold £575.7m ($874.5m) worth of arms to four GCC countries last year, despite concerns over human rights following the Arab Spring, according to an arms trade watchdog.The greatest fear was directed...
Read more »I do wish these screaming liberals and their support groups would just shut up.
Would they prefer instead when these countries want to buy things from us to say "oooh no, we could not sell anything to you beastly people, so keep your half billion pounds we don't need it, and our workers don't need their jobs and our industry and economy is booming without your sales thank you very much"
Which planet do these people live on - because it certainly isn't the same one I do!
Read All 1 Comments
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