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November 2007Analysis of The Month
November was undoubtedly an 'eventful month' for Arabian Business. Starting off proceeding would have been the Dubai Airshow 2007, followed soon after by the Media and Marketing 2007 was also a big event for ArabianBusiness.com which had organised the event.
Former Daily Mail editor, Piers Morgan, al-Jazeera head Wadah Khanfar and Emaar's Mohammed Alabbar were all there to discuss the media in the region - and air some very controversial views.
In the month, we also spoke with Noor Sweid, in 'Top of the List' on becoming the first woman to float a company in the UAE.
DIFCweek, a week-long conference at the Dubai International Financial Centre, was one of the major highlights of the month. ArabianBusiness.Com had the only two exclusive interviews with headline speakers, Steve Levitt, best-selling author of Freakonomics, and UN Special Advisor Jeffrey Sachs. It also yielded one of the year's most popular stories, Global crash imminent, warns expert.
The news that Emaar would be having a $40 billion listing on the London Stock Exchange soon sent shockwaves across markets - another world exclusive, titled 'Tower of London', which was picked up worldwide.
Leaders in Dubai was also a success. Guest speaker Richard Branson caused a bit of an international incident when he said Dubai will be underwater in 50 years due to climate change, a charge quickly rebutted by Palm developer Nakheel who said that Branson's heart was in the right place, but he had his facts wrong.
Other popular stories in the month included the news that the UAE may be ditching its dollar peg as early as Sunday - it didn't happen - but it certainly affected global markets, sending the dirham to a 17-year high. Even the US Treasury started tracking ArabianBusiness.com.
One other story of interest was Brad Pitt and Angelina buying a private Dubai island on The World. Nakheel refused to confirm it but the story got picked up worldwide.
Big 5, the construction expo, bought the month's proceeding to a nice and sturdy close, with Biofuel for thought a worthy story to cite at the end of the month.
Comments this month came courtesy of Andrew White with 'The sky's the prize for Dubai'.
Former Daily Mail editor, Piers Morgan, al-Jazeera head Wadah Khanfar and Emaar's Mohammed Alabbar were all there to discuss the media in the region - and air some very controversial views.
In the month, we also spoke with Noor Sweid, in 'Top of the List' on becoming the first woman to float a company in the UAE.
DIFCweek, a week-long conference at the Dubai International Financial Centre, was one of the major highlights of the month. ArabianBusiness.Com had the only two exclusive interviews with headline speakers, Steve Levitt, best-selling author of Freakonomics, and UN Special Advisor Jeffrey Sachs. It also yielded one of the year's most popular stories, Global crash imminent, warns expert.
The news that Emaar would be having a $40 billion listing on the London Stock Exchange soon sent shockwaves across markets - another world exclusive, titled 'Tower of London', which was picked up worldwide.
Leaders in Dubai was also a success. Guest speaker Richard Branson caused a bit of an international incident when he said Dubai will be underwater in 50 years due to climate change, a charge quickly rebutted by Palm developer Nakheel who said that Branson's heart was in the right place, but he had his facts wrong.
Other popular stories in the month included the news that the UAE may be ditching its dollar peg as early as Sunday - it didn't happen - but it certainly affected global markets, sending the dirham to a 17-year high. Even the US Treasury started tracking ArabianBusiness.com.
One other story of interest was Brad Pitt and Angelina buying a private Dubai island on The World. Nakheel refused to confirm it but the story got picked up worldwide.
Big 5, the construction expo, bought the month's proceeding to a nice and sturdy close, with Biofuel for thought a worthy story to cite at the end of the month.
Comments this month came courtesy of Andrew White with 'The sky's the prize for Dubai'.
Top News Stories
Global crash imminent, warns expert
Banking & Finance
DIFCWEEK: Expect sharp correction with real estate and energy at record high.
November in Quotes
Over the next 50 years we will see the Palm projects and the World flooded by water and disappear if the issue of climate change is not addressed by global governments.
Richard Branson causes a bit of an international incident in Dubai, and is rebutted by Palm developer who say his heart is in the right place, but his facts are wrong.
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In Pictures
- Construction Week Awards 2007
- Power Investments
- The Big 5 - Day 2
- PMV Expo
- The Big 5 - Day 1
- The Inaugural London-Dubai Silverjet flight
- Car Middle East Awards 2007
- DIFCweek 2007
- Leaders in Dubai Forum 2007
- Dubai Motor Show 2007
- Dubai Airshow 2007 - Day 3
- Arabian Gulf Yachting Awards
- Media and Marketing 2007
- Aviation Business Awards 2007
- Dubai Airshow 2007 - Day 2
- Dubai Airshow 2007 - Day 1
- Commercial Interior Design Awards 2007
- Hotelier Awards 2007
10 Most Viewed Stories
- Global crash imminent, warns expert
- World's richest Arabs - record 47 billionaires
- Dubai will be underwater in 50 years, alerts Branson
- UAE revaluation as early as Sunday
- Brad Pitt and Angelina buy private Dubai island
- Kuwait Burj-beater plans get green light
- Palm flood - 'Branson wrong'
- Brangelina and Shah Rukh Khan rub shoulders in Dubai
- Sheikh Rashid buys supersonic business jet
- Brand new UAE airline takes off
Timeline
2007 Nov 1
The UN said nearly 90,000 people have fled Mogadishu in recent days following the heaviest fighting to shake the war-battered city in months.
2007 Nov 2
Iraqi police found only six bodies dumped in three Iraqi cities, and no reports of shootings or bombings.
2007 Nov 3
Some 5,000 Turkish Kurds protested against a military incursion into Iraq, saying such a move would enflame ethnic tensions in the region and plunge the local economy into ruin.
2007 Nov 3
Abu Dhabi began work on building the world's first Ferrari theme park, another step in the Gulf emirate's ambition to become a global centre for leisure, sport and culture.
2007 Nov 3
Egypt's ruling party appointed President Hosni Mubarak's son to an important new committee in a move seen as further paving the way for the younger Mubarak to succeed his father.
2007 Nov 4
In Egypt the face of King Tut was unshrouded in public for the first time, 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor's famed Valley of the Kings in 1922.
2007 Nov 5
Jordan's military court convicted Muammar Ahmed Yousef al-Jaghbeer, an al-Qaida militant of involvement in the deadly suicide car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Iraq in 2003 and sentenced him to death.
2007 Nov 5
In Yemen unidentified saboteurs bombed an oil pipeline in Marib province. The attack halted the flow of oil and added to concerns in the world oil markets about adequate supplies for heating fuel.
2007 Nov 6
In the Vatican Benedict XVI raised concerns about restrictions on Christian worship in Saudi Arabia in the first meeting ever between a pope and a reigning Saudi king.
2007 Nov 7
Interpol put an ex-Iranian intelligence chief, a former leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, three other Iranians and a Lebanese militant on its most-wanted list for a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish center in Argentina.
2007 Nov 7
Pres. Bush met with France's Pres. Sarkozy, who addressed the US Congress and backed Bush's strategy to confront Iran.
2007 Nov 8
In Yemen tribesmen attacked an oil installation and then clashed with government troops, leaving 12 people dead. It was the second attack on the country's oil industry this week.
2007 Nov 8
A bridge under construction in a new development in Dubai collapsed, killing seven workers and injuring 15.
2007 Nov 9
Saudi authorities beheaded Saudi citizen Khalaf al-Anzi in Riyadh for kidnapping and raping a teenager.
2007 Nov 9
Turkey's parliament approved a bill allowing for the construction of nuclear power plants in the country, despite opposition from environmental groups.
2007 Nov 10
Iranian state television reported that Iran and Pakistan have reached a deal to build a multi-billion-dollar pipeline to transport natural gas between the two countries.
2007 Nov 10
Saudi authorities received a group of 14 Saudis Saturday from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani for drug trafficking. This execution brought to 131 the number of people beheaded in the kingdom this year. Saudi Arabia beheaded 38 people last year and 83 people in 2005.
2007 Nov 11
Proton, Malaysia's national car maker, said it planned to team up with companies in Iran and Turkey to produce "Islamic cars" for the global market.
2007 Nov 12
Airbus said it was building a custom, 380 VIP double-decker jet for Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal with a price tag of over $320 million.
2007 Nov 13
Turkish helicopter gunships attacked abandoned villages inside Iraq, the first such airstrike since border tensions have escalated in recent months. Kurdish guerrillas killed four Turkish soldiers in a clash in southeastern Turkey.
2007 Nov 13
Diplomats said Iran has met a key demand of the UN nuclear agency, handing over long-sought blueprints showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads.
2007 Nov 14
The official IRNA news agency reported that Hossein Mousavian, Iran's former senior nuclear negotiator, has been charged with passing classified information to foreigners, including the British Embassy.
2007 Nov 16
Mubadala Development, an investment arm of Abu Dhabi, announced that it would pay $622 million for 8.1% of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
2007 Nov 18
In eastern Saudi Arabia an explosion and fire on a gas pipeline killed 40 workers. The cause of the fire was an accident during maintenance work and Aramco said it did not expect a disruption in gas supplies.
2007 Nov 18
Greenpeace said an international commission designed to protect bluefin tuna stocks has effectively increased the fishing quota for 2008 from what was already an "unsustainable" level. Greenpeace said the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), held in Turkey had approved a nearly 1,000-ton increase in the 2008 catch.
2007 Nov 18
In Kuwait a US soldier was killed and another was seriously injured in a road accident.
2007 Nov 18
OPEC leaders ended a meeting of its heads of state in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia tried to highlight a new emphasis on protecting the environment as the heads of Venezuela and Iran blamed the falling US dollar for high oil prices. This was only the 3rd time in OPEC's 47-year history for such a top level meeting.
2007 Nov 19
In Iraq 3 officers were killed in an ambush on their checkpoint northeast of Baghdad.
2007 Nov 19
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his fourth trip to Iran in two years, as the two countries sought to strengthen ties while their leaders exhort the international community to resist US policies.
2007 Nov 20
Pakistan's Interior Ministry said more than 3,000 people jailed under emergency rule have been released, the latest sign that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was rolling back some of the harsher measures taken against his opponents. Over 2,000 remained jailed. The government said the army had killed 15 militants in Shangla as Pres. Musharraf left for a visit to Saudi Arabia.
2007 Nov 20
Jordan held elections. Supporters of King Abdullah II, a close US ally, handily defeated the country's Islamist opposition in parliamentary elections, dropping their number of parliament seats by nearly two-thirds.
2007 Nov 20
Israel's PM Olmert met with Egypt's Pres. Mubarek and said a peace deal with the Palestinians can be signed within a year.
2007 Nov 21
The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey launched the construction of a railroad that will link ex-Soviet republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia with Europe, bypassing Russia.
2007 Nov 21
More than 60 migrants drowned when their boat capsized off Yemen during an attempt to flee their war torn homeland of Somalia.
2007 Nov 22
Suspected al-Qaida fighters killed two Iraqi soldiers, then used their Humvees to kill at least 18 rival Sunnis, members of the Awakening Council, south of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces killed 19 al-Qaida fighters in Baqouba.
2007 Nov 23
Lebanon's parliament failed to elect a successor to President Emile Lahoud just hours before he was set to leave office after it was unable to convene due to an opposition boycott.
2007 Nov 24
Lebanon awoke a republic without a president amid mounting worries over a power vacuum that has intensified the nation's yearlong political turmoil.
2007 Nov 26
An Iranian air force F-4 Phantom jet crashed into the Oman Sea off the southeastern coast of Iran, killing both pilots.
2007 Nov 26
Citigroup announced that the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government will take a 4.9% stake and provide a $7.5 billion capital infusion.
2007 Nov 27
The news agency IRNA reported that Iran has manufactured a new missile with a range of 1,200 miles capable of reaching Israel and US bases in the Mideast. A judiciary spokesman said an Iranian court has acquitted Hossein Mousavian, a former nuclear negotiator of spying charges, but convicted him of acting against the Islamic government.
2007 Nov 27
Lebanon's top Shiite cleric declared that a Muslim woman is allowed to fight back in self-defense if she is hit by her husband, in a ruling rare for the region's male-dominated Islamic society.
2007 Nov 27
Mozambique formally took over from Portugal the control of Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam, Africa's second most important after that of Aswan in Egypt.
2007 Nov 28
A lawmaker said the largest bloc in Lebanon's deadlocked parliament has dropped its opposition to the army chief becoming president, bringing Gen. Michel Suleiman a step closer to being the new head of state and ending a yearlong political crisis.
2007 Nov 28
Authorities in Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 208 suspected terrorists in six cells and thwarted several planned attacks in the kingdom's largest terror sweep to date. They included 8 al-Qaida linked men allegedly planning to attack oil installations.
2007 Nov 28
Iran claimed to have built a small submarine equipped with sonar-evading technology, saying the craft had been launched in the Persian Gulf.
2007 Nov 30
Italian oil firm Eni and oil and gas exploration firm Burren Energy said they had agreed the terms of a takeover offer from Eni worth 1.74 billion pounds. Burren is an independent group quoted on the London stock exchange that runs oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan, Congo, Egypt and Yemen.
2007 Nov 30
In southwest Turkey an Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before it was due to land, killing all 57 people on board.
2007 Nov 30
An 18-month attempt to persuade Iran to halt uranium enrichment collapsed after a senior EU envoy failed to dent Iran's resolve to expand the technology, despite the threat of new UN sanctions.
2007 Nov 30
Turkey's government authorized the military to launch a cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq at any time.
The UN said nearly 90,000 people have fled Mogadishu in recent days following the heaviest fighting to shake the war-battered city in months.
2007 Nov 2
Iraqi police found only six bodies dumped in three Iraqi cities, and no reports of shootings or bombings.
2007 Nov 3
Some 5,000 Turkish Kurds protested against a military incursion into Iraq, saying such a move would enflame ethnic tensions in the region and plunge the local economy into ruin.
2007 Nov 3
Abu Dhabi began work on building the world's first Ferrari theme park, another step in the Gulf emirate's ambition to become a global centre for leisure, sport and culture.
2007 Nov 3
Egypt's ruling party appointed President Hosni Mubarak's son to an important new committee in a move seen as further paving the way for the younger Mubarak to succeed his father.
2007 Nov 4
In Egypt the face of King Tut was unshrouded in public for the first time, 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor's famed Valley of the Kings in 1922.
2007 Nov 5
Jordan's military court convicted Muammar Ahmed Yousef al-Jaghbeer, an al-Qaida militant of involvement in the deadly suicide car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Iraq in 2003 and sentenced him to death.
2007 Nov 5
In Yemen unidentified saboteurs bombed an oil pipeline in Marib province. The attack halted the flow of oil and added to concerns in the world oil markets about adequate supplies for heating fuel.
2007 Nov 6
In the Vatican Benedict XVI raised concerns about restrictions on Christian worship in Saudi Arabia in the first meeting ever between a pope and a reigning Saudi king.
2007 Nov 7
Interpol put an ex-Iranian intelligence chief, a former leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, three other Iranians and a Lebanese militant on its most-wanted list for a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish center in Argentina.
2007 Nov 7
Pres. Bush met with France's Pres. Sarkozy, who addressed the US Congress and backed Bush's strategy to confront Iran.
2007 Nov 8
In Yemen tribesmen attacked an oil installation and then clashed with government troops, leaving 12 people dead. It was the second attack on the country's oil industry this week.
2007 Nov 8
A bridge under construction in a new development in Dubai collapsed, killing seven workers and injuring 15.
2007 Nov 9
Saudi authorities beheaded Saudi citizen Khalaf al-Anzi in Riyadh for kidnapping and raping a teenager.
2007 Nov 9
Turkey's parliament approved a bill allowing for the construction of nuclear power plants in the country, despite opposition from environmental groups.
2007 Nov 10
Iranian state television reported that Iran and Pakistan have reached a deal to build a multi-billion-dollar pipeline to transport natural gas between the two countries.
2007 Nov 10
Saudi authorities received a group of 14 Saudis Saturday from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani for drug trafficking. This execution brought to 131 the number of people beheaded in the kingdom this year. Saudi Arabia beheaded 38 people last year and 83 people in 2005.
2007 Nov 11
Proton, Malaysia's national car maker, said it planned to team up with companies in Iran and Turkey to produce "Islamic cars" for the global market.
2007 Nov 12
Airbus said it was building a custom, 380 VIP double-decker jet for Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal with a price tag of over $320 million.
2007 Nov 13
Turkish helicopter gunships attacked abandoned villages inside Iraq, the first such airstrike since border tensions have escalated in recent months. Kurdish guerrillas killed four Turkish soldiers in a clash in southeastern Turkey.
2007 Nov 13
Diplomats said Iran has met a key demand of the UN nuclear agency, handing over long-sought blueprints showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads.
2007 Nov 14
The official IRNA news agency reported that Hossein Mousavian, Iran's former senior nuclear negotiator, has been charged with passing classified information to foreigners, including the British Embassy.
2007 Nov 16
Mubadala Development, an investment arm of Abu Dhabi, announced that it would pay $622 million for 8.1% of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
2007 Nov 18
In eastern Saudi Arabia an explosion and fire on a gas pipeline killed 40 workers. The cause of the fire was an accident during maintenance work and Aramco said it did not expect a disruption in gas supplies.
2007 Nov 18
Greenpeace said an international commission designed to protect bluefin tuna stocks has effectively increased the fishing quota for 2008 from what was already an "unsustainable" level. Greenpeace said the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), held in Turkey had approved a nearly 1,000-ton increase in the 2008 catch.
2007 Nov 18
In Kuwait a US soldier was killed and another was seriously injured in a road accident.
2007 Nov 18
OPEC leaders ended a meeting of its heads of state in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia tried to highlight a new emphasis on protecting the environment as the heads of Venezuela and Iran blamed the falling US dollar for high oil prices. This was only the 3rd time in OPEC's 47-year history for such a top level meeting.
2007 Nov 19
In Iraq 3 officers were killed in an ambush on their checkpoint northeast of Baghdad.
2007 Nov 19
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his fourth trip to Iran in two years, as the two countries sought to strengthen ties while their leaders exhort the international community to resist US policies.
2007 Nov 20
Pakistan's Interior Ministry said more than 3,000 people jailed under emergency rule have been released, the latest sign that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was rolling back some of the harsher measures taken against his opponents. Over 2,000 remained jailed. The government said the army had killed 15 militants in Shangla as Pres. Musharraf left for a visit to Saudi Arabia.
2007 Nov 20
Jordan held elections. Supporters of King Abdullah II, a close US ally, handily defeated the country's Islamist opposition in parliamentary elections, dropping their number of parliament seats by nearly two-thirds.
2007 Nov 20
Israel's PM Olmert met with Egypt's Pres. Mubarek and said a peace deal with the Palestinians can be signed within a year.
2007 Nov 21
The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey launched the construction of a railroad that will link ex-Soviet republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia with Europe, bypassing Russia.
2007 Nov 21
More than 60 migrants drowned when their boat capsized off Yemen during an attempt to flee their war torn homeland of Somalia.
2007 Nov 22
Suspected al-Qaida fighters killed two Iraqi soldiers, then used their Humvees to kill at least 18 rival Sunnis, members of the Awakening Council, south of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces killed 19 al-Qaida fighters in Baqouba.
2007 Nov 23
Lebanon's parliament failed to elect a successor to President Emile Lahoud just hours before he was set to leave office after it was unable to convene due to an opposition boycott.
2007 Nov 24
Lebanon awoke a republic without a president amid mounting worries over a power vacuum that has intensified the nation's yearlong political turmoil.
2007 Nov 26
An Iranian air force F-4 Phantom jet crashed into the Oman Sea off the southeastern coast of Iran, killing both pilots.
2007 Nov 26
Citigroup announced that the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government will take a 4.9% stake and provide a $7.5 billion capital infusion.
2007 Nov 27
The news agency IRNA reported that Iran has manufactured a new missile with a range of 1,200 miles capable of reaching Israel and US bases in the Mideast. A judiciary spokesman said an Iranian court has acquitted Hossein Mousavian, a former nuclear negotiator of spying charges, but convicted him of acting against the Islamic government.
2007 Nov 27
Lebanon's top Shiite cleric declared that a Muslim woman is allowed to fight back in self-defense if she is hit by her husband, in a ruling rare for the region's male-dominated Islamic society.
2007 Nov 27
Mozambique formally took over from Portugal the control of Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam, Africa's second most important after that of Aswan in Egypt.
2007 Nov 28
A lawmaker said the largest bloc in Lebanon's deadlocked parliament has dropped its opposition to the army chief becoming president, bringing Gen. Michel Suleiman a step closer to being the new head of state and ending a yearlong political crisis.
2007 Nov 28
Authorities in Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 208 suspected terrorists in six cells and thwarted several planned attacks in the kingdom's largest terror sweep to date. They included 8 al-Qaida linked men allegedly planning to attack oil installations.
2007 Nov 28
Iran claimed to have built a small submarine equipped with sonar-evading technology, saying the craft had been launched in the Persian Gulf.
2007 Nov 30
Italian oil firm Eni and oil and gas exploration firm Burren Energy said they had agreed the terms of a takeover offer from Eni worth 1.74 billion pounds. Burren is an independent group quoted on the London stock exchange that runs oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan, Congo, Egypt and Yemen.
2007 Nov 30
In southwest Turkey an Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before it was due to land, killing all 57 people on board.
2007 Nov 30
An 18-month attempt to persuade Iran to halt uranium enrichment collapsed after a senior EU envoy failed to dent Iran's resolve to expand the technology, despite the threat of new UN sanctions.
2007 Nov 30
Turkey's government authorized the military to launch a cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq at any time.
Fundamental errors
Posted by James, Dubai, UAE on 26 January 2008 at 12:49 UAE time
Try - sent the US dollar to a 17 year LOW, not high. And the Ruppee is worth far MORE than it was 12 months ago.
By the way being proud of the chaos that ensued following your stroy on the dollar depeg is nothing to be proud of, if that what your implying happened.
HSBC and other major banks were profiteering in the aftermath buying dollars at 3.40 and selling at 3.69? Best of both worlds for them? Or just covering themselves? But a disaster for everyday businesses and people who were stuck with dollars and debts in dirhams... all on the back of mere speculation - go the market economy?!?. The banking industry - along with Arabian Business should be ashamed.
Posted by James, Dubai, UAE on 26 January 2008 at 12:49 UAE time
Try - sent the US dollar to a 17 year LOW, not high. And the Ruppee is worth far MORE than it was 12 months ago.
By the way being proud of the chaos that ensued following your stroy on the dollar depeg is nothing to be proud of, if that what your implying happened.
HSBC and other major banks were profiteering in the aftermath buying dollars at 3.40 and selling at 3.69? Best of both worlds for them? Or just covering themselves? But a disaster for everyday businesses and people who were stuck with dollars and debts in dirhams... all on the back of mere speculation - go the market economy?!?. The banking industry - along with Arabian Business should be ashamed.
Review 2007
Posted by N. A. Mirza, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 31 December 2007 at 17:39 UAE time
Looks sound and indeed worth preserving. December Timeline should have stories on the most peaceful and accident free Haj, BJP's history-making victory in India's western state of Gujrat and above all assassination of Benazir Bhutto. An analysis on King Abdullah's sincere peace efforts was a must.
Editor's reply: December's timeline will be updated with the happenings of the last two weeks of December shortly.
Posted by N. A. Mirza, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 31 December 2007 at 17:39 UAE time
Looks sound and indeed worth preserving. December Timeline should have stories on the most peaceful and accident free Haj, BJP's history-making victory in India's western state of Gujrat and above all assassination of Benazir Bhutto. An analysis on King Abdullah's sincere peace efforts was a must.
Editor's reply: December's timeline will be updated with the happenings of the last two weeks of December shortly.
BEST AND WORST NEWS OF 2007!
Posted by RAJENDRA ANEJA, DUBAI, UAE on 27 December 2007 at 11:50 UAE time
Best news:
1. Some peace in Iraq and refugee return.
2. More focus on climate
3. Dialogue between Bush, Putin
4. No war with Iran
5. Talks between Israel, Palesine
6. Shakira going to study at a university
Worst news:
1. Continuation of world poverty
2. No cure for Aids, cancer
3. Human rights violations and beating of monk in Burma
4. Inflation across the word, including Gulf.
5. Instability in India, Pakistan.
6. I have not become a movie-star (the pay is better, than that in management).
Posted by RAJENDRA ANEJA, DUBAI, UAE on 27 December 2007 at 11:50 UAE time
Best news:
1. Some peace in Iraq and refugee return.
2. More focus on climate
3. Dialogue between Bush, Putin
4. No war with Iran
5. Talks between Israel, Palesine
6. Shakira going to study at a university
Worst news:
1. Continuation of world poverty
2. No cure for Aids, cancer
3. Human rights violations and beating of monk in Burma
4. Inflation across the word, including Gulf.
5. Instability in India, Pakistan.
6. I have not become a movie-star (the pay is better, than that in management).
REVIEW 2007: PROFITS AND SOUL
Posted by RAJENDRA ANEJA, DUBAI, UAE on 26 December 2007 at 17:04 UAE time
The review writtn by Mr James Bennett, is sound, pithy and covers all key issues. Congratulations for this excellent encapsulation.
I hope 2008, will be a more enlightened year for the Gulf and for all of us. Let us hope, we realise that money is important, but without good HR practices, there can be no profits in the long run.
And as the Bible preaches, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, at the loss of his own soul."
Posted by RAJENDRA ANEJA, DUBAI, UAE on 26 December 2007 at 17:04 UAE time
The review writtn by Mr James Bennett, is sound, pithy and covers all key issues. Congratulations for this excellent encapsulation.
I hope 2008, will be a more enlightened year for the Gulf and for all of us. Let us hope, we realise that money is important, but without good HR practices, there can be no profits in the long run.
And as the Bible preaches, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, at the loss of his own soul."
Brilliant
Posted by Frank Dane, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 26 December 2007 at 11:26 UAE time
That is one of the best Year in Reviews I have seen. Really polished - especially on the later months - October to December. I love it. Thank you - another great reference site, and hugely entertaining as well.
Posted by Frank Dane, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 26 December 2007 at 11:26 UAE time
That is one of the best Year in Reviews I have seen. Really polished - especially on the later months - October to December. I love it. Thank you - another great reference site, and hugely entertaining as well.
Pressure mounts on last female minister to quit
Posted by Adam, Kuwait, Kuwait on 25 December 2007 at 08:53 UAE time
The Kuwait government needs to get a life.. The men in parliament cannot handle a women minister. I admire her and for what she is doing and putting all these silly men to shame.. Wake up guys...
Posted by Adam, Kuwait, Kuwait on 25 December 2007 at 08:53 UAE time
The Kuwait government needs to get a life.. The men in parliament cannot handle a women minister. I admire her and for what she is doing and putting all these silly men to shame.. Wake up guys...