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February 2007
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February 2007
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February 2007Analysis of The Month
ArabianBusiness.com opened February with an interview with Steve Forbes, the entrepreneur behind the influential business magazine Forbes, which we titled 'The Agitator'.
Forbes certainly lived up to our moniker for him when he visited Dubai in November and urged Gulf governments to immediately carry out a one-time revaluation of their US dollar pegged currencies to prevent any further losses against the weakest greenback in a quarter of a century.
The following week, we interviewed Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al-Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, about how the Emirate won the rights to launch the Formula One Grand Prix. (Power Brokers/Formula Won)
Our most important story for the month would be 'Global Warning', where Jose Maria Figueres, the former President of Costa Rica and one of the world's foremost campaigners in the battle against climate change, revealed to us why the business world has a vital role to play in our fight for survival.
February ended for ArabianBusiness.com with an interview with Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman of global giant General Electric, about filling the shoers of the 'CEO of the century' Jack Welch, 9/11 and why the Middle East has a bright future. (The Light Idea/Light Fantastic)
ArabianBusiness.com Editor-in-Chief James Bennett aired his views in February with No one knows for Shuaa, discussing how careful companies need to be in the public eye.
Forbes certainly lived up to our moniker for him when he visited Dubai in November and urged Gulf governments to immediately carry out a one-time revaluation of their US dollar pegged currencies to prevent any further losses against the weakest greenback in a quarter of a century.
The following week, we interviewed Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al-Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, about how the Emirate won the rights to launch the Formula One Grand Prix. (Power Brokers/Formula Won)
Our most important story for the month would be 'Global Warning', where Jose Maria Figueres, the former President of Costa Rica and one of the world's foremost campaigners in the battle against climate change, revealed to us why the business world has a vital role to play in our fight for survival.
February ended for ArabianBusiness.com with an interview with Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman of global giant General Electric, about filling the shoers of the 'CEO of the century' Jack Welch, 9/11 and why the Middle East has a bright future. (The Light Idea/Light Fantastic)
ArabianBusiness.com Editor-in-Chief James Bennett aired his views in February with No one knows for Shuaa, discussing how careful companies need to be in the public eye.
February in Quotes
It only takes half of Greenland's ice to melt to raise sea levels 20 feet. Now think of sea levels raising 20 feet, in terms of the real estate that you have developed here in Dubai. It's going to be a very nice snorkeling opportunity!
Former President of Costa Rice, Jose Maria Figueres, does his part to convince ArabianBusiness.com of how climate change is affecting the Gulf.
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Banking & Finance
Filling the shoes of the ‘CEO of the century’, Jack Welch, was no easy feat for Jeffrey Immelt, however, the chairman of global giant General Electric is finally settling down after a difficult start. James Bennett talks to one of the planet’s most powerful business leaders about liquidity, life’s lessons and lightbulbs.
Timeline
2007 Feb 2
Malaysia said it is ready to halt free trade talks with the United States after a US lawmaker called for a suspension in protest over an energy deal with Iran signed in January.
2007 Feb 2
Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim clerics published a religious edict prohibiting Muslims from killing their fellow countrymen, particularly other Muslims.
2007 Feb 2
Iran said it will allow UN surveillance cameras at its Natanz nuclear complex.
2007 Feb 3
The interior ministry spokesman said Saudi police have arrested 10 people who are accused of collecting donations and recruiting on behalf of militant groups.
2007 Feb 4
In Iraq at least 103 people were killed or found dead, mostly in Baghdad. A roadside bomb struck a police patrol in a predominantly Sunni area in Baghdad, killing 4 policemen and wounding 3.
2007 Feb 4
A Saudi newspaper reported that a Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced.
2007 Feb 5
Syria's President Bashar Assad said cooperation, and negotiations, between Syria and the US could be the "last chance" to avoid full-scale civil war in Iraq.
2007 Feb 7
In Saudi Arabia rival Palestinian leaders began open-ended talks in Mecca optimistic that they could reach an agreement to end their bloody street battles and resume the peace process with Israel.
2007 Feb 7
Georgia signed a regional cooperation agreement with Azerbaijan and Turkey which included plans for a railway connecting the three countries.
2007 Feb 8
A Fatah official in Saudi Arabia said that rival Palestinian factions had reached an agreement on how to divide up Cabinet posts in a power-sharing government.
2007 Feb 9
The UN atomic monitor suspended nearly half the technical aid it provides to Iran, a symbolically significant punishment for nuclear defiance that only North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq had faced in the past.
2007 Feb 10
In Iraq Gen. David Petraeus (b.1952) took command of the 135,000-strong US force.
2007 Feb 11
A suicide truck bomber slammed into a crowd of police lining up for duty near Tikrit, collapsing the station and killing at least 30 people and wounding 50. 21 of the 30 killed were policemen.
2007 Feb 11
In Egypt Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was released. The Egyptian Muslim preacher had been allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of Milan, Italy, on Feb 17, 2003, and taken to Egypt. It was reported that since the end of December seven women have been stabbed by a dark-skinned man in his 20s in Cairo's Maadi suburb, whose richer areas are home to numerous embassies and many foreigners.
2007 Feb 11
President Vladimir Putin, making the first visit by a Russian leader to Saudi Arabia, met King Abdullah and other senior officials for talks that touched on regional tensions including Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
2007 Feb 12
EU foreign ministers approved plans for implementing UN sanctions against Iran, a move that is meant to punish Tehran over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
2007 Feb 12
In Qatar Russia's Putin and Qatari Emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced they would explore the creation of a natural gas cartel to represent the interests of producer countries. Qatar sits atop the world's single largest gas field.
2007 Feb 12
A vessel smuggling 120 people across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen capsized as it approached the coast. At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants trying to reach the Arabian peninsula drowned.
2007 Feb 13
A suicide truck bomber blew himself up near a college and a ration office in a mainly Shiite area of the capital, killing at least 15 people with 27 wounded.
2007 Feb 13
In Lebanon bombs packed with metal pellets tore through two commuter buses in a mainly Christian area, a day before the second anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination. At least 3 people were killed and 20 wounded in the coordinated attack.
2007 Feb 13
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a stronger international push for lasting Mideast peace and urged for a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear standoff.
2007 Feb 14
A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, killing 11 of them and wounding 31.
2007 Feb 15
In Egypt police arrested 80 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, in what appeared to be a pre-emptive strike against the country's largest Islamic group ahead of elections and a key parliamentary debate.
2007 Feb 15
An adviser to Iraq's prime minister said that radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is in Iran, but denied he fled due to fear of arrest during an escalating security crackdown.
2007 Feb 15
Iraqi and US troops moved into a Sunni neighborhood in southern Baghdad, while insurgents struck back with car bombs that killed seven people.
2007 Feb 16
Japan's Cabinet approved sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program under UN Security Council guidelines.
2007 Feb 16
A Yemeni official said a boat loaded with Somali and Ethiopian migrants capsized in the Gulf of Aden during a night crossing in which at least 112 people died.
2007 Feb 17
Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in Iran to discuss Iraq and other Middle East issues with President Mahmoud Ahmadinajed.
2007 Feb 17
A US human rights watchdog that recently sent a team to Saudi Arabia to investigate abuses said in a new report the kingdom keeps thousands of prisoners in jail without charge, sentences children to death and oppresses women.
2007 Feb 19
A Saudi court ordered the bodies of four Sri Lankans to be displayed in a public square.
2007 Feb 20
It was reported that recent strikes in Egypt involved over 35,000 workers at nearly a dozen textile, cement and poultry plants. Experts said there has never been a legal strike in Egyptian history.
2007 Feb 21
A suicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint in the Shiite city of Najaf, killing at 13 people in the spiritual heartland of the militia factions led by Muqtada al-Sadr.
2007 Feb 21
Security officials said Egyptian border and security authorities had arrested 23 Palestinians and Egyptians in the Sinai region, including one who was wearing an explosives belt and had crossed from Gaza to Egypt in an underground tunnel.
2007 Feb 21
India said it has banned the export to Iran of all material, equipment and technology which could contribute to Tehran's nuclear program.
2007 Feb 21
Lebanese anti-aircraft guns fired at Israeli warplanes over southern Lebanon, indicating that Lebanon's army is taking a new assertiveness toward Israel.
2007 Feb 21
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook southeastern Turkey. A five-story apartment building collapsed in Istanbul, killing at least two people and injuring more than two dozen others.
2007 Feb 22
Abdel Kareem Nabil (22), an Egyptian blogger, was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison in Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger.
2007 Feb 22
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that Syria has embarked on an "unprecedented" effort to bolster its armed forces with Iranian and Russian help.
2007 Feb 23
Egyptian security forces discovered approximately 1 ton of explosives hidden underground near Egypt's border with Gaza.
2007 Feb 23
In Iraq US troops arrested Amar al-Hakim, the son of Iraq's top Shiite politician, as he returned to the country from Iran. He was later released and US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad issued a rapid apology.
2007 Feb 23
In Turkey Hilmi Aydogdu, leader of the Democratic Society Party's branch in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, was charged with inciting hatred and threatening public safety after suggesting that fellow Kurds would rise against the state and fight if Turkey ever attacked their Kurdish brethren in neighboring Iraq.
2007 Feb 24
Thousands of Shiites rallied in Najaf to protest the nearly 12-hour detention of the eldest son of Iraq's most influential Shiite politician as he crossed back from Iran. Iraqi commandos backed by US aircraft raided a Sunni insurgent base north of Baghdad, killing dozens. Local authorities said six children and their father were among the dead. Attacks in Baghdad killed at least seven civilians. A suicide truck bombing in Anbar province left 52 dead and 74 injured. The attack was on worshippers leaving a mosque in Habbaniyah. An arsenal was discovered north of Baghdad containing components for so-called EFPs, explosively formed projectiles that fire a slug of molten metal capable of penetrating armored vehicles. The weapons cache contained more than two dozen mortars and 15 rockets. There were enough metal disks to make 130 EFPs.
2007 Feb 24
Israel denied a report in a British daily that it is seeking permission from the United States to fly its bombers over Iraq to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
2007 Feb 24
Thousands of anti-war protesters converged on London, calling on PM Tony Blair to withdraw all of Britain's troops from Iraq and voicing fears over a potential conflict with Iran.
2007 Feb 25
Iran's Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would proceed with its nuclear program, comparing its nuclear drive to a train that has no reverse gear or brakes. Iran said it had successfully launched its first rocket into space for research purposes. The rocket reached an altitude of 150 kilometers (93 miles) but did not stay in orbit.
2007 Feb 26
In London Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric and suspected key Al-Qaeda figure, lost an appeal against deportation from Britain to Jordan.
2007 Feb 26
Three Frenchmen who lived in Saudi Arabia were killed by gunmen on the side of a desert road leading to the holy city of Medina in an area restricted to Muslims only.
2007 Feb 28
An Egyptian court ordered a freeze on the assets of 29 known financiers of the Muslim brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful opposition movement. An Egyptian with Canadian citizenship on trial for spying for Israel shouted from his courtroom cage that a confession had been extracted under torture.
2007 Feb 28
Syria said it would participate in a Baghdad-organized conference of Iraq's neighbours that the US plans to attend. Iran said it was considering whether to take part.
2007 Feb 28
A Swiss court acquitted seven men of providing logistical support to a Saudi terror cell in the first Swiss trial of alleged al-Qaida associates.
Malaysia said it is ready to halt free trade talks with the United States after a US lawmaker called for a suspension in protest over an energy deal with Iran signed in January.
2007 Feb 2
Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim clerics published a religious edict prohibiting Muslims from killing their fellow countrymen, particularly other Muslims.
2007 Feb 2
Iran said it will allow UN surveillance cameras at its Natanz nuclear complex.
2007 Feb 3
The interior ministry spokesman said Saudi police have arrested 10 people who are accused of collecting donations and recruiting on behalf of militant groups.
2007 Feb 4
In Iraq at least 103 people were killed or found dead, mostly in Baghdad. A roadside bomb struck a police patrol in a predominantly Sunni area in Baghdad, killing 4 policemen and wounding 3.
2007 Feb 4
A Saudi newspaper reported that a Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced.
2007 Feb 5
Syria's President Bashar Assad said cooperation, and negotiations, between Syria and the US could be the "last chance" to avoid full-scale civil war in Iraq.
2007 Feb 7
In Saudi Arabia rival Palestinian leaders began open-ended talks in Mecca optimistic that they could reach an agreement to end their bloody street battles and resume the peace process with Israel.
2007 Feb 7
Georgia signed a regional cooperation agreement with Azerbaijan and Turkey which included plans for a railway connecting the three countries.
2007 Feb 8
A Fatah official in Saudi Arabia said that rival Palestinian factions had reached an agreement on how to divide up Cabinet posts in a power-sharing government.
2007 Feb 9
The UN atomic monitor suspended nearly half the technical aid it provides to Iran, a symbolically significant punishment for nuclear defiance that only North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq had faced in the past.
2007 Feb 10
In Iraq Gen. David Petraeus (b.1952) took command of the 135,000-strong US force.
2007 Feb 11
A suicide truck bomber slammed into a crowd of police lining up for duty near Tikrit, collapsing the station and killing at least 30 people and wounding 50. 21 of the 30 killed were policemen.
2007 Feb 11
In Egypt Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was released. The Egyptian Muslim preacher had been allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of Milan, Italy, on Feb 17, 2003, and taken to Egypt. It was reported that since the end of December seven women have been stabbed by a dark-skinned man in his 20s in Cairo's Maadi suburb, whose richer areas are home to numerous embassies and many foreigners.
2007 Feb 11
President Vladimir Putin, making the first visit by a Russian leader to Saudi Arabia, met King Abdullah and other senior officials for talks that touched on regional tensions including Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
2007 Feb 12
EU foreign ministers approved plans for implementing UN sanctions against Iran, a move that is meant to punish Tehran over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
2007 Feb 12
In Qatar Russia's Putin and Qatari Emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced they would explore the creation of a natural gas cartel to represent the interests of producer countries. Qatar sits atop the world's single largest gas field.
2007 Feb 12
A vessel smuggling 120 people across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen capsized as it approached the coast. At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants trying to reach the Arabian peninsula drowned.
2007 Feb 13
A suicide truck bomber blew himself up near a college and a ration office in a mainly Shiite area of the capital, killing at least 15 people with 27 wounded.
2007 Feb 13
In Lebanon bombs packed with metal pellets tore through two commuter buses in a mainly Christian area, a day before the second anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination. At least 3 people were killed and 20 wounded in the coordinated attack.
2007 Feb 13
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a stronger international push for lasting Mideast peace and urged for a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear standoff.
2007 Feb 14
A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, killing 11 of them and wounding 31.
2007 Feb 15
In Egypt police arrested 80 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, in what appeared to be a pre-emptive strike against the country's largest Islamic group ahead of elections and a key parliamentary debate.
2007 Feb 15
An adviser to Iraq's prime minister said that radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is in Iran, but denied he fled due to fear of arrest during an escalating security crackdown.
2007 Feb 15
Iraqi and US troops moved into a Sunni neighborhood in southern Baghdad, while insurgents struck back with car bombs that killed seven people.
2007 Feb 16
Japan's Cabinet approved sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program under UN Security Council guidelines.
2007 Feb 16
A Yemeni official said a boat loaded with Somali and Ethiopian migrants capsized in the Gulf of Aden during a night crossing in which at least 112 people died.
2007 Feb 17
Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in Iran to discuss Iraq and other Middle East issues with President Mahmoud Ahmadinajed.
2007 Feb 17
A US human rights watchdog that recently sent a team to Saudi Arabia to investigate abuses said in a new report the kingdom keeps thousands of prisoners in jail without charge, sentences children to death and oppresses women.
2007 Feb 19
A Saudi court ordered the bodies of four Sri Lankans to be displayed in a public square.
2007 Feb 20
It was reported that recent strikes in Egypt involved over 35,000 workers at nearly a dozen textile, cement and poultry plants. Experts said there has never been a legal strike in Egyptian history.
2007 Feb 21
A suicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint in the Shiite city of Najaf, killing at 13 people in the spiritual heartland of the militia factions led by Muqtada al-Sadr.
2007 Feb 21
Security officials said Egyptian border and security authorities had arrested 23 Palestinians and Egyptians in the Sinai region, including one who was wearing an explosives belt and had crossed from Gaza to Egypt in an underground tunnel.
2007 Feb 21
India said it has banned the export to Iran of all material, equipment and technology which could contribute to Tehran's nuclear program.
2007 Feb 21
Lebanese anti-aircraft guns fired at Israeli warplanes over southern Lebanon, indicating that Lebanon's army is taking a new assertiveness toward Israel.
2007 Feb 21
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook southeastern Turkey. A five-story apartment building collapsed in Istanbul, killing at least two people and injuring more than two dozen others.
2007 Feb 22
Abdel Kareem Nabil (22), an Egyptian blogger, was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison in Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger.
2007 Feb 22
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that Syria has embarked on an "unprecedented" effort to bolster its armed forces with Iranian and Russian help.
2007 Feb 23
Egyptian security forces discovered approximately 1 ton of explosives hidden underground near Egypt's border with Gaza.
2007 Feb 23
In Iraq US troops arrested Amar al-Hakim, the son of Iraq's top Shiite politician, as he returned to the country from Iran. He was later released and US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad issued a rapid apology.
2007 Feb 23
In Turkey Hilmi Aydogdu, leader of the Democratic Society Party's branch in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, was charged with inciting hatred and threatening public safety after suggesting that fellow Kurds would rise against the state and fight if Turkey ever attacked their Kurdish brethren in neighboring Iraq.
2007 Feb 24
Thousands of Shiites rallied in Najaf to protest the nearly 12-hour detention of the eldest son of Iraq's most influential Shiite politician as he crossed back from Iran. Iraqi commandos backed by US aircraft raided a Sunni insurgent base north of Baghdad, killing dozens. Local authorities said six children and their father were among the dead. Attacks in Baghdad killed at least seven civilians. A suicide truck bombing in Anbar province left 52 dead and 74 injured. The attack was on worshippers leaving a mosque in Habbaniyah. An arsenal was discovered north of Baghdad containing components for so-called EFPs, explosively formed projectiles that fire a slug of molten metal capable of penetrating armored vehicles. The weapons cache contained more than two dozen mortars and 15 rockets. There were enough metal disks to make 130 EFPs.
2007 Feb 24
Israel denied a report in a British daily that it is seeking permission from the United States to fly its bombers over Iraq to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
2007 Feb 24
Thousands of anti-war protesters converged on London, calling on PM Tony Blair to withdraw all of Britain's troops from Iraq and voicing fears over a potential conflict with Iran.
2007 Feb 25
Iran's Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would proceed with its nuclear program, comparing its nuclear drive to a train that has no reverse gear or brakes. Iran said it had successfully launched its first rocket into space for research purposes. The rocket reached an altitude of 150 kilometers (93 miles) but did not stay in orbit.
2007 Feb 26
In London Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric and suspected key Al-Qaeda figure, lost an appeal against deportation from Britain to Jordan.
2007 Feb 26
Three Frenchmen who lived in Saudi Arabia were killed by gunmen on the side of a desert road leading to the holy city of Medina in an area restricted to Muslims only.
2007 Feb 28
An Egyptian court ordered a freeze on the assets of 29 known financiers of the Muslim brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful opposition movement. An Egyptian with Canadian citizenship on trial for spying for Israel shouted from his courtroom cage that a confession had been extracted under torture.
2007 Feb 28
Syria said it would participate in a Baghdad-organized conference of Iraq's neighbours that the US plans to attend. Iran said it was considering whether to take part.
2007 Feb 28
A Swiss court acquitted seven men of providing logistical support to a Saudi terror cell in the first Swiss trial of alleged al-Qaida associates.
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...