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Palestinian Territories

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Posted: 13-12-2005
INTERNATIONAL. A private sector working group, consisting of representatives from the Palestinian and Israeli business community, met yesterday in London to finalise a Joint Declaration and Action Plan for revival of the Palestinian economy. The Declaration identifies priority areas, such as movement of people and goods, protection of the activities of investors, good governance, transparency and accountability. The private sector will be the driving force for economic growth and development. The Declaration will be presented at the Conference on 'Promoting Economic Growth in the We
Posted: November 6, 2009
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. Officials said the decision is linked to his frustration with the US position on Israeli settlements
Posted: September 21, 2009
INTERNATIONAL. The US leader is to hold a three-way meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Posted: September 12, 2009
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. The US$3.2 million programme will provide monthly rations from now until May to 5,200 Bedouin families, who are suffering from the combined impact of drought, environmental degradation and high food, fuel and agricultural prices.
Posted: August 18, 2009
INTERNATIONAL. In meetings with top US officials, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on the US Administration to quickly re-engage in negotiations over the final status of the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
Posted: August 11, 2009
Palestinian Territories. International businesses based in the West Bank are set to benefit from a state of the art web-based system for tracking goods coming in and out of the area.
Posted: July 23, 2009
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected yesterday any notion he would order Israel's barrier in the West Bank to be torn down in response to the absence of Palestinian attacks from the occupied territory.
Posted: July 23, 2009
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. Leading left-wing Israeli intellectuals signed a petition yesterday demanding their government allow an independent, external investigation into last winter's Gaza war.
Posted: July 23, 2009
INTERNATIONAL. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday urged Israel to show 'real political will' and withdraw from occupied Arab land.
Posted: July 15, 2009
JORDAN. Zain Group has appointed Dr Abdel Malik Al Jaber as CEO of the Zain Levant region made up of Zain Jordan and Paltel-soon to be rebranded to Zain Palestine
Posted: July 13, 2009
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. Palestinians reject any deal between Israel and the US that would allow even limited Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, a top Palestinian negotiator said yesterday.
Posted: July 12, 2009
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. Rubble removal is vital to abate the economic and health risks in Gaza, since some of the damaged sites contain asbestos and other toxic materials.
Posted: July 12, 2009
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. An International Court of Justice ruling in 2004 found the construction of the barrier - which is 60% completed - breaches international law.
Posted: July 9, 2009
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. Five years after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Israel's building of a barrier in the occupied Palestinian territory was illegal, the situation has not improved, the UN human rights arm said today, calling for the dismantlement of the barrier.
Posted: July 3, 2009
INTERNATIONAL. An independent United Nations human rights expert denounced what he described as 'the unlawful naval seizure' by an Israeli gunboat of a ship carrying medicine and reconstruction material for the people of Gaza.
Posted: July 3, 2009
INTERNATIONAL. Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new 117-page report published today

MIDDLE EAST BUSINESS COMMENT & ANALYSIS

date:Posted: November 19, 2009
INTERNATIONAL. A majority of investors expects the US Federal Reserve to hold off from raising interest rates until the second half of 2010, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for November.
date:Posted: November 19, 2009
INTERNATIONAL. Faber said, considering the size of the stimulus packages and the monetary printing, the US economy hasn't responded well. What have responded well are asset markets but unemployment is horrrible and the typical household is suffering.
date:Posted: November 18, 2009
INTERNATIONAL. The global health industry is worth around US$4.2 trillion. As GCC countries continue to develop world class healthcare systems, they must avoid pitfalls of the developed markets, according to AT Kearney.
UAE. Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum tightened the control of the emirate's largest holding company, the Investment Corporation of Dubai.
INTERNATIONAL. This situation gives rise to increasingly positive prospects for gold and other commodities that may ultimately stand in as the world's reserve currency. And there are some pretty hot speculative prospects - Louis' 'best of the best' - waiting in the wings for the market's next big leg down.