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Posted: 03-08-2011
INTERNATIONAL. New York is famed as "the city that never sleeps" but London, reveals a new study, sleeps even less, as do over 30 other cities worldwide. None sleepless than Cairo, the strife-torn capital of Egypt, which is today named the "world's most 24-hour" city by a study of the world's most round-the-clock metropolises. But New York ranks a humiliating 32nd, behind London (17th), Paris (18th), Rome (27th) and an embarrassingly long list of other cities. The first global ranking of the world's "most 24-hour" - or most nocturnal - cities, comes from analysing 120 million online chat
Posted: December 5, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. 68% of executives are optimistic about the global economy in the year ahead expecting to see growth and an improving M&A deal environment and anticipate either maintaining or growing their current workforce.
Posted: December 2, 2013
QATAR. Considering that the World Cup is being held in Qatar in 2022, the combination of both events in a reasonably short timeframe should provide considerable impetus to growth in the UAE, Qatar and the GCC as a whole.
Posted: December 1, 2013
QATAR. "FIFPro has the attention of Qatar's leading football officials," said FIFPro delegate Mads Oland after meeting Hassan Al Thawadi, secretary general of the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee.
Posted: November 27, 2013
SAUDI ARABIA. The top security chief stressed that the globally unique ban on driving for women was "a matter to be decided by the legislative authority."
Posted: November 9, 2013
BAHRAIN. A recent survey conducted by HSBC, has ranked Bahrain second worldwide, and highest in the Middle East, in terms of the experience workers had while living overseas.
Posted: October 28, 2013
UAE. UAE Western expatriates see the UAE as an ideal place to live, work and save, according to the first Standard Life Western Expatriate Wealth Study.
Posted: October 25, 2013
SAUDI ARABIA. The group, named the "26th October Women's Driving Campaign," called on the government to provide "a valid and legal justification" for maintaining the ban, and "not simply defer to social consensus."
Posted: October 18, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. A young Chinese couple are facing criminal punishment for "selling" their daughter and using part of the proceeds to buy an Apple iPhone.
Posted: October 18, 2013
UAE. One year campaign highlights the "coercive recruitment, and deplorable living and working conditions" of migrant labourers who are building the Guggenheim, the Louvre, and the Sheikh Zayed National Museum.
Posted: October 11, 2013
SAUDI ARABIA. Saudi women are increasingly getting behind the wheel in defiance of a driving ban ahead of a nationwide campaign planned by female activists for later this month.
Posted: October 2, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Psychological stress was associated with a 21% greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a study of 800 Swedish women born between 1914 and 1930 who underwent neuropsychiatric tests periodically between 1968 and 2005.
Posted: September 29, 2013
SAUDI ARABIA. A Saudi cleric sparked a wave of mockery online when he warned women that driving would affect their ovaries and bring "clinical disorders" upon their children.
Posted: September 28, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Her remarks came at the fourth annual Global Citizen Awards where the Atlantic Council honored the President of Poland, Queen Rania, and world-renowned conductor Maestro Seiji Ozawa.
Posted: September 25, 2013
UAE. English Premier League clubs spent 630 million pounds on players' transfers in 2013, up 29% from 2012, according to analysis by Deloitte.
Posted: September 23, 2013
UAE. The licensing accord with the Luxembourg-based organizer of the project, was scrapped after it defaulted on payments and "didn't provide guarantees."

MIDDLE EAST BUSINESS COMMENT & ANALYSIS

date:Posted: December 6, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. "Rising levels of uncertainty as to when and how the Federal Reserve will taper its QE scheme has contributed to the weaker inflows into ETFs/ETPs in November".
date:Posted: December 5, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. The prospect of revitalized oil production in Iraq and Iran may add to tensions between those two countries and Saudi Arabia over export quotas; Ultimately, however, emerging markets in Asia will set global demand, and their energy thirst will determine the scale of the problem OPEC faces.
date:Posted: December 5, 2013
UAE. Steve Morgan, head of Cluttons Middle East, warns more work may still need to be done to tighten certain areas of regulation.
INTERNATIONAL. In this interview, Tharman Shanmugaratnam - Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore and Chair of the IMFC -lays out a policy path for all countries for higher growth, incomes, and jobs.