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  • Batelco to invest nearly $200m

    2012-3-23

    Batelco, Bahrain's leading telecom operator, plans to invest up to BD75 million($199 million) over the next three years on developing infrastructure in Bahrain , the company said. The company will invest BD25 million each year. The company's Bahrain chief executive Rashid Abdulla said Bateclo had a commitment to Bahrain and , over the years , planned to become even more customer-centric. "Mo...

  • Gold exports boost UAE trade

    2012-3-23

    Gold exports from the UAE ave surged on the back of high prices, elevating its total non-oil trade by nearly 14 percent, official figures show. Most of the increase in gold exports went to India and Switzerland. The UAE's trade excluding oil and gas exports swelled to nearly Dh754.4 billion ($205.3 billion) in 2010 to allow the country to maintain its position as the second largest Arab economy ...

  • Eco-friendly palm oil favoured

    2012-3-14

    Manufacturers and retailers in Europe , Australia and Japan are buying more eco-friendly palm oil compared to two years ago although more firms need to display a stronger commitment to preserving forests, environment group EEF has said. A scorecard devised by EEF showed 87 out of 132 firms , including Nestle and Unilever, had pledged to meet their palm oil needs by 2015 or earlier from planters i...

  • Focus on new technology in UAE

    2012-3-14

    New technology will help drive the healthiest area of the UAE construction industry in coming years with spend in building construction alone projected at $184 billion between 2011 and 2015, according to the lasted figures from Ventures on behalf of The Big 5, 2011. The UAE is identified by the report as the leader in adopting green measures in building design and the report provides examples of n...

  • Battery storage firm gets patents

    2012-3-8

    Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts (US) company , founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, announced it has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT and received financing from France's Total and from a personal investment by Bill Gates. "This is an important step forward for L...

  • Bunkering Standard coming

    2012-2-28

    Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) has announced it is leading a new initiative to establish a professional bunkering standard in the UAE DMCA is the government entity in-change of regulating and supervising all aspects of the maritime sector in Dubai. It is said it had gathered key stakeholders in the UAE bunkering industry, including maritime bunker regulatory licensing bodies, ship owners, o...

  • Indian inflation "inimical to growth"

    2012-2-28

    Indian inflation of around 9 percent is "inimical to growth", justifying the central bank's recent monetary tightening campaign. India's central bank chief said. While modest inflation can help boost growth, rapid growth in price pressures requires tighter monetary policy, Duvvuri Subbarao, governor of the Reserve Bank of India,. Said during a speech at New York University. "If in...

  • Taiwan production sees a fall

    2012-2-22

    Taiwan's industrial production declined for the first time since 2009 in November. Output fell 3.55 percent from a year earlier, after gaining a revised 1 percent in October, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said in Taipei.

  • Brazil sixth largest economy

    2012-2-22

    In what is likely a changing of the guard in the global economic landscape, the surging economy of Brazil has supplanted the UK as the world's sixth largest economy, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) CEBR chief executive Douglas McWilliams said:" I think it's part of the big economic change, where not only are we seeing a shift from the west to the east , but ...

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    2011-7-13

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