The Bahraini government on Sunday (May 19th) announced the launch of a large-scale national project to reconstruct old residential areas in the country, Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported Monday (May 20th). According to a government statement, the cabinet on Sunday approved a project to rebuild and develop old residential areas and provide basic services for them. In its first stage, the project will target 10 residential areas in al-Isa, Umm al-Hasm, al-Basitin, al-Sanabis, and al-Hidd cities, Read more [...]

On this occasion, Mr. Adnan Ahmed Yousif, President and Chief Executive of the Group said that this year's symposium will discuss a number of topics and themes and they are:1. Zakat: where in this subject will address the issue of the distinction between stock Zakat acquiring for the purpose of development and those which are acquiring for trading or for both purposes, and measuring the stock Zakat on crops and fruits Zakat, and the judgment in the case the company did not achieve profit with Read more [...]

Manama: Heads of the GCC National Olympic Committees yesterday gave the green light for the implementation of several new recommendations in an attempt to bolster joint sports action bylaws. The meeting was one of several gatherings in Bahrain, featuring high-ranking sports representatives from around the Gulf region in an attempt to develop youth and sports sectors in the GCC. They included increment in the total allocated budget for the GCC Sports Committees, revising the regulations of joint Read more [...]

Home News Article May 19 2013 more articles from Group is also fifth-largest exporter and has highest trade surplus Gulf hydrocarbon producers emerged as the 13th most powerful economy in the world in 2011 while strong oil prices allowed them to become the fifth largest exporter with the highest trade surplus, according to a Bahraini minister. Hassan Fakhru, minister of trade and industry, estimated the combined GDP of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Read more [...]

The Gulf Cooperation Council yesterday condemned Iranian threats to Bahrain as un-Islamic and asked Tehran to reconsider its approach to Arabian Gulf countries.

GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani criticized comments by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Bahrain’s real GDP is estimated to have expanded 3.9 percent in 2012 from the 1.9 percent growth seen in 2011. Even as the oil sector shrank by around 8.5 percent in 2012 due to a temporary technical disruption at the country’s main Abu Sa’afa oil field, (expected to return to full capacity in 2013), strong growth in the nonoil sector drove economic growth, according to Global Investment House's review of the Bahrain economy. In the first three quarters of 2012, Bahrain’s economy grew Read more [...]

Two years ago, when her husband’s job change meant a move to Saudi Arabia, Port Allen native Wendi Monson imagined a lot of things. Playing soccer wasn’t one of them.First of all, she had never played the game. More significant, she would be in Saudi Arabia, where women are not even allowed to drive vehicles, much less run around in clothes that reveal skin above the ankles or wrists.“You would never see a Saudi football game of women playing out in public,” Monson said.But, Read more [...]