MANAMA: Bahrain's advertising industry requires a boost, a leading industry veteran has said. "In Bahrain, we are all aware that the advertising industry requires a boost to become much more active like other Gulf markets," International Advertising Association (IAA) Bahrain Chapter president and IAA Worldwide board member Khamis Al Muqla said yesterday. He was speaking during a business luncheon at the Capital Club. Minister of State for Information Affairs Sameera Rajab was a special guest. Economic Read more [...]

BAHRAIN'S latest National Dialogue session was cancelled yesterday after participating opposition societies failed to show up on time. Three government ministers, the National Coalition (Sunni representatives) and Independents (MPs and Shura Council members) waited around 40 minutes before deciding it would be useless to continue without them. Opposition representatives then started drifting in as other participants were walking out of the Isa Cultural Centre in Juffair. However, it was deemed Read more [...]

The institution of an award for exceptional service to humanity on an international level, by the Kingdom of Bahrain, (GDN, May 27) is a welcome step. That this award is in memory of and named after the late Amir, His Highness Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, makes it very apt, as he himself was a great humanitarian, who built a strong and unassailable foundation to make Bahrain the sole secular Gulf country where human rights are guaranteed and respected. People from various parts of the Read more [...]

MUSCAT — Board Members of the GCC Statistical Centre held their first meeting at Barr Al Jissah Resort here yesterday under the chair of Mohammed Ahmed al A'amir, President of the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) in Bahrain and Board Chairman of the GCC Statistical Centre. The meeting discussed matters related to the launch of the actual work of the centre to set the financial and administrative frameworks to enable the centre to carry out its work in its assigned areas of competence. The Read more [...]

Geneva-May-29(BNA) The Kingdom of Bahrain, headed by the permanent representative to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva, Ambassador Dr Yousef Abdulkarim Bucheeri, took part in the urgent debate by the Human Rights Council. The debate, held today (Wednesday, 29 May, 2013) at the UN Office in Geneva, discussed the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria, particularly in Al Qusayr area. Read more [...]

Manama-May-29(BNA) Egyptian Shura Council Speaker Dr. Ahmed Fahmi today rejected any Iranian interference in the highly-strategic Arabian Gulf region, being the western gate to the Arab World. “Egypt will never tolerate any attempt to subvert the security and stability of the Arabian Gulf Region and Bahrain”, he said as he addressed the Egyptian expatriate community at his country’s embassy. He said Read more [...]