Manama, September 21st (BNA) –The Supreme Council for Environment and Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) discussed the environmental feasibility for the improvers of Gasoline fuel of category MTBE for the improved fuel, so as to know about all the environmental, economic, health, and utilitarian aspects result from adopting the mentioned chemical compound as a standard element in the gasoline used in Kingdom Read more [...]

Hotel group Carlson Rezidor has announced plans to build the Park Inn by Radisson Hotel Bahrain. The mid-market property featuring 207 keys is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2015, the company said in a statement. It is the second hotel for Carlson Rezidor in the kingdom following the Radisson Blu Diplomat Hotel, Residence Spa, Manama, which opened in 2000. "We are delighted to strengthen our presence in the kingdom of Bahrain and to further extend our Park Inn by Radisson network in Read more [...]

 The demonstration was held in the village of al-Muqsha on Friday following the detention of Khalil al- Marzooq, the deputy leader of the Al-Wefaq, Bahrain's main opposition party, press tv reported. Secretary General of Al-Wefaq Sheikh Ali Salman made a speech in support of the detained former opposition lawmaker. "We will persist in this revolution until the end. You have detained Khalil," Salman told the protesters. "You can detain me for the rest of my life." Demonstrators also Read more [...]

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is highly concerned regarding the wellbeing of the political detainee, Nadia Ali, who is detained under claims of insulting a member of the security forces. Multiple indications have shown that torture and mistreatment have occurred towards Nadia while in custody.Nadia Ali was in her fourth month of pregnancy, in the company of her husband when she was stopped at a checkpoint in Bani Jamra on 29 May 2013. Her husband was arrested, and Read more [...]

1.As I've said many times before, anyone who wants trenchant insights into the realities of the Middle East -- including its ever-fraught interactions with the Potomac Imperium --  should be reading "the Angry Arab," As'ad AbuKhalil. Just today, AbuKhalil provides two telling examples of the Imperium's arrogance, indifference and -- in the case of John Kerry -- murderous ignorance in its ham-handed and iron-fisted attempts to bend the region and its peoples to the Domination Agenda of our American Read more [...]

During a visit to Washington in February, Bahraini opposition leader Khalil al-Marzooq described how his al-Wefaq party was seeking to bridge the growing polarization between the Persian Gulf nation’s Sunni ruling family and its restless, majority-Shiite population. In contrast to some of the groups that supported the popular uprising against the regime beginning in February 2011, al-Wefaq had firmly renounced violence Read more [...]

Bahrain'sTelecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) announced yesterday that it has awarded new frequency licences in the 900MHz/1800MHz/2100MHz bands to the country's three existing mobile network operators, Batelco, Zain and Viva for the purposes of providing 4G LTE mobile broadband services. TRA chairman Mohammed Al Amer handed the new frequency licences to the CEO's of Batelco, Zain and Viva at the regulator's headquarters. The official statement from the TRA says that it Read more [...]