Home News Article Dec 09 2013 more articles from By SHARIF M. TAHA The number of joint stock companies allowing inter-GCC share trading between GCC citizens grew by 95 percent in 2012 compared to only 20 percent in 1985, according to local media quoting GCC statistics. Based on data released by the Riyadh-based general secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council, quoted by Al-Eqtiadiah daily, the number of companies rose to 644 in 2012 with their capital Read more [...]

Home / Aviation / Bahrain / Dubai DWC greets its first full service carrier as Gulf Air marks its first flight to the new airport Gulf Air’s first flight into Al Maktoum International at Dubai World Central (DWC) touched down today. A special flight took off from Bahrain International Airport at 0930 and landed at the new airport at 1145 today, although hereafter it will be a daily evening service (GF578 departs Bahrain 1955 and arrives Al Maktoum 2210, and GF579 departs 2255 and Read more [...]

Bahrain’s national carrier launched its first flight to the new airport on Sunday. Gulf Air flight GF578 arriving to a water cannon salute at Al Maktoum International Airport on Sunday. — Supplied photo Gulf Air has become the first full-service network carrier to operate into Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central. Bahrain’s Read more [...]

MANAMA: Iraq’s top diplomat has warned that the “toxic” proliferation of extremist groups among Syria’s rebels raises the prospect of a jihadist-ruled territory at the heart of the region.The comments by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari reflect Iraq’s fears that the Syrian conflict is imperiling its fragile domestic security, as well as growing international alarm about the risk posed by foreign fighters bolstering the ranks of armed groups fighting to Syrian President Bashar Assad. Read more [...]

RECORDER REPORT Array()) --> India's foreign minister said his country had no interest in filling the breach if Washington decided to reduce its military footprint in the Gulf, and cautioned that the region would not be well-served by turning to other Asian powers, like China."We have never played the classical role of intervening with military assistance in the same way that the US has been doing," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told Reuters."Because of the philosophical constraints Read more [...]