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King Abdullah: Meetings, travels, Miqrin Bin Abdelaziz: To Syria and Taliban talks, Salmam Bin Abdelaziz: Support for divorcee centre, Al Waleed Bin Talal: Dubai, cinema, Saud Bin Mansour: SFO in Dubai

King Abdullah: Meets Chinese President, Princess Amira: Ready to motor, Khalid Bin Sultan: Horse show

Saudi Arabia’s Rawabi Holding Company has formed a joint venture with Houston-based Allis-Chalmers Energy – Rawabi Allis-Chalmers Company – to provide oilfield services and rental equipment including, but not limited to, drill pipe, blowout protectors, auxiliary handling tools, directional drilling services, and drilling and completion

Saudi Arabia has an estimated $500bn “stashed away in US treasuries” (bonds), as one expert puts it. And the view being ordered from above – from King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz down – is that “more of this will be invested at home, as was signalled by lifting the limits on the amount the PIF [Public Investment Fund, chaired by Finance Minister

According to the ScienceDaily.com website, Prince Abdelrahman, son of Prince Bandar Bin Abdulaziz (GSN 820/7), is carrying out research at Queen’s University.

Kingdom Holding Company posted a $8.26bn net loss in Q4 08, compared with a gain of $68.2m in Q4 07.

Prince Khalid Bin Sultan has been in the news this month for his meetings with senior Pakistani military officials and French staff officers.

Thirty-year-old Prince Saud Bin Abdelrahman Bin Saud Bin Abdelaziz married a daughter of Prince Bandar Bin Abdelaziz on 14 November. Bandar has ten daughters.

Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency governor Hamad Saud Al-Sayari has said the Kingdom’s economy is not in recession and that the central bank will do what is necessary for the domestic economy.

Saudi Arabia’s Groupe Ahmed Saleh Bughchan is also present in Mauritania, holding the licences for Blocks Ta-14, Ta-26, Ta-36, Ta-37, Ta-61, Ta-62, Ta-63. Ahmed Saleh is from Jeddah’s Bughchan family; like many other important business families in the Kingdom (the Bin Laden, Binzagr and Bin Mahfouz), the Bughchan are originally from Yemen’s Hadhramaut region. The family has a range of interests including transport, construction, drinks, perfume and telecommunications, and owns shopping malls, hotels and a hospital.

Among the Gulf investors that have looked for upside in the Maghreb’s hydrocarbons industries, London-based Xtract Energy Plc, which has Australian and Central Asian energy interests, last year announced a joint venture with the Saudi-owned Alraed Limited Investment Holding Company.

Prince Sultan Bin Fahd Bin Abdelaziz has attracted some unwelcome attention following a reported outburst against journalists who were participating in a live call-in programme.

Busy as usual; Ever prominent, Al-Abdullah alliance; Marriage to KBS daughter; Kuwait visit; Funerals of prominent mothers; Marriages in the cadet branches

Five country ratification is the first hurdle. Policy and structural detail will have to follow soon if markets are to take the GCC’s monetary union plan seriously.

King Abdullah’s increasingly high-profile daughter Princess Adila has spoken about family violence in the Kingdom