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The Middle East project finance market has been boosted by recent deals in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and the opening of US export credit agency Export-Import Bank in Iraq
MBR in Europe
Shekha Lubna: Palestinian visits
Hawker Beechcraft delivers T-6 trainers, Second RNO corvette deal, Sikorsky gets MoI helicopter contract, Raytheon contract to deliver missiles to SANG, Potential $30m deal with US, Raytheon wants more deals
Funeral prayers for cousin
UAE joint defence committee with US; Mayall tour of UAE and Yemen; Yemeni coastguard base on Miyoun Island
The past year’s financial turmoil has stimulated calls from nationals who want greater ‘dialogue’ to promote changes in the way Dubai’s economy and society are regulated.
MBR: Back in the saddle
It is not just financial management and governance that is worrying the professional classes and other stakeholders in Dubai. There is growing concern about the education system, which the commercial emirate has until very recently insisted it manages itself.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum might argue that the financial turmoil is over, but an increasing number of nationals are asking whether a more rigorous reappraisal of legislation and business practices is necessary for Dubai to emerge from its traumatic debt crisis as a more transparent place to do business
Dubai-based Topaz Engineering has been awarded a $45m engineering, procurement and construction contract from Sharjah-based Gulf Petrochem.
CNN interview
Travels, Denies allegations,Talking up the Makkah metro, New ruler’s representative, US meetings, Extensions
An upsurge in interest in the tiny emirate puts the spotlight once again on the struggle for power between the aged ruler’s feuding sons
Authorities gloss Kurdistan security threat, Previous form, Lobbying on the Hill
