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  • How Gulf Countries Are Splurging at Home
     

    Asa Fitch, writing in the Wall Street Journal, details the extent to which oil dollars are fueling economic growth “at home” for GCC countries: Booming oil prices are flooding Arab countries with money, but where the lion’s share of that wealth would once have been pumped into the world’s financial markets, much of it is […]

     
  • Island in the Gulf – A Film of Juraid Island
     

    One of the great joys of living in Saudi Arabia has always been the natural environment itself – the dunes, the jebals and especially the Gulf with its beaches, reefs and islands. For those lucky enough to visit Juraid Island, fifteen miles offshore from Jubail, the experience has always been unforgettable. A pristine island shaped […]

     
  • Foreign Military Sales Keep Production Lines Hot
     

    “Partnership building is part of one of the largest benefits that we see,” Hunt said. “It’s building and maintaining friendships, it’s about building allies. United States Central Command, or CENTCOM, is obviously a very busy place for the United States now. The more that we can help those countries not only defend, but operate amongst […]

     
  • SEC unveils SR452b projects
     

    The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has allocated SR452 billion to implement energy projects until the year 2021 according to SEC Chairman of the Board of Directors Dr. Saleh Bin Hussein Al-Awaji. These projects will provide services consistent with international standards, including building up an adequate power at a peak time about 10 percent of combined capacity. The […]

     
  • US and Saudi team up for renewable energy projects
     

    The United States and Saudi Arabia are prepared to sign a number of deals related to the establishment of investment and service projects depending on renewable energy resources, Arab News reported. US Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services, Nicole Lamb, said the US would support the Kingdom on its drive to develop clean […]

     
  • The arms spending map of the world
     

    How much do countries spend on their militaries? This data from the Stockholm International Peace research Institute shows the world in arms spending – both in dollars over time and as a percentage of GDP.

     
  • Major Banks Expanding in Saudi Arabia
     

    “We’d be crazy to limit ourselves to a handful of bankers when we can see oil prices are going to sustain the Saudi economy for the foreseeable future,” Rory Gilbert, the head of Middle East and North Africa at London-based Barclays’s wealth management unit, said in an interview this week in Dubai. “In four or […]

     
  • A Nuclear Iran: CNN
     

    What do we really know about the Iranian nuclear threat?  Iran says it wants the right to have its peaceful nuclear program formally recognized.  But from the outside, Iran has long given the impression it has something to hide.  And fear that Iran may soon have the capability to build a nuclear weapon, has spurred […]

     
  • Saudi ‘tops in mobile users’
     

    Saudi Arabia has the highest proportion of mobile phone users in the world with 188 per cent, followed by Vietnam and Oman in the second and third places respectively, according to a recent study. The study which was conducted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) indicated that this percentage is by far […]

     
  • The Menu of Options in the Iranian Nuclear Talks
     

    For the first time in more than a year and a half, negotiators from Iran and the so-called P5+1 countries – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the U.S., Russia, China, France and England, plus Germany – will sit down with their Iranian counterparts this Friday in Istanbul to talk about […]

     

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