Bankdhofar’s First Sharia Board Meeting
The first meeting for the Sharia Supervisory Board of BankDhofar was held on December 26 at the bank's head office…
Bank Muscat, Shinhan Bank Of Korea Sign Co-Operation Pact
Bank Muscat, the flagship financial services provider in the Sultanate, and Shinhan Bank, one of the leading banks…
GCC Projects Swell 12% To USD2trn
Projects planned and underway across the Gulf region now total more than $2 trillion, up 12 percent on the…
QR20bn Shopping Malls To Come Up In Qatar
Qatar will soon have more cozy shopping malls and commercial complexes with at least nine such facilities costing a…
Real Estate Prices In KSA Expected To Drop This Year
The increasing real estate prices will decline in 2013, Ayed Al-Qahtani, head of the Real Estate Committee in the…
Saudi Arabia’s Telecom Investment To Reach SR 37 Billion This Year
Saudi Arabia is by-far the largest telecom market in the GCC, accounting for 66% of total mobile subscribers, 59%…
Mobily To Raise Capital By 10% To SR7.7bn
SAUDI Arabia's Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) said Saturday it has approved at an extraordinary general meeting held at…
Egypt’s Slum Crisis Persists Amid Housing Abundance
More than 16 million people out of a population that has exceeded 80 million currently live in Egypt’s slums, most…
Al Jazeera ‘Losing’ Arab Viewers
While Al Jazeera Media Network has embarked on an ambitious expansion plan in the US with its acquisition of Al…
Petrol Bombs Thrown At Protesters Outside Egypt President’s Palace
Unknown attackers threw petrol bombs at tents housing protesters outside the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo…
