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 Sabic and Exxon Corp. of the US, established this joint venture plant at Al Jubail Indusrtrial City, Saudi Arabia, to produce low density polyethlene. The ethylene required as feedstock for this project was to be supplied by the Saudi Petrochemical Compa
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Saudi Sipchem says no China methanol duty imposed
The Guardian
RIYADH, July 6 (Reuters) - Saudi International Petrochemical Co (Sipchem) on Monday corrected a statement it made in late June that said China had imposed an import duty on methanol imports. Last month China said it had begun an anti-dumping investigation into methanol imported from Saudi Arabia and...
The under construction Burj tower stands on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Aug. 17, 2007. The Burj will become the world's tallest building by next year, with 3,000 laborers adding a new floor nearly every three days. On August 12 the 145th floor was completed with the tower standing 531.3 metres (1,743 feet
(photo: AP / Kamran Jebreili)
Dubai's Emaar Properties shuts Algeria office
The Star
| DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Shares of the Dubai developer building the world's tallest skyscraper extended their slide Sunday after the company shut an office overseeing US$20 billion worth of real estate projects in Algeria. | Emaar Properties, the Middle East's biggest publicly traded real esta...
Saudi Sipchem says no China methanol duty imposed
The Guardian
RIYADH, July 6 (Reuters) - Saudi International Petrochemical Co (Sipchem) on Monday corrected a statement it made in late June that said China had imposed an import duty on methanol imports. Last month China said it had begun an anti-dumping investig...
Blackberry subscribers won't be charged for use outside UAE: etisalat official
Gulf News
| Dubai: Blackberry subscribers will not be charged for using their phones overseas, clafirfied a a senior official from etisalat. | Calling the email that alleged the company of charging its subscribers upon using their Blackberry overseas as a hoax...
Dubai's Emaar Properties shuts Algeria office
The Star
| DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Shares of the Dubai developer building the world's tallest skyscraper extended their slide Sunday after the company shut an office overseeing US$20 billion worth of real estate projects in Algeria. | Emaar Properties, t...
Three more bidders in the ring as battle for Porsche intensifies
The Times Of India
|               Text: FRANKFURT: Three more bidders are interested in taking a stake in German sports car maker Porsche, rivaling investment plans by Qatar, according to a report by German magazine Focus. | In ...
International agencies say economic crisis increases need for trade aid
Daily Star Lebanon
| Monday, July 06, 2009 | - Powered by | GENEVA: International agencies are set to urge an increase in assistance for trade by developing countries at a conference beginning on Monday, amid fears that aid will be eroded by the economic crisis. "Aid f...
Giant oil chasers turn their sights on South America after striking deal in Iraq
Hong Kong Standard
China National Petroleum Corporation is switching the focus of its overseas acquisitions program to Venezuela following its successful bid for assets in Iraq last week. | //--> Natallie Cai | Monday, July 06, 2009 | China National Petroleum Corporati...
Dubai Metro construction
WN / Suvarna Deepak Vaidya
The trainspotter now arriving in the UAE is the late golden boy
The Independent
| Richard Branson's right-hand man. One of Tony Blair's favourite mandarins. Saviour of Britain's crumbling 3,500 secondary-schools estate. FTSE 100 chief executive. Coveted by Bor...
A man walks out a bank in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 8, 2007. Islamic banking was once viewed as a phenomenon of a few conservative Arab countries, but now the practice is bursting out of its traditional market and luring customers by offering the mundane banking products with a Muslim twist. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)hg3
AP Photo / Kamran Jebreili
Air Arabia and Dubai Islamic Bank launch online ticket payment service
Gulf News
| Dubai: Air Arabia and Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB), the largest Islamic bank in UAE, announced today the launch of a new ticket payment method for Air Arabia customers via DIB’...
The building in midtown Manhattan in New York where Bernard Madoff and wife Ruth live in a penthouse apartment is seen in this aerial view on Sunday, March 22, 2009.
AP / Mark Lennihan
Madoff's wife kicked out of Manhattan penthouse
Daily Star Lebanon
| Saturday, July 04, 2009 | - Powered by | Larry Neumeister | Associated Press | NEW YORK: Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthou...
Japan's Nomura opens offices in Saudi Arabia
Gulf News
| Dubai: Nomura, the global investment bank headquartered in Japan, has announced the launch of its Saudi Arabia operation following the receipt of its commencement letter from Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority (CMA), to undertake a range of se...
Mubadala fires up Algerian power plant
Gulf News
| Dubai: Abu Dhabi state investment agency Mubadala Development said on Sunday it had started operating its 1,227 megawatt gas-fired thermal power plant in Algeria. | The plant, in Tipaza, a coastal province west of Algiers, aims to add close to 20 p...
Value of Saudi shares falls nearly 40%
Gulf News
| Riyadh:  The kingdom's total value of shares traded at the end of the first half of this year dropped by 39.38 per cent to 780.05 billion Saudi riyals (Dh764 billion) against 1.087 trillion riyals during the same period last year, according to...
Economy
Joe Biden the Democratic Vice President Nominee addressing a rally at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on October 29, 2008
(photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
Biden predicts more jobs because of stimulus money
Kansas City Star
Khalid Mohammed, Pool U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, is seen with his son, U.S. Army Capt. Beau Biden, left, at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Biden celebrated the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq on Saturday, a day after warning Iraqi leaders that U.S. assistance will be ...



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