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March, 2010
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Lebanese telecoms remain in tatters while government dithers over reforms  Read full story
  • Telecom - Bandwidth bandits
    Political muscle protects Lebanon's illegal Internet providers  Read full story
  • Telecom - Hobbled and toothless
    Lebanon's telecom regulator finds itself stripped of public funding and unable to perform  Read full story
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    Armed thievery
    First National Bank robbed of $200,000
    BLOMINVEST Business briefs
    A selection of financial transactions from February 2010
    Buying in
    Former Prime Minister's family buys into Bank Audi after EFG exit
    Casting out a lifeline
    Central Bank of Jordan cuts rates in an effort to stimulate lending
    Commission in crisis
    Banks fear for their international standing as Cabinet squabbles over top auditing appointments
    Debt and diligence
    Byblos Bank's chairman on public debt and the restructuring of the Lebanese banking sector
    Discountng debt
    Saad/Algosaibi Creditors are expected to receive 60 cents on the dollar
    Grouping up
    FNB takes acquires two companies to become a group
    Lebanese banks in the rankings
    Audi and BLOM in bank branding rankings
    Off the top
    Emirates NBD begins to charge more for transactions
    Open for business
    Libya allows foreign banks to enter the country
    Qatar clamps down on runaway fees
    Qatar's central banks caps commissions and fees
    Raising capital
    Byblos bank's board approves a $250 million capital increase
    Ratings on the ropes
    Gulf firms send S&P packing despite new GCC specific scale
    Saudi banks feel credit crimp
    Saudi banks register negative credit growth for the first time in 9 years
    Slow and steady
    United Arab Bank's chief executive talks up his banks conservative approach
    UAE banks winning ‘Emiratization’ race
    The proportion of local employees in Emirati banks passes one-third of the total
    UAE flip-flops on bank limits
    Emirati banks can now issue bonus shares at an unlimited percentage of profit
    An empty coup
    Turkey's ruling party dodges another bullet
    Drinkable diplomacy
    Iraq, Syria and Turkey are forging a bond to tackle their water security issues
    Imagery intifada
    The branding of a Lebanese uprising
    Iran is no China
    America talks "engagement" but walks "regime change" in Iran
    Oil’s not the only spoil
    The US may have lost out on Iraq's oil bids, but there's plenty more to go round
    Old Lebanon’s final frontier
    Lebanon's highest peak is still threatened by plans for a mega-development
    Generally healthy
    GE's executives talk about stepping into the new and more dangerous markets in the region
    A time for rekoning
    Toyota's reputation for safety comes to a crashing end
    Communication of faith
    A good communications strategy can help win the war agaisnt religious extremism
    Facing the digital future
    The Middle East's ad industry wakes up to the new dawn of the digital era
    Press and proliferation
    The man who drew the curtains on the Soviet Union discusses press freedom and nuclear arms
    Staving off beavers
    Efficient feedback management will keep managers in their place and employees on their toes
    Take a look inside
    Brian Whitaker's new book on the Middle East is more a call to action than an insult to the Arab world
    A golden year
    Lebanon's gold reserves top the MENA region
    Airtel buys out Zain
    Zain sells its African assets for $9 billion
    An unexpected shift
    As the East emerges as globalization's unexpected victor, the region must grasp the opportunity to make its mark
    Assets to ashes
    Creditors fight over the crumbs as Dubai World restructures billions of dollars in debt
    Currently smaller
    GCC current account takes a beating as Saudi surpasses the UAE in exports
    Kuwait has a new law
    Labor law comes into effect but leaves out a few key reforms
    Lebanon BOP $7.9 billion
    Record balance of payments comes on the back of a surge of inflows and foreign assets
    More American?
    Lebanon gains 4 spots on the list of goods coming from the US
    New Newsy owners
    News Corp takes a stake in Rotana
    No fear of the red
    Venture capital is poised to ignite the potential of Morocco's economy
    Poland inks military alliance with Isreal
    Poland and Isreal to construct weapons together
    Signs of life
    February stock market performance analysis from around the MENA region
    Spring surge
    After a sleepy winter season IPOs look set to bloom
    Steps for a sustainable future
    Capitalizing on green tourism in the MENA region will require concrete action from governments and businesses
    Still down
    Nominal GDP dips by 1.1 percent in 2009
    Syria’s stable economic outlook
    Syrian economy offsets itself to stability
    The cost of short circuits
    Electricity shortages cost Lebanon's economy $5.75 billion every year
    UAE loses the educated
    Dubai's white-collar workers fair the worst
    Oblivious to oblivion
    The link between security and prosperity is not a game
    “Green gold” goes to waste
    Old fashioned techniques hold back Lebanon's olive oil industry
    Ales of an industry
    The hops in Almaza's brew and the homegrown contender
    Gas that stinks of graft
    Algeria struggles to placate investors as corruption scandals emerge
    Lending a hand
    How a submarine treasure hunter helped find the ill-fated flight that crashed off the coast of Beirut
    Last month's headlines - Lebanon
    Selected headlines from the month of February 2010 in Lebanon
    Last month's headlines - Middle East
    Selected headlines from the month of February 2010 in the Middle East
    Cityscape rebranded
    Plummeting attendance prompts conference to repackage
    Delivery issues
    Homes in the Burj Khalifa begin to come online as its lift falters
    Haircut and a house, Madam?
    Lebanon's real estate brokers abound as regulation resides elsewhere
    Houses for all
    New initiative to provide housing for Jordan's less well-off
    Hurrying houses
    Bahrain speeds up contracting of homes to ease shortage
    Mega-project mania
    Mega projects in Lebanon surge in 2009
    New home for old Pharaohs
    Egypt to build $550 million museum
    Play time is over
    Dubai's real estate industry is taking steps to professionalize the city's property brokers
    Rating the rises
    New ratings mechanism for the Emarati property exposes the lower-end of the market
    Relief in the red
    Underfunded UNRWA to run out of money for Nahr el-Bared refugee camp by mid-year
    Setting the record straight
    Ramco debates recently published property figures
    Speed up city
    King Abdullah Economic City to get financial boost
    Still working
    Construction growth continues for Lebanon as permits end up in the red
    Sun in Saudi
    Saudi to spend $13.32 billion on new tourism city
    The internet looks to property
    Leo Sterling's chief executive talks about the internet's role int he regional real estate market
    The price of a place to work
    Lebanon gains 1 spot in office space costs but stays below regional and global averages
    Telecom - Bandwidth bandits
    Political muscle protects Lebanon's illegal Internet providers
    Telecom - Hobbled and toothless
    Lebanon's telecom regulator finds itself stripped of public funding and unable to perform
    Telecom - Trapped in inertia
    Lebanese telecoms remain in tatters while government dithers over reforms
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