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March, 2010
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  • Telecom - Trapped in inertia
    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
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
Shelf space wars
Global brands come up against their retailers' own brands
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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