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• Copenhagen climate conference: The key players

  By John Harris The GuardianMonday 30 November 2009  A huge cast of characters will debate, cajole and eventually decide a deal. John Harris selects his climate heroes – plus one villain....

• Islamic finance is growing at a phenomenal pace: Al-Jasser

  By Mushtak Parker Arab News Monday 30 November 2009        Muhammed Al-Jasser, governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), is the new kid on the block, taking over as the new Saudi banking regulator in April this year. With his stint as ...

• UAE acts to counter Dubai debt fallout

  Saudi Gazette Monday, 30 November 2009 DUBAI - The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has declared on Sunday that it will “stand behind” debt-laden Dubai by pumping more liquidity into its banking sector....

• Gulf Arab policy steps to address financial crisis

  By ReutersMoneycontrol News CenterMon, Nov 30, 2009 Gulf Arab oil exporters have adopted an array of policy measures to ease tight liquidity and prop up sagging investor confidence during a global recession....

• Saudis work for foreigners at fruit market

  By Ali Al-Zahrani Arab News Monday 30 November 2009          RIYADH: The normal situation when it comes to labor is that Saudis hire foreigners. But in an unusual twist at the fruit market in Riyadh’s southern Aziziyah district, a Saudi laborer wo...

• Why oil-rich neighbours are wary of writing a blank cheque

  By Roula Khalaf - Middle East editor The Financial Times November 30 2009  Where are the oil-rich Gulf states? That has been a recurring reaction in international markets since Dubai delivered its shock call for a standstill on the debts of its flags...

• The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama

  By FOUAD AJAMI The Wall Street JournalNOVEMBER 30, 2009 'He talks too much," a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America's 44th president. He has wearied of Mr. Obama and now does not bo...

• Rescue operations continue in areas ravaged by floods

  By Muhammad Humaidan Arab NewsMonday 30 November 2009 JEDDAH: Search, rescue and recovery operations in Jeddah’s flood-ravaged areas continued on Sunday with officials reducing the death toll reported on Saturday from 106 to 105. ...

• HRC intervenes to get boys in school

  By Walaa Hawari Arab News Monday 30 November 2009 RIYADH: The governmental Human Rights Commission (HRC) intervened on two occasions to force men to send their children to school....

• Saudi Crown Prince Ends Treatment, Back Soon - Son

  By REUTERSThe New York TimesNovember 30, 2009  DUBAI - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz is in "excellent health" after being treated for an illness and will return home "after a few weeks," his son, Prince Khaled bin Sultan, was quot...

• Producers, consumers gear up for fierce debate in Copenhagen

  By Syed Rashid Husain Arab News Sunday 29 November 2009 With the Copenhagen negotiations, just round the corner, a fierce debate is raging between the producers and the consumers....

• Dubai debt meltdown -- another financial crisis?

  Xinhua2009-11-29 BEIJING: Dubai, an oasis in the Persian Gulf, has woken up to a debt crisis of its state-owned investment flagship Dubai World, a firm known for its slogan -- "The Sun Never Sets on Dubai World." ...

• Report: Indebted Dubai World rejected asset sale

  By The Associated PressAsharq Al- Awsat29/11/2009 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai World "totally rejected" the possibility of selling off some of its top performing assets in the months before the heavily indebted conglomerate turned to creditors...

• No compensation for damaged vehicles: Finance minister

  By Abdulkareem Al-Murabaand and Abdulaziz GhazzawiSaudi GazetteSunday, 29 November 2009 HOLY SITES – The government will not compensate owners of flood-damaged vehicles, said Minister of Finance Ibrahim Al-Assaf, Saturday. ...

• Dubai house prices seen extending falls on debt crisis

  By Jason BenhamReutersSun Nov 29, 2009  Dubai's property market is likely to face further price falls and increased concerns over the availability of finance after the emirate said it would delay debt payment issued by two of its flagship firms, anal...

• Abu Dhabi to aid Dubai on ‘case by case’ basis

  By Stanley Carvalho - Reuters Arab News Sunday 29 November 2009 Abu Dhabi, wealthy capital of the United Arab Emirates, will “pick and choose” how to assist debt-laden neighbor Dubai, a senior official said on Saturday, after fears of a Dubai def...

• Floodwaters pose health hazards, warn medics

  By Sarah Abdullah Arab News Sunday 29 November 2009 JEDDAH: With the waters beginning to dry up following Wednesday’s downpour, medical professionals are warning of health dangers from bacterial contaminates to disease-bearing mosquitoes that could...

• Mayor grilled over poor planning for floods

  By Abdulaziz GhazzawiSaudi GazetteSunday, 29 November 2009 JEDDAH – Angry residents are demanding to know why their city’s civil servants were not prepared for last week’s floods which caused massive damage and numerous deaths. We try to find s...

• Jeddah Drowns in Six-Hour Rainfall

  By Abdul Rahman Al-RashedAsharq Al- Awsat29/11/2009 The most precious gift that the people of Saudi Arabia can hope for after years of drought, dust storms, and thirst, is the gift of rain, regardless of the cost....

• Rush to clear Harmain Expressway

  By Michel Cousins Arab News Sunday 29 November 2009        JEDDAH: Operations have been going on round the clock to clear the Harmain Expressway in east Jeddah of hundreds of mangled vehicles destroyed in the Wednesday’s devastating flash floods...