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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....
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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 ...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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." ...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
