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Coherent street addresses are long overdue
- It has been in the news that Abu Dhabi is planning a new address system to help residents, visitors, postal workers and the emergency services find their way around the UAE’s capital city.
- Middle East: Wednesday, April 30 - 2008 at 13:13
Dubai driving: Unofficial rules of the road
- The Dubai government, mindful of the emirate’s terrible road record, recently pushed through harsher rules to try and improve people’s driving habits. After they came into force, Dubai police said it issued 2,300 fines on the first day. So here are the AME Info unofficial rules of the road for drivers….
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, March 11 - 2008 at 00:02 |
Eco-friendly Masdar has unanswered questions
- Masdar city in Abu Dhabi has created a lot of attention, as it dubs itself the world’s greenest city. It aims to build sustainable dwellings and business units, powered through eco-friendly means such as solar energy.
- United Arab Emirates: Friday, January 25 - 2008 at 10:56 |
Saudis look inwards for key job skills
- Think Saudi Arabia and oil and gas and wealth immediately spring to mind, but the government wants to diversify and start encouraging companies from a range of industries into the kingdom. Oil and gas has made Saudi Arabia a rich country and put it on the world map.
- Saudi Arabia: Monday, November 26 - 2007 at 15:23 |
Green planes good for the airline business
- Qatar Airways teased delegates at the Business Travel Show, Dubai yesterday with talk of planes fuelled by natural gas or using electric planes in the future. It was a classic smoke and mirrors move, giving no indication for when we might see the fruits of such research – or even any details about the research - but ensuring it grabbed the headlines.
- Middle East: Tuesday, October 30 - 2007 at 10:36 |
People want more than dodgy deadlines when buying property
- It won’t surprise Middle East residents to hear that Cityscape Dubai centred around mega-projects. Most were in Dubai, but other emirates and countries were also showing their individual attention grabbers.
- Middle East: Wednesday, October 17 - 2007 at 15:34 |
Six year expat rule bad for the GCC
- Bahrain’s call for a new GCC-wide rule that would not allow expatriates living in the Council’s countries to stay for longer than six years is bad for business and the region alike.
- Middle East: Thursday, October 04 - 2007 at 15:42 |
Will the global credit crunch be a re-run of the Asian Financial Crisis and lower oil prices?
- The 1998 Asian Financial Crisis began in Thailand and worked its way across the region with a domino effect. Will the global credit crunch now move out of the capital markets and topple different asset classes in different locations? If so that could well include the oil price.
- Middle East: Wednesday, September 19 - 2007 at 12:16 |
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