Doha, Qatar – The Qatar Investment and Innovation Conference, held on Wednesday, at Barahat Msheireb in Msheireb Downtown Doha, brought...
Dubai, UAE -- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, attended part of...
The UAE - like other oil-rich Arab Gulf states - has often used the public sector as an employment vehicle...Just 12 percent of the country's more than nine million residents are UAE nationals, with over 90 percent of private sector jobs taken by foreigners
The government is now strong-arming private firms into hiring local talent, with the aim of ensuring Emiratis make up 10 percent of the private sector workforce by 2026
A team of investigators from Europe will visit Lebanon next month to probe into the wealth of central bank governor...The visit aims to conduct investigations into financial affairs linked to Salameh
A Lebanese prosecutor probing Salameh on suspicion of financial misconduct requested charges be issued against him based on preliminary investigative findings
In a joint statement on Tuesday, 28 organisations said ISIE had "targeted freedom of expression to the point where it...Last week, the ISIE elections authority filed 24 legal complaints against media organisations and bloggers in the North African nation
Tunisian and foreign rights groups have warned that his actions threaten the only democracy to have emerged from the Arab Spring uprisings
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - As many as 15 memorandums of understanding were signed between Saudi Arabia and Japan in several...The forum highlighted the investment opportunities to strengthen the investment partnership between the two countries in light of Saudi-Japan Vision 2030.
It also reviewed opportunities to expand the investment partnership between the two countries in a number of the strategic sectors.
One US dollar traded at 1,580 Iraqi dinars on the street Tuesday, against the central bank rate of 1,470 dinars,...The central bank has blamed the slump on "temporary pressures" sparked by the "adoption of new mechanisms to protect the banking sector, customers, and the financial system".
Iraq's Association of Private Banks said the rate had risen as a result of changes to the "mechanism" of foreign currency sales due to international requirements.
Sustainability remains key focus as the UAE and Saudi Arabia speed up digitalization, which has been the fundamental pillar of...Gartner expects that by 2025, 50 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) will have performance metrics tied to the sustainability of the IT organization.
In the Arab Gulf, national economic visions aimed at alleviating petrochemical dependence have put renewable energy sources front and center.
ABU DHABI, UAE - The Ministry of Economy has announced that Creative Zone, one of the UAE's largest consulting and...The NextGenFDI program, which was launched in July 2022, aims to attract digitally-advanced companies to the UAE.
NextGenFDI includes fast business licensing, group visa issuance, fast access to banking facilities, as well as access to educational and cloud services.
DUBAI, UAE : The Dubai Land Department (DLD) launched its new strategic plan and vision, shaping the features and landmarks...The new strategic plan is in line with the national agenda to build a better economy.
DLD has a mission of enabling the real estate community by providing seamless services, effective legislation and integrated data.
DUBAI, UAE - The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) under-construction pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant site in Hatta is 58.48...This is the first station of its kind in the GCC, with investments of up to US$387 million.
The power plant will have a production capacity of 250 megawatts, a storage capacity of 1,500 megawatt-hours.
- Algiers, Algeria-- Algeria approved the 2023 budget, the largest in the country's history after President Abdelmadjid Tebboune approved the Finance...
The government set a reference oil price estimated at US$60 per barrel, up by US$15 per barrel over the 2022 budget
The figures in the annual budget showed an increase in defense spending, which topped the rest of the sectors with US$22.7 billion, to be the largest in Algeria's history.
