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Australian Companies To Survive A Metals Market Correction
Australian mining companies have been hard hit by falling commodities prices and rising costs. But Petra Capital Analyst Andrew Richards believes his country's resource sector has turned a corner. In this interview with , Richards says that costs are falling and China's need for Australian metals ...
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Kempinski to open Riyadh hotel in September
By: Jena Tesse Fox Saudi Arabia's luxury hotel scene keeps getting better: Hotelier Middle East is reporting that the new Kempinski hotel within Riyadh's $320 million Burj Rafal tower could get a soft launch before its official launch in September. On a recent site visit by Construction Week, ...
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New Market Research Report Hussein Bakry Gazzaz Co Ltd in Retailing
(live-PR.com) - Hussein Bakry Gazzaz is expected to continue to lose share in beauty specialist retailers during the forecast period unless it adjusts its strategy. The internet is for example becoming increasingly important to marketing in this channel, being used by key competitor Arabian Oud to ...
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Excerpts Egypt risks 30 June protest violence. 3000 jobs in Saudi
Excerpts: Egypt risks 30 June protest violence. 3,000 jobs in Saudi for Egyptians. Russia urges softening Iran sanctions. Fiji offers 500+troops for Golan June 19, 2013 +++SOURCE: Fox News 19 ...
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Saudis Syria role driven by fear of Shiite full moon
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief, Prince Muqrin, once told American diplomats the Middle East's so-called Shi'ite Crescent where the Muslim sect holds sway was "becoming a full moon" as Iranian influence spread.For the kingdom's Sunni ruling princes, that fear, revealed in a 2009 US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks, now focuses on Syria. ...
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Indiabulls plans move into Saudi Bahrain markets
One of India's largest listed real estate developers has announced plans to launch offices in some Gulf countries as part of an overseas expansion. In December, Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd, which has delivered 3.3m ...
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MFRI Announces Over $30 Million in New Major Orders in the Second Quarter by Its
NILES, IL -- (Marketwired) -- 06/19/13 -- (NASDAQ: MFRI) In press releases dated November 26, 2012 and February 5, 2013, the Company described major orders received by Perma Pipe Saudi Arabia in support of large-scale construction projects expanding the Haram Grand Mosque in Mecca and the King ...
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Indonesia urged to lobby Saudi Arabia ...
Amid the Saudi government`s policy to cut hajj pilgrims` numbers due to expansion work at Mecca`s Grand Mosque, some quarters in Indonesia urged the government to lobby its Saudi counterpart to increase Indonesia`s hajj quota. Former chairman of the People`s Consultative Assembly (MPR) who is also ...
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China produces worlds fastest computer Saudi Press Agency
(Saudi Press Agency (Saudi Arabia) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Beijing, City, Sha'ban 9, 1434, Jun 18, 2013, SPA -- A Chinese supercomputer producer has announced that China has once again built the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of performing 33.86 quadrillion operations per second, ...
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Tadawul market fails to recover losses from the beginning of the week
The Tadawul All-Share Index closed Wednesday trading unchanged at 7,526.26 points, which marks the last trading day of the Saudi Arabian work week. Whilst the gauge rose steadily in the sessions since Sunday, the GCC bellewether index failed to recover last Saturday's day-loss of 4.23%, the biggest drop in 2 years after the King's early return from a private holiday fuelled ...
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Saudi Arabia to ban WhatsApp soon
After blocking the popular Internet messaging app, Viber and threatening to ban Blackberry's instant messaging service BBM, looks like WhatsApp is next up in line. In the beginning of June, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia slapped a ban on Viber, a service that allowed users to call for free, send messages and share photos as they failed to comply with the rules of the country's ...
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Assad forces build up for Aleppo offensive
Forces loyal to Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad are reported to be tightening a cordon around the northern city of Aleppo, once the country's commercial heart, in a major offensive against rebels who hold 60 percent of the ...
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Sameera Aziz films Reem story of a Saudi girl with Indian mother
Entertainment News: Sameera Aziz recently left Saudi Gazette from an editor's post and started making a film in Bollywood. The films name "Reem" a story of a Saudi girl, Reem, whose mother is an Indian ...
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Saudi Ambassador To Sudan Attends Business Conference
SPA -- The first conference of doing business in Sudan entitled "Towards economic growth led by the private sector" opened here today under the auspices of the Sudanese Supreme Council for Investment. The conference was attended by Saudi Ambassador to Sudan Faisal bin Hamed Mu'alla. --SPA 14:29 ...
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Saudis spending on summer vacations to reach $5.1 billion
JEDDAH - Saudis are expected to spend around SR19.5 billion ($5.1 billion) on their summer vacations, marking an 8 percent rise on last year, a local Arabic newspaper reported Tuesday. The number of trips from Saudi is expected to reach 6 million this summer, while foreign tourists are expected ...
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Saudi billionaire may erect worlds tallest building in Moscow
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal may build a mile-high skyscraper in Moscow, which would be the world's tallest building by far, Russian Vesti FM radio reported, quoting UAE media. The prince is also considering Shanghai, London and New York as possible locations for the 1600-meter ...
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KKR among bidders for Saudi fast food chain sources
By David French and Dinesh Nair DUBAI | Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:15am EDT DUBAI (Reuters) - A majority stake in Saudi fast food chain Kudu has been put up for sale and private equity firm KKR (KKR.N) is among the bidders, four banking and industry sources said on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia is the largest Gulf Arab economy and there has been increasing interest among international investors in ...
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Spectrum Group Felicitates Its Channel ...
Spectrum group, the holding company for Comguard, Spectrum Network Solutions, Spectrum Training, ComGuard Infosol (India) and Psilog International felicitated its channel partners for their contribution towards its success in the Middle East and India at a recently held Annual Partner Conference in ...
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Saudi Arabia Celebrates World Refugee Day on Thursday
SPA-- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia celebrates the World Refugee Day which falls on Thursday and endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000. In a report today, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reviewed the Kingdom's contributions to the activities of High Commission of the United Nations ...
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Saudi Archeological Relics Exhibition in Pennsylvania USA starts on Friday 21 June 2013
Pennsylvania, USA: June 19 -- (BNA)-- The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA)'s President, HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz; and, Governor of U.S. Pennsylvania State, Mr. Tom Corbett, are slated to co-inaugurate next week (on Friday, June, 21, 2013) an exhibition themed (Saudi Archeological Masterpieces Throughout the Ages', according to the sisterly Saudi ...
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Saudi Tycoon Eyes Moscow as Site for Worlds Tallest Building
MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) may build a mile-high skyscraper in Moscow, which would be the worlds tallest building by far, Russian Vesti FM radio reported, quoting UAE media. The prince is also considering Shanghai, London and New York as possible locations for the 1600-meter (5,280 feet) ...
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Saudi- Contractors delay 400 projects in Makkah
(MENAFN - Arab News) Around 400 infrastructure and service projects in Makkah are delayed, said an official at the Makkah Mayoralty. Several road construction projects, flood projects, works in public parks and gardens and the municipality's utilities are running behind schedule. "The mayoralty ...
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Saudi tragedy 5-year old went out to play came back dead
A five-year old Saudi boy was found dead on the roof of a deserted house and police said they believe he was murdered by more than one man. Abdul Mohsen Hamoud had stepped out of his house in the southern village of Malkouta to play with his friends but he never returned home. His father, ...
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UK denies role in Bahrains security action
A senior British government official has categorically denied that the UK could be held responsible for the actions of Bahrain's security forces in February 2011, a report said. British Foreign Office Minister for Mena Alistair Burt was giving evidence during the sixth and final session of a ...
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Saudi- ISPAF calls for democratic IISJ elections
(MENAFN - Arab News) Some parents at the International Indian School in Jeddah (IISJ) appealed to school authorities to move the June 20 management committee elections to another date after the summer holidays and to first address issues that had been raised. "The election process has been totally ...
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Saudi Arabia's massive infastructure drive
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a major construction boom being implemented and supported by the national government in order to improve infrastructure and living standards in the largest economy in the Arab world.
It was recently announced by the director-general of the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON), Tawfig Fawzan Alrabiah, that a new industrial city would be built in Taif in order to cope with growing demand for industrial land in Saudi Arabia. The Taif Industrial City will in fact be a ‘city within a city’ so to speak, but will measure 11 square miles in size and will function as a fully-fledged industrial city, providing all the infrastructure required in such zones. Read more
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