Robert Grenier – a 27-year veteran of the CIA’s Clandestine Service, and Director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center from 2004 to 2006 – writes today: Events in the Middle East have slipped away from us. Having long since opted in favour of…
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Former Director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center: American Policy in the Middle East is Failing Because the U.S. Doesn’t Believe in Democracy
January 31st, 2011 |
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Stop the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Stop the Mugging of the Middle Class and Poor by the Wealthy
January 17th, 2011 |
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The Defense Department’s general counsel said that he believed Martin Luther King, Jr., might have supported the current wars: I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation’…
Singapore government bonds to trade on SGX by middle of this year
January 10th, 2011 |
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The Singapore government will allow trading of government bonds on the Singapore bourse by the middle of the year, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in parliament on Monday.
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Technics wins $23.5m EPCC contract in the Middle East
January 3rd, 2011 |
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Mainboard-listed Technics Oil and Gas, one of the leading full service integrators of compression systems and process modules for the global offshore oil and gas sector, today announced that it has been awarded a $23.5 million contract from a Middle East oil & gas company for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) of process equipment for early production systems.
With a project duration of eight months, the group will deliver process equipment for early production systems consisting of wellhead manifolds,test separators, three phase separators, gas KO drums, flare KO drums, heater treater, scraper traps, corrugated plate separators, hydrogen sulfide removal module and flare stacks and burners.
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Clinton “frustrated” at Middle East deadlock
December 11th, 2010 |
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is frustrated over setback to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but insists the U.S. will continue to push for progress.
She vowed to promote indirect talks on “core issues” including borders, settlements, refugees and Jerusalem.
David Miliband paid £25K to give speech at luxury Middle East resort
December 11th, 2010 |
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It looks like British Labour Party politician David Miliband is following in the footsteps of his mentor and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, by turning to the lucrative foreign lecture circuit after leaving frontline politics. In a startling revelation, it has emerged that Miliband was paid 25,000 pounds to give a speech on relations between [...]
Health care in the Middle East: Sun, shopping and surgery
December 9th, 2010 |
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Can the Gulf attract medical tourists?
COULD the Persian Gulf become the next hot destination for medical tourism? That was one of the questions on the minds of delegates at a health conference this week in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The idea may have legs.
For one thing, medical tourism continues to boom globally despite the downturn. High prices and queues in the over-stretched health systems of the rich world have driven many people to seek hip replacements, plastic surgery and other care in Thailand, India and Costa Rica. Deloitte, a firm of consultants, forecasts that the number of Americans going abroad for care will rise to 1.6m in 2012, up from 750,000 in 2007. …
Advanced clinches oil & gas projects in China and the Middle East worth $11m
November 1st, 2010 |
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Advanced Holdings, the global supplier of proprietary process equipment and technologies, clean energy solutions and environmental technologies, says it has successfully clinched new oil & gas contracts for the supply of process analyser packages worth $11 million in China and the Middle East.
In China, the process analyser packages will be supplied to subsidiaries of US-based multinational energy giant Chevron Corporation, Sinopec and Petrochina.
In the Middle East, the supply is for Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company, a joint venture between two world oil majors, Saudi Aramco and Total. All these projects are expected to complete in 2011.
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Frasers Hospitality opens 2nd property in the Middle East
October 25th, 2010 |
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Frasers Hospitality today opened its second property in the Middle East, Fraser Suites Dubai.
Earlier in March, Frasers Hospitality made its debut in the Middle East with the opening of the 91-unit Fraser Suites Seef, Bahrain in the kingdom of Bahrain. The opening of Fraser Suites Dubai will be followed in quick succession with the launch of Fraser Suites Doha and another three properties in this region over the next two years.
U.S., EU negotiators attempt to save Middle East talks
October 2nd, 2010 |
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The U.S. and EU negotiators have met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East George Mitchell and EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Catherine Ashton have continued their mission in the Middle East to try to secure permanent peace in the region.
Intel Pushes Workstation Clusters for HPC Needs of ‘Missing Middle’
September 14th, 2010 |
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Intel officials say their cube clustered computing concept could help businesses gain access to HPC-levels of compute power. – SAN FRANCISCO Intel is running an internal pilot program to show that workstations can be clustered together to give businesses and institutions access of HPC levels of compute power that normally they would not have.
The idea is to give what is becoming known as the “missing middle” those business…
Violence in Middle East as peace talks begin
September 2nd, 2010 |
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In the West Bank, two civilians were wounded in a shooting by suspected Palestinian gunmen. The incident came 24 hours after the killing of four settlers by Hamas militants. Hamas is opposed to the new negotiations and has vowed to carry out more violence.
Disney’s schools in China: Middle Kingdom meets Magic Kingdom
August 26th, 2010 |
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A Western media company offers a product the Chinese can’t resist: education
ON A Tuesday at 6pm, children begin arriving at a bland commercial building just as the office workers are leaving. A small storefront leads to an English-language school run by Disney. It is not much of an entrance, squashed between a dusty drugstore and a fast-food joint. This being China, many passers-by assume it is a fake. But word is spreading through the pushy-parent network: this is the real thing.
Children as young as two toddle in and climb the stairs. At first glance, their classrooms look like dreary boxes, but two of the four walls are interactive video monitors. Each lesson is assisted by virtual mermaids, ducks, mice and other Disney icons. Touch the answer to a question (a fried egg, for example) on one screen, and it plops out of the sky on the other. While teachers instruct, the classroom seems to move. …
Rotary may take stake in SE Asia, Middle East projects
August 19th, 2010 |
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Singapore oil and gas infrastructure services firm Rotary Engineering said it is expanding its horizon to building, owning and operating oil storage terminals in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
The firm has done early engineering and design work on a few projects worth US$150-350 million ($203-473 million) each in the United Arab Emirates and Southeast Asia, said Chia Kim Piow, Rotary’s chairman and managing director.
CSE Global wins contracts totalling $33m in Middle East, UK
July 15th, 2010 |
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CSE Global today announced that its various subsidiaries have recently secured several contracts worth a total of $33 million in the 2nd quarter of this year, comprising four projects in the Middle East and one in the UK.
Ezion to sell liftboat to Middle East client for US$78m
July 14th, 2010 |
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Ezion Holdings, a provider of offshore marine logistics and support services, expects to sell a liftboat to a Middle Eastern client in the third quarter for $78 million ($107.2 million) with an excess of proceeds of about US$14.4 million, the company said in presentation slides posted to the Singapore stock exchange today.
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UN talks back conference on nuclear-free Middle East
May 29th, 2010 |
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Signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have agreed to work towards a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East. The members, meeting at the UN in New York, called for a conference in 2012 attended by Middle Eastern states – including Iran – to establish the zone.
KTL to set up offshore rigging facilities in the Middle East
April 21st, 2010 |
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KTL Global, the supplier of rigging equipment to the offshore oil and gas (O&G) sector, says it will invest $6 million to set up one the largest rigging and sling manufacturing facilities in the Middle East.