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Rory Mcilroy will be a busy man next season after taking up membership on the US PGA Tour...Youngster McIlroy sought advice from many of his peers and his management company before opting for the chance to take on Tiger Woods,...

Emaar Properties expects “technical talks” for its planned merger with state owned developers to be concluded within a month, its chairman said in remarks aired yesterday. The new firm will announce new projects after the merger, Mohamed Alabbar told Al...

Gulf region’s largest bank by assets, is not looking to issue any bonds this year but would consider the option in the first quarter of 2010, its chief executive said yesterday. The bank “is not planning anything this year... we...

Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj Capital said yesterday that 2010 would be a significant investing year for private equity and that it was looking at opportunities in Middle East commercial properties to take advan-tage of cheap prices. Chief executive Arif...

Contrary to popular opinion, customer service in UAE banks is improving, according to the latest study from Ethos Consultancy...However, she added that she didn’t think the global recession was the only reason customer service in the UAE had improved. “I...

The All Whites players came up with the idea and spent close to $100,000 of their own money for the One Shot For Glory marketing campaign used by New Zealand Football for the World Cup playoffs against Bahrain. NZF played...

Kuwait is free of money-laundering operations, according to Minister of Commerce Ahmad Al-Haroun, who revealed that a conference is to be held on this subject on Dec 5, which aims to raise awareness of the great damage that this activity...

An Arab anti-corruption body chief said here yesterday the Kuwaiti National Assembly (parliament) would pass a package against corruption in December. Speaking on the sidelines of a seminar held by Arab Parliamentarians against Corruption in Beirut, the organization's chairman Nasser...

After the passage of almost two decades since the Gulf War, Kuwaitis still view Americans as allies. The relationship between the two countries has not been troubled, despite escalating tensions between the United States with Iran and Iraq, two of...