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United Arab Emirates – When work began in 2004 to build the world's tallest tower, Dubai's confidence was sky high, with a host of mega-projects on the drawing board or rising from the sands...It's been tripped up by a debt...

The new 30-second ad for the Google / Verizon / Motorola-built Droid phone is a must-see clip, and not in a good way. Watch it in YouTube HD format below. (I’m still trying to find out which agency made the...

Last year, more than 100 exhibitors and international brands were represented at the Termium. This year they were only 50 and no major companies bothered to show up. “International companies are cutting their marketing budgets, they prefer to send their...

A group of researchers from the Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Centre in Sultan Qaboos University who analysed the characteristics of 27-year rainfall data in the Sultanate of Oman, found that Muscat and surrounding areas are susceptible to tropical cyclones...

The 12th session of the Egyptian-Omani Joint Committee will begin here today. The meeting will be presided over by Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, minister responsible for foreign affairs; and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egyptian minister of foreign affairs. Senior officials...

There’s a great deal of change in the commercial environment right now,” said Rashmi Mitra of Knowledge Horizon at the start of the training centre’s new Effective Manager Course, part of Knowledge Horizon’s popular Training Time programme. “There’s tremendous pressure...

Customers, locals as well as visitors, are spending but not as much, not like they did before the world recession Todd Danforth and Charlie McCormick are businessmen on Marco Island who independently told us of a way to gauge the...

David Gardner's top pick took an epic run of 1,334%!...In March, though, green lights started flashing and the market went charging ahead , scoring a 60%-plus gain by mid-October. All of that must have been pretty tiring, though, because we've...

A I fell in love with photography at the age of 16 and I started as a sales rep in a photographic store where I found out about panoramic cameras. After taking some landscape photos on a surfing trip to...