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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai's ruler writes poetry, rides horses across the desert in long-distance endurance races and hobnobs with royals like the Queen of England. Mixing extravagance with boundless ambition, he commanded the desert city-state's meteoric rise – and helped sow the seeds, some observers say, of its debt crisis. Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's business-over-politics...
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Dubai Stock Market (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The global reaction to Dubai's announcement that it is restructuring Dubai World the UAE's largest holding company is being blown out of proportion, the English language daily 'Gulf New' said today. "It seems now, if Dubai sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. It has become more evident since Wednesday, especially after the Dubai Government announced the restructuring of Dubai World,...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
"The president grinned and tapped his foot as a group of girls stepped rhythmically to Arabic music, their long hair swinging from shoulder to shoulder. The light rain that fell during Bush's arrival did not dampen the mood. Bush then had lunch with students of the Dubai School of Government, a research and teaching institution that focuses on public policy in the Arab world. The president and...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
"Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum tightened his family’s control of the emirate’s largest holding company, the Investment Corporation of Dubai. A decree posted Nov. 19 on Sheikh Mohammed’s Web site listed six members of a new board. It didn’t include Mohammad al-Gergawi , Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem or Mohammed Ali Alabbar , three key business aides of the...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"In one of his strongest statements on national unity between the seven member federation of emirates Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said "so to the people of you who nag over Dubai and Abu Dhabi, shut up!" "There is no Dubai or Abu Dhabi," Sheik Mohammed, who is also Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, said. "We're one country." ..." (thanks Christopher)...
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Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The report, produced as part of a partnership between the United Nations Development Program and the United Arab Emirates-based Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, found that despite the efforts of scientists and researchers throughout the region, the Arab world makes up only 1.1% of global scientific publishing and the low level of investment into [...]
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News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
U.N. report finds one third of Arabs illiterate and only $10 per person spent on scientific research. The level of education, research and innovation in the Arab world is appalling, a new United Nations report has claimed. The report, produced as part of a partnership between the United Nations Development Program and the United Arab Emirates-based Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, found...
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Dubai Stock Market (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
The UAE will take part in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from Oct. 6-7. HE Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, State Minister for Financial Affairs, who is leading the UAE delegation to the meetings, said that the UAE participation comes in line with the directives from President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and follow up from...
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Haqeeqat.Org (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
By Thomas Houlahan | Sunday, 12 July 2009 - Given that Prime Minister Gilani was in jail for six years for putting some 600 of his constituents on the public payroll while he was Speaker of the National Assembly, I am compelled to question the prime minister’s judgment. If serious jail time doesn’t wise you up, what will? Some foreign capitals seem to share my concern. RELATED POSTS: Vice-President...
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussein, United Nations Messengers of Peace, Chairman of Dubai Humanitarian City and Wife of Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Geneva, Switzerland - United Nations Messenger of Peace and Chairperson of International Humanitarian City, HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, Wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Du
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
United Nations Messenger of Peace HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has accepted an invitation to become the global patron for th
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 02/26/2009
His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, was received by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the Qubba Palace in Cairo on Wednesday. Earlier, Sheikh Mohammad arrived and
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 02/26/2009
HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance and Industry, received yesterday the visiting delegation from European Parliament. They reviewed a number of topics and issues of regional and global import
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