Search Results for: saudi arabia

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, has agreed to advise the Saudi Presidency of Civil Aviation in securing private investment for two projects improving the King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah. One plan will rehabilitate or replace the airport desalination plant that currently supplies too little water, expensively and unreliably.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT could be the most underestimated commercial crime in the world, the illegal trade in wildlife and their products. Some estimates put its value at US$5 billion-a-year, but governments do not really seem to care. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong
HONG Kong might be renowned for being one of the safest cities in the world – mugging and other forms of street violence are practically unknown – but that’s not to say that commercial crime doesn’t rear its ugly head in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, reports Edward Peters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ARAB sheik and his camel, riding the desert with a trained falcon, hunting for bustard migrating south to Africa; with skill and tenacity, he could catch 10 plump prey, a feast in a land where little grows.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*Bulky and long-necked, it has a 140cm wingspan, brown above and white below, with a black stripe down the sides of its neck.

*Three sub-species, in the Canary Islands, North Africa, and the Sinai Peninsula to Arabia, into Central Asia.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD is a small place when it comes to business these days. Increasingly, multi-nationals, as well as medium-sized companies are setting up shop in all four corners of the world. Outsourcing work and creating offices in developing countries is de rigueur to cut costs.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE RECENT sharp rise in the price of petrol and petro-chemicals has inevitably threatened prices and profit margins in the paint manufacturing industry but the effect is far from straightforward according to leading figures in the industry. This is because paint and coatings manufacturers do not buy oil directly, but products further down the chain such as vinyl acetate monomer and others where impact of higher crude oil prices tends to be muted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SAUDI Arabia may be admitted to the World Trade Organisation before the end of this year, its director general Supachai Panitchpakdi has predicted, opening its economy to foreign goods and services via the WTO’s GATT and GATS agreements.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…