Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
MANAMA, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Japan survived a nervy finish to beat Bahrain 3-2 in their Asian zone Group One World Cup qualifier on Saturday.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
They may be the poorest Gulf state, but Bahrain have a better shot at qualifying for the 2010 World Cup than the UAE or Qatar
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ithmaar Development Company has selected Mott MacDonald as the design engineer for a US $190 million (BD70 million) mixed-use tower in the Al-Seef district of Bahrain.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bahraini blogger Icon explains why she has chosen to help her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend who is pregnant.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
In Bahrain, a blogger who calls herself Dedicated To Him pays tribute to her teacher: ‘It’s rare when an English teacher…becomes you becomes your friend, your mother, & your sister… It’s rare to find a person like her among us.'
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bahraini blogger Cradle of Humanity, who studied in the UK, describes a recent visit to London, and the intensity of her feeling for Britain when there: ‘I’ve always been a victim of nostalgia, but did not quite expect it to be triggered by mere names in the street. … To me London is more than [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bahraini blogger Garden of Sands, currently living in the USA, is surprised to discover from a co-worker that Bahraini women do not work: ‘Nope, not a single one of us. Not only do we not want to, we surely don't need to. Why? Because we are all sitting on oil fields.'
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Research Recap submits: Bloomberg has an interesting piece highlighting a sharp drop in the issuance of Islamic bonds. The so-called sukuk market, which has doubled each year since 2004 and grown to $90 billion, is declining after a Bahrain-based group of Islamic scholars decreed in February that most bonds ran afoul of religious rules. Only one that complies with the edict has been issued, pushing...
Research Recap (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bloomberg has an interesting piece highlighting a sharp drop in the issuance of Islamic bonds. The so-called sukuk market, which has doubled each year since 2004 and grown to $90 billion, is declining after a Bahrain-based group of Islamic scholars decreed in February that most bonds ran afoul of religious rules. Only one that complies with [...]
Driive (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Maktoob Fiat seeking new partners in China as sales slide Gulf Daily News, Bahrain - 2 hours ago Georges Dieng, an analyst for Natixis Securities in Paris, said Fiat was still a newcomer in China compared to other foreign car makers . ... Fiat to launch world's cheapest car Economic Times all 24 news articles
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Human rights activists in Bahrain are lobbying for a legally-recognised patient's charter, following a string of negligence complaints against the national health service.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Cyclists driving in the opposite lanes are being fined in Bahrain, reports Al Adraj.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Muslims have a lot of money to invest. But it is a constant struggle to reconcile faith and finance TO SEE Islamic finance in action, visit the mutating coastline of the Gulf. Diggers claw sand out of the sea off Manama, Bahrain’s capital, for a series of waterfront developments that are part-funded by Islamic instruments. To the east, Nakheel, a developer that issued the world’s largest Islamic bond...
Random Roger's Big Picture (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
A few things today. There is a new frontier market CEF from Morgan Stanley that has ticker FFD. Here is a little bit of info , here is a little more but for now the MS page has no info to speak of. According to the Yahoo News release, linked above, frontier can include Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ecuador, Estonia, Ghana, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon,...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
MANAMA, Bahrain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Kingdom of Bahrain has issued today a supplementary information document identifying additional
