MASDAR-CITY clean energy, GE and Mubadala $8bn investment group venture

Masdar City clean energy, zero waste, zero C02 jumpstarts with the $8bn investment. Total plans from ABUDHABI go formore than $15 bn in renewable energy investment. Among otherprojects, world's super manufacturer of...

Abu Dhabi buys into NY landmark

One of New York's most famous landmarks, the Chrysler Building has got a new owner from middle east. This is not the first deal from a middle eastern business man but lately number of symbolic buildings in...

TURBO charged event set to give petrol heads a buzz in Abu Dhabi

"Abu Dhabi (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - The internationally acclaimed CMPi, is set to captivate car and bike enthusiasts from around the world with their recently announced festival; 'TURBO: For A Custom Nation'.'For avid motor enthusiasts looking to experience the very...

Abu Dhabi mounts $3bn Picasso exhibition and plans a cultural revolution « P...

" Picasso remains an enigma and Abu Dhabi wants to be seen as more than an oil reserve. Yet for most of Picasso’s life Abu Dhabi was a tiny village on the edge of the Persian Gulf with an impoverished population. As late as 1966 Sheikh Shakhbut was deposed because he...

Reading The National, Abu Dhabi’s new newspaper « Peterjcooper’s Weblog

This broadsheet is like The Guardian in design and content partly follows the populist modern Telegraph with an almost tabloid style. It is easy to read and find your way around the pages. The challenge is clearly thrown down to Gulf News, although the business section must...

Abu Dhabi five-year plan to underpin real estate market confidence

Over the next five years the emirate is committed to spending $275bn on infrastructure and real estate projects, with heavy investment in both the oil and non-oil sectors of the economy.

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port attacked by Al Qaeda last year

The area of the port near the warehouses was sealed off by security forces.

House panel votes to kill ports deal

The House committee action was the first move by Congress to address widespread anger in both parties on the ports deal.

United Arab Emirates had ties to Saddam

Twenty UAE firms are suspected of having acted as intermediaries for companies in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The UAE was a transit area for Iraq's prohibited goods, such as rocket fuel ingredients.

DP World Abandons Effort to Take Over Port Operations

DP World will sell its leases on the U.S. terminal operations "to a U.S. entity".

Was the whole thing a sucker-punch to get Halliburton the ports deal?

Plan is now to transfer operations of American ports to a U.S. "entity".

House panel rejects deal with Dubai ports company

"One of the most vulnerable situations facing America is our ports of entry" said Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla.

Judge to hear New York and New Jersey port lawsuit

The lawsuit focuses on a 30-year-lease signed in the year 2000.

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