News item: United Arab Emirates blocks overflight of Canadian Defence Minister When did we go to war with my friends in the United Arab Emirates? According to most local media outlets, multi-year landing right...
To think that robust Canadian security capabilities are becoming a pain for Research in Motion (RIM:TSX, RIMM:Q). One of the key positive attributes of the BlackBerry — Elliptic curve cryptography — has befuddled the...
News report: US$30.2 million funding approved for Abu Dhabi SMEs I see in my Arabian Business journal that The Sheikh Khalifa Fund for Support and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises has advanced another...
As nervous as I was on Friday morning about the ability of global banks to duck the impact on a payment standstill at Dubai World (see prior post “Eid’s pause won’t help Western Banks...
On a day where the world was thinking about debt defaults in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, along comes news that Wellington Financial Fund III portfolio co. BIOX Corp., a biodiesel producer, is close...
The big news from the Gulf region this week isn’t that the United Arab Emirates has pulled out of the planned Gulf monetary union, which essentially kills the Saudi plan to have a single...
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