Globally, the coming year will be testing. Major first world economies have moved from boom times to bust.
‘Miraculous’ is a word first time visitors often use to describe this country’s rapid growth from desert to great nation. Their amazement is understandable. Just four...
Enough tiptoeing around sensitive issues, with a potentially vicious bite, in fear of giving offence. Enough playing nice with smiling pretend friends who behind our...
Japan is in danger of pricing itself out of the export marketplace. An increasingly strong yen combined with a lingering global economic downturn is having a negative...
As far as I can remember, I have always considered England my second home. As a businessman, there is hardly a day when the phone does not ring, but the nearest thing...
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 marked yet another milestone in Dubai’s spectacular progress. That was the day that HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice...
The gentle water that laps the shores of the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq and Iran has become a source of contention. A rose by any other name may...
If you read some of the more hysterical headlines you’d be forgiven for thinking that Britain has turned into an economic wasteland almost overnight. Don’t believe it.
The 1979 movie Being There, starring Peter Sellers as a simple gardener who winds up being asked by the President of the United States to give advice on the declining...
Rating agencies have far too much power. Almost every day we read that they’ve downgraded the sovereign risk of a particular country or the credit risk of a private...
Few heroes have emerged on the diplomatic level during this conflict and, sadly, even the Arab world has not produced one. An Arab League emergency summit of foreign...
The terrible carnage inflicted upon a starving people, caged in the dark, is too much to bear for anyone with eyes that see and a heart that beats. This unfolding crime...