With companies in the GCC spending up to $2million in cost-cutting consulting services, McGill Consulting Group explores the decision-making process cost-cutting and how firms are coping with these changes.
March 19, 2012 3:34
Given its $90 billion a year bilateral trade with GCC, China has received less flak for vetoing the UN Council resolution on Syria. Things may change though if Syria worsens.
March 6, 2012 12:31
A UAE-based company takes personal watercraft to the next level. And no, the owners say it’s not another version of Jet Ski.
March 5, 2012 5:06
Gulf Arab countries announced on Tuesday they were recalling their ambassadors from Damascus and expelling Syrian envoys in response to worsening violence in Syria.
February 8, 2012 12:24
Kuwait's emir has asked outgoing prime minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah to form a new cabinet, the state news agency KUNA said on Monday, after the Gulf Arab state held a parliamentary election last week.
February 7, 2012 3:25
With the UAE making it easy for GCC businesses to enter the country, how is the additional competition going to impact local businesses?
February 6, 2012 4:48
With some of Etihad's executives moving over to Air Seychelles and Abu Dhabi's increasing bilateral relations with the islands, could we one day call the country UAE's eight emirate?
February 1, 2012 5:16
Tiger Woods's joint third-place finish at the Abu Dhabi Championship showed the former world number one was getting closer to regaining his imperious form of old.
January 30, 2012 7:15
Educated and ambitious, the GCC’s female population is key to solving economic issues in the region. Booz & Co shows you the whys and how to get on the bandwagon.
January 29, 2012 2:56
The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday it had decided to withdraw its monitors from an Arab League mission to Syria, following the lead of Saudi Arabia.
January 24, 2012 2:02
Gulf Arab states aim to cut mobile phone roaming charges by at least 50 percent within the region by Feb. 1, an official of the Gulf Cooperation Council said in a statement on Monday.
January 24, 2012 1:53
Revolutionary Guards official plays down US naval moves; Appears to back away from previous threats to Washington; Tensions high over new sanctions and nuclear activities
January 22, 2012 11:15
China's Premier Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday that Arab countries should be left to determine their political futures for themselves, but that popular will should be heeded in that process.
January 18, 2012 1:53
From a hair strand in a coffee cup to misleading ad portions, here are a few Kippers sharing their food woes.
January 17, 2012 4:22
Almarai margins affected by higher raw material costs; Dairy firm says has yet to book Zain Saudi impairment
January 17, 2012 2:46