Earlier today, SBS executive producer Mike Carey said Mr Martinkus’ captors had investigated his background on the internet and saw he was harmless. “They Googled him, they checked him out on a popular search engine and got onto his own website or his publisher’s website and saw he was a writer and journalist,” Mr Carey …
Month: October 2004
It’s Haitham’s fault! He started a Bahraini blogger meeting group, and the first event is on Nov 4th. So if you are a blogger and want to chinwag, click here and you’ll get a chance to sign-up and participate at the meeting. I’ve created a block with a graphic on the left just to keep …
Abdulrahman al-Attiya, secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that groups Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, noted at the time that family businesses control 98 percent of commercial activity in the Gulf region compared to rates of 65 to 80 percent elsewhere. Such businesses, which have a turnover of billions …
Got nothing to do? Hit Google with a bunch of words and see what comes out. Great fun! I’ve been doing that this evening and as you might have noticed, there are a bunch of new Gulf-based blogs added to the links on the left. If you know of any other blogs – especially in …
A Dubai-based team plans to enter Formula One in 2006 with Mercedes engines and the help of former champions McLaren. Team Dubai F1 said on Saturday that it had filed documentation and would lodge a mandatory $48 million security bond with the sport’s governing body, the International Automobile Federation, to secure a slot. It said …