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...HSBC is also exiting many of its operations in Oman, Greece and New Zealand and said the $10bn sale of its Canadian business was still on track to close early next year, after which it intends to pay a special...
...Just over a year before his death, for example, chairman Wang Jian was honoured by Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman at the Jewish Museum’s 31st annual Purim Ball in New York....
...Others, such as Bahrain and Oman, may follow suit. Mr Trump has a “positive” story to sell ahead of November’s election....
...In the latter, she left Dubai for Oman with the help of her Finnish fitness trainer and set out to sea in a dingy....
...The attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman have thrust the energy industry into the centre of a brewing storm between the US and Iran....
...“Israel is building a wall of countries [with] which it has interests that it can use as leverage to get Iran to start backing down,” said Michael Stephens, research fellow for Middle East studies at the...
...“However much of this project is realised, it will revolutionise those areas involved and utterly transform their strategic setting,” writes Stephen Blank, another contributor....
...Stephen Rawlinson, an analyst at Applied Value, said it was a “race against time” for the business but believed it would get through its current difficulties....
...manager of military bases for Britain’s Ministry of Defence and its other activities range from maintaining tracks for Network Rail and building roads for the Highways Agency, to hospitals in Canada and Oman...
...The May official selling price for Arab Light to its core Asian customers was at a discount of 45 cents a barrel to the Oman-Dubai benchmark. This is 30 cents lower than last month....
...Then, according to Stephen Eaves, Asprey’s export director, the trend declined, although he cannot be certain why this was....
...But the teaching of Arabic, Oman’s official language, means that young Kuzmaris no longer speak the language and it is in danger of dying out....
...With fine costuming — well-cut to historical example — by Katrina Lindsay, and a bold score by Stephen Montague, the staging is sufficiently “different” and resourceful to hold its audience....
...— FT Alphaville Divergence and US monetary policy normalization — Stephen Poloz Nigeria on the brink — FT Alphaville...
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, said: “We might be tempted to raise forecasts if we were not so cautious.”...
...Oman, which does not tend to co-ordinate closely with the other Gulf monarchies, and Kuwait did not withdraw their ambassadors....
...It said it had won contracts in Canada and Oman worth nearly £200m in total, including a £92m contract from the Oman Hospitality Company to build a Kempinski hotel in Muscat....
...Stephen Chazen, Occidental’s chief executive, said the planned disposals were the “first formal steps in our effort to streamline the business, concentrate in areas where we have depth and scale and improve...
...Royal Gulf tour The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall start a visit to Jordan, Qatar and Oman over nine days promoting British interests....
...Performances were sincere, and yet again I salute the elegant clarity and brilliancy of Stephen McRae, the prince of the great pas de deux....
...… Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed, by Roy Strong, Frances Lincoln, RRP£30/$50 Sir Roy Strong has reinvented the garden he created in the 1970s with his late wife Julia Trevelyan Oman....
...of a bid by Malaysia’s state oil company for Progress Energy Resources Corp casts doubt on Beijing-based Cnooc Ltd.’s $15.1bn takeover of Nexen and raises questions about the openness of Prime Minister Stephen...
...says any plans for a broader Gulf union would face strong but privately worded opposition from other Gulf states less keen to hand over foreign and security planning to a joint body, including Qatar and Oman...
...Ainslie, who at the weekend was flying one hull of an Extreme 40 catamaran as skipper of Oman Sail’s boat Oman Air on the Cote D’Azure, has taken his first few flying lessons in a light aircraft over Dorset...
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