Asia

By Yoel Guzansky And the Potential Fallout for the Middle East The United Arab Emirates will soon be the first Arab state with a nuclear power program and the first to join the civilian nuclear club in more than a quarter of a century. Barring any delays,...

Global trade enabler DP World has been awarded a 30-year Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) concession by the Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), for the management and development of the Jeddah South Container Terminal at the multi-purpose Jeddah Islamic Port. Under the agreement, DP World will invest up to...

Move is in retaliation for wave of ejections of Russian officials after alleged poisoning on ex-spy and daughter. Russia has expelled 59 diplomats from 23 countries as the dispute over the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in Britain worsens. The move on Friday was...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he personally killed suspected criminals when he was mayor of a southern city to set an example for police. Duterte made the comments in a speech late on Monday night to businessmen as he discussed his campaign to eradicate...

Horndiplomat-Officials from Saudi chamber of commerce had a meeting with Somaliland delegation led by the vice president Abdirahman Abdilahi Ismail "Saili" at Jeddah. The two sides focusing on the meeting to strengthen the relationship between Saudi Arabia Somaliland and to create a new environment of business...

New York Post reports FBI evidence in a lawsuit alleges Saudi Arabia's US embassy may have funded test run for Sept 11. New evidence in a 9/11 lawsuit against the government of Saudi Arabia alleges the kingdom's embassy in Washington, DC may have funded a...

 Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has hit back at China, which criticized Taiwan for enhancing its ties with the self-governing African territory of Somaliland through the establishment of reciprocal representative offices and appointment of government envoys. “The Taiwanese government and people have sought to...

A fake news story claiming Arab nations had demanded that Fifa strip Qatar of the 2022 World Cup appeared on a website designed to look like a credible Swiss news publication. The story appeared to surface on 'The Local' website and said six nations called...

The US secretary of state visited Qatar on the second stop of his Gulf tour.   SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

Driven by an energetic crown price, the UAE is building bases far beyond its borders TUCKED away behind rows of tin shacks and unkempt acacia trees, a cluster of tumbledown villas, mosques and a synagogue conjures up the grandeur of a port that once marked...