Ghana, China sign 800 mn gas development deal
12 Aug 2011: Ghana will borrow $800 million from China to build natural gas infrastructure, the head of the national gas company said Friday, months after the country became Africa’s newest major oil producer. “An agreement has been reached and we have securedCoca-Cola Invests $10 Million In Somaliland Bottling Plant
07 Jun 2011: Coca-Cola Co., the world’s largest soft-drink maker, plans to set-up a bottling plant in the breakaway republic of Somaliland, saying its stability and economic growth provide “conducive” conditions for investment. Somaliland Beverage Industries,Arab bid for housing at risk from Jewish rivals
11 Jan 2011: A Palestinian businessman bidding to buy a failing Jewish housing estate in East Jerusalem is battling to fend off counter-bids from national religious groups determined to keep the project in Israeli hands. Bashar al-Masri was "outed" by an IsraeliInterest, Usury and Islam - Lessons from Islamic and Ethical Finance
03 May 2010: The notion of the moral economy is intrinsic to all the major faiths, each of which has placed ethical boundaries on the behavior of those active in the market. The ten commandments of the Jewish Torah or Christian Old Testament laid down an ethicalYemeni Islamic banks 'wheels for development'
02 Apr 2010: Yemeni Islamic banks have yet to achieve their full potential in supporting the country's development, said participants at a conference on Yemeni Islamic Banks last week. The two-day conference, which addressed the future of Yemeni Islamic banks, wasBank of Ningxia to Spearhead Islamic Finance in China
08 Mar 2010: With encouragement from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is set to take the lead in trialling Islamic financial services in China. If the pilot project is successful, policy makers hope that Islamic financialAbu Dhabi gives $10bn to Dubai
14 Dec 2009: Dubai's government has said it has received $10bn from Abu Dhabi to help it repay an Islamic bond and fund the troubled property developer Dubai World. The announcement on Monday came on the same day Nakheel, the property development unit of Dubai World,German woman banker admits transferring money from rich to help poorer clients
25 Nov 2009: In these financially troubled times, bankers tend not to score too highly on the scale of public admiration, with their bonuses, bailouts and bad loans. But today details emerged of a woman who may confound the popular view that everyone in the industryOverdraft charges: '8m more customers could claim their money back'
24 Nov 2009: New figures from the group show that, of around 12m people who have been hit with bank charges since July 2001, over three in five (63pc) have not asked for their money back. With the Supreme Court's ruling on the test case due on November 25, the banksIraqi Lawmakers Question Oil Deals
09 Nov 2009: Lawmakers from the Iraqi parliament's oil and gas committee on Sunday questioned the legality of petroleum-development deals signed last week with BP PLC, Exxon Mobil Corp. and other big oil companies. The opposition isn't likely to derail the agreement,Livestock exports to jump as Saudi ban lifted
09 Nov 2009: Somali livestock exports to the Gulf States are expected to double to one million animals this month after the Saudi government lifted a long-standing ban, traders and a company official said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia, formerly the biggest buyer of SomaliAbdullah Gul welcomes BRJ to Turkey
07 Nov 2009: JEDDAH: Turkish President Abdullah Gul recently received Mohammed Jameel, president of Abdul Latif Jameel Group and chief job creation officer of the Bab Rizq Jameel (BRJ), at the Presidential Palace in Ankara and commended BRJ’s efforts in fightingDahabshiil Debit Card Makes History in Somalia
02 Nov 2009: Somalia's first ever debit card system has been launched. Dahabshiil, the largest international money transfer business in the Horn of Africa, has launched an "eCash" service that will enable Somalis to pay for goods and services at participating vendors,France court quashes Islamic Finance measure
16 Oct 2009: France's highest constitutional authority on Wednesday struck down a provision of a new law that would have opened up French banking to Islamic finance. The National Assembly last month adopted the measure to allow Sharia-compliant financing despiteTory proposed saving will take five years longer
10 Oct 2009: George Osborne's reputation as a would-be Tory chancellor was unravelling tonight after his claim that he would save £13bn by raising the state pension age was challenged by the respected thinktank that provided the basis for his figures. The Nationalslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
