Abadi visits Japan to Boost Trade
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has arrived in Tokyo for discussions with major Japanese industry and government. He met the CEO ...
Country: Other Middle East
Kuwait’s GDP forecast to grow in 2018
Kuwait’s real GDP growth will grow in 2018 following a contraction in 2017, according to a new forecast by BMI ...
Kuwait plans to spend $26bn on new road projects
The Kuwaiti government is set to launch several development projects including building new roads and related infrastructure at an investment ...
Kuwait plans $6.6 bn industrial city: official
Kuwait's Public Authority for Industry (PAI) plans to set up a multi-purpose industrial city in the Gulf Arab state with ...
Iraq’s oil ministry calls for investors for Anbar refinery
Iraq’s oil ministry on Thursday called on companies to invest in a project to build a 70,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery ...
UK Firm wins $350m Iraqi Port Deal
UK-based WRA and Associates has announced the signing of a contract with the General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI) ...
64,000 New Homes Planned for Al-Rashid City
Zawya reports that the Iraqi cabinet has asked the National Investment Commission (NIC) to go ahead with the huge Al-Rashid ...
Iraqi parliament approves 2018 budget of $88 billion
Iraq's parliament has approved this year's budget of about 104 trillion Iraqi dinars, or nearly $88 billion. A statement says ...
China pushes for bigger role in Iraqi reconstruction
China is ramping up its role in Iraqi reconstruction, reflecting its growing reliance on oil from the war-ravaged country, but ...
Hotel construction pipeline in the Middle East is up significantly, year-over-year
Analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE) report that the Construction Pipeline for the Middle East is up significantly. The Total Pipeline ...
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