Ras Al Khaimah restaurants to offer high standards
The Health and Environment Department of the Ras Al Khaimah Municipality yesterday started a fresh health and cleanliness awareness drive in the emirate to promote good hygiene and high standards in restaurants and food outlets. The cleanliness drive will involve meeting the restaurant owners and those operating small food outlets and cafeterias to ensure the [...]
Essentium plans to invest 400 million Euro’s in Turkey
Spain's Group Essentium plan to make an investment of 400 million Euro’s in Turkey and establish two cement plants. The Spanish group said it would construct plants in the northwestern province of Bilecik and the southern province of Osmaniye and that the plants were expected to start production in 2011. Essentium have established the plants [...]
Emirates NBD looks to expand into Turkey
The chairman of the Emirates NBD group is looking for acquisitions or mergers in Turkey as part of its plans to expand globally. He said the strategic geographic location and investment opportunities that are available in Turkey make it a very attractive market for the group. Emirates NBD see Turkey as the future industrial powerhouse [...]
Turkey is key energy partner for the US
Turkey is a key partner to the United States in securing an East-West corridor for oil and natural gas, a U.S. State Department official has said. Turkey lies at the geopolitical center of Central Asia and the Caucasus in an energy-rich environment. The United States and Turkey have worked together in pursuit of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan [...]
FlyDubai is Dubai’s new budget airline
The proposed new low-cost airline to be launched by the Dubai government will be named FlyDubai. It will be separate from Dubai’s official carrier Emirates, however, Emirates are to help launch the new airline and its chairman Sheikh Ahmed was made chairman of the new airline and a senior Emirates executive was made its chief [...]