An apparent slowdown in the real estate sector is forcing PE (private equity) funds to rein in their exposure to the sector, with nearly 30 per cent of the deals now stuck over valuations.PE funds and analysts have become far

The Emirates Environmental Group has announced a regional award on CSR called the "Arabia Corporate Social Responsibility Awards". Already the announcement of the awards has met with considerable...Continue to the full story at www.dubaichronicle.com

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., Australia's third-biggest bank, opened an office in Dubai to tap rising trade with the Middle East and demand from expatriates living in the...Continue to the full story at www.dubaichronicle.com

Damac Properties, the largest private master developer and luxury lifestyle provider, has appointed Arabtec/EEC JV Construction as main contractor for its "Business Heights" project, located in the...Continue to the full story at www.dubaichronicle.com

Regarding tsunami of late 2004, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web has summarized three ways that people used the Web in response to the disaster: 1) as a constantly updated source of news about the disaster; 2) as a way for

ArmInfo. The term of personification of mobile phone numbers of ArmenTel's all pre-paid subscribers expires on June 30. The subscribers, who have not registered their numbers, are to sign written agreements at ArmenTel's service departments, the press-service of the company

ArmInfo. Hrachya Sargsyan, a member of Board of the oppositional New Times (NT) Party, announced his intention to embark on hunger strike, Thursday.During the May 15 press-conference, Hrachya Sargsyan said that the health of NT Leader Aram Karapetyan, who is

ArmInfo. "The principles of the Karabakh conflict settlement recently published by Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Araz Azimov have nothing to do with the document on the table of negotiations", Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan said in parliament, Thursday. He

ArmInfo Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 307 drams for 1 dollar, 474drams for 1 EUR and 12,7 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 308,5 drams for 1 dollar, 477

ArmInfo. Several Azerbaijani non-governmental organizations held the regular anti-Armenian Round Table, during which a document was adopted with requirement to 'punish Armenia for settlement of the occupied Azerbaijani lands'. As news.bakililar.az reports, the event was organized by the Association of

as against 95% in 2006). This is mentioned in the Business Software Alliance's report covering the situation in 108 countries of the world, Microsoft Armenia Country Manager Grigor Barseghyan told ArmInfo correspondent. He noted that despite the fall of piracy

ArmInfo. The Criminal Code of Armenia does not contain any Article banning political affiliation, but there are people in the country who are subjected to persecution for their political views, Leader of the United Labor Party Gurgen Arsenyan said at

ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Ministry representative submits wrong information to the court on the case of the dismissed diplomats. Wednesday on May 14 the Administrative Court of Armenia studied the claim by 4 diplomats dismissed from the Foreign Ministry of Armenia.

ArmInfo. Microsoft presented the latest MS developments - the software "Windows Server 2008", "Visual Studio 2008", "SQL Server 2008" in Armenia, Thursday. The presentation was held within the frames of the IT Competitiveness and Innovation Conference in Armenia.As Microsoft Armenian

ArmInfo. The working group, which is engaged in implementation of the PACE resolution's requirements, has chosen the right path, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan told journalists in parliament, Thursday. He said it is very important that real steps are already

ArmInfo. Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents Serzh Sargyan and Ilham Aliyev will meet in St.Petersbourg on June 7, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan told journalists in parliament, Thursday. "I hope, this meeting will open a new way to continue the talks

ArmInfo. Elaboration of behavior code in the telecommunication market requires first of all good will of market-participants. ArmenTel Director for Operations Alexander Birman made this statement at Forum of IT Competitiveness and Innovations when commenting on the current negotiations between

Of all the human rights that have been systematically obliterated in Lebanon over the past century or so, the most precious is, unquestionably, the right to life, especially when large numbers of human beings, innocent or not, are easily and

The Lebanese National Bloc party headed by Carlos Edde said on Thursday the government's revoking of its decisions to dismantle Hizbullah's telephone network "will be considered as a sign of weakness." The bloc said in a statement that consensual presidential