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Cover Story
Buying into the Bahrain dream

Buying into the Bahrain dream

The kingdom is experiencing a building boom and scores of expats are buying into the Bahrain dream and proving that home really is where the heart ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Cover Story
Shape of things to come

Shape of things to come

Asma Salman takes a look at some of the new housing developments on the island

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Cover Story
Pace at which the island is growing

Pace at which the island is growing

AS Bahrain joins the building and development bandwagon the fdi (foreign direct investment) magazine gives a brief indication of the pace at which ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Cover Story
Bahrain dream is  now our reality

Bahrain dream is now our reality

Asma Salman talks to expatriates who are making the island their home by investing into some of the kingdom’s futuristic community projects.

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Celebrated artist to display works

Celebrated artist to display works

CELEBRATED artist Alicia Quaini will be displaying some of her latest paintings during the gulfBID 2007 exhibition.

The Argentine-born arti ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Major showcase

Major showcase

THE region’s largest exhibition for the construction and interiors industry, gulfBID 2007, has opened with more than 190 exhibitors from 18 countri ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Lost Paradise theme of new BD19 million water park

Lost Paradise theme of new BD19 million water park

A WATER park costing $50 million  (BD18.85 million) is to open in the Bahraini desert in August creating 150 jobs and is set to attract 300,00 ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
BITE Bites

BITE Bites

Singapore looks set to attract Bahraini travellers, with its new family-friendly attractions, vibrant multi-cultural diversity and exciting events ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Record number of visitors throng expo

Record number of visitors throng expo

A RECORD number of visitors attended the third Bahrain International Travel Expo (BITE) at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre.

Cro ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Lost in Bahrain

Lost in Bahrain

Newcomer Rosamund de Sybel has been driving round in circles for weeks and test drives a new mobile phone service for motorists who want to find their way around the kingdom

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Mercury rising

Mercury rising

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that worldwide greenhouse gas emissions needed to peak by 2015 to keep the expected tempera ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Charity auction

Charity auction

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Gloves are off for charity auction!

Gloves are off for charity auction!

BAHRAIN’S Palm Association has raised almost a quarter of a million dinars – and this Friday evening’s Palm Association Charity Auction Ball a ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Unpack your bags!

Unpack your bags!

AS expat wives and children in Bahrain prepare to swap the Middle East heat for less hostile climates as part of the annual summer holiday exodus c ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Local News
Different strokes

Different strokes

Asma Salman meets Shaikha Fajer bint Ali bint Rashid Al Khalifa and finds out more about the lady behind the vibrant canvases

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Out and About
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is an exciting and dramatic choral work, coming to Bahrain on May 25.

The Manama Singers and Bahrain Concert Sin ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

Dear Stan,
I don’t know if there is an award in Bahrain for ‘sales person of the year’, but if there is, my vote goes to Ali Al Naham o ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Sport News
... as world’s worst teams compete

... as world’s worst teams compete

THIRTY years ago Clive Lloyd, then the captain of the West Indies, made a decision that would change the face of world cricket. 

Foll ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Sport News
Moores must spin it for England...

Moores must spin it for England...

THE heat will be on England when they take on West Indies tomorrow at the start of a long summer of Test and one-day cricket.

England are s ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Golf Scene
Fish nets Bud Light Stableford contest

Fish nets Bud Light Stableford contest

Riffa member Martin Fish was the winner of a Bud Light Stableford competition at Riffa Golf Club with a score of 39 points.

Ronny Lidman an ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Sport News
They were hungry

They were hungry

The 7th Annual Bahrain Financing Company Filipino Club Basketball Group (FCBG) finals were held last Friday at the Muharraq Club. 

Th ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Sport News
Sami sets sail

Sami sets sail

Adventurer Sami Kooheji set off on Monday afternoon to create a new record which will see him as the first person to sail from Bahrain to Dubai non ...

May 16 - 22, 2007
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Sport News
A dream run

A dream run

FROM a sheepish pretender to a serious contender, Lewis Hamilton’s journey into Formula One folklore has been singularly fascinating so far.

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May 16 - 22, 2007
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