Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
AS I walked into the cool environs of Al Riwaq Gallery, I couldn’t help stopping in front of a huge canvas of vibrant colours depicting a female form.
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 campaigning environmentalists are urging them to stay put.
BAHRAIN’S Palm Association has raised almost a quarter of a million dinars – and this Friday evening’s Palm Association Charity Auction Ball at the Sheraton Hotel will push them closer to the milestone figure.
● From the recent Bahrain Grand Prix – 12 Signed F1 hats and racing T-shirt.
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that worldwide greenhouse gas emissions needed to peak by 2015 to keep the expected temperature rise this century to 2C, defined by scientists as dangerous.
AS anyone who has just moved to Bahrain will know, the first piece of advice that is dished out to the newcomer is ‘you must have a car,’ and the second is ‘driving is to be avoided if at all possible.’
A RECORD number of visitors attended the third Bahrain International Travel Expo (BITE) at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre.
Singapore looks set to attract Bahraini travellers, with its new family-friendly attractions, vibrant multi-cultural diversity and exciting events and festivals.
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 300,000 visitors a year.
THE region’s largest exhibition for the construction and interiors industry, gulfBID 2007, has opened with more than 190 exhibitors from 18 countries.
CELEBRATED artist Alicia Quaini will be displaying some of her latest paintings during the gulfBID 2007 exhibition.
