Bahrain

Bahrain is currently under expansion of the refining and petrochemical industry by conducting more excavation and exploration operations.

The UAE, Qatar and Bahrain urged their citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon, where clashes linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria have left several people dead.

Iran raised its voice on Wednesday against a proposed union between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, calling on Iranians to rally against what Tehran sees as an attempt by Riyadh to "annex" a territory formerly belonged to Iran.

Gulf Arab countries will continue discussions on a possible union of six nations but any such plan will take time, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said on Monday.

Bahrain is to spend between $6 billion and $8 billion on modernising its refinery within the next six to seven years, said a senior government official.

The total domestic credit in the Kingdom of Bahrain has grown by a robust 15.9 per cent as on end-March 2012 when compared with end-March 2011 levels.

The King of Bahrain has expressed his gratitude to the organizers of the Formula 1 race held Sunday in the kingdom, despite violent protests by the Shiite opposition which calls for fundamental reforms.

Bahrain's budget deficit has increased up to five-fold in the last 10 years, a senior government official said.

Manama Ministers in Bahrain are being urged to open personal Twitter accounts to help boost communication with the people.

Thousands of prospective university students are discussing study options at a major educational exhibition that opened in Bahrain yesterday.

Bahrain’s Cabinet has approved an BD8 million ($21.2 million) plan to train and employ an additional batch of 2,500 university graduates as part of efforts to keep unemployment at "its lowest".

Firmly into 2012, how are the Arab revolutions developing? We check in with some of the Arab protest pictures to gauge to what extent they have reached revolution saturation, or on the contrary are just getting started.

Bahraini forces have clashed with anti-regime protesters in Bilad al Qadim village near the capital Manama on the eve of the first anniversary of the Bahraini uprising.

As the year comes to close, many are relieved that a year of stormy clouds and unabated anger is behind us. Things can only get better or is there still worse to come? In 2011, it turned out that we could not forecast the range of violent weather, nor could we predict the rage of people. From the Gulf to the Caucuses, and from the USA to Japan the world felt pain in 2011.

The relationship of Arab and Persian can be summarized as one of antagonistic alternating bouts of best of friends with worst of neighbors!

A special commission investigating Bahrain's March crackdown on Shiite-led protests said on Wednesday that police used "excessive force"

In the first such visit by an Arab or foreign ruler since he stepped down on February 11, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met earlier this week Bahrain's King Hamad bin Issa

The Kingdom's Minister of Industry and Commerce has announced a $13 billion commitment to Bahrain International Investment Park.

Chairman of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Essam Fakhro, said on Monday that Bahrain’s economy lost approximately $2 billion dollars due to the political unrest.

ABOUT 30 percent of all food purchased in Bahrain during Ramadan will be thrown away, says a top environmentalist.

Massive efforts to boost Bahrain's energy reserves were recently urged by His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

The Bahrain bourse had a turbulent first half of 2011, brought on by the political unrest that hit the Middle East, and extended to the country’s capital Manama.

Middle East investment professional Douglas Hansen-Luke argues that financial experts in Bahrain's private sector should decide where the money goes.

Batelco, Bahrain's leading telecom operator, plans to invest up to $199 million over the next three years on developing infrastructure in Bahrain.

These are the poster children and heroes of the Arab revolutions. Some are just that- children, kids who have been raised as human faces of an otherwise anonymous maelstrom of anonymous popular demonstrations.

The Kingdom of Bahrain has sentenced one of its citizens and two foreigners to 10 years in prison for spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.