Bahrain’s financial services industry continued to develop and expand during 2005, with 32 new licenses issued by the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA) to increase the total number of financial ...

The former emirate is an archipelago of 36 islands in the Gulf, lying close to the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia and the western coast of Qatar, with a land area of about 717 sq km. References to ...

Mayhem at Bahrain Airport, Silly Bahraini Girl Says. While Mahmood wonders why every issue in Bahrain is politicised and invariably turn to violence? Zainab shows pictures that were not in ...

Our testing suggests that Bahrain's filtering efforts have eased recently. Sites that were previously blocked, such as Voice of Bahrain (www.vob.org), are now available. We also documented a change, ...

19 September 2005Under the patronage of His Highness the Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al- Khalifa Manama, Bahrain - "Emerging Bahrain 2005", an essential guide to the Kingdom for ...

A spokesman for Bahrain’s Information Ministry told Aljazeera.net that four protesters were arrested while demonstrating in a prohibited zone. According to rights activist Nabil Rajab, about 50 ...

The Bahrain budget for 2005-06, which was approved by the House of Representatives (elected parliament) on 5 July, was passed by the Consultative Council (Majlis al-Shura) on 13 July and is now ready ...

Workforce in Bahrain’s public and private sectors has almost doubled in the past 11 years, revealed recent government data. Total employment increased from almost 798,693 in the first and second ...

The Bahraini government should immediately investigate security personnel who severely beat people assembling to monitor or participate in a demonstration, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack ...

The Bahraini government should drop charges against a leading women’s rights activist who goes on trial Saturday for publicly criticizing family court judges, Human Rights Watch said today. If ...