Alcazar Capital and IQP launch $ 100m global fintech fund
Alcazar Capital Limited (ACL) and Fintech Consortium’s investment arm, InQvest Partners (IQP) yesterday announced the launch of a strategic partnership and a US$100 Million global fintech fund. Alcazar Capital Limited, an investm
GITEX: Information & eGovernment authority highlights ICT sector
The Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) is participating for the 12th time in GITEX Technology Week 2018 - held in Dubai – within Bahrain’s pavilion. The pavilion also houses the Ministry of Transportation and Tel
Foreign tourist inflow rises
In happy tiding’s for Bahrain’s tourism sector, authorities here revealed yesterday that the footfall of foreign tourists in the Kingdom has gone up by nearly 6 per cent. The number of foreign tourists visiting the Kingdom
Sky, not the limit
Did you recently watch the video of a man in Arab robes trying to waft across the mountains somewhere in the Middle East (find it on #newsofbahrain) on a cheap camping chair dangling from a load of balloons? If the answer is ‘yes
Sharing the wealth in Australia
Ten years ago, when the world economy suffered its most severe slump since the Great Depression, Australia was the only advanced country to avoid a recession. While double-digit unemployment ravaged many nations, Australia’s jobl
Angela Merkel could save Europe. Why won’t she?
Campaigning in the spring of 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany declared at a packed beer hall in Bavaria that it was time for Europe to “take its destiny into its own hands.” In the face of Britain’s vote to l
China purrs over white tiger triplets
Three playful white Bengal tiger cubs are charming visitors as they clamber around their enclosure at a zoo in China. The rare, blue-eyed triplets were born nearly three months ago at the Yunnan Wildlife Zoo in Kunming, and made their
13 dead as flooding hits southwestern France
At least 13 people died when violent rainstorms turned rivers into raging torrents in southwest France yesterday, prompting some of the deadliest flooding in years, officials said. The equivalent of three months of rainfall was dumped
