Habari Post

Legislators in Dubai, one of the seven emirates and the most populous city of the United Arab Emirates, have drafted a law that would make it a crime for media to damage the country’s reputation or economy, punishable by fines of up to 1 million dirhams (about $272,000).

Kazakh nationalism is on the rise in Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan has announced it will lift the ban on grain exports it imposed in April to control domestic food prices. Russia, Kazakhstan and the Ukraine are all expecting increases in production this year, according to an article in the Financial Times.

Ghost, Inc. is an Israeli-Palestinian company that provides a free, web-based virtual computer that lets users access their desktop and files from any computer with an Internet connection. Ghost is an acronym for Global Hosted Operating System.

The English version of the Al Jazeera news channel is available throughout much of the world, but not in the U.S. The media company is working to enter the U.S. cable space with a TV offering tailored to the U.S. market, including more news from the U.S. than it currently reports on.

Following ongoing pressure from organizations like Human Rights Watch, the government of Dubai has instituted a series of reforms to protect the basic working conditions for immigrant workers. Enforcing the reforms has yet to be figured out and neighboring gulf countries are quite a bit further behind the curve.

Dubai continues to grow at a stunning rate, adding infrastructure, hotels and business complexes. Emirati cities Dubai and Abu Dhabi are growing at such a high rate of growth that locals are experiencing serious growing pains, such as an increased cost of living without an increase in disposable income.

The Economist compares oil revenues of today in Gulf countries with the 1970s. A number of large projects aimed at drawing attention and growing the economy are underway in Saudi Arabia.

Al Jazeera shoots footage of a typical Afghan family in Kabul.

More and more people are affected by unemployment in Tunisia, in particular highly educated youth.

"The Century City" project in Tunisia is a joint investment of Sama Dubai, the property unit of Dubai Holding, and the Tunisian government. It is a $14 billion luxury real estate development north of Tunis, known by some as "The Century City".