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Background: Bahrain's small size and central location among Persian Gulf countries require it to play a delicate balancing act in foreign affairs among its larger neighbors. Facing declining oil reserves, Bahrain has turned to petroleum processing and refining and has transformed itself into an international banking center. The new amir, installed in 1999, has pushed economic and political reforms and has worked to improve relations with the Shi'a community. In February 2001, Bahraini voters approved a referendum on the National Action Charter - the centerpiece of the amir's political liberalization program. In February 2002, Amir HAMAD bin Isa Al Khalifa proclaimed himself king. In October 2002, Bahrainis elected members of the lower house of Bahrain's reconstituted bicameral legislature, the National Assembly.

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By shnixangel
November 2nd 2007

So, we might or might not be going

Middle East » Bahrain » Manama

So, we're still waiting to hear when Peter's interview is. Hopefully it's going to be on Tuesday afternoon and we're both fairly sure that it'll just be the one interview as he's going to be seeing Abdul-Haq as he's over from Bahrain. Normally, I think it would have been that Peter would have been interviewed by MAL and maybe AWC and then had a vidcon with the Bahrain office, but as AHM is here... I still have ups and downs about going. It will be such a wonderful experience and opportunity if we are able to go but leaving family and [View Full Entry]

By Chellebelle
October 2nd 2007

Business in Bahrain

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From the Bovis Lend Lease project office

How exciting. On the third day of her new job Chelle was taken off to Bahrain by her new company, Bovis Lend Lease. For those who have not caught up on the most sorry saga, Chelle had a very very bad experience at Turner and Townsend (the company she moved over to Dubai to start work with) and decided that the best thing to do would be to look for a different opportunity in the region). Basically what happened is that she was working with a whole lot of poms and these poms on the Aqua Duyna project in particular seemed [View Full Entry]

By SabrinaD
September 7th 2007

Just a little delayed

Middle East » Bahrain

Gotcha!! You all thought I'd be in Delhi by now, recovering from my jetlag, huh? The flight from Paris to Bahrein had a delay of about 5 hours, and by the time we got to Bahrein, my flight to Delhi had already lifted off. The Gulf Air Customer Service people had however promised that the flight would have to wait for us... ah well, it's part of the deal, I have 9 months to go. A day more or less isn't going to make the difference, and besides, I did get a nice hotel room here in Bahrein, three good meals [View Full Entry]

By brrake2009
August 25th 2007

Bahrain trip

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Bahrain trip
Arriving into Bahrain's Int'l airport.

I recently got out of the Marines and wanted to go back over to Bahrain and visit my buddies I were stationed with in Bahrain, we were all stationed here in the Middle East along with thousands more U.S. GI's. These photos are of my most recent trip to Manama, Bahrain. [View Full Entry]

By Viviangc
July 27th 2007

Hot Bahrain

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Bahraini Architecture

Bahrain Out of all my travelblog entries the Bahraini experience is so far my only business trip, therefore it couldn’t be as fun and enjoyable as my holidays’ travelling. Nevertheless I feel impelled to write some notes about this distinctive Kingdom. If you are travelling to the Middle East during the summer months except the worst in terms of heat. The first thing you will notice upon your arrival is the hot/humid weather combination! I honestly thought that coming from a hot and humid country myself, I would not suffer too much under temperatures of 45 degrees Celsius, [View Full Entry]

By Cromwell
May 28th 2007

Bahrain May 07 (Blog 7)

Middle East » Bahrain » Manama

Boat trip
Me, Naomi and Carolyn at the front of the boat on our way to Scuba / Snorkel at Kuber Island... Kuber is a tiny island in the middle of the Arabian Gulf towards Iran - I don't think we strayed into Ir... [more]

So, my last trip before leaving Kuwait this year was to Bahrain... The home of Michael Jackson, a grand prix track which takes up half the island and many far eastern ladies of the night..... I can't remember so much of the weekend. I didn't even sleep at the hotel I booked a room in - a proper UK style random night. I think the club we ended up in was called F1 and had a Phillipino thrash metal band playing.... I live for such odd moments ) Bahrain is an unashamed middle eastern party island (just off Saudi Arabian [View Full Entry]

By rickmoore
May 16th 2007

Down the causeway to Saudi Arabia

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A View of the road to Bahrain

Down the causeway to Saudi Arabia Middle East » Bahrain By rickmoore May 16th 2007 David Moore Bahrain is an archipelago of some 36 islands with a good efficient airport where women can actually drive (and show their hair) just a few km across the causeway from Saudi Arabia. But like Saudi, people come from all over the world to work. Saudis come here as well - but to shop and party - making the c [View Full Entry]

By The plusser
March 9th 2007

Singapore

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Rob took me to Perth international airport and we arrived there for 9:30am I was able to check in at 10am. Flight departed at 12:15 on time. Arrived in Singapore and was first off the plane as the seat was next to the exit. The pilot advised temperature is 32C so cooler but the humidity is high as you felt it as soon as the plane door opened. Cleared customs and then got the first taxi since I left the UK to the Royal Peacock Hotel based in the china quarter. Did not feel like much to eat due to travelling [View Full Entry]

By AwtrysinChina
January 30th 2007

Day 5 in China - She's all ours

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Laughing Hannah

We went back to the Civil Affairs office today and made the adoption final. By 10:20 we were back at the hotel and she is officially ours. She went in the pool today, she's still deciding if she likes the water but she looked so cute in her tiny baby swim cap. All the workers at the hotel and restaurants love the fact that we have her, they smile at her and give her and the boys lollipops and attend to her every need, her spoon doesn't even hit the floor when we are in the restaurant and a new spoon [View Full Entry]

By iamlauracita
January 25th 2007

An impression of Bahrain

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a view of Bahrain

I had no idea what to expect from our two and a half days in Bahrain, and now that our time there is over I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it. Our decision to spend a few days in Bahrain was fairly random--when booking our flight to India we had a layover in the Bahrain airport, so we decided to extend it into a couple of days' stay out of curiousity. Bahrain is a very small island off the northern coast of Saudi Arabia. It is in fact connected to Saudi Arabia by a long bridge, which we [View Full Entry]

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