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Posts Tagged ‘United Arab Emirates’

UAE leads Gulf nuclear-power plans

By A Khokar • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The United Arab Emirates’ plan to become the first Arab country to operate a nuclear power plant is a step closer to fruition with the announcement in December 2009 that it had selected a Korean consortium to build four nuclear-power reactors. Though other Gulf States have in recent years declared their intention to explore nuclear [...]



Bring a can of petrol!!

By captainjohann • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

The price of petrol in India have already gone through the roof. Reason?
Global oil prices are at all-time high levels (about $139 per barrel) and
the nation’s public sector oil companies can no longer sustain the heavy
subsidy on petroleum products.
So which are the nations where the price of petrol is [...]