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Alliance Holdings of UAE, UBM Industries Australia, and Canada Business Holdings Inc. have launched a joint venture 'Structural Systems Company’ in Abu Dhabi. The new company will provide specialized hanger systems for aviation and housing industries, and will serve as low-cost durable multi-purpose metal and cement structures for labor camps, food storage and water reservoirs. 'Structural Systems Company' LLC will work on establishing co-ventures in Gulf States by 2009 year end.
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Qatar-based Barwa Real Estate Company has registered a QR299m 3rd quarter net profit compared to QR326m recorded over the same period during 2007. Meanwhile, the company's total assets had increased 63% to QR25.8bn from QR15.8bn in 31 December 2007.
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Both leaders say their savings are in the national currency and that they aren’t afraid of its decline.
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Cartoons are not just for kids.
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Ingushetia’s parliament on Friday confirmed Yanus-Bek Yevkurov, a hitherto obscure military officer, to replace Murat Zyazikov as president of Ingushetia, a day after Zyazikov resigned suddenly as the head of the troubled republic.
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Mayor Yury Luzhkov has written books on love and the Kuril Islands. His latest tome, “”Water and Peace,”" revives a grandiose Soviet plan to redirect Siberian rivers to irrigate cotton fields in Central Asia.
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Net capital outflow from Russia was billion in September, Central Bank Chairman Sergei Ignatyev said Friday.
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Alfa Bank will apply to Vneshekonombank, the state development bank, for a long-term loan of 0 million, Alfa Bank president Peter Aven said at a crisis-related summit Friday.
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The Audit Chamber will oversee the use of .5 billion in financing that Vneshekonombank loaned to United Company RusAl, the chamber said Friday on its web site.
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