Centre of choice.Byline: ARTHUR MACDONALD MANAMA: Bahrain could become the exhibition and conference centre of choice for Saudi Arabia's eastern industrial areas. That was the claim from a business visitor to Gulf Industry Fair 2008 yesterday. The Saudi industrialist said that his own country could never put on an exhibition with such a range of regional and international participants. "Saudi industry, certainly around Damman and Al Khobar should be looking to Bahrain in future to organise the kind of industry events we need to expand our businesses. "This has been an extremely good conference for me. I had thought about coming as an exhibitor but decided that as it was a first time event just to visit. Today is the final day of the fair with the morning session running from 10am to 1pm and then from 4pm to 8pm. "I expect to be back next year. You could never get such a mix of businesses at a conference in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. ," he said.
"The problems foreign businessmen have in getting visas to visit companies in Saudi are horrendous hor·ren·dous adj. Hideous; dreadful: "Horrendous explosions shook the whole city" Howard Kaplan. and for women it's worse. "With the common market it may become easier, in time, for GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). business people to come to Saudi, but it will still be very difficult for foreigners Foreigners alienage the condition of being an alien. androlepsy Law. the seizure of foreign subjects to enforce a claim for justice or other right against their nation. gypsyologist, gipsyologist Rare. . "That is why we should be looking to Bahrain to support our industries by organising more of these events for us. "People have no problems getting to Bahrain and it's only a short drive across the causeway for us." That was a view echoed by UK businessman Gerry Burns whose Welsh company Azon, which produces insulation resins resins, n.pl complex, insoluble, sticky substances secreted by plants. Used as astringents, antimicrobials, and antiinflammatories, and are burned as incense. Can cause oral ulcers and epidermal irritations. for aluminium window frames was exhibiting at the show. "The quality of leads here has been good and the interest in our product is there and will improve if the rest of the GCC follows the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. in implementing environmental legislation for construction. "Our main business in the region is the UAE but we have customers in Riyadh and Jeddah. "We organised a three-day visit to Saudi a while ago and it was a nightmare. "We had to travel from Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. to the embassy in London twice before we gat Gat: see Ghat, Libya. GAT - Generalized Algebraic Translator. Improved version of IT. On IBM 650 RAMAC. [Sammet 1969, p. 142]. a visa and it took forever. "Having come to this exhibition I am convinced we should have skipped Saudi and come here. It's a good place to make contact with Saudi industries." business@gdn.com.bh Copyright [c] 2008 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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