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June 28th, 2026 - 11:03 GMT

P. Choiaqo

US restaurants add mandatory tips to bills as World Cup fans are unfamiliar with tipping culture

ALBAWABA - The World Cup, doubtlessly, brings fans from all around the world to come and cheer for their favorite teams and to experience the cultures of the host countries, one culture. However, has slipped World Cup fans by, tipping. Tipping is seen not as something optional in the U.S. but as something compulsory, that anyone should tip their server as they pay for their meal. This mindset, however, hardly ...

By refusing to grant access despite requests from the authority, it was concluded that Ooredoo had damaged competition and “likely maintained artificially high prices for consumers”. (Wearandpoint.com)

September 26th, 2016 - 09:30 GMT

Ooredoo Qatar fined for anti-competitive conduct

Build-operate-transfer (BOT) port projects have also seen a high failure rate, including Aqaba New Port in Jordan. (Construction Week Online)

September 26th, 2016 - 08:30 GMT

Nearly a quarter of Gulf public-private partnerships have collapsed: MEED

The Dh4-billion medical city will accommodate 732 hospital beds, including two royal and 36 VIP suites, 424 hospital beds for post-operative inpatients and 120 for the maternity and infant ward. (Seha)

September 26th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

Abu Dhabi's billion-dollar Medical City set for handover in 2017

The filming of Game of Thrones and Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the island have increased its ability to reach into new markets. (Pixabay)

September 26th, 2016 - 06:30 GMT

Will the luck of the Irish attract more Gulf tourists to the Emerald Isle?

Headquarters of Kuwait Projects Company (Kipco), the country's largest investment company. (Kipco)

September 26th, 2016 - 05:30 GMT

Kuwait Projects Company breaks ground on $2.5B real estate project

The Mafraq plant is the first PV solar plant to be financed out of the four planned under the Jordanian government’s second round of solar PV projects, said the statement. (Shutterstock)

September 26th, 2016 - 04:39 GMT

Jordan secures $76M for solar power plant in Mafraq

None of the available positions were in the main cities of Riyadh, Jeddah or Mecca. (AFP/File)

September 25th, 2016 - 12:30 GMT

Saudi job portal crashes after 72,000 women apply for 5,000 available teaching jobs

Saudi Arabia suffered a deficit of $98 billion in 2015, while the projected shortage this year is $87 billion. (Shutterstock/Andrew V Marcus)

September 25th, 2016 - 11:30 GMT

No end in sight for the new norm of GCC budget deficits

The UAE population is very small but its dealer tops the world for Bentley sales. The Bentley Bentayga 2017. (Pinterest)

September 25th, 2016 - 10:30 GMT

What economic crisis? Bentley boasts 45 percent sales growth in UAE

Millennials demand the latest technology to help them stay connected and engaged and expect hotel chains to personalise their experience during their stay. (Shutterstock)

September 25th, 2016 - 09:30 GMT

Demands of 'Generation Mobile' pose connectivity challenges for MENA hotels

An ECESR economist argues that the same economic structural problems persist, and the IMF adopts more or less the same approach towards countries as it did back in 1991. (AFP/File)

September 25th, 2016 - 08:30 GMT

History repeats itself: Amid mounting loans, does Egypt have an economic vision?

Costa Brava is one of two landfills of a government plan to end the country’s trash crisis, which began July of last year with the closure of the Naameh landfill after 17 years of operation. (The Daily Star/ Hasan Shaaban)

September 25th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

Waste not, want not: Lebanon's trash problem back to the fore with landfill protesters