All Features articles – Page 12
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FeaturesForget cotton – make textiles from banana and pineapple
Cotton makes up a third of fibre consumption in the textile industry, and the cotton production industry is labour intensive and involves a lot of sweat, chemicals and fresh water. Could a number of innovations from natural sources and raw materials compete with the unsustainable product of the cotton plant? ...
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FeaturesInside the V&A Clothworkers' Centre
The V&A is very fortunate that it’s well known for its dress and textiles collections, so often we get approached by collectors and people who have items and objects that they would like to donate to the museum.
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FeaturesHow to manage your cash flow
Cash is king when it comes to the financial management of a growing company. The lag between the time you have to pay your suppliers and employees and the time you collect from your customers is the problem, and the solution is cash flow management. At its ...
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FeaturesTrialling new ways to meet power demand
Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region are beginning to boost the amount of time and money they put into researching and implementing renewable energy projects to assist efforts to meet growing demand for electricity.
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FeaturesTelecoms operators aim to protect share
The transformation in the global telecoms industry over the past decade has been unprecedented. The development of the smartphone has changed how people communicate. Mobile phones are more used for non-voice applications than for making calls.
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FeaturesPower & Water: developer rankings
It has been another quiet 12 months for the private power and water developer market in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, with just two offtake agreements signed for the Al-Zour North scheme in Kuwait and the Rabigh 2 project in Saudi Arabia.
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FeaturesThe region's 100 biggest projects
Projects spending in MEED’s Top 100 Construction Index grew during 2013 and with economies around the region improving, this is expected to continue. This webinar examined projects market trends in the Middle East and forecasts which areas will grow in 2014.
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FeaturesThe hardship posting to end all hardship postings
It was the hardship posting to end all hardship postings. British officers went quite literally round the bend to get there, writes Matthew Teller, and perhaps sometimes metaphorically too. In 1863 Britain was looking to strengthen its control over the Gulf. The eager new ambassador to the region, Political Resident ...
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FeaturesHow Arabia made its money before the oil rush
To think of Arabia today is to think of unimaginable oil wealth. Less than a century ago, one of its main sources of income was pearl fishing - which was under threat from competition and colonial administrators,
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FeaturesWhen British diplomats ran the Gulf
The India Office exercised colonial rule over an area stretching west as far as Aden. Stories are being brought to light in a £8.7m project for nearly half a million documents relating to the Gulf to be digitised.
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FeaturesThe diplomat who said “No” to Saudi oil
In 1932, amid a global economic slump, the impoverished Saudis came to London looking for a loan. They also had an offer: would Britain like to try drilling for oil?
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FeaturesIn pictures: building the world's largest container ship
Okpo, a port in South Korea, is home to Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, a company constructing the world’s largest model of ship – 12 at a time.
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FeaturesThe world's top 10 container ports
The Chinese behemoth gateway of Shanghai maintained its position as the world’s busiest container port. Container and Shipping Trade looks at the biggest 10 container ports and compares 2013 throughput with 2012.
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