Bahrain

The Middle East’s appetite for sweets and savoury snacks can be thanked for more than $240m worth of investments in Bahrain in just two years. In 2016 the new $90m Mondelez factory is due to start producing biscuits that will be shipped all over the MENA region and parts of Asia. It is opening two years after Arabian Sugar’s $150m refinery...

As Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) celebrates the 45th anniversary of aluminium production in Bahrain, the firm is looking to the future and working on the construction of its sixth pot line, an expansion plan that will make the company the world’s largest single-site smelter. A few weeks after Alba announced it would be going ahead with the...

As GCC money pours into infrastructure and housing projects in Bahrain, there are places where the skyline is still dominated by abandoned building sites that serve as reminders of the 2008 global economic downturn and property crash. Now, the government is taking legal action to confront the issue.

As part of a raft of legislation designed to restore confidence to the property sector and to protect the rights of those involved in property transactions, a new law to ensure the rights of both landlords and tenants of rented property has been passed.

In the space of a generation Bahrain has been transformed beyond recognition. A bustling ferry jetty that was once the only way to reach Saudi Arabia has been transformed into a financial harbour, while the five-star Gulf Hotel, built to overlook the beach in 1969, now markets itself as a downtown destination. Land reclamation offers...

Faced with a backlog of more than 50,000 social housing requests, Bahrain’s Ministry of Housing (MoH) has turned to the private sector for help, and in 2016 the first citizens began to receive the keys to brand new properties built under a pioneering public-private partnership (PPP).