A BAHRAINI woman, who owns what is believed to be the first sex shop in the region, fears she could run out of business following a new government ban on sex toys. Khadija Ahmed, who claims the products she sells are saving marriages by spicing up couples’ love lives, is now considering leaving the country. [...]
Every vehicle owner in Bahrain will have to fit new number plates within the next two years. They will be available from June 20 and are specially designed to prevent number plate theft and illegal modifications.
The new plates, which are also easier to read, will be fitted for free during the first year as the General Directorate of Traffic introduces them on a voluntary basis.
Another major crackdown on rogue drivers to enforce traffic regulations is to be launched. His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa gave directives as he chaired yesterday’s Cabinet meeting at Gudaibiya Palace. The campaign will be orchestrated amid an alarming rise in deadly accidents across Bahrain. HRH the Premier instructed the [...]
THE Bahrain Journalists Association (BJA) last night voiced concern over a decision by the High Criminal Court to press charges against Akhbar Al Khaleej Editor-in-Chief Anwar Abdulrahman as an individual and not as the Editor-in-Chief of a newspaper. Mr Abdulrahman is accused of insulting human rights activists Nabeel Rajab. The BJA said it considered the [...]
New arbitration legislation enacted by the Kingdom of Bahrain on July 2, 2009 makes it the first country in the world to create the equivalent of a free trade zone for arbitration. That legislation, Legislative Decree No. 30 (The Decree), gives parties to an agreement calling for international arbitration the option of holding the arbitration in Bahrain without concern that the courts of Bahrain might interfere with, or set aside, the resulting award, as long as the parties seek to enforce the award only in another country. The result is the creation of what this article will call the Bahrain “Free Arbitration Zone.”
Police allegedly attacked when they forced their way into a house to arrest a man, admitted in court yesterday that they did not have a warrant. The Bahraini is standing trial at the High Criminal Court, where he denies assaulting police, threatening them and resisting arrest. Police went to his Hamad Town house in April [...]
Lawyers of two men at the centre of a multi-million-dinar fraud were yesterday given two months to review a new verdict which effectively axed part of Bahrain’s law on money laundering. The two Bahraini defendants, each former Alba employees, are facing charges of money laundering, fraud and bribery. Prosecutors claim the men accepted bribes from [...]
Health authorities in Bahrain plan to impose restrictions on In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) to reduce death cases among premature babies here. A draft law is being prepared by the ministry of health to monitor private hospitals and clinics to prevent unnecessary IVF procedures performed by them to make profits. A total of 250 premature babies [...]
A new law banning children below the age of 15 from being adopted could be introduced soon, it has emerged. Parliament yesterday approved the first chapter of a new child rights protection law, which aims to prevent them from becoming potential victims of abuse. The bill also forbids youngsters aged under 15 from being hired [...]
Abu Dhabi authorities have put on trial Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the ruling family caught on tape apparently torturing an Afghan business associate, the Financial Times can reveal. Sheikh Issa, one of 19 sons of Sheikh Zayed, the founding father of the United Arab Emirates and Abu Dhabi’s late ruler, is [...]
