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(VEN) - The Middle East includes 16 countries -
Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Palestine and Northern
Cyprus. With the exception of Israel, most of the remaining countries are
Islamic. The Middle East is home to two-thirds of the world's oil reserves.
With a population of about 280 million and a high per capita income, the Middle
East is a high-consumption and highly-solvent market.SEE MORECALIFORNIA (Commodity Online): The research team
based at the University of California of USA have pioneered the
development of the cutting edge technology of the damage tolerant
metallic glass earlier this year. SEE MORE LONDON (ICIS)--BASF will build an acrylic dispersions plant in
Durban, South Africa, to strengthen its position in the region, the
Germany-based petrochemicals giant said on Tuesday.SEE MORE AMSTERDAM (ICIS)--Members of an EU research group have unveiled new
proposals for partnerships between Europe’s chemicals industry and the
public sector that promote sustainability, the group said on Tuesday. SEE MORE With the current forex rate situation and highly increasing
input costs, the coal price for electricity production is now equal to
only 60 percent of the coal price for export, according to Vietnam
National Coal and Minerals Industries Group (Vinacomin).SEE MORE
