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The Baghdad Bulletin is Iraq's only English-language news magazine and one of the country's only independent publications. The magazine was created specifically for local reporting on the reconstruction of Iraq and to provide a forum for guest writers to debate issues related to the redevelopment iraq.

News from Iraq     Homepage     Baghdad     Basrah     Kirkuk     Mosul  Comments & Analysis      Comment     Culture     Economics & Business     Gender     Health     History     Human Rights     International Perspective     Oil Industries     Politics     Reconstruction     Refugees     Report from London     The ex-regime     US foreign policy     Utilities     Report from Washington     Security & policing  Features     The quagmire of denouncing a quagmire     A letter from suburbia     A history of Baghdad     All features  Economics & Business US demands audit of Baghdad Stock Exchange companies, Exchange to remain closed till 2004 (17/7/2003) The Baghdad Stock Exchange will not open before the beginning of next year according to Thomas Wriges, an American broker now working for the CPA. Additonally the CPA has demanded an audit of all companies listed there. the full article... Privatising (31/8/2003) An exclusive interview with author Greg Palast on the US plan for the new economy the full article... Corporate Takeover (31/8/2003) Uncertainty abounds as local businesses complain they are left out of reconstruction the full article... Calling Contractors (31/8/2003) Western corporations partner with Middle Eastern firms to bid for cell phone contract the full article... Lack of intellectual property laws aid internet business (7/7/2003) Software piracy and unregulated access leads to booming PC and internet demand in Baghdad… the full article... The Language of Hiring (17/8/2003) Occupation tips the job market heavily in favor of English-speakers, foreigners the full article... CPA to begin taking bids for cell phone network (20/7/2003) More than two months since the official end of hostilities, the Coalition Provisional Authority has announced a bidding timetable for the award of contracts for the building of a mobile phone network in Iraq. the full article... Short Changed (4/8/2003) Kurds angered by the US plans for a new dinar exchange rate the full article... World Bank begins Need Assessment (17/8/2003) The World Bank is active in Iraq for the first time since 1973, and aims to have an office in the country by September. the full article... British firm De La Roue tapped to print “Swiss” dinar (20/7/2003) the full article... Baghdad Stock Exchange unlikely to open before 2004 (20/7/2003) The Baghdad Stock Exchange will not open before the beginning of next year according to Thomas Wrigles, an American broker now working for the CPA. the full article... Banking sector faces problems of funny money and uncertainty over which currency will be used (24/6/2003) The scarcity of the 250 dinar and uncertainty about whether US currency or dinars will dominate the market plague Iraq's banking sector the full article... Debt and peace (10/6/2003) It is a matter of time before the country gives birth to another Saddam Hussein, people in Iraq believe. The problem is that the world did not learn what history should have taught it when it comes to post-war debts... the full article... « PREV  [1] 2  NEXT »  Search this site  Baghdad Bulletin     Contact us     Commission exclusive articles from our journalists     Our mission     The Bulletin in the news     Letters to the editor  Information     Weather     Links Baghdad: The Bradt City Guide, by Catherine Arnold. © Baghdad Bulletin 2003 | contact us |  webmaster

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