An article in Gulf Daily News quotes Information Minister Ali Al Rumaihi as saying the law is in the final stages of preparation to be presented to Cabinet.
The Ministers of Finance of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the State of Kuwait…
960 | the publication reaches you by | Bahrain News“The government has finished preparing a comprehensive law that tackles and covers everything with it being a matter of formalities to complete before the Cabinet approves it.”
Media in the kingdom is governed by the 2002 Publications Law.
Al Rumaihi added:
“It is not like Bahrain has been suffering from a legislative vacuum, we are covered through the Publications Law, but we believe there has to be progress that takes us beyond that.”
It is understood the new law has a dedicated chapter dealing with electronic media, although it will not address personal social media accounts, which will continue to be dealt with separately.
The forum was organised by the university’s Media Club in co-ordination with the Bahrain Journalists Association (BJA) and the ministry.
Nvestox management had already staggered a ‘loop-work’ environment within their key teams trading all major global exchanges, so…
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The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are the seven Arab states which border the Persian Gulf, namely Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).This excludes the non-Arab state of Iran. All of these nations except Iraq are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
