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Articles by Khalid Okonkwo
World
How World News Reaches Readers: Inside the Global Wire System
Three agencies — the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse — keep offices in most countries and supply the majority of international news printed by the world’s newspapers. The trade began with Havas in Paris in 1835.
Khalid Okonkwo
Gulf Business
How Gulf Business News Gets Sourced, Translated and Checked
Covering six fast-moving economies means chasing primary documents, translating across Arabic and English, and verifying every figure before it reaches the page.
Khalid Okonkwo
Gulf Business
Gulf Business Setup — Setting Up a Free Zone Company in the Gulf: What Each Step Actually Takes
Licensing, banking and visas follow a known sequence. The costs and delays founders rarely expect sit between the steps.
Khalid Okonkwo
Gulf Business
Gulf Business Succession Planning: How Gulf Family Businesses Plan the Next Generation Handover
Governance charts, sharia-compliant wills and hired chief executives decide whether a family firm outlives its founder.
Khalid Okonkwo
Gulf Business
What is Duqm, Oman's mega-port bet
The Duqm Special Economic Zone stretches across roughly 2,000 square kilometres of Oman's coast, with a deep-water port, one of the region's largest dry docks and a 230,000-bpd refinery joint venture.
Khalid Okonkwo