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Ten facts on tiny principality of Liechtenstein

1. The Principality of Liechtenstein is one of only two countries in the world that are doubly landlocked — that is surrounded by other countries that are also landlocked — which means that its inhabitants have to cross at least two borders before reaching the coast. The other such country is [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Sheikh Who Backed Barclays Gets Another Shot With Qatar’s Money

On a March morning in Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City on the Persian Gulf, a red flame shrouded in black smoke shoots into the haze from a 650-foot stack. The burst of fire is burning off excess fuel as workers rush to finish equipment that will help the nation, already the world’s biggest exporter of [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Launch of new website Perfect Knowledge PR www.perfectknowledgepr.com

PRESS RELEASE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Perfect Knowledge PR would like to announce the launch of our new web site www.perfectknowledgepr.com. Prefect Knowledge PR is an independent consultancy aimed at the luxury media market.
Perfect Knowledge PR represents the private interests of Perfect Knowledge Ltd, which provides a premium bespoke service to [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Russian billionaires oligarchs favourite fixer and English lawyer met his horrifying death

It is 6.56pm on March 3, 2004. A brand new, six-seater, £1.5million Agusta A109E helicopter lands under an overcast sky at Battersea heliport in South London. Waiting impatiently and clutching his two mobile phones is a broad-shouldered lawyer named Stephen Curtis.
The 45-year-old climbs aboard and manoeuvres his bulky frame into a rear seat. At 6.59pm [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Millionaire Fair Moscow 2009

Held in Moscow for the first time, the Summer Fair is a smaller version of the giant luxury market, the Millionaire Fair. “It’s definitely smaller, but the level of the participants is higher,” said Yelena Kudozova, the managing director of the Millionaire Fair. She listed carmakers McClaren and jewelry brand Piaget as examples.
Highlighting the exclusivity [...]

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Abramovich Launches his new Mega Yacht

Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich’s mega-yacht ‘Eclipse’ has finally made a preliminary launch at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany where it was built secretly for more than two years. Estimated to have cost around $500 million, the vessel is nearly 170 meters long. It has room for 24 guests, with a crew of [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Saudi princess runs up £15 million shopping bill around the world

She has ignored her furious debtors and locked herself in her £2,500-a-night suite at the George V Hotel in Paris. When a royal aide was approached about settling the underwear bill he replied: “I’m afraid we can’t go around settling bills for the Princess’s knickers.” Princess Maha, whose husband, [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Sheikh Mohammed Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, and Ruler of Dubai opens facebook account

I am passionate about sports, particularly endurance racing. I enjoy and love horse riding with my family members. I enjoy the outdoors, especially the Arabian desert experience. I relish visiting cultural institutions throughout the Emirates, the Middle East, and during my other international travels.I often go to cultural gatherings. Writing Nabati (traditional Arabic poetry) has [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Press Release – Launch of new Public Relation Company – Perfect Knowledge PR

PRESS RELEASE
Press Office
Perfect Knowledge PR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Launch of new Public Relation Company – Perfect Knowledge PR
Perfect Knowledge PR offers a wide range of public relations services and communication solutions. These include corporate identity, integrated marketing communications, focused campaigns with controlled media profiles, editor level relationships, strategic advice, media PR and event marketing. Our target [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

A rich Arab sent his Lamborghini Murcielago on a 6,500-mile round trip to London for a service

The £190,000 supercar was put on a scheduled flight from Qatar to Heathrow – then flown back after the oil check. Money was no object as the flight would have cost the owner – thought to be a Sheikh – around £20,000.
The move sparked fury from green campaigners. An airport worker said: “This car doesn’t [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Oxford the unlikely rise of the private fixer in the biggest ever arms deal. Billionaire Wafic Said straddles worlds of Saudi royals and Westminster

Wafic Said is one of Britain’s wealthiest men, owning country houses, private jets, a stable of racehorses, a Picasso and a Matisse. But how he accumulated his estimated £1bn fortune is a much more opaque question. At the age of 30, it was not obvious that he would later live such a gilded life. Born [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Financier and Fixer Amanda Staveley missed a pay deal that would of made Millions. The payout would have dwarfed the £40m she earned brokering a deal for Abu Dhabi billionaire Sheik Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan to take a £3.5bn stake in Barclays last year.

The payout would have dwarfed the £40m she earned brokering a deal for Abu Dhabi billionaire Sheik Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan to take a £3.5bn stake in Barclays last year. Ms Staveley planned to use her own vehicle, a spin-off from her PCP Capital Partners [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2009