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According to Friends of AlJazeera Blog, Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera’s sports channel Al Jazeera Sports Plus is poised to get an entry into the Guinness Book of Records as the “fastest growing pay TV channel” in the world, it is reliably learnt. According to sources in the media industry, Al Jazeera Sports Plus which was launched in August 2005 has already reached a subscriber base of 800,000 and it is expected to touch the one million mark by the end of May 2006.

Recent Links also in Middle East & North Africa

samuraisam, from the UAE Community Blog, asks: “Has anyone else found the Israeli TLD to be unblocked from the UAE? On my Etisalat connection it seems to be open.”

UAE blogger An Emirati's Thoughts calls for action following the “recent slump in the confidence in Dubai's debt management capabilities.”

Yemeni Omar Barsawad shares with us information on the Yemeni capital San'aa. “Be it in Sana'a Old City or the mud bricked houses of Hadhramout, Yemen's architecture remains very much traditional and unique. And is still being preserved in most parts of the country,” he notes.