Bahrain is the hub and platform for Chinese investors to enter the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) market and boost trade relations at different levels, Chinese Ambassador to Bahrain Li Chen has said.

As part of the Association initiative to pay tribute to the media men and journalists who dedicated their life to the development of the Bahraini national journalism and media, a BJA delegation led by Chairman Moaness Al Mardi, with the presence of Al Ayam newspaper Chief Editor Isa Al Shaiji, BJA Vice-Chairman Mohannad Sulaiman, BJA Executive Director Fawaz Sulaiman and Head of the Photography Section at the Bahrain News Agency Duaij Darwish, paid a visit to the media man Abdul Aziz Al Khaja at his house in Manama.

The Youth Pioneering Society held its first annual anniversary ceremony during which it honored a number of public and civil service institutions as well as a number of media and private sector personalities.

BJA has expressed condemnation to the threats against the journalist photographer Ebrahim Senan who works at Gulf Daily News newspaper.

The General Manager for Support Services at the Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait Jamal Hijris received BJA’s Executive Director Fawaz Sulaiman and presented him with the Bank’s financial contribution to the Association.

The Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has hailed the key role of the Bahraini media in supporting the sports and youth movement in the Kingdom as part of the reform project initiated by His Majesty the King.

BJA Chairman Moeness Al Mardi stressed that each journalist pen and every media medium in the Kingdom of Bahrain bear great responsibility towards deterring any outside interference or whims that aim at undermining unity and national security.

BJA’s Executive Director Fawaz Sulaiman has expressed appreciation to VIVA Bahrain for its generous support to BJA’s Gabga party which it held during the month of Ramadan, and which is sponsored by the Economic Development Board and attended by a large number of media men and journalists.