Dubai: The UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia remain top “adopter … and nations in this cluster experience the biggest GDP growth from ICT (information and communications technology) infrastructure. Sami Nashwan, vice-president for strategy consulting …
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Bank loans must be repaid even if you lose your job
Just last month, my company terminated about 200 staff members and more terminations are expected. I currently have a loan with a UAE bank that is to be repaid in 47 months. If my company terminates me, is there any way legally to put the payments on hold.
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Dubai unveils official new font
Dubai: Tired of Times New Roman and over Arial? Dubai’s government might have the solution. Called simply ‘Dubai Font,’ the new Arabic and Latin type styles are now freely available for the whole world to use. With its simple, San Serif Latin …
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Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad introduces Dubai Font
Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has launched the Dubai Font — Microsoft’s first font to be created by a city and named after it — in line with the UAE’s vision to …
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5 popular destinations for UAE property investors
According to a new survey, 13 per cent of the UAE’s residents have plans to invest in property overseas in the next year. The annual YouGov survey conducted by IP Global, a property investment company named North America, UK, Germany and Australia the …
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Dubai’s new Apple store gets royal welcome
Dubai: The opening of Apple’s third store in the UAE got a royal welcome when none other than the crown prince of Dubai paid a visit to the two-storey mega store in Dubai Mall recently. Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, along with his …
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OT Provides Instant Card Issuance for Mashreq Bank in UAE
COLOMBES, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions and a forerunner in the payment sector, has been selected by Mashreq Bank to deploy Instant Card …
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Dubai bank first in world to pilot sign language technology
Dubai-based Emirates NBD has become the first bank in the world to pilot KinTrans, a technology that enables easy two-way communication between sign language communicators with hearing disabilities, and people who use spoken languages. The bank said in a …
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UAE Exchange Partners with Oberthur Technologies to Launch Wearable Contactless Payments
COLOMBES, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)– UAE Exchange, the leading global remittance, foreign exchange and payment solutions brand, and OT (Oberthur Technologies) have partnered to launch “gocash” prepaid card of UAE Exchange through the first-ever …
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7 Things that Make Dubai a Heaven for International Property Investors
While there are ups and downs in the global real estate market, Dubai remains right at the top and these 7 factors make it a heaven for the international property investors. One of the biggest benefits of buying a property in Dubai is that the economy of …
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Emicool’s IPO likely to take place this year, says Union Properties chairman
The owners of Emicool plan to sell a 30 per cent stake in the district cooling company through an eventual IPO. Joint owners Union Properties and Dubai Investments each plan to sell 15 per cent of district cooling company Emicool by the end of this year …
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UAE’s battle-hardened military expands into Africa, Mideast
Juma Ali Khalaf al-Hamiri, a senior Emirati military official, said in a statement on the state-run WAM news agency. Media in Colombia have also reported that Colombian nationals working as mercenaries serve in the UAE’s military. In 2014, the UAE …
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How the UAE immigration landscape impacts business mobility
According to statistics from the Department of Economic Development in Dubai, more than 22,000 business licenses were issued in 2015, representing a 17.4 per cent growth from 2014 despite the challenging economic environment. This growth highlights the …
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Dh3.4 billion worth of transactions registered in Dubai prime residential market in Q1 2017
Amid all the buzz on affordable housing, Dubai’s luxury property seems to be holding its own. And there are ample takers for higher priced properties in Dubai as well. In the first three months of 2017, transactions of Dh1 million and more made up 64 per …
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Taj targets The Palm for third Dubai property
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces will be opening a Taj hotel in Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, marking its third landfall in the city, with its existing Taj hotel in Downtown Dubai and upcoming Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT) Vivanta by Taj property, Taj Dubai general …
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Emirati teenager releases second book at book fair
Abu Dhabi: With Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF … so to have the sequel now just feels really amazing,” Al Naqbi told Gulf News. “The first book ended with a cliffhanger so that provoked me even more to write the second part,” she said.
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Dubai’s Catholic parish church marks 50 years
Dubai: History is usually told in the written form. On Thursday night, the story of St Mary’s Catholic Church parish’s 50 years in Dubai was told not only with words but — in the city’s typical innovative fashion — with a computer-driven laser light …
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