BANGKOK — Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra appears to be staying in the Mideast commercial hub of Dubai after fleeing a criminal conviction, Thailand’s prime minister said Thursday, in the first official word on her whereabouts since she …
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Fugivite former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra in Dubai, officials say
BANGKOK – Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra appears to be staying in the Mideast commercial hub of Dubai after fleeing a criminal conviction, Thailand’s prime minister said Thursday in the first word on her whereabouts. “We have received a …
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UAE Centennial 2071 strategy caps government meetings
Abu Dhabi: The UAE on Wednesday announced the strategy for its march to achieve its Centennial 2071 goals. His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Shaikh Mohammad …
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UAE wants to be happiest with best government, education by 2071
Abu Dhabi: The UAE on Wednesday announced the strategy for its march to achieve its Centennial 2071 goals. His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Shaikh Mohammad …
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Dubai neighbourhoods to have markets offering maintenance services
Dubai: Residents having difficulty in finding maintenance services in their neighbourhoods will benefit from a new initiative planned by the civic body. Residential neighbourhoods in Dubai are set to get specialized markets that will offer services of all …
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Dubai prosecutors seek death penalty for British editor accused of murdering his wife with a hammer
Matthew, the editor-at-large of the Gulf News, pleaded not guilty to the charge when he appeared in a Dubai courtroom on Wednesday. The journalist, who along with his wife was a fixture of Dubai’s large British expatriate scene, looked thin and …
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UAE unveils city that will simulate life on Mars
Spending Dh500million, the UAE will build a Mars City – the largest space stimulation city ever built in the world and a realistic model to simulate living on the surface of Mars. His Highnesses Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice-President and …
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Sellanyhome set to revolutionise UAE property market
Omar Chihane hopes that his new concept, Sellanyhome.com, will revolutionise the way properties are bought and sold in the UAE and turn the property market into more of a stock market. The former corporate sales director had such a tough job selling his …
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Emirates NBD calls on central bank to ease restrictions on mortgage lending
Emirates NBD, Dubai’s largest bank by assets, wants the UAE Central Bank to ease restrictions on mortgage loans by separating housing finance from the bracket of funding extended to the real estate and construction sectors, a move the bank hopes will …
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UAE expresses concerns over Israeli rights violations in Palestine
Geneva: The UAE has voiced its concern over the lack of debate in the Human Rights Council on the human rights violations taking place in the occupied Palestinian territories. Obaid Salem Saeed Nasser Al Za’abi, Permanent Representative of the UAE to the …
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UAE needs more green-efficient buildings, says report
Dubai: A new and improved eco-standard to make buildings greener and more efficient to cut energy costs is set for implementation in the UAE to help the country cut its greenhouse gases, according to a new report from the Emirates Green Building Council …
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British editor in UAE pleads not guilty in wife’s killing
The British editor-at-large of a prominent English-language newspaper in Dubai has pleaded not guilty to a premeditated murder charge over his wife’s killing. Gulf News editor Francis Matthews is accused of killing his 62-year-old wife Jane with a hammer …
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Dome of light to delight visitors to Louvre Abu Dhabi
Sunshine and starlight will dance over visitors to the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum when it opens in November, filtering through a huge dome that appears to hover over land and sea. The aery dome, held aloft with four massive but invisible structures …
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UAE Ministry of Finance: UAE Ranked First Globally in the ‘Efficiency of Government Spending’ Index
The Ministry of Finance announced that the UAE was ranked first in the ‘Efficiency of Government Spending’ index, a sub-criteria of the World Competitiveness Report 2017- issued by the World Economic Forum (Davos) in Switzerland, having ranked second …
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The best wireless routers in the UAE for 2017
In the information age, no building is complete without only the best wireless router, a title that has recently taken on new meaning, thanks to efforts from companies like Google, Netgear and Linksys who’ve begun to bring wireless mesh systems to market.
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UAE tops world in efficiency of govt spending index
Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, presented this achievement to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the …
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Ministry of Finance: UAE ranked first globally in the ‘Efficiency of Government Spending’ index
Since 2010, the UAE has achieved high rankings among the top 10 countries in the “Efficiency of Government Spending” index, where the country rose from the seventh position globally, to third in 2013, and then maintained the status of second worldwide …
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