Dubai: Dubai Statistics Center (DSC) has revealed that Dubai’s real gross domestic product (GDP) reached Dh389 billion in 2017 compared to Dh379 billion in 2016, an increase of 2.6 per cent. According to DSC, the growth was fuelled by the performance of …
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Dubai winter camp tents must be removed by May 7
Dubai: Dubai Municipality has appealed to all the owners of the winter camps in Al Aweer to remove their tents by May 7. Layali Abdulrahman Al Mulla, Director, Buildings Department, issued this order since the winter camping season is ending on April 30 …
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Dubai’s biggest bank goes live with cheque blockchain project
Emirates NBD, Dubai’s biggest bank, has become the first to successfully go live at scale with “Cheque Chain”, a blockchain technology project that aims to cut cheque-related fraud. Following a successful pilot last year overseen by Emirates NBD Future Lab …
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Upskilling the UAE’s healthcare industry
The CEO of King’s College Hospital London in the UAE, Neil Buckley, spoke with Gulf Business about what the partnership hopes to achieve, and why upskilling is so important for the region’s healthcare professionals. How did the partnership between King …
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Average Abu Dhabi property prices fall 1% during Q1
Average residential sale prices in Abu Dhabi declined by around 1 percent in the first quarter of 2018 and by 5 percent annually, according to consultants CBRE. Its Abu Dhabi Market Overview report said secondary market transactions in particular suffered …
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Expanded French cultural centre opened in Dubai
and the partnership between us,” Gourdault- Montagne told Gulf News in an interview. For 35 years, the Alliance Française in Dubai has been a hub where students, teachers, trainers, and important personalities of the cultural, educational and economic …
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Technology industry sees highest turnover rate
The technology industry in the Middle East and North Africa saw … Check out getthat.com/jobs for hundreds of jobs in the UAE.
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Experts discuss technology’s role in our lives
DUBAI: Experts from different fields of technology and education have termed the rapid change of technology in our lives as a significant shift of behaviour, lifestyle and learning. They termed data as a new oil and new currency resulting in technological …
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UAE’s first global figure skater makes her mark
Dubai: Zahra Lari was only 12 when she took up figure skating as a hobby she enjoyed practising once a week. Little did she know, she would become the first Emirati figure skater to compete internationally, and the first woman to take part in an …
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Divorced in the UAE but not in the Philippines
Here in the UAE, couples undergo a session at St Mary’s and St Francis [churches] as well as in all other Catholic churches called the Marriage Preparation Course,” Los Banos told Gulf News. He said differences and misunderstandings can be resolved if …
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Defying image problems, start-up offers three-hour hotel stays in the UAE
Dubai: A new app has launched in the UAE that offers users a ‘microstay’ of three, six, or 12 hours in a hotel room, hoping to capture business travellers in transit, and families tired after long days of shopping. Spaniards Christian Rodriguez and …
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One year on: Al Hilal Bank CEO Alex Coelho
The beauty of a bank of our size [1,500 staff, 100,000 customers, 25 UAE branches and three more in Kazakhstan] is that we don’t have a doubt on what we need to do. It’s just the pace of execution that’s important.” He lists his other key task as …
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Expo 2020 Dubai: building a legacy
This leads to questions on the real estate impact of World Expo 2020 in Dubai, an event that has generated an estimated $50 billion (Dh183.62 billion) in direct and indirect investments, with $8 billion being allocated to transport and infrastructure …
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Battle against obesity in UAE starts with slashing sugar in food products
told Gulf News in the capital on Thursday. “Our records showed a concerning increase in childhood obesity in the emirate of Abu Dhabi between 2010 and 2015. In fact, the proportion of children carrying excess weight increases steadily through the grades …
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Bridal clothes donated in Dubai will help educate Ethiopian girls
Dubai: Bridal clothes donated by humanitarians in Dubai will soon help educate underprivileged girls in Ethiopia. Shaikha Manal Bint Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, president of the Dubai Women Establishment and wife of Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan …
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Dubai’s Deyaar starts handover of Mont Rose project
Listed on the Dubai Financial Market, Deyaar is majority-owned by Dubai Islamic Bank. Subscribe to Arabian Business’ newsletter to receive the latest breaking news and business stories in Dubai,the UAE and the GCC straight to your inbox.
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Dubai film festival to become biennial, skipping this year
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The Dubai International Film Festival says it will skip holding the event this year, instead becoming biennial and reconvening in 2019. The film festival made the announcement late on Wednesday night, saying the decision …
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