These are the laws and customs you need to know about ahead of your trip to Dubai. A UK tourist allegedly gang raped in Dubai is reportedly facing jail for ‘having sex outside of marriage’ – while two suspects were allowed to fly back to Birmingham Airport.
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Dubai Financial Market : UAE markets eye positive catalyst to limit fluctuations – Analysts
Dubai – Mubasher: UAE stock markets continue to be on the lookout for new market-boosting catalysts that will reduce the level of fluctuations which have dominated the two markets in the past several sessions, analysts told Mubasher. The Dubai Financial …
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Travel News Dubai: Emaar Plans 6 New Hotels
Emaar Hospitality Group, the hospitality and leisure business of Emaar Properties, today unveiled six new hotel projects as part of its regional and international expansion plans, at the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2017. The new hotels and serviced …
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Emirati jailed for 10 years for joining Daesh
Abu Dhabi: The State Security Court at the UAE Federal Supreme Court on Monday sentenced K.A.H.T., a 21-year-old Emirati, to 10 years in jail on the charges of joining Daesh and other terrorist organisations in Syria, a court official told Gulf News.
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Abu Dhabi +1.8% to 6.15m passengers in first quarter
Any readers who would like to see ‘the latest aerial video’ (shot in August 2016) showing the progress at Abu Dhabi’s Midfield Terminal Building can do so by clicking here: http://www.adac.ae/english/mtp/MTP/latest-news/27-09-2016-Latest-Aerial-Video …
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UPDATE 1-Malaysia and Abu Dhabi settle 1MDB dispute with $1.2 bln deal
1MDB has agreed to pay $1.2 bln to Abu Dhabi’s IPIC * 1MDB & Malaysia’s MoF to make payments on two bonds * Arbitration tribunal to make ‘consent award’ by May 31 By Stanley Carvalho and Praveen Menon ABU DHABI/KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 Abu Dhabi and Malaysia …
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Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Shuts Down Highway To Save Kitten, Video Goes Viral
As Gulf News remarks, the Civil Defense in Abu Dhabi always deals with incidents like these with the utmost seriousness. Their goal is to uphold humanitarian and animal welfare principles, and it is evident that they did all they could do to bring this …
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Abu Dhabi banker probed by Italy over 1MDB scandal
According to the FT, Khadem al-Qubaisi, the jailed former managing director of Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (Ipic), is being probed by authorities in Milan, a person close to the matter has revealed. The publication reported …
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UAE teams hopeful of bouncing back in France
We were pushing very hard to figure out the problem all along, and to finish in fourth place was really such a huge achievement for us,” Salim Al Rumaithi, Chairman, Team Abu Dhabi, told Gulf News. “This was a good race for us and an entirely different …
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Malaysia reaches $1.7b deal with Abu Dhabi over 1MDB debt
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia has reached agreement to pay Abu Dhabi about US$1.2 billion (S$1.7 billion … the Malaysian fund said in a separate statement quoted by Bloomberg News. “This arbitration settlement and monetisation of investment fund units …
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Malaysia’s 1MDB Reaches Settlement Deal With Abu Dhabi’s IPIC
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) said on Monday it had reached an agreement with Abu Dhabi state fund IPIC on the settlement of arbitration proceedings at the London Court of International Arbitration.
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UAE bans import of vegetables, fruits from select countries
Dubai: Fruits and vegetables exceeding maximum residue limits (MRL) of pesticides will be banned from importation into the UAE by May 15 to protect human health, officials said on Monday. The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) issued an …
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Power failure plunges Dubai Mall into darkness for 90 minutes
Gulf News reader Klaudia Isabella described the scene inside the sprawling shopping complex: “Very calm, people are walking towards exits, shops are closed to enter. Mall starts getting empty. The power is still off.” Dubai mall blackout pic.twitter.com …
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Power failure plunges Dubai Mall into darkness
Gulf News reader Klaudia Isabella described the scene inside the sprawling shopping complex: “Very calm, people are walking towards exits, shops are closed to enter. Mall starts getting empty. The power is still off.” Dubai mall blackout pic.twitter.com …
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Holidays for the filthy rich: The villas in Dubai that might clean you out… they come with bathtubs worth $1MILLION
The much-anticipated XXII Carat villa complex on the celebrity-peppered Palm Jumeriah in Dubai boasts some of the most expensive bathrooms in the world. Set to open later in the year, each of the 22 properties comes complete with deep tubs carved out of …
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Dubai rents to continue dropping, but not for long
There has been talk of rents falling in Dubai for a while now, but many tenants say that they haven’t felt the benefit of the decline. According to CBRE (the world’s leading commercial property and real estate services adviser) the average rent in Dubai …
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Dubai state-backed DAE buys aircraft leasing firm AWAS
Aircraft leasing company Dubai Aerospace Enterprise has agreed to buy rival AWAS, more than tripling the size of its fleet. DAE said Monday it agreed to buy the Dublin-based company from funds managed by its shareholders, Terra Firma Capital Partners and …
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