Starting salaries for professional roles in finance and accounting, financial services, technology and administration in the UAE will grow by 2.5 per cent over the next year, according to the Robert Half 2017 Salary Guide. The guide is the most …
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Empower to Participate at World Green Economy Summit (WGES 2017)
The company is always keen to apply latest systems and technology in district cooling, which is one of the most important pillars of the transition to a green economy, due to the huge demand for cooling services within Dubai and the UAE that take major …
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Dubai Hospital Conducts Complex Open-Heart Surgery
Dr Esaaf Ghazi, Surgical Divisions director in Dubai Hospital, said: “Our hospital has been shouldering the pivotal tasks of providing advanced medical services with the highest technology, medical equipment and highly skilled manpower to deliver better …
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UAE leads in biggest commercial projects in GCC
“Dubai is where investors are snatching up exciting and forward … It will feature knowledge-sharing CPD (Continued Professional Development) certified talks covering Technology, Sustainability, Project Management and more. As well as an all new HVAC …
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UAE declares 2018 as the ‘Year of Zayed’
The UAE has declared 2018 to be the ‘Year of Zayed’ to commemorate … The aim is to invest in education that focusses on advanced technology, to build a system of ethical values for our future generations, to boost productivity of the national economy …
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Laying down the law for Dubai’s flying taxis
Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA … The Volocopter is unprecedented in the history of aviation, even though much of the technology is familiar. The aircraft is essentially a supersized drone, powered by 18 electric propellers and capable …
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Now Money: a fintech start-up servicing the UAE’s low-income migrant population
“The business model we had in mind worked really well for this because without branches or legacy technology – you have stripped out about 95 per cent of the cost which means that you can profitably service people who don’t have much money.” The …
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Dubai’s flying taxis will be ‘very safe’, General Civil Aviation Authority says
The GCAA pointed out that a lot of work had gone into achieving the high level of safety in modern airliners, with robust regulatory systems, developments in technology over the years, and “some lessons learned the hard way as well”. However …
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Dubai billionaires and billion-dollar promises
… are well-known for their billion-dollar investments in luxury real estate projects in Dubai, but many of them have not been successful in the Vietnamese property market. Bitexco, a big Vietnamese real estate developer, has confirmed that Emaar …
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MIDEAST STOCKS-Saudi and Dubai trade sideways, Qatar underperforms
DUBAI, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Stock markets in Saudi Arabia and … citing a decrease in residential sales and higher financial charges. Al Andalus Property edged down 0.5 percent. It reported second-quarter net profit of 27.6 million riyals, up 11 percent …
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Panic stirs as Dubai 78-story residential building catches fire
Fire incidents have happened several times in Dubai’s high rise buildings in recent years, pushing insurance costs higher for apartments and property in general in the Gulf Arab sheikhdom. DUBAI, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — A blaze was reported early Sunday in the …
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Fire strikes another tower in the Dubai Marina
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A fire has struck another high-rise tower in the Dubai Marina, just days after a blaze struck one of the world’s tallest residential towers in the same neighbourhood. Witnesses said firefighters had already begun spraying …
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Now Money: a start-up servicing the financial needs of the UAE’s low-income migrant population
The payment services provider first launched in 2015 and is just about to close its second round of external funding. Ian Dillion says the start-up is focusing on getting the first 4,000 accounts right before getting the numbers up. Antonie Robertson/The …
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UAE weather: Heat, humidity set to rise this week
The National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) said on Sunday that visibility could be less than 1,000 metres at roads across the UAE due to fog. The weather forecast for the country is expected to be hot to very hot in general, while being …
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Trial of killer ‘disguised in burqa’ starts on Tuesday
According to previous Gulf News reports, Abu Dhabi Police said that the cross-dressed as a woman to allegedly mislead the boy to the rooftop of the building to commit the crime. Police also released video footage that was taken on the day of the murder.
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UAE to mark 2018 as ‘Year of Zayed’
1966), marking the start of a new epoch in the history of UAE, said a Wam news agency report. The ‘Year of Zayed’ will highlight the role of the late leader in establishing the UAE Federation, and his local, regional and international achievements.
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Torch Tower residents let back in to get valuables
But multiple residents in the Dubai Marina tower, many of them Western expats, told Gulf News that they were not sure when they would be able to move back in. People who had been allowed to get their belongings said that some of the apartments showed signs …
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