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UAE unveils new regulations for online, social media advertisements
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Dubai Startup Hub Brings Startups To Exhibit At GITEX Future Stars 2018
Both UAE-based and global startups exhibited along side the Dubai Startup Hub as part of their pavilion and showcase their business ideas. “We have a lot of global startups reaching out to us because …
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Dubai Maritime Cluster signs MoU with Panama
UAE, is set to run until October 31, bringing together ship owners and managers, port operators and cargo owners, C-Suite stakeholders, financiers, and other maritime professionals under one roof to n…
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What makes Emirates the most popular place to work for UAE millennials?
For the second year in a row, Emirates Airline tops the list of most attractive employers for millennial business students in the UAE, according to a new survey. The Swedish research company Universum …
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Thumbay Group searching for equity partners, may go for IPO, says founder
UAE-based Thumbay Group is currently searching for equity partners and may go public by 2023, according to the conglomerate’s founder and chairman Dr Thumbay Moideen. Speaking to Arabian Business in a…
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WATCH: Miri Regev’s historic visit to Abu Dhabi’s grand mosque
Unlike many other news organizations, we have not put up a paywall … the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. “It is the first time that an Israeli minister has made an [official] visit,” said Re…
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KhalifaSat: Made in the UAE, launched into space
Dr Ahmed Murad, dean of the college of science at United Arab Emirates University, told Arab News that the launch of KhalifaSat is a monumental step for the Arab world’s ambitious space programs, addi…
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Influencers in UAE required to clearly identify ads on social media
Abu Dhabi: Influencers duly licensed by the National … should not spread rumours or biased and misleading news and should not publish images or words that violate public morals.
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Rocket carrying 1st UAE-made satellite launched from Japan
TOKYO — A Japanese rocket on Monday lifted the United Arab Emirates’ first locally made satellite into orbit successfully from a space centre in southern Japan. The KhalifaSat Earth observation satel…
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Israeli Minister Tours Abu Dhabi’s Grand Mosque Days After Netanyahu Visits Oman
Sports and Culture Minister Miri Regev visited Abu Dhabi’s grand mosque, giving more momentum to Israel’s diplomatic push in the Gulf, where it sees Arab states as its natural allies against regional …
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Unsafe, high risk construction sites fined in Abu Dhabi
Last March, Gulf News reported that a crane collapsed at a worksite in Abu Dhabi and damaged seven cars parked in the vicinity. The tower crane collapsed while it was being lifted by a smaller …
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Dubai ‘has always benefited from instability,’ top property chairman says
Sajwani also noted Dubai’s gains from the collapse of Somalia in the 1990s, during which the emirate attracted significant Somali business and trade. Most of the east African country’s influential bus…
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Dubai Policeman names firstborn ‘Emarat’
Dubai: A Dubai Police staff named his firstborn baby girl ‘Emarat’ in honour of the UAE and the ‘Year of Zayed.’ Abdul Rahman Taher Ahmad decided on the name after his daughter was born …
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As it happened: Launch of UAE KhalifaSat
It was a textbook launch for KhalifaSat from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, on-board the H2A rocket, which lifted off at 8:08 AM Dubai time on Monday. The first 100% Emirati-engineered and …
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Israel’s national anthem played for first time at judo tournament in Abu Dhabi
It is not only your personal achievement and the Jewish achievement of Israeli sports, but also the fact that the anthem was being played in Abu Dhabi,” Netanyahu said, according to a statement from h…
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RTA Unveils Finalists of Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), announced that the par…
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