And although it only runs 2km for now, the SkyWay is set to revolutionise how we all get from A to B. One of the UAE’s most remarkable feats of engineering is heading towards its final trial stages at …
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Dubai Stocks Disconnect From Emerging Peers on Tourism Blows
Dubai stocks are more out of step with their emerging-market peers than they’ve been in more than two years, reflecting the battering for tourism and retail shares in the Gulf city caused by the …
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Covid-19: Dubai hospitals ‘strained, not overwhelmed’ says official
Helal Al Marri, director general of Dubai’s Tourism Authority, added that the emirate has a clear plan for dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Sharjah-based Indian businessman Sohan Roy to pay salary to employees’ homemaker wives
The amount of salary to be paid to the wives will be determined by the number of years the employee has been working in the firm …
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Pandemic’s second wave threatens to derail Dubai’s tourism surge
A second wave of coronavirus infections threatens to upend a tourism boom in Dubai that provided salve to its battered economy, although with so few places open globally its hospitality sector hopes …
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Sheikh Mohammed launches ‘Invest in Dubai’ platform to ease process of establishing businesses
The centralised portal offers services such as commercial licensing in which government permits and approvals can be obtained without the need to physically visit any service centre.
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Netflix Mideast Rival Gets $25 Million From Abu Dhabi-Based Fund
Starzplay, a Middle Eastern competitor of Netflix Inc., got 92 million dirhams ($25 million) in debt financing from an Abu Dhabi-based fund as the coronavirus pandemic fuels demand for home …
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China’s Sinopharm vaccine offered to elite few in UAE tourist deal
China’s Sinopharm vaccine is being offered to a handful of wealthy people paying for access to the United Arab Emirates’ Covid-19 vaccination programme as part of a partnership to “bring tourism into …
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UAE non-oil private sector mild growth unchanged in January -PMI
Mild growth in the United Arab Emirates’ non-oil private sector was unchanged in January as business activity grew solidly and employment increased for the first time in over a year, although sales …
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Taking the Covid-19 vaccine is every person’s ‘ethical duty’ – UAE official
Taking the Covid-19 vaccine has become everyone’s ethical duty, whether UAE citizens or residents, to protect the health and safety of the community, Dr Saif Al Dhaheri, official spokesperson of the …
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UAE Job Market Improves as Vaccine Rollout Boosts Confidence
Business activity in the Arab world’s two largest economies improved at the start of 2021, with the United Arab Emirates seeing growth in its job market for the first time in over a year.
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Why UAE imposed transit restriction on Nigeria, by Emirates
Emirates Airline has explained that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) policy that bars transit travellers from Nigeria to Dubai …
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Israel’s Netanyahu says plans brief UAE visit next week
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he plans to pay a three-hour visit next week to the United Arab Emirates and perhaps to Bahrain, two countries that forged ties with Israel …
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UAE’s New Foreign Citizenship Plan Triggers Rare Rights Debate
The United Arab Emirates’ new plan to offer citizenship to a select group of foreigners has generated some rare public discussion about rights, including from the wife of a ruling sheikh.
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UAE ambassador confident US F-35 deal will be fulfilled
“You can’t … take tools away from your partners who are expected to do more,” Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba said Monday.
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Biden nixes Trump’s last-minute move to remove aluminum tariffs on UAE
President Biden late Monday reversed an effort by former President Trump to lift aluminum tariffs on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) shortly before he left office, instead keeping the tariffs in place.
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Joe Biden will keep Trump administration’s UAE aluminum tariffs
President Biden will keep in place the Trump administration’s aluminum tariffs on the United Arab Emirates, after initially reversing the policy. In a proclamation issued Monday, the 46th …
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