On Saturday, the Dubai Media office confirmed the good news with a tweet, and said: “The UAE ranks 1st in the Arab world on the Quality of Nationality Index 2017 by Henley & Partners.” #UAE ranks 1st in the Arab world on the Quality of Nationality …
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ATM 2018: Luxury spa market set to grow in Dubai
The number of five-star hotel spas in Dubai is on track to increase by a compound annual growth rate of 11 per cent to 2021, according to data released by Colliers International. According to the report, Spa & Wellness Travel, produced exclusively for …
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Number 3 car plate fetches Dh9m in Sharjah auction
Sharjah: Distinguished car number plates generated millions of dirhams during an auction where plate Number 3 fetched Dh9 million in a fierce bidding on Saturday evening. Organisers had a tough time controlling the proceedings in the charged up atmosphere …
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Nepalese mission begins awareness drive on UAE laws among expats
Most of them are behind bars in petty crimes of liquor use as they are not aware of local rules, a senior diplomat at the Nepal Embassy in Abu Dhabi told Gulf News on Saturday. “In the past one year, Nepalese inmates’ numbers have almost doubled …
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Business in the desert
Business management has been my passion since childhood and in order to pursue this interest I was looking for the right course which is also internationally well-recognised. After one of my seniors from school suggested Middlesex University Dubai (MDX …
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Dubai’s Gross Domestic Product reaches Dh389b in 2017
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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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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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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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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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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UK judge grants billionaire’s former wife ownership of $540m yacht impounded in Dubai
There is, conversely, a possibility, that if no such order is made, {Ms Akhmedov’s] efforts to enforce the judgement in Dubai could fail altogether.” In a statement from London provided to Gulf News on Thursday by Akhmedova’s legal team, her lawyers …
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