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Dubai visitor escapes jail in Facebook photo threat
Dubai: A visitor has won a suspended imprisonment after he obtained a waiver from his ex-fiancé whom he was accused of threatening to publish her naked photos on ...
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Communication is key to a strong family — expert
Dubai: Communication between a husband and wife or between family members is key to overcoming challenges, a family counsellor told a discussion group on ...
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East meets East at the Dubai Chinese Learning Center
Lucy Chuang organised an event in Bastakiya for the local business community, her language students and Chinese officials. Jaime Puebla / The ...
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Attackers caught after shoe left at scene fitted perfectly Dubai court hears
DUBAI // A red-toothed sex pest was caught by police who matched a shoe left at the scene of an attack to his accomplice, a court heard today. PP, 26, from India, and PA, 22, from Bangladesh, attacked and robbed a woman in her apartment building after pestering her for sex, believing her to be a prostitute. They beat the woman up before running off with her handbag, but were soon tracked down ...
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Nepal probing illegal broadcast from Everest
A British mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal", officials said on Monday. British mountaineer Daniel Hughes gave a live video interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the 8,848-metres (29,029-feet) peak on Sunday morning. "This is the ...
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Air Arabia obtains Dh1.3 billion loan
(From left to right): Mohammad Sultan Al Qadi, Chairman of Commercial Bank International, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammad Al Thani, Chairman of Air Arabia, Abdulla Mubarak Al-Khalifa, General Manager, Group Corporate and Institution Banking, Qatar National Bank, at the agreement signing ceremony. ...
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Mohammed opens HCTs new headquarter
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, opened today the new headquarters of the Ras Al-Khaimah Women's College (RAKWC), part of the Higher Colleges of Technology. Sheikh Mohammed unveiled a special plaque upon his arrival at the Dh130 million building. The opening ceremony was attended by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mubarak ...
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French uproar over more English at universities
A proposal to introduce more courses in English and other foreign languages at French universities is set to be debated in parliament from Wednesday amid concerns it will undermine the country's soul and identity. Several leading unions in the education sector have threatened to strike on Wednesday and the influential Academie Francaise, set up in 1635 and the official authority on the ...
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Dubais Damac begins work on first Iraq project
Dubai-based property developer Damac Properties has begun construction on its first residential complex in Iraq, several years after it first announced its intention to expand into the Middle East ...
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Bank of London and The Middle East opens first overseas representative office in Dubai
Bank of London and The Middle East (BLME), the largest Islamic Bank in Europe, announced the opening of its representative office in the Dubai International Financial Centre ...
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Door to higher education scholarships opens in UAE
Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research said: ';The objective of these scholarships is to ensure the graduation of qualified and globally competitive manpower through the creation of a distinctive education environment to add new successes to the achievements of the previous ministry that will together be turned into a tangible ...
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Sharjah Ruler and his wife support Charity Auction for the education of orphans in the UAE
WAM SHARJAH, May 20th, 2013 (WAM) -- Under the patronage of Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah and his wife Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qassimi, Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs and Honorary Patron of the Sharjah Businesswomen's Council (SBWC), the initiative "Tawasel" organised an electronic charity ...
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Drunk man assaulted police when asked for ID card Dubai court hears
DUBAI // A drunk man kicked a police officer in the groin after being asked for his ID card, a court heard today. Two officers approached NS, 28, from Nigeria, at the Bani Yas Metro station on November 17 last year suspecting he was drunk. When they asked for his ID card he ran off and when they caught up with him he assaulted both officers breaking one of their fingers and kicking one of them ...
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Suspended jail term for Dubai man who threatened to post nude pictures of ex-fiancee
DUBAI // A man who threatened to post naked pictures of his ex-fiancee on the internet has been given a suspended one-year jail term. The Criminal Court ordered the man to be deported immediately and also ordered that all images and clips be deleted from a memory card confiscated from him on the day of his arrest. During his trial the court heard MZ, 26, demanded his ex-fiancee pay him ...
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Swarm of tornadoes slam central U.S.
Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighbourhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called home.Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. One person ...
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Dubai case has taken too long Carr
Foreign Minister Bob Carr says a four-year court case involving two Australian businessmen in Dubai has taken an "indefensible amount of ...
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Saudi beheads Syrian for drug trafficking
Saudi authorities beheaded on Monday a Syrian man after convicting him of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said. Mohammed Yousuf Ezzeddine was executed in the northern city of Qurayat, near the borders with Jordan, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. His beheading brings to 41 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia since the start of 2013, ...
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Saudi signs accord to protect Filipina maids
The Philippines said on Monday it had signed a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia that would protect thousands of Filipina maids from being exploited in the kingdom. The agreement guarantees Filipina maids benefits like a day off each week while preventing their hiring costs from being deducted from their salary among other safeguards, said Labour Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz in a ...
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Abu Dhabi Investment Forum in Paris
The Abu Dhabi Investment Forum is set to begin in Paris next Wednesday. The event is organised by the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development, with the participation of a high-level official government delegation led by Nasser Ahmed Al Sowaidi, the Chairman Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development, in the presence of more than 200 senior French government officials, businessmen and ...
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Japanese thriller gets biggest boos in Cannes race
A blood-soaked vengeance tale from Japan drew the biggest boos in the race for the Cannes Film Festival's top prize on Monday, with critics savaging a "risible" parade of cliches. Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike unveiled "Shield of Straw" (Wara No Tate) about a nationwide bounty hunt for a child rapist who murders the seven-year-old granddaughter of a ...
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RTA moving to customer self-service
The Roads and Transport Authority will be diverting many of its services currently provided by its customer service centres into self-service channels including its website (www.rta.ae), toll free phone number (800 90 90) and its branches through appointed agents by June. According to Ahmed Mahboob, RTA’s director of customer service, the service providers will include Shamel, Wasel, ...
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Dh175m bus depot to be built in Abu Dhabi
The Department of Transport (DoT) in Abu Dhabi announced on Monday that it will soon commence building the new Dh175 million bus depot project in Abu Dhabi, after the project was approved by the Executive Council as part of various infrastructure projects valued at Dh1.5 billion. Spanning over 10 hectares in Khalifa City A, opposite the Abu Dhabi Golf Club and adjacent to the northern Abu Dhabi ...
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Hana Al Rostamani joins du’s Board of Directors
UAE telecom major du today announced the induction of Hana Al Rostamani to its Board of Directors as per a nomination by shareholder Emirates Investment Authority as a representative to replace Younis Al Khoori. The Board will convene for a meeting on Monday, 3 June 2013, to ratify Hana’s appointment. As a senior leader and a UAE national with a wealth of experience across key business ...
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Public can comment on UAE nuclear facilities guide
Abu Dhabi: The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), the country’s independent nuclear regulatory body, has invited the public to review and comment on its draft Regulatory Guide on the Certification of Reactor Operators and Senior Reactor Operators at Nuclear ...
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DEWA opens $29m Dubai Marina substation
DEWA said it currently has another 17 substations under construction, in addition to upgrades at existing facilities and a process for rolling out new ...
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Olympics may be Dubai's next goal
Dubai is famous for being ambitious, sometimes to its detriment, but mostly to its advantage. It was ambition that made it the city the way it is now. For some, the recent announcement of a possible Olympic bid may seem overly optimistic, but what are Dubai’s chances realistically?
Dubai does nothing half-heartedly. Fifteen years ago, Dubai was just another city in the Gulf, there was nothing particularly special about it, apart from the fact that, for western workers, it was an attractive location because of the lack of income tax, but this it had in common with many other GCC cities. Read more
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