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Phl Volcanoes Erupt or bow out vs UAE side
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Volcanoes need to erupt now more than ever as the Pinoy rugby aces fight to keep their slot in the Top 5 division of the HSBC Asian 5 Nations tourney against United Arab Emirates tonight at the Rizal Memorial Stadium. Foiled by powerhouse rivals in their first ...
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5th Franchise UAE Expo partners with international franchising bodies to …
Expo will be much bigger in scale and scope, and taking place at a larger venue,'; said Mr. Mansour Al Suwaidi, General Manager of Franchise Middle East, organisers of ...
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UAE is committed to protecting economies
Opening the third and concluding day of the 2013 WCO IT Conference and Exhibition, hosted by Dubai Customs under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Dr Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, reiterated that the global event ...
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Work on cables means slow connection for Du users
Du broadband subscribers may experience slow internet Sunday and Monday due to maintenance on two subsea communication cables. The Europe India Gateway cable system will undergo maintenance on Monday from 4.30am until 4.30pm. The Falcon system will undergo maintenance from 9am until 9am on Monday. "We have made sufficient provisions to re-route broadband traffic through alternative cable ...
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ICAEW AAA sign agreement to jointly support accountancy profession
ICAEW and the Accountants and Auditors Association (AAA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work closely together to advance the accounting profession in the ...
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Emirates Islamic Bank launches Win back your Personal Finance campaign
Emirates Islamic Bank, one of the Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, announced the launch of 'Win back your Personal Finance,' campaign that offers customers the opportunity to win three prizes of up to a maximum of Dhs100,000 each, which will be adjusted against the outstanding personal finance ...
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ADX achieves 100 in company disclosure compliance
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced that it has succeeded in achieving a 100% compliance rate in financial disclosure statements of its listed public joint stock companies within the deadline of 45 days from the end of the financial ...
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A.M. Best revises outlook of issuer credit rating to positive for Dubai Insurance
A.M. Best Europe - Rating Services Limited has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the issuer credit rating (ICR) of 'bbb' and the financial strength rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) of Dubai Insurance Company PSC (DIC) (United Arab Emirates). The outlook for the FSR is ...
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RTA to launch eWallet next June
The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) announces the launch of the eWallet service, offering companies and corporate customers a safe and easy-to-use payment method for processing their transactions with the Licensing Agency, most notably the renewal of vehicle registration, and the payment of traffic fine services. The new service is set to be up and running next ...
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Ras Al Khaimah feels tremors from Iran earthquake
ABU DHABI // Ras Al Khaimah felt the effects of a 5.5-magnitude earthquake at 2pm today. The epicentre was 230km northeast of Ras Al Khaimah in southeast Iran, the UAE National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology reported. The tremor had "no effect" on the UAE and would not have been felt by most residents, the centre reported. The earthquake registered as a three on the Mercalli ...
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Lucy Orta brings her message to Abu Dhabi’s TEDxWWF One Planet Living
was installed in St Pancras International station in London and a series of river nymphs were unveiled in and around the French city of Marseille. Although they are quite different, Orta describes them as branches from the same trunk; an exploration into the subject of water through contemporary art that she and her husband Jorge have been working on for many years. This week, Orta is in Abu ...
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Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt gets Ajmal Kasab’s cell in jail report
Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said on Saturday. Dutt, 53, surrendered on Thursday to serve out the remaining three-and-a-half years of a five-year term in a case linked to deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings. Dutt's lawyer, Rizwan Merchant, has ...
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DED business survey for Q2 2013 No firing only hiring for Dubai firms
Businesses in Dubai are confident of growth trends continuing to the second quarter of 2013, according to the quarterly business confidence survey conducted by the Department of Economic Development (DED). While optimism runs across the whole economy, it is particularly high among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and exporting firms as reflected in the composite Business Confidence Index ...
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Sharjah Tourism road show in Europe under National Council for Tourism
HE Khalid Jasim Al Midfa, Director General of the Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority, has underscored the importance of cooperation and coordination between government agencies and private sector in tourism sector to boost UAE's leading position regionally and ...
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The Cove Rotana Resort Ras Al Khaimah appoints new Director of Rooms
His career and managerial position started with Rotana in 2006 when he held the position of Area Sales Manager in Rotana Area Sales Office, then moved on to Al Ain Rotana as Assistant Director of Sales and Marketing and got promote to Director of Sales and Marketing in 2009.In his new role Bassam will be responsible for the overall coordination of Front of House department, Housekeeping, ...
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Crescent Enterprises participates in Forbes Womens Summit in New York
Badr Jafar, CEO of Crescent Enterprises, a UAE-based conglomerate operating across multiple core sectors of the global economy, recently addressed the Forbes Women's Summit in New ...
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Interior Design gurus to share insight and expertise at INDEX 2013 and The Office Exhibition
Show organizer dmgevents announced today the finalline-up of events and seminars at INDEX 2013 and The Office Exhibition; the region's largest exhibitions for the architecture and design traderun simultaneously from May 20th till 23rdat the Dubai World Trade ...
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Kyrgyzstan delegation visits Sharjah Tourism
HE Mohamed Ali Al Noman, Chairman, Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority, has lauded the efforts of UAE Government for rapid development of infrastructure in the country, keeping pace with the fast growing population of residents and influx of international ...
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TABLE-UAE April inflation eases to 0.9 pct yy
May 18 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates National Bureau of Statistics released the following April consumer price data for the Gulf OPEC member on Saturday. UAE CONSUMER INFLATION 04/13 03/13 04/12 pct change month/month 0.0 0.1 0.1 pct change year/year 0.9 1.0 0.8 NOTE. Housing and utility costs, which account for over 39 percent of consumer expenses, fell 0.1 percent year-on-year ...
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Container theft gang nabbed in Sharjah
Sharjah Police has arrested a six-member gang specialising in theft of containers laden with goods from the front of warehouses in the industrial areas of the emirate. The arrested people included four Pakistanis, one Gulf national and an Indian. According to the police, the gang had a truck customers to tow the containers away to the several places where they stored stolen goods. Some ...
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New radar on Abu Dhabi-Al Ain Road
The Abu Dhabi Police has installed a speed radar on the Abu Dhabi-Al Ain road parallel to the University of Abu Dhabi. The radar became operation on Saturday. First Lieutenant Said Marzouk Al Zaabi, director of surveillance methods in the Directorate of Traffic and Patrols at Abu Dhabi Police, said the new radar is intended to monitor vehicles passing on this road at more than 141km per ...
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Ericsson LTE provides the most advanced customer experience
Rolling out LTE deployments, improving the customer experience and helping operators reach their business potential are high on Ericsson's agenda as top telecoms and regional ICT key players participate in this year's LTE MENA. The event, for which Ericsson is a platinum sponsor, will take place from May 12th to May 14th in Dubai, ...
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JA Ocean View Hotel excels as newest addition to JA Resorts and Hotels portfolio
JA Ocean View Hotel, the only four-star beach hotel on 'The Walk' at JBR, continues to excel after only four months of operation in one of Dubai's most popular areas. The hotel became the first new hotel to officially open under the JA Resorts and Hotels brand when it welcomed its first guests on 22 December ...
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Dubai Courts and DIFC Courts launch their 2012 annual reports
The Dubai Courts has made significant achievements during the past fiscal year, especially in the area of the adjudication rate of cases filed and pending with the ...
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Tripp Lite holds specialised training for IT partners in GCC CIS
Tripp Lite, a world-leading manufacturer of power protection equipment, has organised a three-day technical training workshop in Dubai, UAE for its critical applications partners (CAP) from across the GCC and CIS ...
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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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