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Winners for Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed grant announced
Zayed University graduates to pursue master's and PhD programmes at home and abroad. Students were picked for their academic performance and for the relevance of their subjects to the country's development. Priority was given to students in education, social sciences, tourism, science, museum studies, health care, public administration, engineering and architecture. "This batch ...
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Doctors urge action on the UAEs No 1 killer
DUBAI //Doctors have called for a centralised, long-term programme to tackle heart disease, the nation's biggest single killer. Heart disease is the cause of 25 per cent of deaths in the UAE, and the average age of contracting the disease is 15 years younger than in the western world. A national board should be set up under the federal government with a clear timetable for cutting the ...
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UAE graduates expectations must change experts urge
DUBAI // Be realistic when looking for your first job and seek out a workplace where you have opportunities to grow. This is the advice being given to thousands of graduates who will join the job market this month. Youth unemployment in the Middle East is the highest in the world, more than 25 per cent, and the UAE is not immune. To create the 100 million jobs required in the region by 2020, ...
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Singapore seeks to strengthen UAE ties
ABU DHABI // The arrival of Singapore's foreign minister, K Shanmugam, to the UAE tonight heralds a new era of political, diplomatic and economic ties between the two states, according to the country's ambassador. Mr Shanmugam, who is also the law minister, will visit the leadership during his two-day official visit and his counterparts, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the Minister of ...
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Targets have to be met as Abu Dhabi build a new Manchester City | David Conn
Khaldoon Al Mubarak, the Manchester City chairman, had no hesitation in dismissing Roberto Mancini. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/The FA via Getty ...
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Thieves net 4.5kg of gold in Sharjah robbery
In the first case, police are probing details of a daring robbery of Diplomat gold workshop in Sharjah on Wednesday around 8pm when a salesman was attacked in the premises and 4.5kg of gold was ...
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Stigma about epilepsy is putting lives at risk warn UAE doctors
Social stigma about epilepsy and the mistaken belief that seizures are caused by djinn are putting the lives of sufferers and non-sufferers at risk, doctors warn. Such misconceptions mean cases often go undiagnosed, preventing patients from receiving the appropriate medical treatment and contributing to an underreporting of the condition. Doctors also say a lack of regulation on epileptics ...
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UAE doctors call for stricter laws to keep epileptic drivers off the roads
Doctors are calling for tougher legislation to govern the issuing of driving licences to epileptics. Sufferers of the condition are already banned from certain professions - such as aviation, driving public transport and operating heavy machinery - but doctors' advice to epileptic drivers of private vehicles is not legally binding, as it is in some western countries. "Someone with ...
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Wife beat husband with high heels Dubai court told
DUBAI // A woman beat her husband over the head with her high heels after he stopped her assaulting their maid, a court heard. The maid had stayed late on June 5 last year at their house in Al Barsha at the husband's request but this annoyed his wife, T M, 44, an Emirati, who started beating the woman. When the husband intervened, the wife assaulted him with her high heels and her ...
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Video CVs help UAE job-seekers get ahead
DUBAI // Like hundreds of young people before him, Abdulla Abbas struggled on the job hunt. After nine months of fruitless knocking on employers' doors, he created a video CV last month on the newly launched non-profit InternsME portal. "After it was uploaded, I was amazed at how quickly I got a call - within two days," said Mr Abbas, 25, who will graduate soon from the Canadian ...
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UAE patients speak out about coping with the stigma of epilepsy
Aiysha Nasser, an epilepsy patient, at a doctor's office in the neurology department at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center in Abu Dhabi. Silvia Razgova / The ...
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Couple jailed for sex outside marriage in Dubai
The hotel manager and his partner pleaded not guilty when they appeared before the Dubai Misdemeanour Court. They said they got married in Ukraine on August 1, 2012 and provided the judge with a copy of their marriage ...
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Can’t conceive Don’t just blame it on women
Dubai: When it comes to a couple's inability to conceive, society almost automatically points to the woman as the one who has the problem and who should go for a medical check-up right ...
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Man arrested in Ajman on drug charges
Ajman: Ajman Police have nabbed a drug dealer who is alleged by police to have been planning to traffick a large quantity of illicit drugs among residents, Colonel Saeed Humaid Nasser, director of the Anti-Narcotics Department of Ajman Police, said ...
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Abu Dhabi population tops 2.5m in 2013
Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi city's population is increasing by one person every two minutes and 48 seconds, according to figures released recently by the Abu Dhabi Statistics Centre ...
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Dubai designer becomes first Saudi woman to conquer Everest
DUBAI // A 25-year-old graphic designer in Dubai yesterday became the first Saudi woman to climb Mount Everest. Raha Moharrak, originally from Jeddah, began the climb in early April in a fund-raising campaign for education in Nepal. She reached the 8,850-metre summit yesterday morning. She is part of the Arabs with Altitude group that includes Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani, a member of the Qatar ...
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IPL6 RCB v CSK live cricket score Raina out Chennai 22-2 chasing target of 107
Vijay manages to get a boundary to spoil a good over from Unadkat. CSK 19-2 in 3 overs. Unadkat into the attack in the third over. Zaheer bowls an excellent first over claiming two wickets for three runs. CSK 11-2 in 2 overs. Bravo denies Zaheer a hat-trick and survives a run out attempt. Double strike by Zaheer with Raina going for a first-ball duck failing to clear Vinay at long off. ...
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UAE’s coffee and tea consumption increases 85 per cent in three years
International Coffee Tea Festival 2013 seeks to build on UAE’s position as a leading global market for coffee and tea beverages The Arab world has more than tripled its consumption of coffee and tea over the last decade with the UAE emerging as a key growth catalyst registering an 85 per cent increase in consumption ...
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UAE Fashion Designer Organizes Fashion Show In Bahrain Following …
Dubai , UAE – May 18, 2013: Nazek Al Sabbagh, founder of home-grown label 'Zari O'Breesam', continued her community support events by organizing a fashion show in Manama in Bahrain to raise funds to support Children Mothers Welfare Society. The fashion show featured Al Sabbagh's latest women's collection 'Masa Elward'. This is the fourth stop of her ...
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London sees queues for Dubai property investment show – Select Property
A property investment show for Dubai real estate attracted long queues in London this week. ...
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Abu Dhabi forum to tackle energy-law relationship
Under the patronage of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Youth and Community Development and Chancellor of UAEU, the conference will tackle issues on the best known ways to ethically and efficiently use ...
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Two men suspected of stealing 600m of electic cables
Abu Dhabi: Two Asian men suspected of stealing electric cables in the Western Region in a bid to sell them in industrial areas have been caught by police. A 31 year-old illegal immigrant, M.A., and a 35 year-old loading truck driver, S.H., are accused of stealing the cables from their plastic containers and stripping them of their brass wires to sell them as ...
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Dewa’s Al Tayer praised for efforts
Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and President of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), honoured Saeed Mohammad Al Tayer, managing director and CEO of Dewa, for his contributions and pivotal role in developing the UAE engineering sector. The appreciation ceremony was held on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the Society of ...
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Abu Dhabi Sleeping pods now available at airport
Abu Dhabi: Exhausted travellers who are stuck in transit between flights at Abu Dhabi International Airport can now recharge their batteries courtesy of the airport's newly-launched sleeping ...
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Dubais child labor complicity
To ensure that gold businesses in Dubai respect and protect rights, due diligence procedures should be made mandatory and include measures to check for child ...
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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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