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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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World Customs Organization concludes 3-day 2013 WCO IT in Dubai
WAM DUBAI: The 2013 WCO IT Conference and Exhibition, held under the patronage of Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has concluded its activities for this year with the announcement of a number of findings and recommendations that were deliberated upon or proposed during the three day event. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed ...
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Dubais Business Confidence Index stood at 113 points in Q1 2013
WAM DUBAI: Businesses in Dubai are confident of growth trends continuing to the second quarter of 2013, according to the quarterly business confidence survey conducted by Dubai's 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 ...
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Philippines defeat relegates UAE from Asian 5 Nations
The Asian 5 Nation's elite division will have no representation from the Gulf region for only the second time in its six-year history next season after the UAE lost their relegation decider 24-8 to the Philippines in Manila. Duncan Hall's side had been confident ahead of kick-off of getting the victory that would have secured their Top 5 safety but they got off to a bad start with ...
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Halal mark a must for all food products in UAE
A couple shopping at the Union Cooperative Society in Dubai. The Emirates Standardisation and Metrology Authority will introduce new halal labelling rules next ...
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Businesses in Dubai foresee rising demand and higher profits in Q2 2013
Businesses in Dubai are confident of growth trends continuing to the second quarter of 2013, shows 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 (BCI), ...
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‘My parents thought they’d lost their child’ recounts UAE epileptic patient
When Mariam started fainting at the age of 12 her parents did not take her to a doctor. She was taken instead to a mosque near their home in Ajman, where the religious cleric read the Quran over her.It was not until three years later after she suffered a severe seizure in class that her school advised her parents to seek medical help."I just remember sitting at my desk in maths class and ...
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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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