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Abu Dhabi bourse hits new 2013-high as FGB soars further
The ADX General Index advanced 0.15% to reach 3,664.99 points on Wednesday, despite a negative market breadth. Higher oli prices (up $0.99 at $103.24) helped maintaining the positive momentum. First Gulf Bank was the most liquid share that gained in value, closing up 1.24% at Dhs16.30, well above its 5-year high. Earlier in the day, FGB announced that it has extended its working hours of all its ...
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DLA Piper teams up with DIFC and the US-UAE Business Council
DLA Piper, the global law firm, co-hosted a seminar on the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which comes into effect at the end of this ...
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Entrepreneurs set to fill Dubais in5 innovation hub to continue attract investment
The In5 innovation hub, the UAE's newest hot spot for tech entrepreneurs and start-ups, is witnessing a significant uptake in applications from budding ICT ...
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aeCERT participates in Cyber Security event in Dubai hosted by BTs Chief Security Technology Officer
The United Arab Emirates Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT) a subsidiary of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) participated in an event titled 'An audience on Cyber Security with Bruce Schneier, BT's Chief Security Technology ...
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UAEU students donate to support families in need
Al Ain: Students of UAE University (UAEU) on Wednesday donated more than Dh100,000 to the Red Crescent Authority (RCA) to support needy people in the ...
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Emirates NBD unveils loan education campaign
Emirates NBD has launched a unique new personal loan education campaign to advise UAE residents to borrow responsibly and within their repayment capacity. This new initiative is in line with the Group's reputation of being a financial institution that cares for its customers, according to a press statement. The initiative will be supported by a sustained media campaign that will advise the ...
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First two-storey car park by Mawaqif unveiled in Abu Dhabi
The first Mawaqif steel-framed parking building in Abu Dhabi city was unveiled by the Department of Transport today. The 8,252-square metre, two-storey car park can accommodate 562 vehicles and is located south of Al Falah Street, east of Baniyas Street and adjacent to the Ministry of Finance, Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council and Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development. It has three entrance and ...
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Jail term upheld for prostitute caught by Dubai undercover police
DUBAI // A prostitute who stripped in front of an undercover policeman in a hotel room had her three-year jail term upheld by the Appeals Court today. Officers burst in to the room to find the prostitute SP, 36, from India, half naked in front of their undercover colleague. She was wearing only a shirt and had a Dh500 note in her hand that had been given to her by the undercover officer in ...
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Dubai Municipality organises pest control training
Public Health Services Department has organised a training programme for private pest control contractors and establishments. Called 'Pest Control Strategies', the training course covered public health pests in urban and rural environments and emphasised their management and control strategy. Hisham AbdulRahman Yahya, head of the pest control section at Dubai Municipality, said in a ...
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Dubai hotels offer 30 discounts this summer
July is expected to have the lowest occupancy rate as it coincides with Ramadan Hotels in Dubai have reduced room rates between 25 and 30 per cent to attract visitors during the slow summer season, according to industry ...
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Dubai Cares highlights the plight of refugee children on World Refugee Day
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Dubai Cares has highlighted the plight of 43.3 million people worldwide forcibly displaced from their homes and ...
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Dubai market fails to climb above 2400 points
The Dubai equity market measure DFMGI added 0.58% to reach 2,392.85 points on Wednesday, although market breadth was negative. Arabtec advanced for the third consecutive day, ending 5.07% higher at Dhs2.28, the highest level since Feb. 28. 2013. Insurance company ARIG dived 9.85% to Dhs1.19. DFM fell for the second day, finishing off 1.53% at Dhs1.93. DMF's price decline plays down rumors ...
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Mariana sousa joins Shangri-La Hotel as director of communications
Shangri-La Hotel, Qaryat Al Beri, Abu Dhabi and Traders Hotel, Qaryat Al Beri, Abu Dhabi recently welcomed Mariana Sousa as director of communications. Mariana sousa joins Shangri-La Hotel as director of ...
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Abu Dhabi livestock and dairy show growth signs - official report
Abu Dhabi's rising livestock and dairy industry, which is part of the agriculture sector has shown substantial business activity in the last year showing the strides made and in the sector which has huge potential to achieve food security. Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi or Scad, which gathers statistics in the Emirate, has recently surveyed the livestock and dairy farms in Abu Dhabi, which ...
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Nabbesh launches quest for capital on Eureeca
Nabbesh, the Middle East's first virtual skills marketplace launched its quest for capital on Eureeca, the first global crowd investing platform for small & medium businesses to source funding from the ...
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Ka-Choo Sharjah’s Mystery Radar Shooter Still At Large
mysterious and expensive spate of radar shootings. Someone has been regularly taking out the traffic radars on the Mileiha Road – the arterial route that leads from the notorious National Paints parkabout all the way out to the delightful East Coast littoral of Khor Kalba across on the other side of the Hajjar Mountains. It’s a delightful drive, BTW – and you can pop across ...
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UAE weather bureau issues alert for high waves
Al Ain: High waves have been raising in the Gulf of Oman, making it unsafe for small boats and fishing trawlers, according to the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) in a weather alert on ...
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Pakistani community gives envoy fond send-off
The event, at Grand Midwest hotel in Dubai Media City on Friday, was attended by Pakistan Association Dubai members and dignitaries from the wider Pakistani community in the ...
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Etihad Airways to launch double daily flights from Abu Dhabi to Malaysia
WAM ABU DHABI, June 19th, 2013 (WAM)Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will add a new daily flight between Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur to offer a double daily service from July 15th. The new schedule will add 1400 new seats per week to the route - an increase in capacity of approximately 23 per cent. It will enable Etihad Airways to offer better flight ...
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Sharjah International Book Fair impresses in Seoul
WAM SHARJAH, June 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- A delegation from the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) is participating in the Seoul International Book Fair, taking place at COEX in Seoul from the 19th to the 23rd of June which was inaugurated by Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea. Headed by Ahmed Al Ameri, SIBF Director, and including Salim Omar Salim, Head of Sales and Marketing at SIBF, ...
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Graduate exhibition of innovative projects at Abu Dhabi Womens College
WAM ABU DHABI, June 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- The Department of Applied Communication Systems in Abu Dhabi Women's College have organised an exhibition of innovative projects for fifteen students of the final year bachelor's programme. The exhibition, put together by students under the title of "The Beginning of Work in Graphic Design, Video, Audio, Animation and Photography" to ...
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Abu Dhabi accelerating diversification from oil as US shale booms
oil exploration is prompting Abu Dhabi, where the hydrocarbon industry accounts for more than half of the economy, to speed efforts to bolster non-oil output, a senior government official said. The holder of 6 per cent of the world's proven oil reserves "isn't underestimating the potential impact" of higher US hydrocarbon output, Mohammed Omar Abdullah, undersecretary of the ...
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Every 14 seconds a new refugee from the Syrian civil war
conflict in Syria has forced more than one million people to flee their homes so far this year, according to a United Nations report released today. The crisis in Syria has emerged as a "major new factor" in global displacement, said Mohammed Abu Asaker, the UN refugee agency's public information and communication officer in Abu Dhabi. "There have been 1.1 million Syrian ...
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Dubais Steffi Bow is a girl with a graffiti habit
Steffi Bow, a British graffiti stencil artist, works on a life-size art piece of the Lebanese rapper Malikah, as part of adidas' Unite All Originals campaign. adidas ...
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Emaar opens first Vida hotel in Downtown Dubai
Emaar Hospitality Group has opened its first hotel under the Vida Hotels and Resorts brand, located in Downtown Dubai and managed by GM Stefan Viard. A conversion of the Emaar-owned hotel previously known as Qamardeen, Vida Downtown Dubai becomes the flagship Vida property. It features 156 rooms fitted with flat-screen televisions, complimentary high-speed internet access, 24-hour room ...
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Abu Dhabi's changing role in UAE
The international financial crisis has caused much misery and despair world-wide, but in every recession there are opportunities, and because of Dubai, Abu Dhabi may have been presented with one.
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