Move The U.N. To Dubai

January 16th, 2010 @ // No Comments

The tiny emirate is the global capital of the future. The opening last week of the world’s tallest building, the half-mile-high Burj Dubai, has largely been greeted with guffaws and groans. The Daily Telegraph labeled it “the new pinnacle of vanity”–”a purposeless monument to the subprime era.” TheWall Street Journal compared it to the Tower [...]

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Media

January 14th, 2010 @ // No Comments

  Dubai Today Regular podcasts from the lively discussion show Dubai Today. Prateek and Austin share why they started www.mydubaimyhome.com and why you should be positive.          

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MyDubaiMyHome

January 14th, 2010 @ // No Comments

Life is full of choices. And Dubai was a deliberate and conscious one that I made. In hindsight, it was like manna from heaven. A place that took me into its fold. And gave me much more that I could ever have dreamt of.Is there anything more that I could have ever asked for ?Think [...]

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UAE residents say luxury is a lifestyle

January 14th, 2010 @ // No Comments

A quarter of UAE residents take luxury items for granted as part of their lifestyle, a recent global survey has found. Only one in five people, or 35 percent of UAE respondents, said luxury was “over and above what you need”, the Synovate survey of 8,000 people in 11 countries found.

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Dubai exports hit new 2009 high in December

January 14th, 2010 @ // No Comments

ubai exports for December hit a year-high AED18.5bn, latest figures from the emirate’s chamber of commerce and industry have revealed. A DCCI study showed its members’ total exports for the month were 23 percent higher than the same month last year.

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New UAE smoking law comes into effect on Wednesday

January 14th, 2010 @ // No Comments

The anti-tobacco law issued last week by UAE president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan comes into effect from Wednesday, a senior Ministry of Health (MoH) official confirmed. Cafes and restaurants located in residential neighbourhoods have two years to either move or ban smoking while for non-residential outlets, designated smoking areas will be allowed, news [...]

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Nasdaq Dubai trading volumes rise 30% in 2009

January 14th, 2010 @ // No Comments

Equities trading volumes on NASDAQ Dubai rose by 30 percent last year and by 170 percent last month, the financial exchange said this week. Total volumes in 2009 rose to 3.10bn shares, up from 2.39bn in 2008.

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