Business & Money | Sunday 11 January, 2015 4:16 pm

Over 3,500 volunteers turn out to support Dubai Cares community campaign for Gaza

A total of 3,593 volunteers converged at Al Boom Tourist Village in Dubai on January 8 and 9, 2015 to help pack 50,000 school kits for the children of Gaza. The Dubai Cares community campaign aims to supply the children of Gaza with the school necessities required to continue their education...

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Sports | Sunday 11 January, 2015 4:12 pm

2015 ABU DHABI HSBC GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP WILL MARK A DECADE OF PROGRESS & STYLE

The Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, 15- 18 January, 2015, will celebrate its tenth anniversary in style by gathering one of the best fields of the year on the European Tour in terms of strength and depth. Some of golf’s biggest names, including four of the world’s top 10, will tee off at Abu...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Sunday 11 January, 2015 3:45 pm

Dubai Shopping Festival 20th Anniversary presents 2nd edition of Market OTB

Market OTB, the sustainable platform to discover new retail concepts, returns for its second edition from January 15-24 as a main attraction of the Dubai Shopping Festival’s 20th anniversary celebrations.In an accessible new location at South Ridge Park in Downtown Dubai, Market OTB is an ‘out...

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Business & Money | Sunday 11 January, 2015 3:41 pm

Frost & Sullivan report released at ArabPlast 2015

Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) estimates that by 2020 the region’s plastics conversion will grow phenomenally to reach 7.5mn tons per annum capacity, an increase of nearly 40% of current output. These statistics were revealed at ArabPlast 2015, the region’s biggest...

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Business & Money | Sunday 11 January, 2015 3:39 pm

GCC’s cable and wire industry sees 15% growth

The Gulf market for wire and cable witnessed a growth of 15% in the past two years. This is in sharp contrast to a falling demand in the developed European and East Asian economies, according to Integer Research’s latest Wire & Cable Global Data Service. Satish Khanna, General Manager, Al Fajer...

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Business & Money | Sunday 11 January, 2015 3:36 pm

Dubai Executive Council and DEWA discuss cooperation

The Dubai Executive Council and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) have discussed cooperation and coordination to implement the City Builders Race initiative launched by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council. ...

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Cars & Autos | Sunday 11 January, 2015 2:44 pm

The All New Honda CITY wins the ‘Best Small Sized Sedan’ Award

The all new Honda CITY won the best ‘Small Sized Sedan’ Award at the Middle East Car of the Year awards 2014 held at the Meydan Beach, JBR in Dubai, UAE on the 20th of November 2014. The all new CITY was nominated along with Toyota Yaris in the Small Sized Sedan category section....

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Business & Money | Sunday 11 January, 2015 12:36 pm

Bayt.com announces complete revamp of its mobile app.

Bayt.com, the Middle East’s number one job site, has released a completely revamped version of its popular mobile app, with new features, new design, and new capabilities! The exciting relaunch makes the job seeking experience truly mobile, as users can now get notifications on suitable jobs, get ...

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Environment & Energy | Sunday 11 January, 2015 12:32 pm

Commodity update: All eyes on energy

The first full trading week of 2015 kicked off with a lot of focus on the continued fall in energy markets (as this is helping to destabilise other asset classes). Stocks were initially pulled lower by the steep fall in crude and its negative impact on the energy sector, while government bond...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 11 January, 2015 12:13 pm

Advanced DNS Protection is the Need of the Hour for Middle East Telco Operators in the light of Etisalat Website Hacking

The Etisalat website was hacked into on Thursday, 18th December and persons visting the domain name Etisalat.ae were redirected to a Chinese site. Etisalat’s payment service - e4me.ae - was showing an error message– “Gateway Timeout.Cherif Sleiman, General Manager, Middle East at Infoblox ...

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