Dubai (dpa) – The head of the Dubai-based club Al Wasl, Marwan bin Bayat, Wednesday denied strains in ties with with coach Diego Maradona after the Argentine recently threatened to quit coaching the team over a restrictive budget for transfers. “Our relations with Maradona are strong. We are keen to eliminate all obstacles facing the [...]
Berlin (dpa) – A member of Germany’s foreign service is to go on trial on charges of corruption for allegedly taking bribes worth thousands of euros in return for providing visas to Afghans heading for Germany, prosecutors in Berlin said Tuesday. The 41-year-old man acted as vice-consul at the Germany embassy in Dubai and was [...]
CAIRO: The United Arab Emirates’ telecom operator Etisalat, the Gulf region’s largest telecom company, said on Monday evening that it hopes to acquire a license to operate in Libya or to invest in one of the country’s already existing operators. Libya’s current two state-run mobile operators are Madar and Libyana, and a third government-run company [...]
DUBAI: A 27-year-old Filipino woman has pressed charges against a Syrian cook in Dubai and accused him of assaulting her in the United Arab Emirates as she applied for a job. The 34-year-old cook “has been accused of removing his trousers, kissing and groping a woman jobseeker,” who Gulf News reported took the woman to [...]
CAIRO: Etisalat Group chairman Mohammad Omran, addressed the TEDx on Monday in Libya’s capital, Tripoli. The conference is considered to be the first of its kind following the revolution in the country. Omran was speaking as part of the delegation alongside several important board members of Etisalat. Etisalat has a large base in North Africa, [...]
DUBAI: SHUAA Capital, the region’s leading financial services institution, is pleased to announce that its Emirates Gateway Fund has been voted ‘UAE Equity Fund of the Year’ by MENA Fund Manager magazine. The Awards were determined by a panel from MENA Fund Manager Magazine and fund management industry experts. Shortlisted funds were selected based on [...]
DUBAI: GFI Software today announced that it is to host a channel Partner conference on 7th February 2012 at Mina A’ Salam Hotel, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. The conference is open to all GFI reseller channel partners in the Middle East and North Africa region. The conference will cover all sales and technical aspects related to [...]
DUBAI: The 4th Global Telecom Customer Retention and Profitability Summit is scheduled to take place on 16 – 17 April 2012 at Amwaj Rotana, Jumeriah Beach, Dubai, UAE. After the great success of three annual editions of the event held in South Africa, Fleming Gulf Conferences brings the global edition of its Telecom summit to [...]
Hamburg (dpa) – Airline Emirates have renewed their contract with German Bundesliga football club SV Hamburg until 2015, both sides said on Thursday. The Dubai-based carrier has been sponsoring the northern German club since 2006. The new contract is reportedly worth 8.5 million euros (11.4) per season. Emirates also sponsors other big football clubs including [...]
CAIRO and DUBAI: The first ever Arab Women Sports Tournament (AWST) began on Thursday at the Sharjah Ladies Club in the United Arab Emirates. The event will run until February 12 and is already earning respect from observers, who say it could revolutionize women’s athletics across the region. Clubs from 12 countries will compete in [...]
CAIRO: United Arab Emirates’ leading telecom provider, Emirate’s Telecommunications, or Etisalat, said on Tuesday that it was looking to off load mobile phone towers it currently owns in Africa. The goal of the selling is to raise upwards of $600 million, the company said in comments to the Wall Street Journal. The move is likely [...]
DUBAI: Animal rights activists across the Middle East are outraged over the introduction of penguins into Dubai’s indoor SkiDubai facility. A number of young activists told Bikyamasr.com on Wednesday that the animals “should be in their natural habitat and not exploited in the desert.” The penguins, 10 King penguins, were born in captivity in San [...]
DUBAI: Abu Dhabi is to get some renewable energy. Last week, Canadian Solar reported it was partnering with al-Fahad Group in the United Arab Emirates to supply the UAE capital with some 1.5 megawatts of new solar power. It comes as the Abu Dhabi continues to push forward on plans to create more renewable energy [...]
DUBAI: In yet another sign that Dubai police continue to push women’s rights and sexual violence to the backburner, a British woman who reported an attempted rape has been met with police saying the attacker was “seduced” by her attire. The unnamed British woman was attacked by an Afghan man in the city as she [...]
DUBAI: The Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday began hearing the case of three Bangladeshi men accused of forcing an Indonesian maid into prostitution. Emirates 24/7 reported that the three men are being tried for human trafficking and running a brothel in the Hor al-Anz area of the city. Others accused in the same [...]
With a recently published report on working women in the public sector issued by the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAGHR) as a backdrop, the Gender and Public Policy Program at the Dubai School of Government hosted Aisha Al Suwaidi to present findings and provide an assessment on the needs of working women in [...]
DUBAI: Three Emirati men were handed one-month in jail for beating a pregnant woman at n Ikea cafeteria three years ago. They were also handed a DH12,000 fine for the incident involving a Canadian couple. According to The National, Emirati businessman A A, 52, and his brothers M A, 33, and E A, 43, on [...]
DUBAI: A new video emerged in the United Arab Emirates that shows gay men being “cured” of homosexuality. The video, disseminated across social networks has left many in the country questioning the rights of the LGBT community and their struggle to gain full citizenship in an open manner. The 6-minute “tutorial” entitled “Be Yourself” has [...]
DUBAI: Thirteen men were imprisoned for between one and two years this week for kidnapping and raping an Asian man who allegedly had a relationship with one of their female relatives, The National newspaper reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the men kidnapped, sexually assaulted the man and filmed the entire attack on their [...]
CAIRO: The United Arab Emirates will host the inaugural Arab Women’s Sports Tournament at the Sharjah Ladies Club from February 2-12. Clubs from 12 countries will compete in an array of events including basketball, volleyball, shooting and table tennis. “The first session of Arab Women sports tournament will be a platform that gathers a range [...]
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