Airline offers four additional weekly flights from 29th October 2017 Emirates, the world’s best airline according to TripAdvisor, will increase capacity on its services to Egypt from 29th October 2017, with the launch of four additional scheduled flights every week to Cairo. The four...

The contracts are for a sewage treatment plant, a district cooling plant, a substation and piling work for the 800-room RIU resort Dubai developer Nakheel has awarded four contracts – collectively worth more than Dhs430m – for its mega Deira Islands development, it announced on...

Abu Dhabi Investment Group (ABDIG), a private investment group from Abu Dhabi, has announced an investment to acquire 62.5 per cent of Fiber Prime Telecommunication's (FPT) shares. ABDIG is planning to invest up to $5 billion in subsea cable projects and will restructure FPT to become a top...

Five men were arrested in the UAE by Dubai police Police in Australia, Dubai and the Netherlands have arrested 17 people and seized nearly two tonnes of narcotics in raids the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Tuesday had broken up two interlinked Middle Eastern crime syndicates....

Drone registration will be mandatory from next month, or users will face hefty fines The Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology (EASM) revealed yesterday that the costs incurred by an unregistered drone flying into airport airspace can be astronomical. Just how much...

Customers will no longer have to visit DEWA offices to activate utility services Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that customers will now be able to activate and deactivate utilities without visiting a DEWA office. The new initiative follows a similar scheme...

Dubai Land Department (DLD) has announced that the total value of real estate transactions in the emirate exceeded Dh390 billion ($106.18 billion) covering 95,000 deals in the 18 months from January 2016 to July, 2017. Sultan Butti bin Mejren, director general of DLD, was quoted by Wam news...

A small fire broke out in a Dubai hotel on Monday, forcing guests and staff to leave, in the third such blaze in the United Arab Emirates tourism and trade hub in less than a week. Several fire engines and an ambulance were deployed at the Movenpick hotel near the Marina district as scores...

Keen observers following the development of Federal tax laws in the UAE will have noticed the recent publication of the Federal Tax Procedures (FTP) Law which was announced in the press on 1 August. We await its publication in the Official Gazette, and it will come into force 30 days after that....

Arabtec Holding has announced that its construction arm has won a 363 million UAE dirham ($98.8 milion) contract to build a new mall at Dubai South. The mall will be built at the Emaar South project, which is a joint venture between Emaar Properties and the Dubai World Trade Centre. The...