October 2019 — Topical news of the United Arab Emirates

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DUBAI – Cannot decide who is the better football player, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? The upcoming Dubai Artificial Intelligence in Sports (DAIS) Conference and Exhibition could provide some answers. Professor Jesse Davis from the Department of Computer Science at Belgian research...

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Adnoc Distribution, the UAE's largest fuel and convenience retailer, said its board has approved the distribution of dividends worth Dh1.2 billion ($326 million) to shareholders for the first half of 2019, valued at Dh0.0955 per share. The board made the approval during its recent meeting...

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Diyar Al Muharraq, a leading real estate developer in Bahrain, said that Dragon City Mall, one of the largest whole-sale and retail trade centres in the Kingdom, attracted nearly one million visitors in August. Statistics have revealed that Dragon City Mall has received more than 6.1...

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Aster DM Healthcare set up an innovation lab earlier this year to spur the next big changes in the healthcare sector Dubai’s Aster DM Healthcare is looking to technological innovations to help improve the services available within the mental health sector, according to a senior...

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Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is stepping up its dealmaking with buyout firms as it allocates more money to direct investments Cinven has teamed up with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to weigh a joint bid for KKR & Co.’s scientific measurement and testing company LGC Group,...

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Dubai Police return Toyota within an hour after owner left it running outside a school Two Dubai policemen received high praise this week for their efforts in managing to return a stolen vehicle in under an hour. Dubai Police’s Command and Control Centre received a report about a...

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Over 40,000 unique playlists were created between June and August, each featuring at least one film Captain Marvel, Alita: Battle Angel and Avengers: End Game were the most popular choices on Emirates airline’s inflight entertainment system over the summer, according to data from the...

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First priority is Value Creation by using the city’s data to develop use cases by applying data science and machine learning techniques DUBAI: As part of Dubai’s vision to make it one of the world’s first data powered economies, Dubai is taking a four-step approach to building an...

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MOSCOW - There is nothing unusual in the changes in the body of cosmonaut Hazza al-Mansouri, said Irina Larina, head of the proteomics laboratory of the Institute of biomedical problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The first cosmonaut from the UAE, Hazza al-Mansouri, arrived on...

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Dubai is set to overtake New York as the global branded residences capital by the end of 2019, with a pipeline of just over 20 schemes The branded residences sector has grown exponentially in the last decade and is tipped for more yet growth, said a new report. The number of...

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