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MAF Dalkia signs Abu Dhabi Airports Co contract
MAF Dalkia secured a contract with Abu Dhabi Airports Company PJSC (ADAC) to provide a full range of services across four of their airports in the UAE. The three-year contract will see MAF Dalkia providing a full scope of project management, hard (technical) services, security systems and energy-saving strategies to ADAC’s Abu Dhabi International Airport, Al Bateen Executive Airport, Abu ...
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Inventors from UAE fold away patents
DUBAI // Three Emirati inventors have created folding mechanisms that will improve new generation of tablets and smartphones with flexible screens. Wasfi Alshdaifat, his wife Eida Almuhairbi, and Farah Qassab developed two designs and have taken the first step towards having them patented worldwide. Samsung displayed a flexible smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in ...
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Bio-security tightly linked to UAEs vision of the future
Besides the ecological footprint and natural resource development, bio-security is among the top issues on the UAE's environment agenda, the Minister of Environment and Water said yesterday, according to Wam, the news state agency. "These issues are tightly linked to the UAE's vision for the future and to the government's strategic plan," Dr Rashid bin Fahad said in his ...
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Praise for UAEs efforts on human rights protection
ABU DHABI // Representatives of the European Commission yesterday praised the UAE's efforts to build on the protection of human rights, create awareness of human rights issues and spread a culture of protection. Commission delegates met members of the Emirates Association for Human Rights at the association's headquarters in Rashidiya, Dubai, where they were briefed on various ...
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End to Moroccan footballers 5-year UAE nightmare
ABU DHABI // A young footballer from Morocco who came to the UAE dreaming of a professional sports career found himself cheated out of his family's savings, set on fire and jailed for a murder he did not commit. Fouad Al Mkaissi was 25 when he arrived in 2006 hoping to catch the eyes of talent scouts of the nation's football clubs. Little could he have known then that within two years ...
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UAE navy getting remotely controlled patrol boats
The three unmanned boats, developed by Al Seer Marine for security and civilian operations, will be ready to operate in UAE ports by August. Courtesy Al Seer ...
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Technical answer to UAE personnel shortage
ABU DHABI // The Navy is investing in technologically advanced vessels to better secure its waters. Rear Admiral Ahmed Al Sabab Al Teneiji, the former chief of the Navy, has highlighted the role of technology in overcoming manpower challenges faced by developing nations. "Manpower in the UAE is constrained, and not just in the Navy," he said at a maritime security conference in the ...
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Kerala draws its UAE migrants home
DUBAI // Indian workers are leaving the UAE and other Arabian Gulf states because they can now earn the same wages at home. A study of 1,200 households in the south Indian state of Kerala found that about a quarter of people who had returned home said "low wages, no visible increase in their economic status, ill health due to long working hours and better remuneration for the same jobs ...
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Abu Dhabi abattoirs get ready for the holy month rush
ABU DHABI // Preparations for Ramadan and Eid are in full swing at slaughterhouses, which experience a huge increase in business during the month. "This Ramadan more than 60,000 cattle are expected to be slaughtered during the month," said Mohammed Al Marzouqi, slaughterhouse section head at Abu Dhabi Municipality. "Normally we slaughter about 40,000 a month at the five ...
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More than four of every 10 UAE residents say web needs tighter rules
More than four of every 10 UAE residents believe there should be tighter regulation of the internet, a study shows. Despite restrictions placed by service providers and the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, 42 per cent of residents believe further controls are necessary. The finding is part of a study by Qatar's Northwestern University called Media Use in the Middle East - an ...
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Closer eye needed on oil spills in the UAE
Workers from the Sharjah Municipality clean up a beach after an oil spill off the coast of Fujairah at Khor Fakkan in 2008. Randi Sokoloff / The ...
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Drake Scull moving workers to Abu Dhabi as projects increase
Drake & Scull International is moving hundreds of jobs from Dubai, where the company is listed, to Abu Dhabi to cope with the increase in projects it has won in the capital. At a presentation to investors at ...
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Etihad and Serbia sign initial deal on investment in airline
Etihad Airways said yesterday it had signed an initial agreement with the Serbian government to explore an equity investment in the country's Jat Airways. Etihad announced in April it would begin daily non-stop flights between Abu Dhabi and Belgrade this week, with Jat Airways, placing its JU code on the new route, and to 21 destinations on the Etihad network. In return Etihad placed its ...
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Golf carts take lambs to slaughter in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi Municipality is using two golf carts to transport goats and sheep from a nearby livestock market to the Al Wathba slaughterhouse. "The municipality has been observing the performance of these cabs. If it finds it efficient, the service will be made available for other abattoirs across the Abu Dhabi island," said Dr Najdat Mohammed Nour, veterinary control section head at the ...
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Employers blamed for crimes by maids in Dubai
DUBAI // Bad employers were blamed yesterday for a spate of crimes by housemaids and other domestic staff. Unpaid salaries, long working hours and abuse were all factors that drove offenders to crime, Dubai Police said. Domestic staff committed 3,929 crimes reported to police in the past three years, 1,258 of them last year alone. Escaping from sponsors, sex outside wedlock and theft topped ...
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Etisalat offers new roaming deal for mobiles
DUBAI // Etisalat has announced a new roaming package designed to cut the cost of mobile calls and internet access while abroad. Customers can sign up for daily, weekly or monthly packages. Access to the internet starts at Dh25 a day, and the package allows customers to receive calls for 50 fils a minute. The monthly "Traveller Pack" offer, which costs Dh500, includes 1GB of data ...
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Old deaf and blind … and fitting in nicely
DUBAI // Sydney the dog is deaf and blind, but you wouldn't notice it at first. Her resilience and coping skills make her the most low-maintenance dog of the six in her new home in Al Barsha. In a pink collar and scarf, the mixed-breed mutt hardly ever strays from her routine of strolling creakily around the garden during the day, popping back inside for drinks and regular meals. ...
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Dubai volunteers mission new digs for old dogs
Anna Kuznetsova with Rufus, 6, who has a damaged back leg. Anna takes care of six dogs while also working full time as an interior designer. She is looking after Rufus while the Dubai Senior Dog Project finds him a full-time home, possibly with an older couple. Lee Hoagland / The ...
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Arabtec to build Aldars Abu Dhabi Plaza project in Kazakhstan
Aldar Properties has awarded a Dh4 billion contract to an Arabtec-led joint venture to push ahead with a long-awaited 500,000 square metre hotel, shopping and housing project in Kazakhstan. In a stock market announcement yesterday Aldar said that construction of the five-tower project, comprising 566 luxury flats, 107,000 sq metres of offices, a five-star hotel and serviced apartments, and ...
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Loss-making Abu Dhabi tourism company sells development
Saadiyat Beach Residences from TDIC, the companies said on Monday. They did not disclose how much was paid for the luxury development. The property is subject to a five-year leaseback to TDIC, in which the tourism firm will manage leasing the residences on behalf of MPREI. The project was launched in the fourth quarter of 2012 and is currently 80 percent leased, the statement said. The ...
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Life remains a struggle for the Arabian oryx
Reseachers have found that reintroducing the oryx into the safe haven of the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve has not been enough to ensure their revitalisation. Sarah Dea / The ...
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Emiratis working hard to wipe out stereotypes
Sahar Karmostaji finds her job creative, challenging and rewarding for anyone with the right attitude. She knows that many people at her workplace, a semi-government company in Dubai, wrongly believe Emiratis are laid back and even unconscientious workers. But Ms Karmostaji, 26, was determined that no one would form that opinion of her and her work. "I decided to prove myself from the ...
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In pictures Dubai silhouette skyline quiz
1) A group of 50 pupils at Kings' Dubai school has bent over backwards for charity while posing for a unique series of photographs. Take a guess of which Dubai landmark is which. For answers click on the ...
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Is Etihad getting too much control in Jet Airways with too little investment
Etihad Airways entered into a deal with Jet Airways in April this year, was the transaction limited to just picking up a 24 per cent stake? Or did it also include management control?This is the question that is bothering the Indian stock market and investment regulators - read the Securities and Exchange Board of India and Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). They are now carefully ...
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Etihad plans stake in JAT Airways
Belgrade/Dubai: The UAE’s Etihad Airways has signed a preliminary agreement with the Serbian government over a possible equity investment in the Balkan country’s loss-making JAT ...
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