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How do you simultaneously create safer streets and increase enforcement efficiency?

Typical speed enforcement situations: One direction of travel is documented whilst speeding drivers traveling in the opposite direction evade enforcement; offending motorcyclists are captured...

Signs of hope amid economic downturn

Month after month, the global economic outlook has been nothing but bleak. But now, could we be about to turn a corner? Japanese stocks rose...

The resurgence of the Middle East cards industry

The last twelve months has seen the Middle Eastern retail banks face the twin challenges in their cards business of security threats and exposure...

Economy expected to contract 0.6 percent this year

The UAE Central Bank will keep interest rates low in 2009 as the Arab world’s second- biggest economy contracts due to falling oil prices,...

People & Power

The new flu strain is, so far at least, proving milder than expected but whether things stay that way, or the virus becomes more...

Multiple-entry visas for property owners to start from June

The General Directorate of Naturalisation and Residency will start the implementation of the new rule for issuing multiple entry visas for property owners starting...

Real Estate Global Market Perspective from Jones Lang LaSalle

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. released a global market perspective report recently that is cracking a hesitant smile for most of the world's property market...

Nine year old UAE National girl wins AED 10,000 at Festival@The...

1. First visit to The Dubai Mall turned lucky for Bashayer Mohammed 2. Wins AED 10,000 in festival draw Nine year old UAE National girl...

Owners of built-in properties granted six months multi-trip entry visa

Owners of properties in the UAE can enter the country and stay up to six months as per entry permit ( a multi-trip entry...

Global Investments Roundup

Exxon profit spills 58%; Motorola posts loss, bleeding cash; FTSE 100 moves 8.1% in April; South Africa cuts interest rate to 8.5%; Flu scare...

A Drink a Day?

According to New Study, Drinking Wine Adds Five Years of Life

Oil Inventory Data – In-Depth Look

Analysis and discussion with John J. Licata of Blue Phoenix talking about the latest oil inventory data.

Leaders reveal intimate details on new rail projects

Leaders from around the world will be descending upon Dubai from 11-14 May for a 4 day meeting that will unveil the next generation...

World’s Biggest Free Nights Offer Launched by the World’s Biggest...

Almost 5 million free nights at over 4,000 hotels around the globe are up for grabs, as IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), the world’s largest...

“Eternal letters: from the Abdul Rahman Al Owais Islamic Calligraphy Collection”...

Exhibition hosted by the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler...

Inside Story – The swine flu threat

The UN has warned that the virus has the potential to become a pandemic, but said the world was better prepared than ever to...

Noor Dubai treats thousands for blindness in Niger

Noor Dubai, the UAE-based charity initiative focused on preventing and treating low vision and curable forms of blindness, today announced that it had successfully...