Elina Svitolina crashes into top-10 with Dubai win
By Angel Chan DUBAI: What a shot it was that won the Dubai Duty Free 2017 Tennis Championship for Elina Svitolina and pushed her into the world’s top-ten rankings. Who said Dubai is in a desert […]
Year: 2017
Rain Forecast? Dubai wakes up to sun-shiny day
By Angel Chan DUBAI: Despite rain forecast, Dubai woke up to a bright sunny day on Monday. Saturday and Sunday it had drizzled and rained throughout the day in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but medium […]
Ruler of Dubai ‘waits’ for traffic light to turn green
By Rajive Singh DUBAI: They say rules are made by kings but are not for kings – but in Dubai and the UAE – it is very different. One of the things that has made […]
Another dreary, gloomy start to week in UAE
By Sheena Amos DUBAI: After what the weather has been on Saturday – drizzly and overcast – it seems that the start to the working week in the UAE is another dreary and gloomy day, […]
20 held for running investment fraud in UAE
20 ordered held in bogus UAE investment scheme By Rajive Singh ABU DHABI: Ali Mohammed Al Balushi, Attorney-General of Abu Dhabi, ordered the arrest of 20 suspects involved in a bogus investment portfolio for car sales, […]
American kills Indian in hate crime; another saves
By Angel Chan At a sports bar in Kansas, a white male American suspect shot at a couple of Indians going about their business, killing one (Srinivas) of them – in what is being seen […]
Have you seen Dubai from air – at day… or night?
By Sheena Amos DUBAI: Dubai is a truly splendorous thing. It has amassed many entries in the Guinness Book of World Records and is continuing to add more feathers to its cap. It is home […]
I’ll be there: Mariah Carey to Dubai… and she was
By Angel Chan DUBAI: If you are a Mariah Carey fan and you were in Dubai this weekend, you may have just been able to catch your dream star on stage or even nearabouts the […]
Martyred UAE sergeant laid to rest in Dubai
By Rajive singh DUBAI: Emirati Sergeant Khalid Ali Ghareeb Al Baloushi, who was martyred while taking part in Operation Restoring Hope, being conducted by the Saudi-led Arab Coalition to back legitimacy in Yemen, was laid […]
Dubai Healthcare City board restructured
By Rajive Singh DUBAI: In his Capacity as Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, issued Decision No. (2) of 2017 restructuring the Board […]