Pakistan-Dubai flight evacuated over bomb hoax
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May 202012
An Airbus airplane which was due to fly from Pakistan to Dubai on Thursday was evacuated after a bomb threat, it has been reported.
The hoax forced Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to evacuate 157 passengers and 10 crew from an Airbus preparing to take off for Dubai.
The plane was preparing for its scheduled departure from Lahore airport when an anonymous caller to the airport claimed there was a bomb on board, PIA spokesman Sultan Hasan told Read more [...]
Trio held for Dubai prison drug run
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May 202012
Three men have been arrested for trying to smuggle drugs to inmates inside Dubai Central Jail.
The head of the Anti-Narcotics Department at Dubai Police, General Abdul Jalil Mahdi, said the force got a
tip-off that a 37-year-old Asian man who worked at the prison was to receive a stash of narcotics from two Emiratis.
Dubai Anti-Narcotics Department found painkillers and hash were found in the bag
Mahdi Read more [...]
SINGAPORE: Can Dubai star City turn on Kranji style?
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May 202012
City Style: vastly imporved in Dubai, now set for Singapore assignment
PICTURE: Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins
Preview: Singapore, Sunday 1.40pm BST (live on ATR and RUK)
Kranji: Singapore Airlines International Cup (Group 1) 1m2f, turf, 2yo+
GODOLPHIN bid for a degree of respite from a challenging start to the European season when City Style (Mahmood Al Zarooni/ Mickael Barzalona) represents the Dubai team in Singapore on Sunday.
The six-year-old, in the best form of his life at the Read more [...]
May 202012
Pakistan will participate in Automechanika Middle East 2012 exhibition. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
A delegation of Pakistani manufacturers of automotive parts and accessories has left for Dubai to take part in the Automechanika Middle East 2012 exhibition. The delegation, under the banner of the Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM), hopes to fetch orders worth millions of dollars from their participation in the international Read more [...]
Indian boy from Dubai tops ICSE
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May 202012
Dubai plans $272m roads investment to 2016
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May 192012
Dubai plans to spend about AED1bn ($272m) over five years to improve roads, the emirate's transport authority said on Saturday.
The initial phase of the plan, which runs through to 2016, covers five residential communities including Hatta and Al Qusais 3 in addition to Al Quoz 2, 3 and 4, said Mattar Al Tayer, chairman and executive director of the Roads and Transport Authority.
The authority said it has awarded two contracts under the programme valued at AED38m to build roads in Al-Qusais 3 and Read more [...]
How to reach from Dubai to Bulgaria
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May 192012
One of the top summer holiday destinations in 2012 is Bulgaria. It was recently voted by UK tourists the cheapest European country for vacations. The European country is well-known for its striking nature and rich cultural inheritance.
Dubai Chronicle’s team chose to explore Bulgaria during the summer holiday months of July and August. Earlier, we wrote that we would share the summer holiday experience in a dedicated weekly weekend column on the website. Our live blog can be found at Read more [...]
May 192012
Schools and parents are in the dark as Federal Ministry of Education (MoE) and Dubai’s KHDA go back and forth over the implementation of the unified calendar at private schools in Dubai.
The decision has not yet been finalised, as divergent statements from the MoE and the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) show.
“All schools and colleges in the country, except for some Indian and Pakistani schools, are expected to implement the unified calendar from the next academic year Read more [...]
May 192012
CANNES - The Dubai International Film Festival is partnering with the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York to showcase Arab cinema in a DIFF Focus this August, festival chairman Abdulhamid Juma said here Saturday.
The lineup for the DIFF Focus will include 10 feature films and a short film program. It will also feature QA sessions with the directors and panel discussions organized by the Independent Filmmaker Project and New York Women in Films.
Among the films are Susan Read more [...]
Dubai fund says no bond issue this year
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May 192012
The Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), the emirate's sovereign wealth arm, has no current plan to issue a bond this year and will likely pay off a $2 billion loan that is due next year, the fund's CEO said.
'ICD at the moment does not have any liquidity requirement,' Mohammed al-Shaibani told Reuters in an interview on Friday on the sidelines of the Sarajevo Business Forum organised by the fund's subsidiary in Bosnia.
'But Read more [...]
May 192012
Schools and parents are in the dark as Federal Ministry of Education (MoE) and Dubai’s KHDA go back and forth over the implementation of the unified calendar at private schools in Dubai.
The decision has not yet been finalised, as divergent statements from the MoE and the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) show.
“All schools and colleges in the country, except for some Indian and Pakistani schools, are expected to implement the unified calendar from the next academic year Read more [...]
May 192012
Freight Forwarders Forum, which was held recently at the Address Marina Hotel with participation of more than 150 representatives from forwarding companies across the UAE, aims to create a permanent and effective platform for Dubai Trade to receive feedback and find solutions to any relevant issues the trading community may have, as well as to communicate current improvements and future projects undertaken by Dubai Trade.Dubai Trade, which is responsible for facilitating and speeding up customs Read more [...]
May 192012
Dubai plans to spend about 1 billion
dirhams ($272 million) over five years to improve roads in
residential areas in the emirate, the Roads Transport
Authority said.
The authority awarded two contracts under the program
valued at 38 million dirhams, it said in an e-mailed statement
today. The plan runs through 2016, the authority said.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Daliah Merzaban in Dubai at
dmerzaban@bloomberg.net
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Dubai SWF upbeat on $2bn loan repayment
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May 192012
The Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), the emirate's sovereign wealth arm, has no current plan to issue a bond this year and will likely pay off a $2bn loan that is due next year, the fund's CEO told Reuters in an interview.
"ICD at the moment does not have any liquidity requirement," Mohammed al-Shaibani said on the sidelines of the Sarajevo Business Forum organised by the fund's subsidiary in Bosnia.
"But our subsidiaries are issuing bonds according to their needs," he added, referring among Read more [...]
May 192012
(AP) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An American businessman jailed for more than four years in Dubai under suspicion of corruption has started a hunger strike to push for a trial and seek greater U.S. diplomatic pressure in his case. Zack Shahin, a former CEO of Dubai-based Deyaar Realty, is among dozens of prominent business figures and investors who have been placed under investigation for alleged financial irregularities in the United Arab Emirates, whose decade of astonishing growth was abruptly Read more [...]