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Our Correspondent EMIRATES BUSINESS With his strong leadership skills, Usman Khalid, Founder and CEO, Centric, has been leading the Digital Marketing company since 2011. Today, he is one of the most recognized leaders in the Middle East and has brought Centric to the forefront in the digital media landscape with an aggregate yearly growth of over 400 percent. Prior to ...

Our Correspondent / Emirates Business MumMum restaurant was established with the concept that healthy nutrition for children should be a blend of both delicious and fun. Opened in Sharjah in 2012, MumMum is an innovative, healthy fast food family restaurant that serves an array of meals specially created and prepared to be packed with as much flavour as they are ...

Mayibouth / AFP In the remote wilderness of the Belinga mountains in northeast Gabon, men with shovels in hand dig from morning to night, filling wheelbarrows with soil laced with what they are looking for: gold. The clearing in the equatorial forest is covered with dozens of holes, some four metres (13 feet) deep. “We arrive around seven in the ...

AlmerIa / AFP In a vast sea of plastic greenhouses in southeastern Spain, dubbed “Europe’s vegetable garden”, discontent is growing among farmers who complain large supermarket chains do not pay enough and farm workers live in poverty. Since the 1980s, one of the largest concentrations of greenhouses in the world has developed on a coastal plain near the city of ...

Frankfurt / DPA Germany is slowly bringing home its gold, lodged outside the country in vaults in New York, Paris and London during the years of the Cold War. Germany’s central bank possesses the second-biggest hoard of gold bars in the world, and conspiracy theories have multiplied over the years, based around the fact that only a tiny number of ...

Gallipoli / AFP Italian olive grower Federico Manni is at the end of his tether. “You see this one,” he says, waving in the direction of a majestic but diseased olive tree on his property near Gallipoli on the Salento peninsula on Italy’s heel. “It is over one thousand years old. Fires and wars failed to kill it, but that’s ...

Our Correspondent EMIRATES BUSINESS As the media partner for the Government of Dubai, Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) is responsible for disseminating important news and information about the Emirate to the widest possible audiences by means of high quality broadcast, print and electronic media. Established to provide the very best entertainment, education and news offerings and to promote Dubai on the ...

Our Correspondent / Emirates Business The Al Habtoor Group has grown with the UAE. Started out as a small engineering firm in 1970, is today one of the region’s most respected conglomerates with interests in the hospitality, automotive, real estate, education and publishing sectors. The Al Habtoor Group has earned itself a solid reputation both locally and internationally due to ...

Bernie Sanders, greedy for power to punish people he considers greedy, has occasioned 2016’s best joke (reported in Bloomberg Businessweek): “In the Bernie Sanders drinking game, every time he mentions a free government program, you drink someone else’s beer.” But neither Sanders’ nor Hillary Clinton’s hostility to the First Amendment is amusing. Both have voted to do something never done ...

As information and technology (IT) advances and the world moves steadily towards the digital economy, challenges grow tenaciously with similar pace, posing serious difficulties that should be addressed to keep hackers at bay. Cyber-threats have been growing across key sectors such as financial services, oil and gas, technology, government, retail, construction, healthcare, among others. With resolve to enhance the cyber ...