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Staytus: ‘Make every stay count more’

Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS Staytus is a data-driven, turnkey partner for the luxury hotel industry, which has been created to enhance guests’ experience during their hotel stay. It has been set up to deliver a unique suite of digital services to analyse customer data and increase capture, driving up revenues in hotels and resorts. It aims to unlock hidden ...

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‘Buca Di Beppo’ brings family-style Italian dining to UAE platter

Sunaina Rana / EMIRATES BUSINESS Buca Di Beppo, the renowned name in ‘Rustic Modern Italian Cuisine’, has its flagship outlets in Abu Dhabi, thereby bringing the brand’s popular dishes and lively atmosphere to the country’s discerning diners since 2015. For UAE lovers of Italian food, there are two hotspots in the capital to whet their appetites. Hassan Oweida, CEO, of ...

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Bolivia’s unlikely dream of cashing in on Coca export

DPA Franziska Berra has been plucking coca leaves for 65 years. In scorching heat, from 9 am until at least 5 pm, eight hours almost without a break: just coca. She never learned anything else. “Now the price has hit rock bottom,” says the 80-year-old, who bends down all day to pluck the green leaves and covers her head with ...

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Smog with a silver lining

AFP The steel plants and cement factories scattered across China’s Shandong province have made it one of the most contaminated areas of the world’s biggest polluter. But for one company, that just makes the business climate better. ASL Masks says it turned out more than 100,000 face coverings last year and aims to more than double that in 2016 as ...

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Perfect destination to relax and tour

Sunaina Rana / EMIRATES BUSINESS An architectural triumph acting as the centerpiece of Yas Island, Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi hovers over land and water and spans the Yas Marina Circuit, the favoured racetrack for Formula 1 legends. Beneath the hotel’s light canopy, Yas Viceroy presents guests with a new perspective for a resort, perched between city sophistication and jet-setting island ...

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Corum: Showcasing aesthetic appeal with technical excellence

Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS Montres Corum is a Swiss watchmaker based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, was founded in 1955, it makes high-quality and high-price watches. Following the luxury brands popularity around the globe, Corum collaborated with Ahmed Seddiqi and Sons and Al-Fardan Jewellery to enter UAE market. With more than 15 years’ experience in this field, first with Bvlgari then ...

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Does spending money better schools?

Bloomberg It has become an article of faith among education reformers that throwing more money at public education doesn’t improve student performance. But a steady drumbeat of careful research studies is calling this into question. What if more money really does work? The case against spending more on schools comes in two basic forms. One is to look at various ...

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Why isn’t more of the USA population working?

Bloomberg According to an employment report, 59.8 percent of Americans aged 16 and older had jobs in February. That’s the highest employment-to-population ratio in years, and the rate of increase is clearly on the rise. Look back some more years, though, and the story is different. The recent gains are real, but by the standards of the past few decades, ...

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Boosting quality of the community

SUnaina Rana / EMIRATES BUSINESS As Ralph Nader said — the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers — the same principle is followed by US-based Young Presidents Organisation (YPO). Founded in 1950, YPO today provides 23,000 peers and their families in more than 130 countries with access to unique educational and networking experiences designed to ...

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Contributing to the welfare of the society

Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS Dulsco, a regional leader in human resource solutions and waste management services, has touched the 80 year milestone in 2015. Dulsco was set up in 1935 as a stevedoring company. During its initial years of operation, the company used to provide stevedoring services to ships at the anchorage and barges. By the 1970s, and with ...

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