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Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Standing elegantly on Khalifa Street, overlooking the Capital Gardens on one side and the Corniche on the other, Millennium Corniche Hotel, Abu Dhabi, is the Emirates capital’s newest 5-star business lifestyle property. High rising 16 floors, with 325 luxurious rooms and suites, the hotel has managed to set the bar high for the standard of ...

AFP Bendable mobile phones, quick-charge batteries and unbreakable touch screens — technology firms are racing to harness the potential of graphene, a wonder material which scientists say could transform consumer electronics. A fine sheet of pure carbon, graphene is as thin as an atom, making it the skinniest material known. At the same time though, it is 100 times stronger ...

DPA An enterprising music-lover is producing what look like simple wooden boxes, but are in fact cajons, a fast-rising musical instrument which all the hippest bands now want to play. “The first time I saw a cuboid like this was at a concert. I was thrilled,” Markus Meyer recalls. The German, who had been fascinated by musical instruments since childhood, ...

AFP As the world’s largest mobile phone fair hosts the “creme de la creme” in Barcelona, activists slam the dark side of a sector accused of ignoring rights abuses in Chinese factories and Congolese mines. “Behind this modern, progressive industry lurk dark themes like labour exploitation or minerals stained with blood that come from conflict zones,” says Alba Trepat, campaigns ...

Bloomberg Drowsy German bureaucrats in Hamburg will soon have one less option for a mid-afternoon caffeine jolt, after the city banned single-serve coffee machines such as Nespresso from government buildings. The new regulations have a worthy purpose. They hope to defend the environment, under the assumption that the use and disposal of thousands of tiny coffee capsules or pods leads ...

RITIKA SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS Michael Hussey, Bord Bia’s market manager for Middle East Region, opened the brand’s first office in early 2014 to support the Irish food industry in the region. Michael has been with the company since 2001, as senior sector manager with responsibility for the dairy and ingredients sector during which he developed the ‘Origin Green’ marketing ...

RITIKA SHARMA/ Emirates Business It started as a home grown grooming brand in 2001 and today it is recognized as one of the largest multi-award winning organically grown companies in the beauty sector. UAE’s largest, award-winning grooming brand, NStyle International is growing in leaps and bounds. With over 30 outlets dotted across the globe, NStyle is looking to open over 50 ...

Bloomberg On the southeast coast of Australia, a A$5.7 billion ($4.1 billion) processing plant to turn the ocean into a source of drinking water has sat idle since it was built in 2012. That could change soon. The state of Victoria will decide by April whether to switch it on, sucking water from the Bass Strait through an underground tunnel ...

Erika Lindholm In our current economic system — the linear economic system — we extract resources from our planet at an ever-increasing pace, and turn them into a product that we mostly dispose after use. From the perspective of an individual or organization, that seems efficient. However, zooming out to a global level shows how unsustainable this approach is. The ...

Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS Elegant Resorts is certainly adding a dash of luxury in the lifestyle of the UAE residents. You just name any of the lavish destinations from the world map and they would offer you a tailor-made travel itinerary exactly matching your likings and personality. In just few months of its UAE operations, Elegant Resorts has managed ...