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Emirates Business As part of its efforts to introduce its partners and members of the diplomatic corps to its future plans as well as to inform them about the economic landscape of the emirate, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry organised Diplomatic Circle Dinner for ambassadors and members of the Arab and international diplomatic corps in the UAE at ...

Emirates Business Positive economic outlooks, remarkable increase in tourist footfall, rise in per capita income combined with altering consumer behaviours, are together acting as a positive growth catalyst for the retail sector in the UAE. Gauging the immense potential of this sector, corporates are giving sufficient impetus upon improving their facilities and offering customers one of the best shopping experiences.As ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business The Italian luxury car manufacturing company, Maserati announces Dubai as the second location for the Maserati Polo Tour 2016. This event will be second in row after the ‘Snow Polo World Cup’ in Switzerland in January. The Maserati Dubai Polo Challenge will take place from April 3-8 at Desert Palm Polo Club. The participants would ...

Emirates Business Marina Mall, the capital’s leading shopping destination, is celebrating its 15th anniversary with the launch of the ‘15 Years of Inspiring Moments’ festival. From March 28 to April 11, visitors can enjoy 15 days of fun-filled activities at Abu Dhabi’s favourite mall. From Burger House and Huguette to Guy Crêperies, Man’oushe Street and Meylas, food trucks will be ...

Emirates Business Organisers of Codemotion Dubai, to be held from April 1–2 at the Impact Hub, Downtown Dubai, have announced that there is a high demand for tickets for one of Europe’s largest tech conferences devoted to coding development, which is being held for the first time in the Middle East. Offering a unique platform for pioneering coding developers and ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business According to UAE-based portal InternsME.com, internship programmes are a great way to maintain the ‘talent funnel’ which benefits the corporates in reducing unemployment and enhancing work environment. Jean–Michel Gauthier CEO deems that the corporates can avoid hiring the usual up-front and long-term costs of hiring, “Majority of interns are on student or parent visa sponsorship, ...

Emirates Business Recording over 270 million page views per month, dubizzle — the country’s leading classifieds platform — celebrates 10 years of transforming the UAE’s second-hand market place and consumer behaviour as a whole. “In the space of 10 years, dubizzle has completely redefined the culture of ownership in the UAE by kick-starting the country’s second-hand economy, and bridging a ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Pursuant to the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, ordered changing the name of the ‘Mushrif Central Park’ to the ‘Mother of the Nation Park’. This comes in recognition ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Board of Dubai World Trade Centre Authority, on Monday announced the 2015 annual performance results of Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) highlighting an impressive 12% year-on-year increase in traffic to deliver 2.74 million delegates and attendees, coupled ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on Monday received Arkin Amir Albak, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China and Chairman of the China-Arab Friendship Society, to discuss a variety of parliamentary issues and areas of joint co-operation between ...