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  Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business The festive season of Ramadan brings changes in your lifestyle. Experts say, if not taken proper care of, these can harm your health. To make the transition for your body easier, it is very significant to maintain a healthy diet and avoid imbalance of nutrients during the month of fasting. Khaled Diab, Regional General ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) the master developer of major tourism, cultural and residential destinations in Abu Dhabi, announced on Wednesday that the process of removing the temporary sea protection walls, used during the main construction phase, and the integration of the sea with the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum project, has begun. This significant milestone ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Her Excellency Dr Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, Director General, Smart Dubai City Office (SDO) visited the Dubai Customs Office to hold a strategic meeting with HE Ahmed Mahbooh Musabih, Director, Dubai Customs. Accompanied by a delegation from the SDO, the Director General presented its general plan to introduce the SDO’s objectives and strategies to ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business Sharjah Business Women Council (SBWC), an affiliate of Nama Women Advancement Establishment (Nama), successfully held its annual Ramadan Summit, with the event taking place at Al Jawaher Reception & Convention Centre in Sharjah. Titled ‘Self Reflections,’ the summit – which takes place each year on the side-lines of SBWC’s Ramadan Suhoor – attracted more than ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Constance Hotels and Resorts is investing in the metamorphosis of its first property to keep on offering perfect hotel experiences. Constance Belle Mare Plage, situated on the 2km white sand beach of Poste de Flacq is being refurbished this year, while ensuring it retains all of the ingredients that have made its success over the ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) accompanied by a number of NASA officials and representatives of the United States Embassy in the UAE and the United States Consulate in Dubai. Bolden and the accompanying delegation met His Excellency Yousuf Hamad Al Shaibani, Director General of MBRSC, project managers and ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, has revealed its innovative “smart mosque” research project that leverages advanced sensor technologies and customized mathematical algorithms to make mosques “smart” and significantly more energy-efficient. Masdar Institute has been working with the General Authority of ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business National Bonds Corporation (National Bonds), the leading sharia-compliant savings and investment company in the UAE, organised a series of innovative financial planning seminars in the form of focus group discussions. The sessions, bringing together selected high-net-worth customers to talk about various topics related to personal finance with experts, were held in Dubai and Abu ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The success of any business largely depends on the quality of the employees it attracts and retains. According to the recent Bayt.com “Trends in Employer Branding in the Middle East and North Africa” poll, conducted by business facilitation company Naseba and Bayt.com, the Middle East’s leading job site, 84.5% of the respondents believe that engaging ...

  CAIRO / Reuters Economists are roughly evenly split on whether Egypt’s central bank will raise interest rates at its monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting on June 16, after a jump in inflation in May. Six out of 11 economists in the Reuters poll expect the bank to hold rates while five expect a hike ranging from 25 basis points ...