Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business According to the Q3 2016 RAK MarketView, RAK’s hospitality market is currently one of the country’s tourism bright spots, as it bucks wider regional trends of declining room revenues, recording year-to-date occupancy growth of 13.6% up to the month of September (STR Global). The Emirate now has well over 5,000 hotel and hotel …

  New York / AFP More than 350 US universities are urging President-elect Donald Trump to change his mind and keep a program that lets hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people study and avoid deportation. Nicknamed “Dreamers,” they are the estimated 1.2 million young people who were brought to the United States illegally as children, grew up without US residency …

  Sydney / AFP Australia’s parliament was hit by a second day of protests by anti-offshore detention centre activists on Thursday with two people abseiling down the building to unfurl a banner reading “close the bloody camps now”. While the pair scaled Parliament House a dozen others waded into a forecourt pond and added red dye to symbolise blood while …