Tribune news service Bahrain’s decade-long national award for women empowerment has received global recognition. The new award is named after Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, wife of His Majesty King Hamad and Supreme Council for Women (SCW) president, and will now come under UN Women. The council has been tasked by UN Women to come …

  Emirates Business CFA Society Emirates, the association for financial and investment professionals in the UAE, has unveiled the results of a survey which assessed the impact of introducing Value Added Tax (VAT) across the GCC. The survey provided market insights from CFA members and charterholders in the United Arab Emirates. With the UAE set to become the first country …

  Geneva / AFP The number of unaccompanied children making the notoriously dangerous Mediterranean crossing aboard unseaworthy boats has more than doubled this year, the UN children’s agency said in a new report on Tuesday. Entitled “Danger every step of the way”, the UNICEF report said nine out of every 10 children arriving in Italy were unaccompanied minors, noting that more …