RITIKA SHARMA / Emirates Business Imagine you are on a pleasure drive to Al Ain sitting on the pilot seat but facing your friends and chatting with them. How about sipping your cold coffee and admiring Burj Khalifa as your car vrooms on the Sheikh Zayed Road? All these will become a reality sooner than you visualize. UAE will ...

  Reuters Bahrain Telecommunications Co (Batelco) posted a 33 percent fall in first-quarter profit as its subscriber base and revenue both declined. Batelco made a net profit of 9.6 million Bahraini dinars ($25.46 million) in the three months to March 31, it said in a statement. This compares with a profit of 14.2 million dinars a year earlier. SICO Bahrain ...

  Yangon / AFP Hundreds of Myanmar villagers rallied on Saturday against a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine, activists said, reigniting a contentious issue that could pose an early challenge to Aung San Suu Kyi’s new government. The Letpadaung mine in the central town of Monywa has for years been dogged by complaints of land-grabbing, environmental damage and brutal police crackdowns on ...