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Nouveau-riche bling blossoms in Cuba

Havana / AFP Eddy Relova used to scrape a living buying and selling goods in the street, but now he sits wearing a thick gold necklace at a posh restaurant in Havana. State controls over Cuba’s economy are gradually easing, unleashing a new class of moneyed consumers in a communist island where wealth is largely taboo. Now, aged 23, Relova ...

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Now, monitor your 1,000-mile away farmlands from home

ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business Thanks to UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) technology, soon UAE-based agriculturists and investors will be able to monitor their sprawling farmlands situated as far as in Sudan, without even stepping out of their homes. Under the concept of remote ownership, this could be made possible through smart drones that would do daily monitoring of faraway meadows ...

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Campaign to educate workers on legal rights upon arrival at airport

Dubai / WAM Saqr Ghobash, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, on Thursday launched a campaign under the slogan ‘Know your rights’ to educate workers about their rights, upon arrival through Dubai airports. “This campaign comes in the framework of the ministry’s keenness to raise awareness among foreign workers that enter the labour market for the first time especially when ...

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