Dubai / WAM According to Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, the population of Dubai is expected to increase to five million by 2030. Lootah was speaking on the final day of the fourth World Government Summit in Dubai, in which his speech addressed the issues of the consequences of an increasing population and depleting natural resources, an increase ...

Bloomberg Dubai stocks led a rally across Gulf Arab equity markets after oil jumped the most in seven years on Friday. The DFM General Index rose for the first time in four days on Sunday, gaining 1.6 percent at 10:44 am local time. Emaar Properties PJSC, the developer of the world’s tallest skyscraper and the company with the biggest weighting ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates has received a formal request from Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to join the High-level Advisory Group for ‘Every Woman – Every Child’ affiliated with the UN, which was announced by the UN Secretary-General last month in Davos. This came in a letter received by HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, ...