Bloomberg Yi Wang was hearing the same refrain over and over: Why are English classes in China so expensive? And why aren’t I proficient yet?A year ago, 27-year-old software developer Roy Breidi was dreaming of launching a startup related to the digital currency bitcoin. Problem was, he “didn’t really understand what’s the magic behind it.” So he took an ...

  AFP The forest around Manjau in Borneo once reverberated with the scream of chainsaws, as gangs of illegal loggers felled ancient hardwood trees for sale to timber merchants downstream. But many loggers in the remote Indonesian village are hanging up their chainsaws in return for affordable healthcare, through a community incentive scheme that aims to save lives and protect ...

  AFP When police heard about the frozen corpse up in the Alps in September 1991, they opened a criminal probe. Murder it was, but the crime was rather old — and the ultimate cold case. The dead man, found by hikers 25 years ago this week a snowball’s throw from the Austrian-Italian border and put in a wooden coffin ...

  Dubai / WAM A UAE plane carrying over 100 tonnes of aid will leave for Entebbe, Uganda, early on Sunday to deliver vital relief supplies to more than 60,000 South Sudanese refugees who have flocked to the Ugandan border, fleeing from the conflict in South Sudan. This immediate response follows the directives of Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Master developer Dubai South announced on Saturday the sale price of its residential units at its innovative residential project, The Pulse. Now buyers can purchase their dream home at Dubai South, with prices starting at AED280,000 onwards. Billed as the first city in the world centered around the happiness of its people, master developer Dubai ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Lootah Real Estate Development on Saturday broke ground on The Waves, an elegantly designed state-of-the-art new building to be built at Shamal neighborhood site office, Al Barsha South . The project is new milestone and testament of on-time and successful delivery of Shamal phase-one and phase-two, since the launch of Shamal neighborhood development earlier. Lootah ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) inaugurated the first phase of its joint project with Mohammed bin Rashid Housing Establishment (MBRHE). The project aims to replace conventional lightbulbs with LED lightbulbs, among various projects launched by MBRHE. In cooperation with Etihad Energy Service Company (ESCO), DEWA will replace traditional light bulbs with LED lightbulbs in 500 villas, ...

  Dubai / WAM The UAE delegation, headed by Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE), concluded a successful participation in the Global Green Growth Week (GGGW), held from September 5-9 in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. The event, hosted by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), gathered around 1,200 participants from more than 50 countries representing ...

  Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah will later this month host the UAE’s World Tourism Day conference which this year has the theme of ‘Tourism for All – Promoting Universal Accessibility’. This is the second World Tourism Day conference being held in Ras Al Khaimah. The conference is aligned with the 2016 United Nations World Tourism ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The second edition of World Halal Tourism Awards will again recognize the excellence in halal and family-friendly travel and tourism industry. The nominations opened on September 11 across 16 award categories, including Best Halal Tour Operator, Best Family Friendly Hotel and World’s Best Non OIC Emerging Halal Destination, to name a few. The winners ...