Sharjah / Emirates Business Al Qasba, Sharjah’s premier leisure, tourism and family destination, hosted a group of fatherless children from the Sharjah Social Empowerment Foundation (SSEF) in commemoration of the 12th annual Zayed Humanitarian Day. Celebrated on Ramadan 19, Zayed Humanitarian Day honours the legacy of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder of the nation, with ...

  Leonid Bershidsky “Please tell me I’m still sleeping and this is all just a bad nightmare,” former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb tweeted after waking up to the U.K. referendum results. It feels like a betrayal, but it’s really a wake-up call. The millions of Britons who on Thursday voted their distrust of the European Union are not the ...

Jackson Ewing SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS The major economies of Northeast Asia are developing carbon markets to help meet their climate change commitments. They would benefit from doing so in concert. Like much in the current climate change arena, market activities beneath the global scale are booming. Carbon markets have almost doubled since 2012, with 40 states and 23 cities, ...

  Akhilesh Pillalamarri SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS In 19th century Europe, the old concert of great powers, states which had been dominant since the end of the Napoleonic Wars, was shaken by the rise of two new powers: Germany and Italy, both of which had recently been unified. As was to be expected, the rise of two new powers put ...

  Heather R. Morgan / TNS Would you like to know how you can increase your online sales without spending a ton of money on advertising? There’s a lot of ways you can drive sales, but some methods are more powerful than others. Even with social media, email marketing is still the number one channel for driving sales, accounting for ...

  Hanau / DPA The world’s oldest carousel, a plaything for a prince, has been restored to working order after many years of painstaking work to fix its wooden horses. Prince Wilhelm IX of Hessen-Kassel wanted a merry-go-round like those seen at fun-fairs and it was completed for him in 1780 in Wilhelmsbad Park in Hanau, now a town on ...

  Relaxnews The world’s first holographic intelligent mannequin has gone on display in the UK as part of a fashion exhibition taking place during London Technology Week. The 3D virtual mannequin, designed by Headworks, features a holographic head atop a physical body. It is one of many inventions on show at the Fashion Tech Installation event to demonstrate the growing ...

  Relaxnews Although YouTube has allowed live video streaming from a computer since 2011, users will now be able to broadcast live footage from a smartphone, a function already available from social networks Facebook (via Facebook Live) and Twitter (via Periscope). Smartphone users will now be able to stream live video directly via the YouTube mobile app for Android and ...

  Relaxnews Facebook has made its latest move against competitor Snapchat, capitalising on the popularity of its ‘selfie’ filters and launching a similar offering of the same as it continues to enhance its Live platform. The new Facebook photo filters have been made possible by a firm called MSQRD (pronounced masquerade) that specialises in video selfies, which Facebook acquired in ...

  AFP Hyper-wired South Korea is considering legislation that would ban bosses from bothering their staff at home, after growing complaints about the country’s already onerous work-life imbalance. A bill prohibiting managers from badgering staff at home was submitted to parliament, sponsored by 12 lawmakers from the main opposition Minjoo party. “As more firms use social media or mobile messengers ...