Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS With over 6,000 restaurants in Dubai, the residents here are overwhelmed with plethora of choices when it comes to cuisines, services and cool ambiences of any eating joint. This industry is clearly bubbling with countless innovations in services, ranging from home-grown brands and international chains, which have raisied the bar of restaurants in the emirates. ...

Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS TIMEZ5 is the world’s first health and Wellness Company addressing lifestyle needs through innovation. Driven by research and inspired by Islamic rituals, its goal is to develop premium quality products for Muslims. TIMEZ5 Labs blends the world of ancient medicine, leading technology and inspiring design to address lifestyle challenges. It is a global company headquartered ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Aldar Properties PJSC (Aldar), Abu Dhabi’s leading listed property development, investment and management company, has awarded an AED 318m contract for Al Jimi Mall’s refurbishment and expansion works to Pivot Construction Company. This investment is the latest component of Aldar’s recently announced AED 3 billion investment strategy. Al Jimi Mall remains a key retail asset in ...

RITIKA SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS Women are being encouraged by leaders in aero-space industry to look beyond conventional career choices like teaching and explore more hard-core fields like engineering, construction and technical sides of aviation. Sheikha Al Maskari, Chief Innovation Officer of UAE Space Agency told Emirates Business that there is a need of more female professionals in “tougher” fields ...

DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Working for an organisation that offers a work-life balance is a blessing but working for an organisation that rewards and helps improve skills of its team is a richer blessing. One such organisation that inspires and motivates its staff is UAE Exchange, the leading global remittances, foreign exchange and payment solutions brand. In a survey conducted ...

RITIKA SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS Abu Dhabi Ports recently organised a ‘Strategy Workshop with Stakeholders’, in which the company shared its five-year strategy. Government stakeholders and key customers from 25 organisations participated in the event that aimed to provide their input and build on their capabilities for its effective imple- mentation. The strategy, reflecting the demands and expectations of Abu ...

Sunaina Rana Emirates Business The internationally prominent digital lifestyle innovations company, BenQ Middle East & Turkey has recently reported theur growth upto 4.8 percent during the last quarter of 2015 in the Middle East. However, the UAE tops the charts in the region, where market share increased from 2.06 percent in Q4, 2014 to 6.52 percent in Q4, 2015. Following ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Al Zorah, one of the UAE’s most innovative and eco-conscious mixed-use destinations, known for embodying the ethos of “natural living” pushed its environmental agenda, through the sponsorship of the 4th Ajman International Environment Conference, 2016. The symposium was held at the Sheikh Zayed Centre for Conferences and Exhibitions from March 2 -3. In its fourth ...

ljubljana / afp The Balkan trail from Greece to northern Europe used by floods of migrants was blocked on Wednesday after a string of nations slammed shut their borders, hiking pressure on the EU and Turkey to nail down a “game-changing” grand bargain. Slovenia and Croatia, two of the countries along the well-trodden route, said late Tuesday that no migrants ...

Riyadh / AFP Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels have freed a Saudi soldier in return for seven detained Yemenis as part of a tribal-mediated border truce agreed by both sides, the Riyadh-led coalition said Wednesday. The agreement reached during a visit by a Yemeni tribal delegation to the kingdom is the first of its kind since the Saudi-led coalition began a military ...