Dubai / Emirates Business HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), launched the Amazon/Antarctica Experience on May 29. The event was held at DEWA’s head office, and allowed DEWA employees, as well as the public to learn about DEWA’s expedition to Peru in 2016, and DEWA’s expedition to Antarctica in 2015, ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Family Village, an Orphanage Project in Dubai by the Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation (AMAF), recently organized an Iftar event for all its donors to express its gratitude for the significant donations they have made for helping build a secure home for orphans. An initiative by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice ...

  ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business Social media has evolved much beyond its literal meaning. It is now not only limited to adding numbers in the friends-list or gaining likes on posts. Eventually, it has emerged as a potent tool for recruiting right talent for the 21st century corporate world. Among the GCC nations, UAE is leading the bandwagon with ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business According to SOUQ.com, a combination of reduced work hours and a celebratory atmosphere means that time spent online as well as consumer spending is higher during Ramadan. To capitalize on consumers’ increased online consumption and gifting season in the Middle East, SOUQ.com is pleased to announce exclusive and irresistible deals to welcome Ramadan and celebrate ...

  Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business The booming entertainment and hospitality sectors have driven demand for audio-visual solutions and technology in the region. With its multicultural population, GCC is a major destination for a large number of international artistes and performers, cultural troupes and myriad international sporting events, all of which increase the demand for high quality sound and light ...

  Bloomberg Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri endorsed the Afghan Taliban guerrillas, a move that may boost the group’s insurgency in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama approved the expansion of the US military’s role in the war-plagued nation. Al-Zawahiri announced that he would “extend my pledge of allegiance” in a 14-minute online audio recording, Reuters reported on Saturday. “We’re still waiting ...

  Washington / AFP The coalition fighting the IS group in Syria may have accidentally hit allied rebels during an air strike at the end of last month, a US military spokesman said on Saturday. Coalition forces carried out three air strikes against tactical IS units and vehicles near Ma’ra on May 28, Centcom spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder said in ...

  Dhaka / AFP Bangladesh police have arrested an additional 2,000 suspected criminals including militants in an ongoing crackdown on extremists following a spate of gruesome murders, an officer said on Sunday. More than 3,000 people, including suspected ordinary criminals with existing warrants against them, were arrested on Saturday after police launched a controversial anti-militant drive across the Muslim-majority nation. ...

  Washington / AFP CIA chief John Brennan said that secret findings of a 2002 congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks should not be taken as evidence of official Saudi complicity. A decision is expected soon on whether to release the classified 28-page section of the report by the House and Senate intelligence committees. Former senator Bob Graham, who headed ...

  Bamako / AFP As the United Nations looks to extend its most deadly active mission for peacekeepers for another year, those working closely with its venture in Mali say poor local collaboration and funding gaps are costing lives. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to approve 2,500 extra troops and police for the Mali force, known ...