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Dubai / Emirates Business The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has launched the first Arab science magazine — Red Planet — dedicated to space science, for children across the Arab world. The magazine is issued in line with the Centre’s strategy to support and encourage the next generation to adopt innovation and show more interest in scientific knowledge and ...

Dubai / Emirates Business As part of its commitment to social responsibility, Dubai Courts has inked an agreement with Beit Al Khair Society to help promote community partnerships, establish standards in charitable activities and reinforce the UAE’s leadership on the global map. HE Taresh Eid Al Mansouri, Director General of Dubai Courts, and HE Abdeen Taher Al-Awadi, Executive Director of ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business ‘In his paper titled ‘Cortisol shifts financial risk preferences’, Guest-Lecturer of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, Ben Hardy and his co-authors examine the relationship between hormones and financial uncertainty to find that volatility affects cortisol levels in individuals, causing higher stress. Sharing his opinion on gender diversity in a work environment, Ben Hardy told ...

Ritika Sharma / Emirates Business Being adaptive, working in unison and devising innovative strategies can play a key role in fighting crisis situations that result from extremism or terrorism activities, global experts suggested. Accepting that emergency circumstances cannot be predicted exactly beforehand, industry leaders urged that there is a need to look beyond conventional measures to cope up with such ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Museum of the Future Foundation organized the second meeting of its Global Blockchain Council to discuss a number of initiatives that will be taken up this year as part of the innovative platform. The Council was launched last month as part of the Dubai Museum of the Future Foundation’s efforts to adopt the latest technologies ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF) – a member of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives – has announced that it will host the ‘Nobel Prizes Series Dubai 2016’ on March 20 and 21, at Al Maha Ballroom in Hyatt Regency Dubai Creek Heights Hotel. The event will be held under the patronage ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business The past few years have witnessed a steady growth of smart cities in the region, with UAE initiatives like Dubai Plan 2021 and Dubai Smart City program by 2017 topping the list. As they create new opportunities for businesses, the need for potential security against data breaches underlines the importance of technological advancements too. According ...

Japan and its two decades of economic stagnation seem as if they’re about to have company. The International Monetary Fund and OECD both seem prepared to lower their global growth forecasts for the coming year because of what they see as a continuing slowdown in the global economy. Foreign Affairs even devoted its most recent issue to surviving a slow-growth ...

The simplest reading of the protests that swept Brazil on Sunday is that Latin America’s largest nation is clamoring for regime change. The 3 million or more people who filled the streets and parks of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and dozens of other Brazilian cities turned out to say they’re fed up with the relentless corruption scandal that has ...

TOKYO / AFP Japan’s central bank chief on Tuesday defended a negative interest rate policy slammed as a desperate bid to keep alive efforts at resuscitating the world’s number three economy. Haruhiko Kuroda’s comments came after the Bank of Japan held off unleashing more stimulus following a two-day meeting, as it gauges the impact of its unprecedented move into sub-zero rates. ...