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This is Dubai’s first twin-tower launch of 2019

24.01.2019

Dubai: Dubai’s property market has got its first twin-tower launch of 2019 – a 28-storey, 150-metre high project in Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum City, near Meydan district. It will be built by Sobha Realty and within the Sobha Hartland cluster, which until now was more about villas and low-rise apartment buildings. There will be about 400 units spread between the ‘Creek Vistas’, with prices at Dh800,000-Dh1 million for a one-bed (of...

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UAE start-ups respond to unique competition

24.01.2019

More than 300 small and medium-sized enterprises responded to our recent Flying Colours start-up competition, which closed earlier this month. Flying Colours presented UAE-based SMEs with the opportunity to share their unique business ideas and concepts to win flights worth Dh100,000 on Emirates Airline. The competition, which launched on November 25, 2018, was created in recognition of this dynamic and important sector of the UAE economy. It was...

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Using the ‘F’ word is a criminal offence in the UAE

24.01.2019

Someone I know recently used the ‘F’ word against me to insult me. I heard it is a crime in the UAE. Is it true? What action can I take under the law? How can I prove the person used the word against me? As per the UAE law, using the ‘F’word, or any other verbal abuse, irrespective of the person’s nationality, is a criminal offence. According to the UAE Federal Penal Code No 3 of 1987 and as amended, chapter six thereof, crimes...

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