Dubai

The maritime sector's contribution to Dubai's economy is growing rapidly, and with continuing success in becoming one of the most competitive maritime centers in the world, Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) is cruising full speed ahead toward having another dynamic presence at Posidonia 2018, the world's most prestigious shipping event, taking place from June 4 to 8 at Athens Metropolitan Ex

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva is on a working visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), during which she will open the embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Abu Dhabi, the press service of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.

In Dubai's decades-old Gold Souk, customers from around the world haggle over bangles and necklaces. Elsewhere in the emirate, the region's top center for gold trade, bullion is playing a new role in financial engineering.  

Dubai is splashing tens of billions of dollars on infrastructure and hospitality projects related to the international trade fair Expo 2020, Dubai-based BNC Network said in a report published April 8.

As traditional centers of modern Arab art in Damascus and Baghdad have imploded amid disastrous wars, the sheeny city-state of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has stepped into the vacuum as a major hub for art sales.

The co-partner of Turkey's global Nusr-et chain of grill houses, Nusret Gökçe, who became a social media phenomenon in early 2017 for his meat-cutting and salt-drizzling skills, has recently hosted world-renowned football stars in his restaurants in Istanbul and Dubai.

Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has blasted the Dubai-based pan-Arab broadcaster MBC’s decision to remove all Turkish programs from its channels, saying “a couple of politicians cannot just sit at a desk and decide who will watch which film.”

The Dubai-based pan-Arab broadcaster MBC has “received instructions to remove all Turkish programs” from its channels until further notice, according to a report published in The National on March 4.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi capped a whirlwind visit to the UAE on Feb. 11, giving a keynote address as guest of honor at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Dubai airport was the world’s busiest for international passengers in 2017 for the fourth year running, with 88.2 million travelers, the United Arab Emirates’ state news agency WAM said on Feb. 5.