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KDVR
United to waive flight-change fees ahead of storm | CHICAGO – United Airlines says it will waive flight-change fees for customers who want to change travel plans later this week in the Midwest and Southeast, which are bracing for winter storms. | United said it would waive change fees for travelers...
One of the biggest jewelry shop in Hong Kong , August 31 , 2009.
(photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Dubai Shopping Festival: best place to buy cheap gold
Merinews
 The Dubai Shopping Festival 2010 has started off with a bang today, Janaury 28. The DSF 2010 has participation from over 6000 retail outlets, over 150 international and regional events and has prizes worth millions. One of the main attraction at the Dubai Shopping festival is the gold and...
Thais seek `favors' for Brit
Hong Kong Standard
A Thai court agreed to extradite a Briton to Dubai on charges of embezzling US$150 million (HK$1.2 billion) in a case that has possible implications for fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. | //--> Friday, February 19, 2010 | ADVERTISEMENT | A...
Merchant gets 15-year jail term for killing cousin in UAE
Gulf News
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Scammed in Dubai
The Gleaner
| SCORES OF Cash Plus investors were broadly optimistic about the prospects of getting a payout last Christmas based on pronounce-ments by the trustee in bankruptcy. In fact, following Hugh Wildman's press conference, many started to think about gett...
Chinese investors turn to Dubai
China Daily
| SHANGHAI: Property speculators from Wenzhou who contributed to the sky-high real estate prices in the country's largest city are moving their cash into debt-laden Dubai. | A group of 12 Wenzhou entrepreneurs just came back from a four-day visit in ...
Panorama Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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Media summit in Abu Dhabi highlights efforts by Dubai's oil-rich neighbor to boost its clout
Hartford Courant
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With an economy based on pumping oil and landmarks that include one of the Mideast's grandest mosques, buttoned-down Abu Dhabi has litt...
Gold Ornaments - India
WN / Geeta
Dubai gold imports down 15% in 2009
Mineweb
DUBAI (Reuters) -  -  | Dubai's gold import volumes in 2009 totalled 576 tonnes, a 15 percent decline compared to a year earlier, a statement from the Dubai Commodities C...
Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE prime minister and ruler of Dubai, centre listens to Mohammed Alabbar, chairman of Emaar Properties, foreground right, during the opening of Burj Khalifa , the world's tallest building, during the official opening ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.
AP / Kamran Jebreili
Dubai Debt Deal Expected This Week: Bankers
ABC News
By Dinesh Nair and Rachna Uppal | March 7, 2010 | DUBAI (Reuters) - Troubled conglomerate Dubai World expects to put its debt plan to creditors as early as this week but the final ...
Entrenched Monarchy Thwarts Aspirations for Modernity
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| CAIRO -- In the heady days of the Dubai gold rush, when real estate sold and resold even before a shovel hit the ground, the ambitious emirate was hailed as the model of Middle Eastern modernity, a boomtown that built an effective, efficient and ac...
Merchants of Bollywood Take Dubai by Storm
Khaleej Times
DUBAI ' Amid the build-up to the opening night of the 'Merchants of Bollywood' the cast, fresh off the plane from Mumbai, treated a select few to a brief preview of this magnificent show. Kitted out in the finest costumes hand-made in India and spark...
US concern after UAE acquits sheikh in torture case
BBC News
| The US has called on the United Arab Emirates to review a court ruling which acquitted a member of its ruling family of torture charges. | The court found Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan not guilty of abusing an Afghan man - apparently on grounds o...
Economy
Panorama Abu Dhabi, UAE.
(photo: Public Domain / Ijanderson977)
Media summit in Abu Dhabi highlights efforts by Dubai's oil-rich neighbor to boost its clout
Hartford Courant
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With an economy based on pumping oil and landmarks that include one of the Mideast's grandest mosques, buttoned-down Abu Dhabi has little obvious in common with freewheeling media magnets like Hollywood or midtown Manhattan. | This week, the Arab emirate is hoping the world takes another look. The city-s...
Maritime
A child walks past near image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, south of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009.
(photo: AP / Lee Jin-man)
Pretoria Seizes Pyongyang Arms
Wall Street Journal
By JOE LAURIA, GORDON FAIRCLOUGH and PETER WONACOTT | South Africa told the United Nations in a confidential report that it seized arms traveling from North Korea by way of China, marking at least the third time a government interdicted North Korean weapons shipments since the U.N. last summer adopted harsher sanctions against Pyongyang. | The inci...



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