News from around the world 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
