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Healthy Living is Worth its Weight in Gold
Dubai’s leaders have hit on an unusual way to encourage residents to lose weight: they are running a scheme for the next 30 days where participants can win a gram of gold for every kilogram of weight they lose. Obesity is an increasing concern for Dubai’s two million inhabitants with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) currently ranked the fifth fattest nation in the world. It’s estimated that collectively the population [...]
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Confidence Returns to Dubai Real Estate Market
Dubai’s leading real estate developers are placing a huge weight in the delivery of projects, following a spate of high profile announcements. With a resurgence in property prices over the past 18 months, a host of projects have been brought to the Dubai market as confidence increases. Whilst buyers are returning in big numbers, more stringent and protective legislation has been introduced to provide reassurance and confidence to those investing [...]
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Dubai Records Significant Growth
A recent report has revealed that Dubai’s real economic growth during the last quarter of 2012 increased to 5.3% compared to the same quarter in the previous year. This rise has been attributed to growth in two of Dubai’s key sectors, construction and manufacturing, in addition to transport and storage, wholesale and retail trade, real estate and the financial sector, which altogether contributed to about 90% of Dubai’s gross domestic [...]
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Construction Boom Returns to Dubai
Dubai’s leading real estate developers are placing a huge weight in the delivery of projects, following a spate of high profile announcements. With a resurgence in property prices over the past 18 months, a host of projects have been brought to the Dubai market as demand drives a second phase of development. Buyers are returning to the market in big numbers following the introduction of more stringent legislation to provide [...]
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Dubai turns Green
Dubai’s leaders have this week announced that it aims to make the city green by 2020 by turning four per cent of the city into parks and having a quarter of the Emirate filled with nurseries and cultivated land. As part of the municipality’s efforts to make a greener, sustainable city it is hoped that by 2020, nearly 380 square kilometres of the emirate will be used for cultivation purposes. [...]
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VIP tourist programme comes to Dubai
Plans have been unveiled by authorities in Dubai to introduce a ‘privilege’ program for tourists visiting the emirate. It is believed reward points would be offered on all purchases which can be redeemed for various benefits. According to a source at Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) every visitor landing at Dubai airport will be automatically enrolled in the privilege program and will receive a smart card that, when [...]
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Arabian Falcon welcomes Dubai Mall expansion
A project to expand Dubai Mall, the world’s largest shopping centre, by 1m sq ft has been welcomed by Arabian Falcon. Work has been started by developer Emaar who are looking to increase visitor numbers to the retail centre from the 65 million achieved in 2012 to 100m. One element of the works is to extend the Mall’s Fashion Avenue, which is said will contain “new and personalised flagship stores [...]
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Dermarr Real Estate Brokers back Dubai Creek as a World Heritage Site
Proposal to have Dubai Creek acknowledged as a World Heritage site have been put before a UN committee with plans now being made to carry out a formal site study next month. The man leading the campaign, Rashad Bukhash, director of the Architectural Heritage department at Dubai Municipality said “In the words of the late Sheikh Zayed, Father of the UAE, those who have no past can have no present [...]
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Royal Club welcomes Dubai Police Force’s new supercars
In a city known for extravagance and excess it comes as no surprise to learn that Dubai’s Police Form have recently taken delivery of two new supercars to patrol the Palm Jumeirah. The city’s law enforcers have recently added a Ford Mustang and 2013 BMW M6 Gran Coupe to its fleet of vehicles, joining an Aston Martin One-77, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Bentley Continental GT and Lamborghini Aventador. These amazing cars [...]
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Arabian Falcon Holidays gears up for Dubai Summer Surprise 2013
Arabian Falcon Holidays, the marketing company appointed by Caryatid Properties Ltd, (a company belonging to the Pervaiz Naviede Family Trust) the owners of Royal Club Palm Jumeriah are getting ready to take part in Dubai Summer Surprise Festival. This year’s Dubai Summer Surprises hopes to tap into the almost Dh532 billion spent by Chinese and Russian tourists worldwide last year. Both countries are ranked in the top five of the [...]