2011 has just begun with many New Year resolutions and plans as we all are hoping for a better and brighter future. If you plan to shift to some better place, this list is your guide. This list ranks 10 cities out of 221 as the “10 Best Places To Live In 2011 (Quality of Living Index)”.
If you don’t like your passport, you can buy a new one for as low as $50,000, according to sources.Such scheme is very popular, and it attracts large number of Arabs expatriates and Iranian living in the UAE, they said.
Expressing emotions through tattoos on one’s body is now passe. Have it etched on your heart! And isn’t that true love anyways?
Work is continuing to set up the Khaleeji Express, the new postal services for GCC countries, Emirates Post CEO told Emirates 24/7.
The GCC states have begun putting extensive rules in place to issue unified visas to foreign tourists and businessmen.
Workers hired by state department contractors at US embassies overseas are living in “overcrowded, unsafe and unsanitary conditions” and are at risk of human trafficking according to a new report released by the State Department’s Inspector General.
The Indian currency’s weakness, that started a week ago, is being watched by the expatriate community and investors in the Gulf.
Christian communities could disappear from the faith’s birthplace in the Middle East because of persecution and low birth rates, the Council of Europe’s parliament warned Thursday.
In what could be a scene out of a spy blockbuster from Hollywood, an Emirati mother who suspected her Ethiopian housemaid of mistreating her three children, has exposed the misdeeds of the maid with the help of a hidden video camera.
Natural gas resources in the Middle East and North African (MENA) exceeded 84 trillion cubic metres at the start of 2010 but some producers could face shortages because of steady reservoir depletion, an official study said on Saturday.
Multiple astronomical events have lined up for you in a rare display of synchronization tonight as a total lunar eclipse overlaps with 2010’s winter solstice. Tonight, the night of December 21 and the morning of December 22, 2010, is special. There aren’t many days like today or so say the astronomers.
Dubai – Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, the Saudi banking and finance mogul, in 2010 topped the Arabian Business Rich List for the world’s 50 richest Arabs for the seventh consecutive year as overall wealth of the list’s entries jumped 18% to $245 billion.
A recent survey shows that 56% of firms in the GCC are currently hiring, up from 48% in June when the poll was last conducted.
India’s sari-clad ambassador was pulled from an airport security line and patted down by a TSA agent in Mississippi after attending a conference, an act one state agency official called ‘unfortunate.’
Gold seems to be heading towards another all-time high. Last week, on Wednesday, the yellow metal touched $1392.81, its highest in almost two weeks, on fresh worries over Europe’s debt, especially Portugal.
An Indian co-pilot sent an international passenger jet into a terrifying nosedive when he adjusted his seat and accidentally pushed the control column forward, an official report revealed Monday.
A tax-free environment in the GCC has attracted many people to work here but this may change if taxes were to come into force, say experts. “Viewed from the expat point of view, if ever there is tax to come say in small measure (5 per cent or below) then they may take it in their stride and move on.
Gulf oil producers surpassed the United States in deaths caused by road accidents which inflicted losses of more than $19 billion on them in 2008, according to a study published in Saudi newspapers.
Demands of bringing back Indian black money deposited at Swiss Bank have been raised in the past several times but it will get further boost with the latest revelation. According to the Swiss Bank Association, Indians have topped the list of black money depositors at the famous Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS).
Google help us in our every day life . We search for our queries and most of the time get satisfactory results .You might not have heard before that Google could also help in fighting corruption.
Colombo, Sri Lanka – A Sri Lankan housemaid has accused her Kuwaiti employer of hammering 14 nails into her body, in the second such incident in the past few months, a local doctor said Saturday.
Dubai – Three countries in 36 hours can exhaust even the most ardent frequent flier, but for Indian actors Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, it’s all in a day’s work when their film is set to hit the marquee.
Kuwaiti billionaire Nasser Al-Kharafi’s plan to build a £100 million luxury home overlooking Hampstead Heath in London has caused outrage among residents.
Dubai – A major air disaster was averted on Sunday morning in Dubai when an Emirates flight took off mere seconds after touching down because another carrier was already on the same runway.
Dubai – Indians top the list of expat real estate buyers in Dubai, having purchased properties worth Dh9.3 billion, 19 per cent to the total investment, in the first eight months of 2010, according to Reidin.com. Total property investment during the period stands at Dh48.9bn.
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