Author: Victoria Dickinson

Recent cases of people falling prey to con artists on the Internet have raised concern in Dubai to the level that a senior prosecutor has asked for the setting up of a cyber crime court for handling such cases. Dubai Prosecution’s First Chief Prosecutor Dr. Khalid Ali Al Junaibi also insisted on the necessity to establish an appropriate judicial system for digital crimes like hacking and fraud. The speaker described his experience during a senate symposium on Thursday, in which the current judiciary has significant difficulties in comprehending the legislation of cybercrime. He also expressed that legal system and hacking…

UAE authorities have asked the employees of the government offices to observe one day paid holiday on the occasion of Islamic New Year. The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources stated that Monday this year will be Muharram 1 on the Islamic lunar calendar, expected to be July 7, a day off from work depending on moon sighting. The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (Mohre) followed suit on Tuesday and said the private sector will also get July 7 off. This is the holiday for the beginning of the Islamic New Year; meanwhile, the following are the public holidays…

In the context of the leadership of H. H. Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammed Al Qasimi, a Member of the Supreme Council and the Ruler of Sharjah, the Emirate has found itself in a leadership position in terms of actions addressing individuals of different age status with special regard to the elders and seeking to provide necessary conditions for their comfortable and worth living life to the last day. Sharjah has recently embraced the elderly further as on the 13th of September, 2016, it became the first Arab city to be admitted into the World Health Organisation’s Global Network of…

DEWA’s Accommodation Complex in Warsan latest building project as reportedly earned the Platinum rating in the international LEED Rating System for Buildings and the rating was issued by the USGBC. This attestation make it the first multifamily project in the world to have achieved this status with 80 points in the LEED Homes v4. 1. This achievement takes the number of building with LEED ratings to ten within the DEWA buildings and points to the commitment of DEWA to cutting down carbon emissions in Dubai and realising the net zero agenda. The focus is in the implementation of the wise…

The Sophisticated Performance in Financial Competency and Creative Problem Solving of Dubai’s Private School Students, Rankings by The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022 by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Regarding financial literacy, Dubai’s schools performed second in their first attempt, while in creative thinking, they secured the sixth position. PISA is conducted every three years and focuses on testing students’ performance as they demonstrate real-life use of reading, mathematics and science competencies in solving various problems. In 2022, Dubai extended its involvement to have more featuring the assessments in financial literacy and creative thinking. CFTDA,…

A children’s Polish book of fantasy is shown to have wowed the global viewership after being transpired on Netflix. The very children’s film, ‘Kleks Academy’ (Akademia Pana Kleksa) mesmerized the viewers when based on a story written by Jan Brzechwa in 1946. When launched in English on the platform, at one point the film received 3. 7 million views in a week being the third non-English movie in the global rating. The plot of the show is built around the search of the missing father by a little girl which results in her joining the colorful magic school under the…

A resident of Abu Dhabi, this Indian engineer become a millionaire on Wednesday in the latest draw of the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire. Khaliq Naik Mohammed, a 48 year old a resident of UAE capital since 2012, has been participating in the offers of Dubai Duty free for last four years. Khaliq belongs to Hyderabad and is employed as an engineer-instructor at a university; he is a father of three children. When asked about his plans on the money he would receive for the prize he said that majority of the money will be used in his children’s education…

The stock market of Abu Dhabi, namely the ADX, demonstrated a strong performance at the end of today’s trading sessions with more than AED13. 5 billion added to the total market capitalization. This sharp rise was mainly pushed by the financial blue-chip stocks, a fact that clearly underlines that these stocks are and remain an essential pillar of index substitution strategies. Within the course of today’s session alone, the total revealed market capitalization of all the UAE local stocks grew to a staggering AED3. 451 trillion. The breakdown embraces AED 2771. 7 billion for the shares trading in ADX and…

The transport arm of Dubai, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has commenced Phase II of the Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) Improvement and Expansion Project as per directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. This phase focuses on the improvement of the traffic of people and goods in Dubai, with the goal of turning it into the smartest city in the globe. Expansion and Technological Adoption Due to authorities’ efforts to fully integrate ITS technology into the roads of Dubai, RTA aims to achieve its goal of adding ITS coverage to 100% of the city’s main roads…

Private schools in Dubai have been told they will not be subjected to a range of inspections in the 2024-25 academic year, KHDA has said. This statement from the Dubai Media Office (DMO) is intended to assist students with their teaching and learning process so that the institution can facilitate improvements that schools want to initiate and implement in order for their development plans. Rather than having each school go through a complete inspection, the DSIB team will only perform what is called ‘quality assurance visits’ in the following academic year wherein the evaluation will only focus on some main…