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Dubai Holding, the personal investment vehicle of the emirate’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, will be the next state-owned Dubai company to default. The conglomerate went on a debt-fuelled spending spree in the past decade, borrowing $12 billion (£7.3...

The freighter ANL Australia had already fired its engines for a 70-mile dash to Iran when customs agents here were alerted to a possible hidden cache of weapons on board. Inspectors from the United Arab Emirates quickly swarmed the ship...

Work on the first phase of laying tracks on important roads has already begun. The tracks will all lead to Metro and will attract the environment-conscious citizens of Dubai who were not able to pedal their way to work for...

Madras High Court has directed the officials of Central Board of Excise and Customs to put up notices at all airports and seaports listing commodities that are commonly used in India but are banned in the Middle East. Justice Prabha...

The arrestee, Abuds Sattar, son of late Osman Gani of East Tejturi Bazar, was scheduled to fly to Dubai in the morning. But the customs officials challenged him on suspicion because he came to Dhaka from Dubai on Friday night...

He went to Abu Dhabi in 1980 to work as a deckhand on a dredger, but returned four years later when the Emirate did some belt-tightening to cope with falling oil revenues. He went to Dubai again in 2007 as...

United Arab Emirates�Construction worker Bilal is in a happy mood as he takes his lunch break sitting next to an artificial lake near Dubai's showpiece Mall of the Emirates. But he admits anxiety about the end of his contract in...

The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) announced on Sunday that the volume of excess reserves, including overnight window deposits held at CBJ was JD3.7 billion, while the volume of required reserves is JD 1.07 billion. The CBJ added the amount...