NEWS & INSIGHTS

DUBAI // The price of basic food items at supermarkets will fall by up to 50 per cent this Ramadan, the Ministry of Economy says. Dr Hashim Al Nuaimi, director of the ministry’s consumer protection department, said prices would drop […]

Dubai: Need an instant primer on how to take care of the newest member to your family? Or are you looking for whatever is trending in bringing them up? Then the “Baby&Child” magazine might have the answers you seek. GN […]

Dubai: Air Arabia Jordan, the Amman-based joint venture of the Sharjah-headquartered Air Arabia, said on Tuesday it will start three weekly flights to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on April 14. The announcement is the airline’s first expansion in 2016, following […]

Baghdad: Iraqi businessman Zaid Nazo has always been sure of his nation’s deep passion for food and wasn’t afraid to dream big when he transformed his small Baghdad coffee shop in 1999 into a casual dining and takeaway restaurant. Today, […]

Dubai: The average monthly spend on luxury items in Dubai was at $2,300 compared to $4,000 in Qatar, with people still preferring Dubai for luxury spending, a survey commissioned by American Express revealed. In the UAE, holidays and fine dining […]

In the last phase of Dubai’s health insurance law, all individuals, including foreign employees and their family members, must be covered by a health plan by June 30. What does the change mean? All employers are required to cover employees […]

More than 50 percent of recruiters in the UAE are predicting that new jobs will be created in the next six months despite lower oil prices and trading revenues, according to a new survey by Naukrigulf. Its latest hiring outlook […]

Australia’s largest privately owned hotel management company StayWell Hospitality Group (SWHG) has announced the signing of a management agreement to open and operate its first Park Regis properties in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Expected to open in the second quarter of […]

Remittances to India – a large chunk of which comes from the millions of Indians working in the Gulf region – fell to $15.8 billion last quarter, the lowest since April-June 2011, it has been reported. Bloomberg reported that the […]

Ras Al Khaimah’s Jabal Jais mountain is about to be home to the first five-star camp in the region. Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority’s (RAK TDA) CEO Haitham Mattar told Hotelier Middle East on the sidelines of the launch […]

Dubai: Retail space and middle income housing are likely to draw crowds at this year’s International Property Show, organisers said on Sunday. Retail space across the UAE, the wider Arab Gulf region and in other parts of the world will […]

Muscat: A proposal being discussed in Oman by a Shura council members could put a tax on expats. The proposal, which would charge a 3 per cent monthly fee on expatriates — based on their salary, would result in companies […]