Healthcare | Thursday 19 December, 2019 1:03 am

More than 30 inherited metabolic disorders can be identified within three minutes from a simple test

Ahead of the upcoming Medlab Middle East, the MENA region’s largest medical laboratory event, experts are highlighting the need for more advanced clinical research to aid the early recognition and prevention of inherited metabolic disorders in the Arab...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 18 December, 2019 4:27 pm

Jeeny App as MDL Beast Official Transportation Partner

MDL Beast, the largest musical event in Middle East taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, announced Jeeny, the ride booking app, as the official transportation partner. The three-day event which includes international A-lister artists such as DJ Tiesto, David Guetta and many more launches on...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Wednesday 18 December, 2019 4:42 am

SCAT Airlines Launches Direct Flights To Jeddah And Madinah

SCAT Airlines, one of the largest air carriers transporting Kazakhstan passengers to the neighboring countries and beyond for 22 successful years, started operating flights on the routes Almaty-Jeddah (on Wednesdays) and Almaty-Medina (on Saturdays) on Boeing-757 aircraft. The flight, taking...

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Technology & IT | Wednesday 18 December, 2019 3:35 am

Snap Introduces a New Gameplay Format for Snap Games: Leaderboard Games

Earlier this year, Snap Inc. launched Snap Games, the destination for mobile games made for friends -- connecting friends through the shared experience of playing games. Sometimes though, friends can’t play at the same time, so today Snap Games is introducing Leaderboard Games; a new...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Wednesday 18 December, 2019 2:16 am

Millennium and Copthorne Makkah Al Naseem host school kids for a children day

  Millennium and Copthorne Makkah Al Naseem, the luxury hotels situated at the heart of Makkah within Al Naseem district, hosted children from various local schools to rejoice their childhood for a day. This event falls under the program of the corporate social responsibility adopted by the ...

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Cars & Autos | Wednesday 18 December, 2019 1:08 am

Audi driver Lucas di Grassi fights for clean air

In terms of air quality, New Delhi (India) is the back-marker among the world’s megacities. Audi Formula E driver and UN ambassador Lucas di Grassi traveled to New Delhi to get a firsthand impression of the local conditions, talked to people affected by them, and learned about projects...

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Technology & IT | Tuesday 17 December, 2019 11:49 am

Middle East’s cloud computing landscape witnessing robust growth

Cloud adoption in the Middle East region has been has been fairly high with statistics indicating more than 70% of startup entities based in Dubai use cloud computing with the cloud services market estimated to cross Dhs 1 billion by the year 2020. Bahrain has adopted cloud first policy across both ...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 17 December, 2019 11:39 am

InoChem Signs a Mega SAR 1.7 Billion Financing Facility with Alinma Bank and Albilad Bank

Khair Inorganic Chemical Industries Company (“InoChem”) has signed a SAR 1.7 billion Wakala and Forward Ijarah Facility loan agreement with Alinma Bank and Albilad Bank with a tenure of 13 years. The facility’s main purpose is to fund the setting up of an industrial complex in Ras ...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Tuesday 17 December, 2019 5:00 am

SalamAir increases frequency of flights to Tehran and Shiraz

To cater to the increased travel demand, Sultanate’s fastest-growing value-for-money airline, SalamAir, has introduced more flights to its Tehran and Shiraz routes in Iran. SalamAir announced the expansion of its non-stop Muscat to Shiraz service from the current three to seven flights...

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Business & Money | Tuesday 17 December, 2019 4:30 am

Deloitte: Digitizing Tax in the GCC

Deloitte hosted an innovative series of ‘tax lab’ summits across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for businesses. The purpose of the sessions was to discuss how automation, digital protocols and methodologies would transform tax accounting, reporting and compliance in the region. The...

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