Tourism & Hospitality | Monday 3 September, 2018 3:16 am

Centro Sharjah Eliminates Use of Plastic Straws

In line with the hotel’s environment conservation programme, Centro Sharjah has joined the movement to make the world a better place by eliminating use of single - plastic straws in all its Food and Beverage outlets. Centro Sharjah will now provide guests PLA (Polylactic Acid) straws as an...

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Culture & Education | Monday 3 September, 2018 3:02 am

Sharjah Girl Guides Members Learns The Art of Storytelling

The educational workshop curated by the Sharjah Girl Guides (SGG), a Sharjah-based guiding entity that operates under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah and Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs (SCFA),...

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Technology & IT | Monday 3 September, 2018 3:00 am

SMEs to employ more Saudis as hiring expats gets expensive

The rate of Saudization in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is expected to increase as a result of high cost of employing expatriate workers, according to traders and market analysts. Mohammed Al-Johani, deputy chairman of the food committee at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry...

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Business & Money | Monday 3 September, 2018 2:48 am

Saudi Justice Ministry: Over 52,000 cases taken up after office hours

The Justice Ministry said 52,482 proceedings were conducted outside official working hours, before 7.30 a.m. and after 3 p.m., in the last 100 days. There were 30,826 executive, 17,716 judicial and 3,940 documentation proceedings. Courts’ work outside official hours aims to speed up and...

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Technology & IT | Monday 3 September, 2018 2:00 am

Huawei Launches Kirin 980, the World’s First Commercial 7nm SoC

In his IFA 2018 keynote titled “The Ultimate Power of Mobile AI”, Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Mr. Richard Yu introduced the Kirin 980, the system on a chip (SoC) that will bring about the next evolution of mobile AI. As the world’s first commercial SoC manufactured with...

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Government | Monday 3 September, 2018 1:49 am

KSRelief donates medical equipment to the Rohingyas

On Sunday morning, Hajjera Khatun, 34, a Rohingya refugee of Leda Camp, Cox’s Bazar, visited the Malaysian Field Hospital (MFH) to see her four-year-old son Mohammad Nejad, who cannot walk because of his leg, which has been crippled since birth. “I have visited this hospital several...

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Culture & Education | Monday 3 September, 2018 1:00 am

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi launches new brand identity

Following the merger between Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre et Marie Curie universities, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi has launched its new brand identity; reinforcing the university’s global position as one of the best Francophone universities and research institution open to the world and...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 2 September, 2018 3:53 pm

Airbus and STC Specialized team up to make the Hajj 2018 safer

Together with the telecom companies STC Specialized and House of Invention International (HOI) in Saudi Arabia, Airbus has supplied secure communication infrastructure to the security staff protecting this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.  “Our reliable critical...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 2 September, 2018 3:29 pm

GEMS Education welcomes more than 18,000 new students to school

MAG Lifestyle Development (MAG LD), the property development arm of MAG Group Holding, is proud to reveal the successful sales numbers of MAG EYE units. 600 units comprising studios and two and three-bedroom townhouses have already been sold valued at AED 400 million.  Talal Moafaq Al...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 2 September, 2018 2:56 pm

FOCP Urges Parents to be Aware of the Seven Early Symptoms of Childhood Cancer

In line with Childhood Cancer Awareness Month observed throughout the month of September, the UAE-based non-profit organisation Friends of Cancer Patients (FOCP) is highlighting the seven early warning signs that could indicate childhood cancer. FOCP’s guide to recognising the symptoms will...

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