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Dubai’s biggest bank Emirates NBD plans $1.76bn rights share sale

The lender plans to use the proceeds of the sale to strengthen its capital base and support growth

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Dubai sets limits to starting state-related entities

Additional state-related firms will only be created to fulfill a national security requirement or a strategic government need

Revealed: Dubai developer with the most project handovers in the last six months

Dubai Hills Estate is a “popular location” for investors and end-users, finds new report

Emirates launches new platform to deliver products from US to UAE

Emirates Delivers allows consumers to shop from multiple online retailers in the US and have the goods delivered in the UAE

Video: American rapper will.i.am lends voice to new Dubai Expo 2020 campaign

Dubai Expo 2020 is preparing to open its doors a year from now

Jasper Hope leaves role as CEO of Dubai Opera

He has been in the role since the opening of Dubai Opera in 2016

Five minutes with… John Martin St. Valery, chairman, British Business Group in Dubai

The BBG is seeing greater interest in face-to-face interaction in Dubai

Dubai bank Mashreq appoints new chairman, CEO

Former CEO Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair has now been appointed chairman

Dubai’s DEWA gets record low bid to build solar-power plant

The contractor bid 1.7 cents per kilowatt-hour for the photovoltaic plant at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park

Sir Tim Clark Emirates Airlines

Dubai’s Emirates warns US-EU jet-tariff war will drive up travel costs

A tit-for-tat imposition of import duties on Boeing and Airbus planes would ultimately increase the cost of planes and ticket prices

Air India flight to Dubai diverted after technical glitch

Flight 993, travelling from Bangalore via Goa to Dubai, was forced to land in the Muscat International Airport on Saturday

Watch: Nathan’s Famous aims to beef up Dubai hot dog market

The iconic American hot dog restaurant chain hopes to become the mustard on top of an already loaded sector

Dubai’s DEWA awards Dhs981m construction contract for new headquarters

Al Shera’a will be the “tallest, largest, and smartest” government zero energy building in the world, according to DEWA

Who is affordable housing affordable for in Dubai?

The pool of middle and lower-income buyers is much larger and should therefore be the focus for developers in Dubai

Plans unveiled in Dubai for world’s ‘first floating police station’

The new smart police station will be based at the World Islands

Mega book sale Big Bad Wolf opens in Dubai

The 10-day book sale will offer discounts ranging from 50 per cent to 80 per cent

Old gets (fashionably) new: how Jonathan Marc Stein plans to bring old-school glam to Arab Fashion Week

The Los Angeles-based designer is one of several rising international stars showing at this year’s Arab Fashion Week

Dubai Metro services back to normal after disruptions due to technical glitch

Services were temporarily halted in five stations on the Red Line

Rolls-Royce doubtful about sealing $21bn Emirates deal at Dubai Airshow

Finalisation of the deal for the A350 and A330 jets is being delayed by issues concerning price and the performance of the planes

Dubai government to partner with Huawei

Deal between Dubai Municipality and Chinese telco inked amid GITEX Technology Week and ongoing controversies surrounding Huawei

Video: Mall of the Emirates apologises for evacuation amid heavy rain

A “technical glitch” caused a power outage on a day of heavy rains

Video: Mariah Carey to perform free Dubai concert to mark one year until Expo 2020

Singer will perform on October 20 with Hussain Al Jassmi at Burj Park

Dubai’s RTA unveils ‘virtual Nol card’ to enable payment through phones

The new initiative will be rolled out in the third quarter of 2020

Digital advertising on taxi windows being trialled in Dubai

RTA testing out the technology at GITEX 2019 in Dubai

Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade surges in first half of 2019

Non-oil foreign trade is up five per cent compared to the same period in 2018 – and 87 per cent since 2009

Dubai’s housing market ‘oversupplied’ despite drop in prices – UBS

The Dubai residential market is expected to bottom out soon, states study

Dubai announces long-term visas for artists, authors

Sheikh Mohammed also approved establishing Al Quoz in Dubai as a “creative free zone”

Dubai launches virtual company licences

The licences are said be a regional first

Flydubai posts $53.6m H1 loss as Boeing 737 MAX grounding impacts operations

Passenger numbers dropped to five million during the first six months of the year

Eight killed, six injured in Dubai traffic accident

The accident occurred on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road early on Monday morning