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Bye Bye Blackberry 1 Aug 2010 | 10:31 pm
One quick guess what happened here: The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has said that BlackBerry Messenger, BlackBerry E-mail and BlackBerry Web-browsing services in the UAE will be suspended...
RAK a rogue state? 11 Jun 2010 | 05:05 pm
Rocky Ras Al Khaimah has always been the most fascinating of the seven emirates, and now it's being branded a rogue state: RAK is a strategically important part of the UAE, 50 miles from Iran across ...
"RIP Plane Victims" 25 May 2010 | 12:20 am
It is impossible to know whether this post at Al-Emirati.com on the victims of the recent Air India disaster is intended to be some appalling attempt at humour or satire, but by every single measure i...
From Vision to nightmare 30 Nov 2009 | 09:49 am
It was October 2003; the setting was the recently opened Madinat Jumeirah, its lobby strewn with even more rose-petals and incense-bearers than usual. For the weary Dubai hack pack, lured there by the...
Seven star service 22 Nov 2009 | 11:10 am
Here's a lucrative career suggestion for anyone struggling in the Dubai recession, and you don't even have to get out of bed: "STUNNING star student Paige Ashley turned her back on a lawyer's career ...
Bubbles in the sand 12 Jul 2009 | 06:06 pm
I'm forever blowing bubbles Property bubbles in the sand They grow so fast, obviously can't last But why do I care, I still own the land People keep on buying I take all their cash Oh, I'm forever blo...
British adulteress arrested in Dubai 26 May 2009 | 09:28 pm
Another lucky expat gets a free stay at the Al Wathba government hotel: A BRITISH businesswoman faces a year inside a squalid Arab prison for having an affair — after her fuming husband shopped her t...
UAE sheikh filmed committing torture 23 Apr 2009 | 10:01 pm
This is an unpleasantly graphic story to quote extensively from, but the response of UAE authorities is relevant and disturbing: In a statement to ABC News, the UAE Ministry of the Interior said it h...
The dark side of Dubai 7 Apr 2009 | 08:56 pm
Probably the best article ever written on Dubai, by Johann Hari in the Independent. It covers everything from wexpats: Daniel [a brain tumour patient] was arrested and taken away on the day of their ...
Jumbo camel jet 1 Apr 2009 | 08:02 am
Forget the Airbus A380s, Dubai's national airline has a much more exciting way to fly: Camel flies high over Dubai Wed 1 Apr, 2009 1:23 AM GMT DUBAI, 1 April (Reuters) - Emirates airline will put 5...
