Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi’s Aldar has sold 80 per cent of the homes released at Yas Park Place, generating more than AED800 million in sales and underscoring sustained investor appetite for lifestyle-led residential communities on Yas Island. The sales result places the project among the developer’s stronger launches of 2026, at a time when Abu Dhabi’s property market is drawing deeper interest from both […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Aldar has sold 80% of the homes released in the first phase of Yas Park Place on Yas Island, generating more than AED800 million in sales and underlining the continuing pull of Abu Dhabi’s off-plan residential market at a time when demand remains strong from both domestic and overseas buyers. The project, announced on 23 April, adds another fast-moving launch to the […]
Dubai has set out the biggest public-transport expansion in its history with approval of the Metro Gold Line, a Dh34 billion underground corridor designed to bind older neighbourhoods to newer growth districts and give the emirate a fresh rail spine by 9 September 2032. The scheme covers 42 kilometres and 18 stations, will run as Dubai’s first fully underground metro line, and is intended to serve 1.5 […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Masdar and Montenegro’s state power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore have agreed to create a 50-50 joint venture to develop large-scale renewable energy projects, giving the Adriatic country a fresh route to expand domestic generation, strengthen energy security and position itself as a supplier of cleaner electricity to neighbouring markets in the Balkans and southern Europe. The agreement was signed on 22 April […]
Amid ongoing regional uncertainty, demand for U.S. residency options continues to grow across the GCC, prompting The American Legal Center, a Dubai-based firm, to host an open house aimed at helping investors better understand the evolving EB-5 landscape. The event comes at a time when interest in EB-5 has been steadily increasing, particularly among expatriate communities in the UAE. For many, the program is viewed as a […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai G-SHOCK has expanded its 2100 line with the GA-2100CM series, bringing a camouflage-led redesign to one of its most recognisable silhouettes as the watch market leans further into fashion-driven utility. The new models, including the GA-2100CM-5A and GA-2100CM-8A, keep the slim octagonal form that helped turn the 2100 family into a strong seller, but add a metallic camouflage finish and a hidden G-mark […]
Phishing emails with no subject line are being used with growing frequency in campaigns aimed at executives and other high-value staff, adding another layer of deception to a threat landscape already shaped by credential theft, business email compromise and AI-assisted social engineering. CyberProof said its threat hunters tracked a marked rise in “null subject” phishing through the first quarter of 2026, with activity climbing from January to […]
Greenlogue/AP Rainfall has transformed parts of Al-Asyah Governorate in the northeast of Qassim into a striking rural landscape, sending water through wadis and ravines, softening the terrain and drawing residents and visitors into open spaces as milder conditions settled over the area. The heaviest visual impact was seen around Wadi Dhaidah and nearby ravines, including Hani, where runoff traced its way between rocky outcrops and elevated ground. […]
Mozilla has released Firefox 150 with a broad security update that fixes 41 vulnerabilities, including multiple high-impact flaws tied to memory handling, browser components and privilege controls, prompting renewed calls for users and enterprise administrators to move quickly on patching. Mozilla’s advisory for the release was published on April 21, 2026, and classed the overall impact as high. The most serious issues include CVE-2026-6746, a use-after-free flaw […]
Philippine lawmakers widened their impeachment inquiry into Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday by pulling her Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth, bank-related records and other financial documents into a deeper examination of whether her declared wealth and reported transactions match what public officials are required to disclose. The move sharpens one of the most politically charged cases in the country, with the House justice committee […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Raimondi Middle East has crossed the threshold of 100 cranes in operation across the UAE, underscoring how deeply the company has embedded itself in one of the Gulf’s busiest construction markets. The 100th machine, a Raimondi LR273 luffing jib crane, has been deployed in Dubai and is the first unit of that model to be installed in the country. The milestone is more […]
OmniOps has joined Grafana Labs’ partner programme, a move that gives the Riyadh-based infrastructure company a stronger route into Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing market for cloud monitoring, telemetry and data-sovereign digital operations. The step positions OmniOps to sell and implement Grafana-backed observability services for enterprises that want tighter control over metrics, logs, traces and performance data inside the Kingdom’s regulatory and strategic framework. The partnership matters because observability […]
Parody outlet The Onion has unveiled a fresh attempt to take control of Infowars, recasting a long-running legal and commercial fight over Alex Jones’s media platform into a new phase driven by state-court liquidation rather than the failed bankruptcy auction that stalled the deal in late 2024. The latest proposal, filed in Texas, would give The Onion an exclusive temporary licence over key Infowars intellectual property while […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Stake has teamed up with ACE & Company to build a secondary transfer facility for fractional real estate investments in the UAE, a move aimed at tackling one of the biggest weak points in digital property ownership: liquidity. The Dubai-based platform said the arrangement is designed to give investors clearer routes to sell holdings before the eventual disposal of an underlying asset, while […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi has stepped up its push to place more Emiratis in banking, finance and insurance, with the Central Bank of the UAE saying the sector’s Emiratisation programme outperformed its 2025 target and moved beyond entry-level hiring towards strategic and specialised roles. The latest official update said the “Ethraa” programme reached 160% of its 2025 goal, building on a strong 2024 performance and […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Al-Futtaim has launched a nationwide initiative called “One Family”, positioning the programme as a year-long effort to create more opportunities for families across the UAE to spend time together through shared experiences, practical support and community-focused activities aligned with the country’s Year of Family 2026. The group said the initiative will run across its retail, automotive, real estate, health, financial services and […]
A software platform traced to Belarus has been identified as a key enabler of a sprawling SIM-farm ecosystem that investigators say is helping cybercriminal operations run at scale across multiple continents. The platform, known as ProxySmart, was linked to at least 94 SIM-farm locations in 17 countries, with researchers identifying 87 exposed instances of its control panel across 24 proxy providers and 35 mobile carriers. The findings […]
Blackstone-owned AirTrunk is preparing what could become a landmark financing for Asia-Pacific digital infrastructure, with the data-centre operator seeking to raise at least A$500 million through asset-backed bonds backed by its facilities, according to market reports and company disclosures on its broader funding platform. The move would mark a notable step in bringing securitised debt structures, long familiar in other asset classes, into the region’s fast-growing data-centre […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Washington’s suggestion that the United Arab Emirates might need outside financial support has drawn a swift rebuttal from Abu Dhabi, with the country’s envoy in the United States saying such claims misread the strength of the federation’s economy and balance sheet. The response followed remarks by President Donald Trump that a currency swap arrangement with the UAE was under consideration and that he […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Commodity trading houses are drawing another surge in earnings as the conflict centred on Iran tears through oil, gas and shipping markets, sending prices higher, widening regional differentials and creating the kind of volatility that large physical merchants have historically turned into outsized gains. The upheaval has hit flows through the Strait of Hormuz, jolted tanker availability, lifted insurance costs and scrambled crude […]
Oil traders are warning that the prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is no longer just a supply crisis but an escalating threat to global growth, as high fuel costs begin to erode consumption, strain industry and darken the outlook for the world economy. Shipping through the waterway remains severely restricted, with only a handful of vessels moving through compared with the normal daily flow, while […]
Unchecked AI agents are triggering cybersecurity incidents across a broad swathe of companies, with data exposure, disrupted operations and direct financial damage now emerging as common consequences of a fast-moving corporate shift towards autonomous software. A new industry survey found that 65% of organisations suffered at least one AI agent-related incident over the past 12 months, while 82% said they had discovered previously unknown AI agents operating […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Donald Trump has said Washington is considering a currency swap arrangement with the United Arab Emirates, opening the door to an extraordinary financial support mechanism as Gulf states assess the economic risks created by the war involving Iran and the disruption around the Strait of Hormuz. The remark has thrust an arcane central-banking tool into a fast-moving geopolitical crisis and underlined how quickly […]
Arjavi Indraneesh While demand for shisha smoking is steadily going up, air quality regulations, fire safety concerns and the operational burden of managing charcoal-based systems have historically presented challenges to hospitality venues. Ronan Barry, Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs at AIR, the global leader in hookah and pioneer in advanced inhalation technologies, spoke to the Arabian Post on the emerging shisha trends and the company’s future plans. […]
