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Photo The Iranian city of Ahvaz during a sandstorm on Saturday. Rain has turned the dust there into mud, which caused power stations to stop working. Credit Morteza Jaberian/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TEHRAN — Days of protests against dust storms, power outages and government mismanagement in one of Iran’s most oil-rich cities subsided on Sunday after security forces declared all demonstrations illegal. Residents of Ahvaz, a […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. awarded China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) an 8 percent stake in its onshore venture in return for a $1.8 billion signing bonus, Adnoc said Sunday in a statement. State-run CNPC is the venture’s third Asian partner, joining Japanese and South Korean companies alongside BP and Total SA. Asia will show the fastest growth in energy demand over the next […]

Maybe not even Nokia could have guessed just how big of a success the Nokia 3310 would be when the company released it in 2000. At the time, the indestructible bar of a cell phone that allowed people to take chats and group chats on the go paved the way for modern mobile communication and permanently changed the way people perceived mobile phones. Designed and marketed specifically […]

Yesterday´s Future is Today´s Reality. In the area of Business applications, cloud seems to be all over the place. But it has many facets which all have its right to exist, though it´s a fatal misunderstanding to see cloud simply as an alternative technical deployment option. From the new millennium SaaS models that have been adopted, initially with huge appetite in dedicated Line of Business areas. We […]

While the year continues to be dominated by headlines touting the universal appeal of Alexa, there’s another gives a glimpse of what the big next step in human-computer interaction will be: eye tracking. The concept of measuring and responding to human eye motion isn’t new, but the past year saw a rising interest in the technology. There have been a slew of acquisitions of eye tracking startups by large […]

Two months after an unexpected, landslide loss in the December 4 constitutional referendum which cost him his job as Italy’s prime minister, on Sunday Matteo Renzi quit as leader of Italy’s ruling party, in the process triggering a re-election fight against minority dissidents that threatens the stability of the center-left government, Bloomberg reports. Renzi told a national assembly of the ruling PD that he had handed in […]

Manfred Galdes Manfred Galdes, former director of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit, has been invited to give evidence before the European Parliament’s committee of inquiry into money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (PANA) on Monday. Dr Galdes controversially stepped down at the height of the Panama Papers scandal. The committee agreed to invite him to give evidence at the request of Nationalist MEP David Casa. “I’m satisfied […]

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A soldier from the United Arab Emirates died while taking part in a Saudi-led military operation in Yemen, state news agency WAM reported on Friday, without clarifying the circumstances of his death. A second Emirati soldier in Yemen died of a heart attack, the report said. The UAE is a member of a mostly Gulf Arab military coalition led by Saudi Arabia that is backing Yemen’s internationally […]

MUNICH: Iran’s foreign minister on Sunday stepped up efforts to improve ties with Gulf Arab Sunni states urging them to work with their Shiite rival to address “anxieties” and violence across the region.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani last week traveled to Oman and Kuwait to try improve ties, his first visit to the Gulf states since taking power in 2013.The six Arab members of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), […]

The FCC reckons that activating the FM chip on devices such as the iPhone is justifiable on public safety grounds alone. Image: Apple Nearly all smartphones sold today in the US, including the iPhone, have an FM chip inside their LTE modems. However, carriers and phone makers keep it switched off, probably for business reasons. Ajit Pai, who was appointed to chair US comms watchdog the FCC […]

Home-grown restaurant ­Publique will open its doors in the next two weeks in Souk ­Madinat Jumeirah. It occupies half the space formerly used by Rivington Grill. The other half is taken up by another new offering – Folly by Nick and Scott – which is also set to open around the same time. Publique is a venture by restaurateurs Jonathan Vercoutere and Julien Pilard, the guys behind […]

The two projects, the first to open since Mr. Trump became president, are among the dozen international business deals from his former life still moving forward — from India to Indonesia, Uruguay to the Dominican Republic. None of them are “new deals,” as defined by the family, as they were already well underway before the election. Continue reading the main story A Web of Complications Mr. Sajwani […]

UAE-based pharmaceutical manufacturer Julphar has reported a positive outlook for 2017 despite “difficult and uncertain” times in the regional economic cycle. The company, which announced the launch of two medications prescribed for the management of Type 2 diabetes, as disease rates hit record levels in the Middle East in October, said it expected the MENA pharmaceutical markets to improve in 2017. Julphar said its pipeline of new […]

Hackers are carrying out surveillance on members of the Israeli military by hacking into their Android phones in order to monitor activity and steal data – potentially including photos and audio recordings – according to security companies. Developed and deployed by currently by a so-far unidentified group, ViperRAT is designed to collect sensitive information from infected devices, with those behind the malware seemingly most interested in images […]

Photo Iraqi forces advance toward western Mosul on Sunday. Credit Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters ERBIL, Iraq — Iraq’s government announced the beginning of an offensive on Sunday to take back the western half of Mosul from the Islamic State, nearly three years after the city was overrun by the terror group. Overnight, planes crisscrossed the sky over the city’s occupied half, carpeting the ground with leaflets, which made a […]

UAE-based developer Manazel Real Estate has announced that it is preparing to launch a major coastal project in the Ghantoot area, an area situated between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The project is currently in the licensing stage, with further details to be announced at the Cityscape exhibition in Abu Dhabi in April, the company said in a statement.  Mohamed Mehanna Al Qubaisi, chairman of Manazel Real Estate, […]

special feature Harnessing IoT in the Enterprise The tech revolution is spreading to every corner of the earth with the Internet of Things, and it’s enabling data analytics and automation in ways never before imagined in business. Depending on whose numbers turn out to be right, there will be somewhere between 20 and 200 billion “things” connected to the internet by 2020. We all know about the […]

YANGON Two members of Myanmar’s security forces were injured in a clash with militants on the troubled Rakhine State border with Bangladesh, Myanmar state counselor’s office said, casting doubt on the government’s claim that the region had stabilised. The government last week said the situation in northern Rakhine had stabilised and that it had ended a four-month security crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. The security operation had been […]

Al Shafar Steel Engineering has announced plans for a AED175 million ($47.6 million) expansion of its facilities located at Dubai Industrial Park. The expansion, which will result in one of the largest steel manufacturing companies in the region, is geared to grow the company’s operational footprint in the UAE and the wider GCC region, Al Shafar said in a statement. The company said it will add four […]

DUBAI // The Terry Fox Run returned to Dubai yesterday for the first time in three years, with more than 4,000 people taking part in the cancer research event despite the cool, cloudy weather. Participants were able to run, walk, bike and rollerblade or use a wheelchair on the 5-kilometre route on the creek side of Dubai Festival City Mall. The event was held under the patronage […]

There is gratitude but also perhaps a hint of relief when British singer Nathan Skyes talks about his time with boy band The Wanted and their split in 2014. Having joined the band at the age of 16, he feels he was not taken seriously, being the youngest member of the band. “It was frustrating back then but that helped my drive to succeed,” says Skyes, who […]

Photo The American Freestyle Wrestling team on Saturday in Tehran before returning to the United States. Credit Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times IMAM KHOMEINI AIRPORT, Iran — When the United States wrestling team arrived at 3 a.m. on Saturday at an airport hotel outside Iran’s capital, Tehran, staff members ordered out for pizza. “We were all over the lobby, eating out of the boxes,” said […]

ZTE / Kickstarter ZTE on Friday announced the end of its Kickstarter campaign for the Hawkeye phone — originally called “Project CSX” and set to have features picked from the community. The company did poorly on Kickstarter, raising only $36,245 of its $500,000 funding goal. The Hawkeye phone promised a self-adhering case and eye-tracking technology to enable hands-free experiences. While ZTE hasn’t ruled out the Hawkeye completely, […]

The manager of the ironically named “I Don’t Care” Bar and Grill in Catoosa, Oklahoma is hiring… After firing 12 staff last week for violating his “no call/no show” policy. Fox Baltimore reports that the workers are without a job after getting fired for skipping work as a show of support for “A Day Without Immigrants.” The restaurant workers are all Hispanic and say it was important […]

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