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DIAFA, the Abu Dhabi-based luxury hospitality investment platform affiliated with IHC Group, has completed a majority investment in Richard Caring’s hospitality portfolio in a deal described as ten-figure, placing a value of at least £1 billion on a collection of some of London’s best-known restaurants and private members’ clubs. The transaction brings The Ivy Brasseries, Caprice Holdings and The Birley Clubs under DIAFA’s control, while Richard Caring […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai   Capital, liquidity and asset quality at the UAE’s largest banks remain robust, according to Dubai-based Al Ramz Capital, which says a ceasefire between Washington and Tehran has removed an immediate geopolitical overhang that had weighed on sentiment, valuations and foreign risk appetite. The firm said direct exposure to sectors most sensitive to conflict, including real estate, hospitality, aviation, transport and trade finance, […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi will bring back its flagship infrastructure gathering in a larger format next month, with organisers casting the 12-14 May event as a platform to push smart, sustainable and people-centred urban development at a time when the emirate is moving ahead with one of the region’s biggest public project pipelines. The Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Summit, hosted by the Abu Dhabi Projects and […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai RAK Ceramics has moved to reassure customers, contractors and distributors that its operations across the UAE and the wider region remain uninterrupted, saying access across its customer network is continuing without disruption across both retail and project channels. The statement comes at a time when businesses across the Gulf are paying closer attention to logistics resilience, input costs and delivery schedules amid wider […]

By Saifur Rahman The UAE will host the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group in 2029 in Abu Dhabi, about 26 years after the country hosted the same in 2003 in Dubai. The news comes at a time when the UAE banking assets reached its highest value, to Dh5.4 trillion (US$1.47 trillion), and foreign reserves jumped 23.4 percent to Dh1.05 trillion […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai MBME Pay has secured a Category 3 Payment Service Provider licence from the Central Bank of the UAE, giving the company regulatory approval to carry out merchant acquiring and payment aggregation activities and placing it in a narrower circle of fully licensed operators in one of the Gulf’s fastest-moving fintech markets. The approval marks a step up for the Abu Dhabi-listed MBME Group […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Louvre Abu Dhabi has launched a digital teaching platform that links museum objects directly to school subjects, widening the role of art in classrooms beyond history and humanities and giving teachers a new route to use cultural material in everyday lessons. The Museum Curriculum Portal has been rolled out as part of a broader Abu Dhabi effort to connect cultural institutions more closely […]

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Arabian Post Staff -Dubai   Abu Dhabi has issued 11 new hazardous materials guidelines in a move officials say makes the emirate the first jurisdiction to apply the 11th revised edition of the UN Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, or GHS. The framework, launched by the Abu Dhabi Hazardous Materials Management Centre in coordination with the Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council, is […]

Binance has joined Abu Dhabi’s “One Nation. One People. Together, We Protect What We Love.” initiative in partnership with Design Commission Abu Dhabi, linking one of the world’s largest crypto platforms with a state-backed civic campaign built around social cohesion, shared responsibility and public participation across the UAE. The move adds a corporate technology name to an initiative launched in March under the chairwomanship of Shamsa bint […]

Al Habtoor Group said on 9 April it will invest more than AED 5 billion in a new commercial tower at Al Habtoor City on Sheikh Zayed Road, a move that adds fresh weight to Dubai’s office-led development pipeline at a time when demand for premium business space remains firm and developers are racing to capture it. The company described the scheme as a landmark addition to […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Attacks tied to the widening confrontation with Iran could spill far beyond the battlefield and damage global health, food security and the environment, the UAE told an international summit in Lyon, urging governments and institutions to rally around a “One Health” strategy that treats human, animal and ecosystem health as inseparable. The intervention came at a high-level gathering hosted by France on 7 […]

Greenlogue/AP Abu Dhabi’s 2PointZero Group has moved deeper into the renewable energy market in India through a new joint venture between its subsidiary ePointZero RSC and Adani Green Energy, extending a relationship between the two business groups and underscoring continued Gulf interest in large-scale clean power assets on the subcontinent. The venture will be executed through Minerva Holding, ePointZero’s renewable development platform in India, according to statements […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Mubadala Capital has closed its biggest Brazil-focused investment vehicle at about $900 million, exceeding its original $750 million target in a sign that large overseas investors still see room for opportunistic deals in Latin America’s biggest economy despite a tougher global fundraising climate. The fund, Brazil Special Opportunities Fund III, was backed by a $250 million anchor commitment from Mubadala Capital, the investment […]

Matein Khalid The US-Israel war with Iran has now stretched beyond five weeks, inflicting extensive damage on energy infrastructure, airports, ports and commercial and technology hubs across the six GCC states. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz to Gulf oil and gas exports is, in itself, an economic catastrophe. It forces the GCC to conclude that energy export security is not national security. Drone and missile attacks triggered a sharp […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi University said an associate professor and a former student have been granted a patent for an artificial-intelligence application designed to translate between sign language and spoken or written language in real time, marking a push by the institution into assistive technology with a clear accessibility focus. The university identified the inventors as Dr Modafar Ati, associate professor of computer science and […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Dubai shares posted their strongest one-day rise in more than a decade on Wednesday after a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran eased fears over a wider regional conflict, soothed concern over energy shipping routes and triggered a broad relief rally across Gulf markets. Dubai’s benchmark index jumped as much as 8.5% intraday, while Abu Dhabi’s main market also recorded its […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Sharjah authorities said on Tuesday that a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit an administrative building belonging to Thuraya Telecommunications Company in the emirate’s Central Region, wounding two Pakistani nationals and underlining how the wider regional conflict is reaching civilian and commercial sites in the UAE. Officials said both men suffered moderate injuries and were taken to hospital for treatment. State news agency […]

Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi has secured five new industrial and logistics projects worth AED147 million across Al Ain and Abu Dhabi, adding more than 84,000 square metres of development space and an estimated 500 jobs as the emirate presses ahead with its manufacturing and supply-chain expansion plans. Four of the projects are earmarked for KEZAD Al Ain, where they account for just over 37,400 square metres, […]

Dubai Basketball’s Under-18 Elite team has won the 2026 Basket Cup Sarajevo title, beating Ras Beograd U18 69-53 in the final after an unbeaten run through the tournament in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The victory, secured in the side’s first appearance at the event, marks one of the clearest signs yet that Dubai’s push to build a serious youth basketball pathway is beginning to produce results beyond the […]

Paramount Skydance is moving to shore up financing for its planned takeover of Warner Bros Discovery with nearly $24 billion in equity commitments from three Gulf sovereign wealth funds, a step that would strengthen funding for one of the biggest media deals ever attempted and deepen Middle East capital’s role in reshaping Hollywood. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai ADNOC Gas said its domestic supply chain remains intact after damage at part of the Habshan complex on April 3, with gas demand inside the UAE being met through other facilities and no disruption to customer supply. The company told the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange that the affected area had been isolated and that a full assessment of damage to the Habshan train […]

  Al Hudayriyat Island has emerged as one of Abu Dhabi’s clearest statements of how urban expansion, tourism strategy and lifestyle planning are being fused into a single waterfront destination, as the emirate pushes to raise liveability, broaden its non-oil economy and create new high-value districts beyond its traditional city core. Developed by Modon, the island’s evolution has moved well beyond a beach-and-leisure concept into a much […]

Greenlogue/AP Solar power capacity across the Gulf Cooperation Council has expanded at an exceptional rate, with a new GCC-Stat report showing average annual growth of 88.1 per cent between 2013 and 2024, underscoring how one of the world’s leading hydrocarbon-producing regions is accelerating investment in cleaner energy while also strengthening climate resilience measures. The same report said electricity generated from solar energy climbed from 0.13 thousand gigawatt-hours […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Dubai and Abu Dhabi have retained places among the world’s leading smart cities in the latest IMD Smart City Index, underscoring how the two emirates have turned digital infrastructure, public services and urban planning into a defining part of their global profile. The 2026 index placed Dubai sixth and Abu Dhabi tenth out of 148 cities, while the 2025 edition had ranked them […]

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