The law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co in Panama City, Panama | Joe Raedle/Getty Images Center-right MEPs want to water down rules proposed in the aftermath of last year’s Panama Papers scandal — a leak of more than 11 million documents from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca — over concerns about privacy. The proposed changes to EU anti-money laundering laws are currently bogged down in confidential discussions between MEPs […]
Looking to splash out and treat your loved one to a staycation this Valentine’s Day? We’ve rounded up 10 of the most opulent suites in the UAE. newslide The St Regis Saadiyat Island Resort Abu Dhabi’s duplex Royal Suite is one of the UAE’s largest, at 2,100 square metres. Opened in 2013, it features up to four bedrooms, a 12-seater dining room, a mini cinema and a […]
(Image: ZDNet) Senior Trump administration aides communicating over encrypted messaging apps may be violating federal record-keeping laws. The Wall Street Journal reported that political aides close to the president are using Signal, an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. And it’s not just in the White House. Aides close to the New York governor and the mayor and Obama administration staff also use the encrypted messaging app. It’s no […]
The value of the GCC’s healthcare market has grown steadily in recent years and there is little sign that any slowdown is on the horizon. The industry is forecast to be worth $71.3bn by 2020, according to Alpen Capital. The investment bank expects the GCC healthcare sector to record 12.1 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2015 and 2020, after 10.3 percent CAGR between 2008 and […]
The welcome I enter from the side entrance on Peachtree Street and have to carry my suitcase down a flight of stairs to the lobby – the main entrance, flanked by numerous staff, is round the corner. The person who checks me in is bright, breezy and enthusiastic. The lobby is smart and sophisticated. This is the only five-star luxury hotel in the Downtown area, and the […]
Most conversations in edtech—and higher-education reform more broadly—begin and end with the classroom. And not without good reason. Teaching is a primary function of the university, especially at community colleges. However, what gets lost in teaching-centric conversations is another important, and arguably complementary, end—research. While skeptical readers can cherry-pick abstruse research projects, university knowledge production benefits plenty of folks who never attend college. Some of […]
Credit: Michael Vadon Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Now that President Trump is in the White House, there are some breathless stories going around about the technology his administration is adopting. When Barack Obama came into the White House, he was the most connected president ever, an active user of an actual BlackBerry, before that concept became so terribly quaint. At the time, I covered the […]
Cyber security helped elect Donald Trump. During the presidential campaign, hackers cracked open all of the Democrats’ secrets and splayed them out for everyone to see, while Hillary Clinton was raked over the coals for using an insecure server for her own personal email. Republicans’ communications, meanwhile, stayed out of the public eye. But success can breed hubris, and there are some worrying trends in […]
The directive to identify new ways to hasten the demise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, has been widely anticipated by military commanders, who have begun drafting classified options to increase the pressure on the militant group, especially in Raqqa and Mosul, the stronghold in Iraq. Continue reading the main story Work on the directive was described by several current and former officials […]
If only a portion of Saudi Arabia’s National Transformation Programme is implemented, there will be dramatic change, one of the kingdom’s most influential lawyers assures. “If we can cover 50 percent of what is the aspiration in the Vision 2030, the kingdom will be doing much better,” the Saudi country director of international law firm White & Case, Doug Peel, says. “My view is that it’s a […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| UAE telecom revenue reached Dh31.9 billion in 2015, according to the country’s Telecommunication Regulatory Authority’s (TRA). Mobile revenue decreased 8.57 per cent to Dh23.34 billion in 2015 from Dh25.53 billion in 2014. UAE residents spent 31.49 billion minutes using mobile phones in 2015, up from 28.70 billion minutes in 2014. Mobile phone subscriber base reached 17.94 million in the UAE while fixed telephone […]
For Wideman, who spent much of his working life in places like Wyoming and Western Massachusetts and rural Maine, this solitude has been further compounded by cold mathematics. Not only is mainstream publishing overwhelmingly white, it is also nearly bereft of black writers like him: American men of letters descended from Southern slaves, who position themselves as part of a grand and omnivorous intellectual and artistic tradition. […]
Communications giant Edelman on Wednesday announced the appointment of a former senior executive of the UK Prime Minister’s Office to a key role in the Middle East, based in Dubai. Robin Gordon-Farleigh has been hired as regional director for government strategies for the Middle East and will take up the role in March. Most recently he was the news planner in the UK Prime Minister’s Office where […]
Facebook Instant Articles. Snapchat Discover. Google AMP. In the last two years, publishers such as Vox Media and The Washington Post have embraced stories published on platforms that aren’t fully controlled by news organizations. These stories, deemed “distributed content,” have spawned teams of Facebook Live producers and Snapchat Discover editors at major news organizations. What they haven’t done, according to a new report, is bring in tons […]
Fish Beach Taverna Dubai at Le Meridien Mina Seyahi is one of the most inviting, relaxing beachside restaurants I have seen. Only a few tables at the entrance are covered by a roof, while the main alfresco dining area sits among trees adorned with multiple lanterns. A handful of white picnic tables in the sand are just steps from the shore. The venue is awash in white, […]
User experience (UX) — once an afterthought to technology implementations, and a lonely outpost of pursuit in the tech food chain — is suddenly red hot. More corporate attention, money and resources are flowing to upgrading and enhancing it. UX — and its fraternal twin, customer experience (CX) — are now top of mind for everyone, from product designers to marketers to senior executives. Photo: HubSpot That’s […]
Tribune Media CEO Peter Liguori is leaving Tribune Media after three years leading the TV news and entertainment company. Liguori, who will step down in March, said in a statement his decision to exit the company that needed “a new leader” to navigate the broadcast-centric corporation. Tribune Media — then known as Tribune Company — spun off its newspapers into a separate company, Tribune Publishing, in 2014. Its […]
Contemporary dance, live music, affordable art and specialised tours of some of Dubai’s leading galleries are all part of this weekend’s Quoz Arts Fest. Taking place in Alserkal Avenue and the surrounding areas, the event is back for its fifth edition, with more than 30 venues participating in the free festival. Alserkal Avenue director Vilma Jurkute says the fact that the event has grown since its inception […]
DUBAI // The emirate’s oldest dog rescue centre is preparing for its annual rush, as the novelty of puppies bought as Christmas gifts begins to wear off and owners realise the work, training and love needed to keep a pet. Each year hundreds of dogs are abandoned in the emirate, with staff at K9 Friends Dubai taking calls daily to look after dogs left by owners who […]
Now: The Best of Indie Arabia Various artists (Universal Music Mena) Five stars To expats of a certain age, the “Now..!” brand of music compilation albums are synonymous with the kind of plastic pop wheeled out at social gatherings in the days before iPods or YouTube. Since 1983, the brand has shifted more than 100 million copies across five continents. Compiling the biggest hits of the day […]
Dubai-based Emirates airline has confirmed a restructuring of staff has seen some jobs become redundant. The airline declined to comment on the number of positions lost, but said “a very small number of staff” had been impacted. Arabian Business understands the training and recruitment division was affected after the airline decided to limit staff hiring and non-essential training, although this was not confirmed by Emirates. Impacted employees […]
Saudi Arabia’s anti-corruption body has accused executives and employees of Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) of misusing public funds, it said in a statement on Sunday referring the case for prosecution. The National Anti-Corruption Commission, or Nazaha, said it had identified irregularities in eight contracts concluded by the state-controlled utility company’s employees in Eastern Province worth more than 80 million riyal ($21.33 million), mostly involving the purchase of […]
newslide If you wondered where Hollywood’s A-list celebrities had gone during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, you didn’t have to wonder any longer on Saturday, when scores of them showed up at huge women’s marches in Washington and other cities to send the new president a pointed message that he was in for a fight – and that, as so many signs said, women’s rights are human rights. […]
‘Remote working’ and ‘working from home’ is becoming more and more common with workforces. Businesses of the future must adapt in order to cope with the increasing complexities with our work life blend. The 9-5 work day, long considered the norm, is becoming further detached from workers’ personal commitments, and daily life. Working schedules have got to adapt around this change in the way workers manage their […]
