Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai and chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, on January 27 issued a resolution on fees for ambulance services provided at the sites of traffic accidents. A AED 6,770 fee will be charged by Dubai Police and Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services, for emergency and evacuation services provided
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Nol and credit card payment system is now available in the majority of taxis in Dubai, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has confirmed. A total of 8,000 taxis have been equipped with the electronic payment system that will allow commuters to pay through credit card and Nol cards. Phase two of the project is
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The UAE will implement value added tax (VAT) at the rate of five per cent from January 1, 2018, said UAE Minister of State for Financial Affairs – Obaid Humaid Al Tayer to reporters after a joint press conference on Wednesday with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Dubai. The
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BERLIN – It is the first time that Mars has had to recall products made at its Veghel factory, opened in 1963, which employs some 1,200 people. Chocolate giant Mars on Tuesday ordered a massive recall of Mars and Snickers bars from 55 countries after a piece of plastic found in one bar was traced
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LONDON: Barclays Plc was sued by Amanda Staveley’s investment firm, which helped broker a £7 billion (Dh25.7 billion, $10 billion) fund-raising in the Middle East at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis. PCP Capital Partners filed the lawsuit in London on January 25, according to court filings that didn’t give any other details about
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Starting January 2016, the Ministry of Labor in the UAE has announced new measures to renew work permits, previously known as labor cards, and expired contracts, by early 2016. Humaid bin Deemas Al Suwaidi, Assistant Under-Secretary for Labor Affairs said that under the new process, the signature of the employee on the contract shall constitute
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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Thursday announced changes to a visa-waiver program that would make it harder for travellers to enter the United States from Europe if they had dual citizenship from Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria, or had visited one of those countries in the last five years. Those travellers will now have
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Route 2020 project aims at streamlining the traffic movement and making it friendlier to pedestrian traffic. The traffic on the entire Al Wasl Road will soon go only in one direction of Burj Al Arab, and the entire Jumeirah Road will have traffic flowing in the direction of 2nd of December Road. The project aims
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Law firm Nieding + Barth said on Monday it would lodge a case with a regional court in Brunswick this week, seeking hundreds of millions of euros in damages on behalf of 66 institutional investors from the United States and Britain. “On top of that, we collected several thousands of private investors. Therefore, we think
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All buildings with permits to make four floors and more should place at least four surveillance cameras to monitor the interior and exterior areas of the construction site. Security cameras have been made mandatory for all multi-storey buildings under construction in Dubai from March 1. All buildings with permits to make four floors and more
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