As Scott Chambers looks out over the waves at Burj al Arab Free Beach, their clean breaks take him back 13 years.
It was on this same beach that 12-year-old Scott and his friends surveyed the …

EFG Hermes on Monday confirmed that real estate prices are falling in Dubai and said it could take more than two years for prices to pick up.
“We don’t really have an understanding of the full …

Dubai builders are in talks to slow down the pace of construction on many contracts to give developers more time to raise finance and avoid having to make more drastic adjustments to their plans.
The move …

Troubled US banking giant Citigroup has arranged more than $8 billion of financing for Dubai state-owned companies in recent months, the bank said on Monday.
“This is in line with our commitment to the UAE market …

Concern for the environment may slow growth
The United Nations climate negotiations, whose latest stage ended in Poland last week, are designed to prevent global temperatures rising above 2C by making it harder to keep emitting …

Versace, the renowned fashion house, is to create the world’s first refrigerated beach so that hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days.
The beach will be next to the the new Palazzo …

The UAE were celebrating Eid today and so on this joyous occasion we’d like to wish all the readers of this site a ‘Happy Eid’!

Dubai is a beginning, not an end says Howard Jacobson, who was ‘hit with everything’ on his visit
or a holiday intended to be soothing, Dubai began badly. Not a day passed before we left without …

The Dubai Royal Family have ended their interest in a £500million offer to buy Liverpool, leaving the controversial American owners in charge until at least next July.
The high asking price and financial downturn in Dubai …

Every cloud has a silver lining and for the world it literally will be The Burj Dubai. The global financial crisis has ensured that the super-tall skyscraper, already the region’s pride, will cement its place …