Author: Editorial Team
After years of legal battle, investors in the Falconcity of Wonders development, who filed entitlement cases, have sealed a victory as a judicial committee ruled in favour of the landowners and invalidated enforcement actions taken against their residential plots. In a judgement dated February 16, the Dubai special court confirmed the ownership rights of investors, cancelling precautionary attachments and auction procedures imposed on plots within the Falconcity of Wonders project, specifically in the Wadi Al Safa 2 area. “We got the judgement in our favour,” an emotional Abu Ahmad told Khaleej Times, the relief and happiness evident in the 54-year-old…
Abu Dhabi — e& UAE, the flagship telecom arm of global technology company e&, and TM Forum have announced the launch of a landmark whitepaper titled “Building a Future-Ready Ecosystem: e& UAE’s Adoption of TM Forum Open Digital Architecture.” The paper highlights e& UAE’s successful operationalisation of TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and achievement of the prestigious Running on ODA (RoODA) status, TM Forum’s formal recognition that Open Digital Architecture is deployed and operating in live production environments. The whitepaper provides a comprehensive blueprint of how e& UAE transformed its technology landscape from legacy monolithic systems into a modular, cloud-native,…
The new Dubai base at Convention Tower, DWTC is being designed to strengthen the connection with the partners and developers that fuel the platform’s rapid growth Published: Fri 3 Apr 2026, 10:00 AM ChangeNOW, a non-custodial crypto exchange, is officially moving into its new regional headquarters in the heart of Dubai. The new Dubai base at Convention Tower, DWTC, is designed to strengthen connections with the partners and developers that fuel the platform’s rapid growth. For ChangeNOW, it’s a calculated bet on the Middle East as one of the world’s most sophisticated digital asset frontiers. By setting up a physical…
After helping recover 30 stranded vehicles and return hundreds of lost number plates during recent rains, Dubai Police volunteers are now set to play a bigger role in the emirate’s emergency response efforts. The shift follows the deployment of 49 volunteers across 77 locations under the ‘Your Neighborhood Officer’ initiative, where they worked alongside authorities to manage flooded areas, assist motorists, and return 279 lost vehicle number plates. Brigadier Ali Khalfan Al Mansoori told Khaleej Times that the next phase will focus on expanding the volunteer network and strengthening early response capabilities. Stay up to date with the latest news.…
WASHINGTON — A new investigation has revealed a large-scale expansion of China’s nuclear infrastructure in Sichuan province, where villages were previously razed to make way for the construction of strategic facilities. China’s Foreign Ministry said it was “not aware” of the specific findings by the CNN investigation. The expansion of the sites in Sichuan province, observed in satellite imagery and a review of dozens of Chinese government documents, supports recent claims by the administration of US President Donald Trump that Beijing has been conducting its most significant nuclear weapon modernization campaign in decades. Chinese defense ministry spokesperson Jiang Bin said…
For some UAE residents, the increase in fuel prices is not a big shift. They are not selling their cars, but small changes are beginning to show in daily routines, from office carpools being organised to metro rides replacing a few weekday drives. In Al Tawoon, Sharjah, four residents living in the same building are preparing to start carpooling to work next week. Their offices are in Business Bay, Al Quoz and JLT, and instead of driving separately each morning, they plan to use one car and split the route. Some residents who used to drive a few times a…
WASHINGTON — President Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days as he grows frustrated with her leadership at the Justice Department and her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the conversations. Trump has floated the idea of replacing Bondi with Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the sources said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Trump has not made a final decision, and Bondi’s allies pointed to photos of her and the president traveling to the Supreme Court on Wednesday…
RIYADH — Arab and Islamic countries on Thursday strongly condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ approval of a law permitting the imposition of the death penalty against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Türkiye, Qatar and the UAE denounced the Israeli occupying power’s enactment of the law in its parliament (Knesset), which allows the application of the death penalty against Palestinians. The ministers warned that the move represents an escalation of discriminatory practices that entrench a system of apartheid and deny Palestinians their rights and existence in…
SEOUL,, 3rd April, 2026 (WAM) — South Korea’s foreign reserves posted their sharpest monthly decline in about a year in March amid a stronger dollar and authorities’ efforts to manage exchange rate volatility, the central bank said Friday. Yonhap News Agency reported that the country’s foreign reserves stood at US$423.66 billion as of end-March, down $3.97 billion from a month earlier, according to the data from the Bank of Korea (BOK). It was the sharpest decline since April 2025, when the amount fell by $4.99 billion on-month. The reserves had fallen in December for the first time since June and…
Adrian DCunha is the Head of IT at Mai Dubai. He works primarily to drive digital transformation and operational excellence in company. With a 6+ year tenure, he has witnessed tremendous organisation growth and recently took the time to discuss it. How has Mai Dubai’s growth impacted the way operations are managed across the organisation? Mai Dubai’s rapid growth has required us to rethink how we manage our operations from end-to-end. As volumes increase, customers increase, and we expand into new regions or product lines, the complexity of operations grows. This pushed us to standardise workflows and reduce mounting paperwork.…