Asia United Arab Emirates Dubai will consider lowering government taxes on business activities to keep the business environment attractive after the ministry announced plans to introduce a federal corporate tax on corporate profits from June 2023
Asia United Arab Emirates Physical education classes, trips and extracurricular activities in schools will resume across Dubai from today, as well as canteens' activity in all public schools, childcare centers and universities
Asia United Arab Emirates A new law has been introduced in Dubai to ensure the inclusivity of people with special needs in various fields and sectors in the emirate, including the access to education
Asia United Arab Emirates Sharjah's new beach will also feature a professional skatepark, 'KOTA Skatepark', with ramps for all levels and severa different roller sports including skateboarding, roller skating, scooter and motocross biking
Asia United Arab Emirates A year after premarital sex was decriminalized, unmarried mothers can no longer go to jail for having a baby, but they do if they do not have documents for their children, which they can't get, being de facto trapped in a bureaucratic limbo
Asia United Arab Emirates The Dubai government launched "Smart Dubai" aiming to digitise all government services; with the full implementation of the Dubai Paperless Strategy, no government employee or customer will need to print any paper documents or transactions
Asia United Arab Emirates Today start the three days of celebration of the 50th National Day, with fireworks every night at 9pm as most spectacular attraction among a variety of events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
Asia United Arab Emirates On Universal Children's Day, celebrated yesterday, the young people who visited Expo 2020 in Dubai could take part into a series of events, organized with support from UNICEF, aimed at helping them imagine a brighter future
Asia United Arab Emirates The Abu Dhabi Civil Code was reformed, allowing non-Muslims to marry, divorce and obtain shared custody of their children on the basis of civil law and not on Sharia principles
Asia United Arab Emirates National online portal records 5,2 million visitors in Q3 2021: authorities announced a 50% increase in the UAE national portal users in Q3 of 2021 as compared to the same period of 2020
Asia United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Police's Happiness Patrol has launched an initiative to distribute Expo passports and gifts to motorists and other members of the community who have pledged to abide by traffic rules during Expo 2020 Dubai activities
Asia United Arab Emirates Maryam Buti Al Suwaidi, as chief executive of the Securities and Commodities Authority, has become the first woman to head the UAE's markets regulator
Asia United Arab Emirates Expo 2020 Dubai, the first world exhibition organised in the Middle East, opens today; 25 million visitors are expected. The European Parliament has called for a boycott of the Expo in protest at human rights violations in the Emirates