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High tide for Piracy
Somali pirates are getting bolder and striking at will, threatening commerce and putting seafarers at risk more than ever before. The scourge is costing the international economy between $7 and 12 billion per year.
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DUBAI - The United States has expressed concern about rising maritime piracy in the region and the damage these attacks wreak on the already fragile, political, social, economic and humanitarian situation in eastern Africa. In an interview to Khaleej Times, Donna L. Hopkins, Coordinator of Counter Piracy and Maritime Security at the Bureau of Political Military Affairs, US Department of State, said deployment of more naval vessels would not solve the problem, which now reaches the Arabian Sea.
Somali pirates are having a free run in the region’s waters and their striking range now covers the Arabian Sea.
Space, the final frontier of yore, now appears nearer and beckons the UAE. In what could spell the dawn of affordable commercial space tourism, the country is positioning itself to reap the benefits by 2015.
DUBAI — Indian television giant Zee TV has big plans for the Middle East where a chunk of its target South Asian and Pan-Arab audience is based.
DUBAI - A bomb threat by a passenger on a flydubai flight from Amman led to a search of the plane, which delayed its departure to Dubai on Monday 
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A few days after its first anniversary, the Burj Khalifa, is inspiring a similar structure in China.
America is slip-sliding into political change in 2008 with Barack Obama’s presidency on the horizon. The economy has tanked, thanks to the profligacy of the rich, powerful, middle-class and everyone in between. Perhaps not a good time to go ‘Looking for America’, a country in decline, never mind the Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel song by the same name.
DUBAI - What’s it like to work for a great company, or what makes a workplace tick? A survey of the top UAE firms conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute hopes to throw up some answers in January 2011.
