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Finally: “Associated Press - Under international pressure to stop child abuse in a traditional desert sport, the United Arab Emirates has banned the use of underage riders in camel racing.”
Abdul Hakeem was just six years old when he went to United Arab Emirates to work as a servant.
But the Pakistani youngster ended up as a camel jockey. He came home on Tuesday after losing nine years of his childhood in a sport internationally condemned as a form of slavery.
At 15, Hakeem is oldest of [...]
After all, since more than a quarter of the people on the planet already carry cell phones, and hundreds of millions are joining them every year, why should they bring along credit and debit cards when a mobile device can make payments just as well? This is not new, in fact this is already a [...]
Here’s some good news from the Jordan: Israel, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Palestine Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria, Jordan and many other countries from around the globe (click below graph for a list of other countries), need no “Open SESAME magic” to be able to cooperate on an advanced scientific project.
In [...]
If money truly is no object, Forbes has released the 2005 edition of their Most Expensive Hotel Rooms list.
Burj Al Arab in Dubai offers breakfast for a paltry $41 per person, while Little Palm Island in the Florida Keys offers the option to rent out the entire island for only $1 million a weekend.
So if [...]
17-year-old boy and 19-year-old girl, both UAE nationals, were each sentenced to spend one month in jail. The teenagers were exchanging “indecent” pictures through their cellphones and sending pornographic pictures through email. The Dubai Court of First Instance heard that one of the girl’s friends was jealous of the relationship she had with her male [...]
A British woman who spent nearly eight weeks in a Dubai jail for having a banned painkiller in her system was given it by a United Arab Emirates police doctor.
“They first gave her medication, then they tested her for it, then they flung her in jail. This is what was proven in court.”
Good news for mobile phone users. Emirati government licenses new telecom company with 1.08 billion dollars, breaking Etisalat�s monopoly.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) took delivery of the first batch of an order for 80 F-16 fighters from the United States, estimated to cost 6.4 billion dollars.
United Arab Emirates builds gold hotel that is a geeks dream palace. It boasts more than 1,000 miles of fiber optic & broadcast cable among its many tech innovations. (Related site: Emeriates Palace)
Via: PalestineBlogs.com
Billionaire Mohammad al-Abbar said he would pay $56m for the 21 settlements, earmarked for evacuation this year.
al-Abbar (chairman of Dubai-based Emaar Properties) met Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres in the highest-level contact between the two countries. Emaar is the right hand of Dubai government and owns nearly everything in Dubai. Although we know that [...]
IBM and United Arab Emirates University jointly developed a “smart box” telematics system that can warn drivers if they’re breaking the speed limit, record actions taken during an accident and even issue speeding tickets to offenders. The system combines cellular, GPS and voice recognition technologies to provide totalitarian control of the driving populus. Oh, and [...]
Forget Space Tourism, Go Underwater.
If you want to discover future travel trends, SPACE.com is the place to go. In “The Future of Travel: Aquatic to Cosmic Destinations,” you’ll see that space-based hotels, if technologically feasible, will probably not be affordable for a mass market. Other future concepts include helium-filled airship hotels, or Hydropolis, a $500-million [...]
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