The head of Dubai Land Department (DLD) has predicted a rebound for the city’s real estate market this year, signaling an upward trend for sustained growth in the run-up to Expo 2020. Sultan Butti Bin Merjen, director-general of DLD made the comments in an annual report for 2016 which revealed that total real estate transactions […]

Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED) issued 26,707 new business licenses in 2016, as it introduced new measures to ease the setting up of new businesses. The number of licenses renewed in 2016 stood at 107,043 while 20,873 initial approvals were issued and 38,918 trade named were reserved. The data was released by the Business […]

A new list of the world’s most and least powerful passports has been released, ranking them for the ease of travel they offer. The latest edition of the Passport Index by Arton Capital ranks national passports by the cross-border access they bring, assigning a “visa-free score” according to the number of countries a passport holder […]

The UAE is making great strides towards achieving its vision of boasting some of the smartest cities in the world, with Dubai emerging as the Middle East’s leading smart city due to its high-tech infrastructure and execution of several smart initiatives. The countries of the Gulf region are playing an increasingly visible role in the […]