DUBAI: Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has launched an online Transportation Activities Rental System (TARS) to serve the car rental system in the emirate. The system aims to bring more happiness to corporate and individual clients by improving the level of services provided to them. The CEO of RTA Licensing Agency Abdullah Yousef Al […]
As a long-term Dubai resident and an estate agent, you can imagine how many times I’m asked which are the best areas to live in Dubai. The answer, as you can imagine, is dependent on your stage of life, your income, your goals, and, of course, your needs and tastes. Our sprawling desert city has […]
As the weather cools down and everyone is rushing to get outside, the time has come to start thinking about outdoor activities. At Swiss International School Dubai, sustainability is part of their curriculum, and here are suggestions from the school for activities for you and your children, based on the concept of sustainability. Plant a […]
DUBAI: In response to an industry not providing enough sustainable choices for wiser, more conscious fashion consumers, the Romania Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai presents Tradition Reloaded, sustainable art workshops by six Romanian artists and artisans, across the six months of Expo. With traditional craft reinterpreted in a contemporary manner in an artistic process that uses […]
A spider that is absolutely horrendously large has been filmed crawling on a wall in Tobago. It was shared on TikTok by user @noobmanbanton, who simply captioned it: “Big [spider emoji] in Tobago.” The video was shared a couple of days ago, and it’s been liked 29,000 times, with around 4,500 people chiming in to […]
DUBAI: Food is a vital part of the annual Diwali festivities, so it follows that India’s culinary traditions abound in celebratory dishes and desserts across the Expo 2020 Dubai site, as the festival of lights is marked in style next week. A heady mix of aniseed, cardamom, cumin, fenugreek, and saffron can be found in Expo’s […]
DUBAI: An ode to urban culture, Urban Jam will bring together a planet-spanning mix of top athletes, world-class street artists, and dynamite DJs at Expo 2020’s Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre on November 1. The elite round-up of talent features 35 performers from 28 countries, including skateboarders, scooter riders and BMX bikers, along with artists Myneandyours and Ruben Sanchez, […]
ABU DHABI: The mountainous areas have entered strongly in the list of the most important tourist attractions in the country during the past few years, and have become attractive destinations for investments, especially in light of the official attention they receive that contributed to improving the level of services and infrastructure in them. Areas such […]
DUBAI: Switzerland celebrated its Expo 2020 Dubai National Day earlier today with a visit by the nation’s President and an inspirational art project that spreads a message of unity and peace. The National Day celebration began in Al Wasl Plaza, with Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, President of the Swiss Confederation welcomed by His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al […]
Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), announced a collaboration with talabat, to launch the #CreativeCravings initiative, inviting UAE-based artists to express their artistic interpretation of culinary arts at the ‘talabat Kitchen’ at Expo 2020 Dubai. As part of this initiative, the entities will commission a line-up of six artists from Dubai Culture’s talent pool […]
Manhattan is no stranger to supertall skyscrapers but Brooklyn’s skyline has now fundamentally changed as its first supertall reached its full, vertiginous height. The 93-story, 1,066-foot-tall residential building, standing at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, was designed by SHoP Architects. (Supertalls, by definition, are residential or office buildings reaching 300 meters — 984 feet […]
