Dubai Food Itinerary: 3 Days of Eating Like a Local

Dubai Food Itinerary: 3 Days of Eating Like a Local

Most visitors eat Dubai in the wrong order: hotel breakfast, mall food court, one expensive rooftop dinner. This 3-day food itinerary flips that. It starts where the city actually eats — the cafeterias and family restaurants of Bur Dubai, Deira, Karama and Satwa — and saves the splurge meals for when you know what things […]

Best Areas to Stay in Dubai for Business Trips

Best Areas to Stay in Dubai for Business Trips

On a business trip, the best area in Dubai is simply the one closest to your meetings. The city has no single centre: finance sits in DIFC, exhibitions at the World Trade Centre, tech and media on the western side, and each cluster has its own hotels. Stay in the wrong cluster and you will […]

Al Madam Day Trip from Dubai: Buried Village Guide

Al Madam Day Trip from Dubai: Buried Village Guide

An hour from Dubai’s towers, a whole village is being swallowed by the desert. Al Madam’s buried village — two rows of houses and a mosque built in the 1970s and abandoned within about two decades — now stands with sand piled to the windowsills and dunes drifting through doorways. It is one of the […]

UAE Weather: Rain in East and South, Fog by Morning

UAE Weather: Rain in East and South, Fog by Morning

Wednesday brings two different kinds of weather to the UAE: afternoon rain chances in the east and south, and fog chances by the following morning. The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) expects generally fair to partly cloudy conditions, with convective clouds building over some eastern and southern areas by afternoon and a possibility of rainfall, […]

UAE FIU and VARA Team Up on Virtual Asset Crime

UAE FIU and VARA Team Up on Virtual Asset Crime

Dubai’s crypto regulator and the UAE’s financial intelligence watchdog have formalised how they work together. The UAE Financial Intelligence Unit (UAE FIU) and the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on October 5 in Abu Dhabi to strengthen coordination against financial crime involving virtual assets, according to the WAM announcement carried […]

UAE-EAEU Trade Deal Enters Into Force: What Changes

UAE-EAEU Trade Deal Enters Into Force: What Changes

A trade deal three years in the making is now live. The UAE’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) officially entered into force on October 6, creating a preferential trade framework with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, Virgin Radio Dubai reports from the official announcement. What the agreement actually does The […]

Skylight Mall: 360 Stores Coming to Al Khail Road

Skylight Mall: 360 Stores Coming to Al Khail Road

Dubai’s mall map is getting another major pin. Dubai Retail has unveiled Skylight Mall, a super-regional shopping destination scheduled to open in 2027 on Al Khail Road, with more than 360 stores across 1.3 million square feet of gross leasable area, the company announced on October 6 in its official release. The project takes Dubai […]

Second Retail T-Sukuk Starts Trading on Nasdaq Dubai

Second Retail T-Sukuk Starts Trading on Nasdaq Dubai

Small investors can now trade a UAE government sukuk like a share. The Ministry of Finance has listed its second five-year Sovereign Retail T-Sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai and secondary-market trading has begun, following completed subscription, allocation and settlement, the ministry announced via WAM on October 2, as reported by UAE News Today. How the offering […]

Knowledge Summit Special Edition Set for November 24

Knowledge Summit Special Edition Set for November 24

Dubai’s knowledge calendar gets a one-day special before the main event returns next year. The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will host a special edition of the Knowledge Summit on November 24 at Grand Hyatt Dubai, under the theme of knowledge navigating crises in a […]

Karan Johar to Host IIFA 2027 in Abu Dhabi, Sixth Time

Karan Johar to Host IIFA 2027 in Abu Dhabi, Sixth Time

IIFA’s most familiar host is coming back to Abu Dhabi. Karan Johar will host the IIFA Awards for a record sixth time when the 27th IIFA Weekend and Awards takes over Etihad Arena on Yas Island on January 22-23, 2027, co-hosting the main ceremony with Varun Dhawan, Nation Press reports. The weekend splits hosting duties […]