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Isra' & Mi'raj: Apa. Kenapa dan Untuk Siapa?
Undangan: Ustaz Hasan Masoh
Masa: 8 malam, Khamis, Julai 31
Tempat: Arabian Ranches (kediaman Pak Payne)
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Full report from Gulf News can be read here and here
Dubai: Applications
can be filed starting next Tuesday for new visit visas which were
revamped under a Federal ruling last June, a senior residency
department official said on Tuesday.
The new fee schedule
for the visas, which range from visit visas to visas for medical
treatment should have started August 1, according to an earlier
announcement, but have been pushed forward due to the weekend holidays.
July 30 is an official government holiday. The rules apply to
nationalities who currently have to get sponsorship before arriving in
the country.
The Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) and the Economic Department will meet with representatives of hotels, tourist agencies, hospitals and educational institutions on Wednesday to brief them on how the changes will be implemented.
UAE's leading telco, etisalat was recently ranked as the world's fastest growing mobile operator. The study as conducted by Informa Telecoms and Media. With annual increase of 106.4%, etisalat placed itself well ahead of second place, Kuwaiti based Zain Group.
Telekom Malaysia was ranked at number three - with an annual increase of 57.8%.
Gulf News reports:
Dubai: etisalat was recently ranked as the world's fastest-growing mobile operator, in a study conducted by Informa Telecoms and Media.
According to proportionate subscription growth in the first quarter of 2008, etisalat came in first with 106.4 per cent increase compared with the previous quarter, achieving a proportionate mobile subscriber base of 24.2 million across 16 markets in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
The study ranked operator groups on the total number of mobile subscriptions based on their percentage ownership of mobile operators.
The second fastest growing mobile operator as per subscriber increase was Zain, the Kuwait-based operator that provides services in seven Middle Eastern and 14 African countries.
The group's proportionate subscribers grew at 70.31 per cent during the period to 32.9 million.
Dubai successfully placed itself in the global map with its award winning "public stunts" - from the sponsorships of world renowned soccer clubs, world's most expensive horse race and to iconic projects such as world's tallest building and expensive venture into the corporate world.
All done to positioned itself as the destination brand for the world, business and leisure alike!
With more reserves than Dubai, many have turned their eyes to its larger and richer "sibling", Abu Dhabi!
Today, Abu Dhabi announces one of its many strategic investments - they now owns one of America's icons, the Chryler Building.
The once world's tallest building was acquired by Abu Dhabi Investment Council for an undisclosed price.
The purchase of Chrysler Building will certainly place Abu Dhabi as a formidable contender for the Region's brand powerhouse - a status symbol that long being held by Dubai.
Full report below from Gulf News
New York: New York's Chrysler Building, the Art Deco icon that helps define the New York skyline, was bought by an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, the second purchase of a Manhattan landmark by Middle East investors in many months.
The skyscraper at 405 Lexington Avenue, the world's tallest building until 1931, was acquired yesterday by the Abu Dhabi Investment Council for an undisclosed price. Last month a Dubai fund, Boston Properties, and Goldman Sachs Group paid $2.8 billion for the General Motors Building.
Dubai, UAE Desas desus kedatangan bekas bintang Liverpool semakin kuat. Hari ini penyerang lagenda Liverpool, Ian Rush menyokong "penghijrahan" Robbie Fowler ke Dubai.
Fowler d beritakan mengintai peluang untuk mengakhiri karier bolasepaknya bersama kelab Dubai, Al Ahli. Menurut lapuran Eurosport, Fowler bersedia untuk mengakhiri komitmennya dengan kelab Cardiff City untuk bersama Al Ahli.
Rush pula d beritakan percaya Fowler masih punya tarikan untuk mempamirkan mutu permainan tinggi bagi pasukan yang berminat d UAE.
Rantau Timur Tengah dengan kekayaan duit minyak sebelum ini pernah mendapat fokus dunia bolasepak apabila tersebar khabar penyerang utama Brazil, Ronaldo bakal beraksi dengan kelab Ittihad.
Antara bintang antarabangsa yang pernah beraksi d Timur Tengah ialah Luis Figo.
Lapuran The Telegraph d sini
Dubai, UAE Shamzani Hussain dan isteri, Pn Ros dkurniakan anak sulung mereka kira-kira jam 2 petang semalam. Shafiqa Raisa dlahirkan d International Modern Hospital dengan berat hampir 4kg. Ibu dan anak masih berada d hospital dan berada dalam keadaan baik. Mereka d jangka pulang ke rumah esok.
Ketika d hubungi semalam, Shamzani melahirkan rasa syukur atas kelahiran Shafiqa yang berjalan dengan baik.
Tahniah kepada kedua ibu bapa!
Dubai, UAE Property buyers
should not expect an automatic residence visa upon purchasing property
in Dubai, a top official clarified. "There is no direct link between property ownership and residence
visas. Developers should not lure investors to property sector with a
promise of residence visa," Marwan Bin Galita, chief executive of
Dubai's Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera) told Gulf News on Monday. Bin Galita said a proposal has been submitted to the concerned
authorities to issue property investors a visit visa that allows them
to travel in and out of the country to follow up their investments in
the property market.
"The suggestion, if approved, might be implemented at a federal
level, especially that the local laws of most emirates allow foreign
ownership of property.
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Ras Al Khaimah, UAE UPDATED Alan Beh selamat menjalani pembedahan dan d benarkan pulang oleh Hospital (Welcare Hospital, Dubai) semalam (Selasa, Jun 24).
Berita awal: Seorang rakyat Malaysia d lapurkan terkena tembakan sewaktu bermain golf semalam. Menurut lapuran Gulf News, Alan Beh terkena tembakan d bahagian bahu ketika bermain golf d Khuzzam. Beliau yang kini menerima rawatan d Dubai, akan menjalani pembedahan jam 5 petang nanti. Lapuran awal Gulf News:
Ras Al Khaimah: A man was shot in the shoulder on Sunday while playing a round of golf in the Khuzzam area.
A police investigation is under way to find out who was behind the shooting. The bullet penetrated the shoulder of the 29-year-old victim, who was identified as B.S.S. Police sources said the Malaysian victim was in the middle of a game of golf when he was suddenly shot at and fell to the ground unconscious, onlookers were shocked.
Dubai, UAE Majlis Hari Keputeraan YDP Agong d Dubai anjuran pejabat Konsulat Jeneral dan myUAE-PRO menyaksikan penyertaan lebih 250 rakyat Malaysia d perantauan. Majlis yang dmulakan dengan bacaan du'aa oleh AJK myUAE-PRO, Abdul Latif Abdul Karim menyaksikan pelbagai aktiviti sampingan yang menarik minat hadirin.
Konsul Jeneral Malaysia d UAE, Syed Mohd Hasrin dalam ucapannya menyentuh sejarah dan peranan institusi YDP Agong sebagai Raja Berpelembagaan. Beliau juga menekankan objektif majlis seumpama adalah memberi peluang kepada rakyat Malaysia bertemu dan memperkukuh jaringan dan silaturahim.
Nyanyian lagu kebangsaan - Negaraku, berkumandang d foyer bangunan MATRADE menyerikan Majlis.
Antara aktiviti yang djalankan ialah deklemasi sajak oleh 5 anak watan. 
Sajak nukilan Nazrah Ayu, menyaksikan gandingan 5 anak muda pelbagai bangsa mendeklemasikan sajak bertajuk Perantau Berdondang.
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Dubai, UAE Setelah berlansungnya majlis sambutan Hari Keputeraan YDP Agong d Kedutaan Besar Malaysia (Abu Dhabi) minggu lalu, sambutan d Dubai akan d adakan esok d foyer bangunan MATRADE (Al Safinah Building, berhampiran Lamcy Plaza).
Majlis ini adalah anjuran Pejabat Konsul Jeneral Malaysia d Dubai dengan kerjasama myUAE-PRO.
Konsul Jeneral Syed Mohd Hasrin dalam reaksinya pada myUAE Times sebentar tadi menyatakan harapannya agar rakyat Malaysia dapat bersama meraikan majlis ini esok.
"Dengan berlatarbelakangkan perpaduan berbilang kaum, majlis sebegini mempertemukan rakyat Malaysia dperantauan - memupuk kesepakatan dalam mereliasasikan aspirasi negara".
"Mungkin ada yang dah bertemu sewaktu Majlis berlansung d Abu Dhabi, boleh terus menterai silaturahim d Dubai", tambah beliau.
Pengerusi myUAE-PRO, Ariffin Mamat melahirkan rasa gembira d atas kerjasama rapat antara myUAE-PRO dan Konsul Jeneral sendiri dalam menjayakan Majlis ini.
Beliau juga berkata, "Sambil bertemu meraikan Hari Keputeraan YDP Agong, majlis ini nanti akan menyediakan ruang rakyat Malaysia sesisi keluarga beraktiviti - bertemakan Malaysia".
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