Investors from Britain, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Russia have been tipped as the top five with the most financial potential at Cityscape Global next month, as the final countdown begins for the Middle East’s leading real estate showpiece event. Wouter Molman, exhibition director of Cityscape Global, which takes place from 8-10 October 2013 at the [...]

Today at World Water Week in Stockholm, The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) announced the Company’s support of new programs in four African countries – Kenya, Zambia, Madagascar, and Mozambique. The funding, a total of $4.6MM from The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, will support sustainable solutions to clean water [...]

Children trapped amid fighting in Syria are being killed, maimed, and denied access to food and medicine as the number of child refugees fleeing the civil war tops one million, Save the Children said Thursday. The aid agency has spoken to families trapped by some of the worst violence yet seen in the two-and-a-half year [...]

Earlier this week, during his ten-day Africa trip, former President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton joined Starkey Hearing Foundation’s team of hearing professionals to give customized hearing devices to more than 375 people in Livingstone, Zambia and Kigali, Rwanda. They made the stops to see the progress the Foundation is making on its Clinton Global [...]

Through the eyes of children, parents and teachers, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton got a personal look at the toll of unsafe water, as part of their visit to Groupe Scholaire Camp Kanombe primary school in Kigali. “Let me say how grateful I am to both P&G, one of the greatest companies [...]

More than 5.5 million tourists visited Dubai in the first half of 2013, representing an 11.1 per cent year-on-year increase, indicating that Dubai is on the way to achieving its Tourism Vision for 2020. The first half visitor number results, released Sunday by Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), show increases across all [...]

The Government of Ghana and Blumberg Grain have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the undertaking of the company’s West Africa manufacturing plant and export hub, which the government of Ghana is proposing to be located in the northern regions of Ghana. The hub includes the large scale production and distribution of Blumberg [...]

The Oberoi Group announced the opening of The Oberoi, Dubai today. It will be the Group’s first property in the United Arab Emirates. Located at The Oberoi Centre, The Oberoi is stated to be a contemporary luxury hotel that embodies height, light and space. The hotel overlooks the iconic Burj Khalifa and each of the [...]

Gaining access to the millions of children trapped in Syria and at acute risk must become the international community’s priority, Save the Children said today, June 7, as the UN launched an emergency funding call. “What the UN announced today was the price tag of our collective political failure to end this conflict,” said Carolyn [...]

Janet Jackson, GRAMMY Award-winning and Oscar nominated artist, entertainer and actor is lending her talent and voice to support UNICEF in providing humanitarian assistance in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, where 1.4 million children are at risk of severe malnutrition, a potentially deadly condition if left untreated. “We are all facing a [...]

Now, in its 101st year, the global launch of ‘DAMAC Towers by Paramount’ in Dubai marks Paramount Pictures’ first venture into the hotel and real estate industry. DAMAC Properties, a private developer of luxury real estate in the Middle East, is launching the latest phase of the development at an exclusive road show taking place [...]

Teen superstar Justin Bieber is now set to wow his legion of ‘Beliebers’ from around the region for a second successive night on 5th May for his debut appearance in Dubai at the Sevens Stadium. The back-to-back Bieber concerts will be the highlights of Dubai Calendar’s line-up for May, and are among several events and [...]