In 2002, the village of Dasht, located in the Pamirs of Tajikistan was completely destroyed by a glacial lake outburst flood, leaving dozens of residents of the village dead and hundreds homeless. In response to this disaster, joint European-Tajik scientific studies were conducted in 2005...
Democracy in Central Asia in the making At the recent Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, host Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s move to showcase a different face to the war mongering regime of Russian President Putin, calls for...
Sarah Al Amiri, Minister of State for Public Education and Advanced Technology, visited a GE facility in Dubai, and met with senior officials from its energy, healthcare and aviation sectors. Discussions were held at GE’s first of its kind in the region, state-of-the-art gas turbine...
UAE residents with loans will be relieved this time it won’t be another 0.75% increase The UAE and some other Gulf central banks have already matched the 0.5 per cent rate hike with immediate effect, and which has to a large extent been factored in by local and regional businesses...
For Dubai businesses, growth pace lowers but new jobs up in November: S&P Global Dubai: Businesses in Dubai recorded further gains in November, helped by the bounce provided by the start of the FIFA World Cup – but the pace of growth softened to a nine-month low, according to...
