NEWS & INSIGHTS

In February this year, on the occasion of the launch of Relocate Global’s Guide to International Education and Schools, education experts and school leaders, as well as HR and relocation professionals, assembled at London’s Institute of Directors to discuss emerging education […]

Expats must face down homesickness, particularly at the beginning of their time abroad, and from time to time throughout their expat experience. Homesickness is a normal part of living far away from friends and family. It can be particularly acute […]

A Zimbabwean court has charged a Kuwait embassy official in Harare with human trafficking after 200 local women were allegedly lured to the Gulf country before they were turned into slaves. Brenda Avril May, a secretary for former Kuwait ambassador […]

The Dubai Safari Park has started to receive the first of the animals that will be the foundation stock for the collection, it was announced on Tuesday. The project, located at Al Warqa district, will cover a total area of […]

DUBAI // Up to 20 private schools are expected to open in the emirate in the next academic year, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority said. There are 173 private schools in Dubai. Eleven opened in 2014 and last year, […]

DUBAI // Employees of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce are irate that their cars have yet to be removed from a company car park in Jebel Ali, which was flooded by the heavy downpours last week. A staff member said […]

Kingdom Holding revealed that the 1km tower had reached its 37th floor. It will overtake the 830-metre Burj Khalifa once complete with a gross floor area of 245,000 sqm. Saudi Arabia’s 1km Kingdom tower, which has just been renamed Jeddah […]

Saudi Arabia’s domestic airports recorded a 51.5 percent increase in the number of international flight services in 2015, according to the last figures from the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). The number of international services from the kingdom’s domestic […]

South Africa and Saudi Arabian ACWA Power launched a $328 million solar power plant in the Northern Cape province on Monday, as Africa’s most industrialised country rushes to expand its power supply and cut its coal reliance. The Bokpoort Concentrated […]

ABU DHABI // Seventeen private schools, including two all-girls institutes, are expected to open in the emirate over the next two years, and between them they will enrol 24,000 pupils. Abu Dhabi Education Council said the schools would help to […]

Dubai has revealed that it will organise the first World Future Sports Games in December 2017 as part of its new economic sector, Future Sports, supported by the city’s World Federation of Future Sports. The event will feature nine competitions […]