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Dubai-based Emirates airlines is on a recruitment drive and is set to hire 5,000 cabin crew members in 2024. The new hiring comes as Emirates begins to take delivery of its eagerly anticipated A350s from mid-year and the Boeing 777-Xs starting in 2025. The airline has 65 A350s and a mix of 205 777-9s and 777-8s in its order book. The recruitment drive is primarily for those who will soon or have recently stepped into the workforce. The airline is looking for fresh graduates with internships or part-time jobs experience, those with a year or so of hospitality or customer…
Having competed in the team event at last week’s inaugural Dubai Invitational, NFL legend Larry Fitzgerald Jr says golf is far more difficult to master than American football, the sport in which he made his name following a fantastic career with Arizona Cardinals. A keen golfer, Fitzgerald Jr didn’t need to be asked twice when the opportunity arose to play in the team event, where amateurs from the worlds of sport, business and entertainment are partnered with a professional to take on the course at Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club. Having been paired with Northern Ireland’s Tom McKibbin for…
TPAY to enable Mobile Payments for PUBG MOBILE in Egypt! Dubai, UAE, Jan 16, 2024: TPAY MOBILE, META’s most reliable digital micropayments facilitator, today announces through its partnership with Tencent, the launch of Direct Carrier Billing for PUBG MOBILE in Egypt. This launch provides gamers in Egypt to easily purchase PUBG MOBILE UC (unknown cash) through the official PUBG shop ‘Midasbuy’ and the UC they purchased is promptly added to their PUBG account. Thanks to our partnership, TPAY also enabled DCB payment for other Tencent games in UAE, Oman & Qatar. The new games include Synced, Undawn, and Whiteout Survival,…
Nvidia’s RTX 4070 is one of the best graphics cards you can buy, and it’s quickly dropping in price at the start of 2024. You might be tempted to pick one up, but with Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Super now here, the choice isn’t as simple as it once was. We’ve had a chance to fully test the RTX 4070 Super now, as you can read about in our RTX 4070 Super review. Coming in at the same price as the original model, this Super refresh manages to exceed expectations in just about every way. And it’s definitely the card you’ll…
Qatar’s prime minister offered stinging criticism of Israel and the international community on Tuesday over the ongoing Israeli war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who also serves as Qatar’s foreign minister, said a two-state solution was required to end the conflict and warned that Hamas’ October 7 attack and the Israeli response showed the region could not go back to the way it was before. “Gaza is not there anymore. I mean, there is nothing over there,” he said, speaking in Davos, Switzerland. “It’s carpet bombing everywhere.” He also brought up the ongoing…
Top multinational pharmaceutical companies have set up global capability centres By HP Ranina/NRI Problems Question: My son, who is working for a pharmaceutical company based in Europe, wants to join the global capability centre that the company has set up in India. I would prefer that he continues with his present employment in Europe rather than shifting to India. Am I right in my views? ANSWER: India is the hub for manufacturing pharmaceutical products including bulk drugs, vaccines, and affordable generic medicines. In the recent past, top multinational pharmaceutical companies have set up global capability centres (GCCs), mainly in Hyderabad…
Z Al-Sayyari, an Emirati woman in her 50s, is finally breathing a sigh of relief after a pituitary tumour causing severe vision loss and pain has been successfully removed through her nose. A multidisciplinary team of doctors at Abu Dhabi’s Burjeel Medical City (BMC) performed this life-changing minimally-invasive procedure. According to medical experts, endoscopic tumour resection through the nose is considered the most recent advancement in pituitary surgeries. For several months, Al-Sayyari had been suffering from headaches and visual deterioration. Later, she was diagnosed with a pituitary tumour by a doctor at a hospital in Al Ain. Stay up to…
OPPO and Counterpoint unveil in-depth industry report on the adoption and tech advances of telephoto lenses in smartphones The report looks into the rising popularity of telephoto lens-equipped smartphones and the reasons behind it OPPO leads the trends and continues to bring the technology from flagship to mass-market models Dubai, UAE, 16 January 2024 – A new report by market research firm Counterpoint sheds light on the evolving landscape of smartphone photography. According to Counterpoint Research’s most recent report, over 200 million telephoto lens-equipped smartphones were sold globally in 2022, with that figure expected to rise even further by 2024.…
Nvidia RTX 4070 Super MSRP $600.00 “The RTX 4070 Super is the graphics card you’ve been waiting for.” Pros Solid performance improvement over RTX 4070 Still highly efficient DLSS 3.5 Fantastic ray tracing performance Great value Cons Only minor uplifts in a few games 12GB of VRAM may limit some ray-traced titles at 4K Nvidia needed a response. The RTX 4070 has held strong as one of the best graphics cards you can buy, but after losing some positions to AMD’s cheaper RX 7800 XT, Nvidia needed to come back with a vengeance. The result is the RTX 4070 Super,…
Dubai is encouraging young Emiratis to get married, and the government is extending its support by launching the ‘Dubai Weddings’ programme. On Monday (Jan 15), the Community Development Authority announced the programme to support citizens getting married in the emirate, reducing their financial burdens, thus encouraging them to marry and improving family stability. The programme reflects Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai’s keenness to provide solutions to the challenges faced by couples preparing for marriage. It aims to offer solutions, initiatives, and support to ease their concerns and encourage…