DUBAI: The Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) recently highlighted the outstanding achievements of the maritime sector before a high-level delegation composed of senior managers and employees of 11 leading French maritime companies. Headlining the achievements was the recent honour naming Dubai as one of the top five cities in International Shipping Centre Development Index (ISCD). During the meeting, DMCA officials …

DUBAI: Emirates, the world’s largest international airline and South African Airways (SAA), the South African flag carrier, are expanding their strategic cooperation with enhancements to its codeshare agreement, opening up new destinations for both Emirates and SAA customers. Pending governmental approval, SAA and Emirates have signed an enhanced commercial partnership which will see the relationship between the two carriers grow …

ABU DHABI: Khalid Malik lends his voice for 3 Bahadur: Rise of the Warriors for the character of Khursheed. Known primarily for his radio shows and acting, this is the second sequel featuring Malik as Khursheed. Sharing details about the role, Malik comments, “my character is Khursheed and he runs a dhaaba. He’s a very down to earth humble man …

KARACHI: The Jinnah Society conferred its prestigious Jinnah Awards on prominent artist and social worker Jimmy Engineer and SOS Children’s Villages Pakistan Founding President Souriya Anwar in recognition of their selfless services for the humanity at large particularly for the special and orphaned children. Former Senate Chairman, Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, who was the chief guest of the award ceremony, …

PRAGUE: dnata, one of the world’s largest air services providers, has been expanding its operations and productio­­n in the Czech Republic to meet the growing demand for its quality inflight catering and inflight retail services.  Operating a state-of-the-art facility at Vaclav Havel Airport, the company currently serves 18 airlines in Prague. dnata’s growth in 2018 has been driven by a …

DUBAI: Emirates today announced it will introduce a daily A380 service for a temporary period between Glasgow and Dubai from 16 April 2019.  It will be the first time the popular double decker aircraft will operate on a scheduled basis to Scotland. The larger capacity A380 will replace Emirates’ current twice daily Boeing 777 service between Glasgow and Dubai from …

PESHAWAR: Telenor Velocity’s Duck Stories reached Peshawar as the region is producing phenomenal entrepreneurs. The event was attended by industry representatives and budding entrepreneurs from Peshawar and neighboring areas like Swat. DuckStories is a series of regular events where accomplished entrepreneurs and professionals share their career mistakes and failures with the audience. They share instances from their lives where they …

KARACHI: World’s renowned travel vlogger, Eva Zu Beck, has put Pakistan on the travel map for young people the world over. She has now partnered with country’s leading digital communications company, Jazz, for an enthralling digital travel show called – ‘Eva Travels Pakistan with Jazz’. For this reason, a grand launch event was held to not only showcase the show’s …

DUBAI: Dubai Duty Free received two significant awards at the recent Global Traveler – GT Tested Awards with the retail operator winning the “Best Duty-Free Shopping in the World” for the twelfth consecutive year and the “Best Duty-Free Shopping in the Middle East” for the second consecutive year. The awards were held on 12th December at The Peninsula Hotel in …

DUBAI: In a bid to further boost Dubai’s strong investment and trade relations with Spain, the Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI), the investment development agency of Dubai Economy (DED), recently held a strategic meeting with major industries and key investors at the Circulo Ecuestre in Barcelona, Spain in collaboration with Senda International Company. The meeting formed part of Dubai …