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UAQ to go dry from May - end of the Barracuda? &section=theuae Oh dear! UMM AL QUWAIN — Umm Al Quwain has decided to close down all bars and nightclubs in the emirate from May 1. More than 25 nightclubs, which serve liquor and entert ...
From You Tube.......Achmed the dead terrorist etc If you liked that, this is the best choreographed pop video this year &feature=related and this features one of the best 'catholic' jokes ever, about 7 minutes in &feature=related ...
:) Post funny pics not worth starting a new thread about!! ...
residence visa for my daughter ...
ATTN Boxing fans: Hatton vs Pacquiao - Where to watch? ...
If Dubai is bad, why come to Dubai, Shk Mohammed asks!!! Shaikh Mohammed answered the questions posted to him recently online. In his answer to the latest negative reports by the British media, he said the following:
[color=blue]They may write whate ...
Inside Dubai's Labour Camps - PICS on April 20, 2009 A miserable situation of Labour camp in Dubai. &id=552873&ln=en ...
It really breaks your heart I'm sure the problem is not specific to this part of the world but its extremely sad. What did a child do to deserve this? ...
Surely not in Dubai, but it is! hahahaha Anybody else seen this in any of the news feeds?
Picked shamelessly from another forum :oops: ...


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Today's headlines everyone's gone mad??? Kuwait City: An Egyptian expatriate in Kuwait has been sentenced to life in prison for raping an Indonesian housemaid. The Dubai Court of First Instance found the 42-y ...
website for Abu Dhabi? Greetings, I like dubizzle for any classifides I need in Dubai. Is there any similar popular free site for Abu Dhabi? cheers ...
Rice a staple in your diet? I just read, or heard that rice is a staple in 1/2 the world's population. Is it in your's? I eat rice about once a month. I'm I missing anything. p.s. I hear, read about it becasue ap ...
Satellite/ Cable channels - UAE Clampdown
This is an on-off issue coming up at least twice every year. I have seen the dish TV package at a friend's place in Oman - and the package is amazing - +160 channels at about 20dhs a month. Mi ...
American Football Fans Well i might miss seeing some games.. but i will REALLY miss watching them at home with friends and some nice cold beers !!!!!!!! I am going to a couple of games before heading to Dubai.. I will enjo ...
Property Sector Shows Signs of Recovery, KT Reports! Too early to say that for sure!
TJ
[color=darkblue]Property Sector Shows Signs of Recovery![/color]
21 April 2009
DUBAI - The early signs of confidence are returning to D ...
Speed kills - FACT! %20%20%20%20&page=local%20news&title=Speed%20is%20a%20killer The number of injuries in speed-related accidents on Dubai’s roads rose to 375 last year, the Road and Transport Authority has ...
Slumdog mums fight over selling girl star - seriously? SLUMDOG Millionaire starlet RUBINA ALI's mum and stepmum fought in the street yesterday over an alleged attempt to sell the girl. Real mum KURSHIDA DEVADE and MUNNI QURESHI screamed and slappe ...
UK Pulls Another Out of the Hat Another great performer. Beautiful music by Julian Smith. ...
Fishing Got any photos of fish you've caught in Dubai? ...
Twittercom Are any of you on Twitter ? I notice that is a very different thing from . The latter is the famous site. I have come across Goldtwatter on there. Guess who that is. It is someone who is ver ...
The dreaded Dubai Airport Run; what other options are there? So you've lost your job, you have a reasonable debt and you now have 30 days to leave the country. In what situation is it better to stay rather than just go, and what are you options re: paying off ...
ay ay ay ay canta y no llores wanna go to mexico, get a bottle of tequila, cigar and some mariachis ...
Fast Food Quality of fast food restaurants here is average. I miss: Carl's Jr - and no, they are better and "larger" portion than Hardees here McDonald's - breakfast menu Burger King's - breakf ...
bye bye UAE well I'm traveling for 2-3 weeks to the tropical beaches of Asia ... yaa yaa I know you are all going to miss me :wink:
BUT I WILL BE BACK 8) ...
The BBC Panorama Documentary For those that haven't seen it: View it and make up your own mind. ...
Holy Crap the S*** is going to hit the fan This is all lies! Forum-poster Ebonics told us all his workers are happy to be exploited where he works. ...
Something Great Coming Out of the UK Susan Boyle!!!! What an amazing singer. Check out her singing "Cry Me a River" on YouTube. What a sweet, sweet lady and her gentleness is so touching. I wish her the absolute best. S ...
Johann Hari: How to spot a lame, lame argument I try to follow the UAE community blog every now and then. So today I came across the article of Mr. Sultan Qassemi and his comments on Johann Hari. I then read the comments below the article and ...
How to get Rental Deposit back? How do you get the deposit back (5k AED) when the landlord tells you flatout and directly into your face that this money is gone with the Estate Agent who made a runner (Opera) and that this is not h ...
how many of YOU consider these as art ?!! gafoorgk wrote:
they r 2 collections. navigate.
I rather not ...
Dubai a melting pot off late as I travel to Abu Dhabi, have started to realise that it is the capital that is actually a melting pot. I have so many nationalities having lunch together, having fun on the beach, having b ...
Live from Dubai's labour camps This is a live inspection of the labor camps with Video by Arabian Business
I just want to point out something... my dad works in the construction industry and he tells me many stories about th ...
Life in Dubai ...
Real Pirates Derek, if you want a conspiracy theory involving real pirates you should look into the fact that:
Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson (the two prime movers behind TARP and the bank bailout) are bot ...
World of Weird - Fir tree grows inside lung Thats exactly what I was thinking, how can a tree grow in the absense of light. This story is along the same lines when someone told they had found a kidney stone the size of a fottball :roll: ...
You are being LIED to about Somali pirates LizaMarie wrote:I was wondering how long before G came to the defense of the honrable Hari
There is nothing honorable to Mr. Hari dear. Its his fine piece of honest unbiased reporting that att ...
Billionaire City There are two new locales in our list of the top 10 billionaire cities: Chicago and Săo Paulo, Brazil, which tied for ninth place with Mumbai and Tokyo. Each of those cities has 10 billionaires in re ...
Champions League What do you think guys. ...
Bye Bye Dubai And greetings from the "Entertainment Capital of the World". I'm happy to report that I'm back and have already started my new job. Thank you DF for all the support. I'll be checking in fro ...
I have found the utlimate online search for food in UAE check this out cool menus ...
Can you list the best places to go out and eat? ...
Holdup in Dubai. Possible?? I'm don't know too much about solving the crimes on the the internet and that but Mrs Columbo, she can't get enough of it. Just one thing.... The person being robbed is carrying a motorcyle hel ...
Finacial Times opinion on Dubai ...
Has anyone tried 'Safe Driver'? The company that takes you home in your own car after a night out. I called them but thought Dhs 120 was a bit steep - so I took the risk instead. Dhs 50 would be more reasonable. ...
Does any know of some totally outstanding restaurants... Sweet where is it..... lol ...
Western World kanelli wrote:Why are some labels geographic while others are religious?
This is what wikipedia has to say:
The term Western world, the West or the Occident (Latin: occidens -sunset, - ...
Banging house track and dance music where to go in UAE Dubai ...
shocking DF zoon Ok ok you all reveled the DARK SIDE OF DUBAI, lets have some fun now, god forbid if you know what that means, just kidding :lol: ok lets have a time off on this thread and see who is the most distur ...
No NOC But Yes...Ban Lifting Fee LizaMarie wrote:Got banned too, cancelled without NOC. Old company in Sharjah, new company in Sheikh Zayed and was able to lift my ban. Old contract was 3 years unlimited and have stayed with old ...
(DJ) Jayden Alva on Top ...
Official Sense of Humor! Aussie Style!! Hmm....why come naked ? Why can't we watch the Vienna choir boys racing hippos fully clothed...is king cross a nudist colony ! ...
Just because it's awsome! Hyperlite Rewritten teaser! I cannot wait for this to come out! Man, what a lifestyle! ...
Arabtec CEO hits back over BBC's labour camp claims Once i visited a labour camp in Dubai, And really found surprise the conditions of the labour in the camp. Especially the area around the camp was totally dirty and filthy. It is also the shameful fo ...
isn't it a coooooooooooool device ?!!! &feature=player_embedded ...
who is the best barbarians ?!!! ...
Olympics ...
Dirty robe "newbie" with a question? Hello everyone. Hope you are all doing fine.
Question: Are we not allowed to advertise in the forums by way of a tag or links? I've seen some posts mentioning not advertising but I see adds an ...
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A new press freedom law, and UAE still getting criticised.
Quoted in full:
by Soren Billing on Monday, 13 April 2009
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the UAE to clarify and amend parts of its pending media law, which the government ...
UAE Wakeboarding competition stop 2! This Friday/Saturday April 17th / 18th at Al Jazira, Ghantoot. Exit 399 off Sheikh Zayed Road. Competitors from across the UAE are competing in this 2nd stop of the 5 stop UAE Wake Tour. Amatue ...
India's Contribution to Global Warming 283 million COWS farting and crapping!!! ...
Should exit?? ...
Learn how Filipinas verses Non-Filipinas look!!! I just joined the forum today and had a great laugh already :) Hmmm... let me start by saying, I am a Filipina, and a proud one. I was in Paris, France 2 years back, having my quiet dinner when ...
Residential Rents in Dubai Now on Par with Sharjah!!! That's according to a leading real estate broker. Hard to believe. I know. Well, believe it or not, here it is: 8) 8) ...
To the aged/the experienced WhiteJade wrote:Have you always had a plan on how your life should be like, Or have you just gone wherever life led you?
Do we always need a plan?
Have you now become who you wanted to ...
HUG Tress... Show Respect!! ...
Fatal Accidents are increasing...
No more words to say!!
Only prayers for parents who lost the soul of their lives.
Vera. ...
Has any one tried ordering food from menu.ae ...
Western Expats Full of Praise for Dubai!!!! As published in GN today.
It's clearly not a survey. But it would've been better if they had conducted a scientific poll with a big enough sample!!
[color=blue]Western expatriates who ...
media bashing is it ? I don't know what is the right description or phrase for what is going on here but I'll call it media bashing LOL I don't know but it seemed funny how it represent what is going here in DF somehow L ...
NOW what do you think about THIS....?? NOW what do you think about THIS....??
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Anyone still in Dubai? This forum seems to be littered with posts from a guy in the Netherlands who wants to move here....what happened to the folks that are actually in Dubai? Cat got your tounges? :D :D :D ...
thats a good effort This is really productive in all aspects.
the community with the police cooperation, the finding solution instead of only settling for pointing at the problem and taking responsibility toward y ...
Luxury Yachts in Dubai Marina ...
Attractive Older Women (this is NOT for the Romance section) ...
BARBICAN TURBO - Arab World Gears Up for Custom Auto Show! The Arab World Gears Up for Barbican Turbo - the Region’s Premier Custom Car and Motorcycle Show Abu Dhabi, UAE, 4 April 2009: Custom car and motorcycle enthusiasts from all over the Arab worl ...
Shk. Mohd Will Personally Answer Your Questions. Here's How! Pankaj wrote: Anosh wrote:That would be great and every one can get an opportunity to get talk. Questions can be submitted as of Saturday April 11.
Anosh, dude, stop spamming arabianbusiness ...
Cheapest Laptops hi if any one's looking for Cheap brand new laptops that are way cheaper than the market, contact me. Superb prices for all sony vaio's ...
Worldguy I am British, but mixed race ..... blue and brown blood mixed, still kept the red flowing in me. I have decided to spend time every where. In UAE, its the poverty stricken South Asians, in India i ...
Advisors and experts with fake qualifications Misery Called Life wrote:Well there goes half your professionals from India and Pakistan.....since it's mostly these countries where bulk of the shady degrees comes from!
Have to agree with yo ...
Hope to Filipinos!! Each unemployed worker who returns home receives dhs1,000 and is allowed to borrow dhs5,000 to start a new business. “More than 3,000 workers have returned to the Philippines due to the global ...
escape from Dubai i spent 4 years in Dubai after i was invited by the chairman of Dubai world, at the begining everything was nice, when they need you, Emirati's are always helping and smiling, i developed a state of ...
Looking at the "Bright Side" of Dubai - Answer of Earlier this week The Independent published a lengthy article by Johann Hari headlined “The Dark Side of Dubai.” One of the prominent Emiratis featured, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, hits back at the repo ...
Top Gear isn't it the coolest, most daring and funniest show ever or what. I get goosebumps like a 17 years old on her first date when the show is about to start :lol: ch ch ch check it out ...
Beware of this "scareware" scam. It looks very con The Conficker Worm has awakened yesterday. It's spreading fast. It hit 12 million computers already. Watch out! ~y2009m4d9-Conficker-Virus-wakes-up / ...
Have you ever thought of joining Interpol,CIA or FBI? hey guyz just wanted to ask all of you that have you ever though of joining the Interpol, CIA or the FBI? I mean do you guys think there is a future in that type of career is it worth it? How many pe ...
Cursive Do you write in cursive? I do but I heard it's dying. ...
Today's The Independent Article!! Most damning one till now!
The dark side of Dubai
Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that ...
Salat & Qiblah for BlackBerry As many of you, I carry a BlackBerry phone. I've been quite unhappy with some of the applications out there that provide prayer times. So instead of complaining about it, I decided to build my own ap ...
Somewhere over the rainbow Here is the timeless melody by the Bruddah Great IZ, something today just reminded me of it .Enjoy ...
Is Obama really the first black US president? Some historians say he certainly won't be the first president with Black ancestors - just the first to acknowledge his Blackness. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warr ...
Dubai Taxi Meters will Now Tick for Every Waiting Minute! [color=darkblue] Dubai Taxi Meters will Now Tick for Every Waiting Minute [/color]
Joy Sengupta
9 April 2009
DUBAI — Drilling an even bigger hole in the pockets of people travel ...
Over 97% of all email is ‘unwanted’ Microsoft says that more than 97% of all email is unwanted. I think this ratio should be more than 97%. :D . i found it here ...
oh! another one from ksa..... :oops: ...
BARBICAN TURBO - FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! Follow Barbican Turbo on Twitter! If you haven't been on twitter before its a great way for you to communicate with us, join in the conversation and keep up to date on what we're doing! See you ...
Date With Rudeboy :D Love it, great rant !!! :lol: ...
13 year old airsofting? hey there, im 13 and very interested in airsofting, I have been researching it for atleast a year now. I am very responsible and mature so I was wondering what the minimum age to play here in dubai ...
Dubai - A Greater Ponzi Scheme than Bernie Madoff? In my daily strive for the truth about money and gold, I happened to walk into this article that mentions the author undisclosed sources about Dubai being the mother of all ponzi schemes! Bernie M ...