Situation worsens on Gulf exchanges

The Dubai Financial Market on Tuesday lost 182.64 points, or 5.14%, to close on 3,369. Among the day’s big losers were Arabtec, down 12.09%, and Tamweel, which dipped 10.48%. The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange also fell sharply, down 162.87 points, or 4.58%, to end the day on 3,395.
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For third consecutive post-Eid session, Gulf bourses continued to post heavy losses after pressure from the international crisis and selling by foreign portfolios. Despite international markets closing up yesterday, local markets refused to follow same pattern. Muscat was the biggest loser going down 7.2% followed by Tadawul 7%, Dubai 5.1%, ADX 4.5%, Kuwait 2.7%, Doha 1.5% while Bahrain lost the least, only going down by 1.5%.

EID MUBARAK TO ALL

Missing South African woman Kerry Winter is dead

The 1st case of 2008 of a Missing Expat woman - Murdered by the Boy Friend.

Illicit physical relationships have grown very common in UAE specially in the Modern Developed Dubai, the Expats practice Living together life style, despite law of the land despise, detest and BAN such relationship status.

The main suspect in the Kerry Winter case has told police that she was dead in the car while with him but has not confessed to murdering her, Gulf News has learned.

The police are continuing to look for the body. as if it is not a human body it is a needle in haystack.

The 35-year-old woman was last seen on August 20.

Authorities have “crimnally” declined to comment as the investigations are underway.

It would not be unusual before the Dubai police put up a hush hush on this murder and do all the proceedings quietly without bringing the trail & its details to the media.

The Killer another expat shall be made an example of justice & punishment according to the law of land.

at the sun down today in Middle Eastern Gulf the Lunar Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan will start,
come Tuesday morning, the office schedules will be different, the traffic chaos timings between Dubai & Sharjah will change and the attitudes of common people will be different.

Ramadan is month of fasting from Dawn till Dusk, month of seeking forgiveness of our mis-deeds from ALLAH (SWT) and asking for protection & shield from HELL,. This month gives an extra opportunity to look around us and reach out to those who are in NEED of attention physical, materialm and or financial.

Zakat mandatory charity for ALLAH (SWT) from the our prosperity is also calculated at the begin-ing of Ramadan to be distributed among the needy.

23 Sept onwards festive season will start people will start preparing for EID-Al-Fitr, expats or locals all will be shopping, expats will be extra busy preparing for short vacations to go back home and celeberate festivities with the near & dear ones,

Ramadan brings us enough opportunities to seek forgiveness from ALLAH (SWT) and Be close to ourselves and prepare for our final journey.

Reach out see what Ramadan hold for YOU,

Happy and a very Blessed Ramadan to ALL of YOU

Tourist & Shoppers at Dubai’s Ibn Battuta Mall had a narrow escape on Sunday when two decorative panels fell from the ceiling at the building’s Egypt Court.

Nobody was injured in the incident, which occurred at approximately 2pm, but debris was left strewn across the floor.

Egypt Court, is closed for visitors.

Any readers have pictures… Please post

It’s been just about impossible to get a hotel room in Dubai over the last few weeks. In fact I know of business people who’ve had to postpone their visits because they literally couldn’t find one room for the nights they needed to be here.

It’s the tourist season of course, the weather being perfect now and the ideal get-away from the freezing cold of northern Europe and North America.

But in addition to that we’re in the middle of the events season. We’ve had the huge Dubai Air Show, the Big 5 construction exhibition, powerboat championship at Mina Seyahi and many other events happening together or one right after the other.

Now we have the Fourth Dubai International Film Festival, with stars from Hollywood, Bollywood and elsewhere plus hundreds of producers, directors and all the other back-room people who make movies possible.

There’s plenty on that, with photos of the stars, at the Gulf News website. Here are some links:

Clooney, Sharon Stone

Ready to roll

Festive preparations

December 2 marks the 36th year of the federation of Gulf emirates into the country called the United Arab Emirates.

And united they are - I believe it’s actually the longest-lasting federation in the Arab world.

The UAE flag.

When the British pulled back from the area, in what was known as the ‘east of Suez policy’, most of what had been the Trucial States joined together in federation, Bahrain and Qatar deciding to go-it-alone.

In 1971 six of the emirates became the UAE, with Ras Al Khaimah joining a year later.
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The 10th Dubai Air show is in full swing at the Dubai Airport Expo center, running between 11th and 15th Nov.

The show boasts the very best of exhibitors from around the world, including the grand Airbus A380. It is reported that a sheik of Saudia Arabia has ordered the 1st VIP A380 during his visit to the show.

head over to http://www.dubaiairshow.org/ for more info

I live at Dubai Marina and yesterday evening drove to Burj Dubai Old Town to meet a group of friends. The journey is less than half an hour.

It occurred to me that in that short distance I saw:

The world’s tallest building, Burj Dubai.

The world’s largest man-made marina, Dubai Marina.

When you live here and see these things being built every day you tend to just accept them without much thought. Pause to think about it and it really is astonishing for a place as small as Dubai.

Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, from Old Town

Yesterday evening Burj Dubai overtook Taipei 101 to become the world’s tallest tower, reaching 512.1 metres (1680 feet). It already had the most floors in the world when it reached 120 , but now has 141 and still has a long way to go.

Here’s a photograph I took this morning - unfortunately a hazy, dusty morning with a swirling wind causing dust to blow about.

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