Saudi Arabia
Camel contact common in recent Saudi MERS cases
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Since 2012, Saudi Arabia has confirmed 1,728 MERS cases, including 701 deaths. Two people are being treated for the disease. The five patients with camel...
UAE
Why the UAE is attractive to foreign students
The UAE outranks Singapore, Switzerland, China and South Korea as a preferred study destination, new research suggests. The market research was conducted as partnership between...
Health
GCC tightens expat health screening
The GCC is tightening its medical screening process for newly arriving expats in an effort to keep the region free from communicable diseases.
The six-state...
Health
A cure for 3/4 of cancer sufferers within a decade?
Thanks to revolutionary advances in medical technology, three quarters of cancer patients will survive for at least ten years after diagnosis within the next decade, experts...
UAE
Workers get to speak better English in UAE
SmartReading is a reading programme started by the SmartLife in line with the 2016 UAE Government initiative of the Year of Reading. The five-month...
Money & Business
Saudi: 213% increase in smokers wanting to quit
Sharifa Al-Zahrani, the head of the ministry’s smoking cessation clinics, said that taxes are the most effective way to help people, especially the youth,...
UAE
McDonald’s UAE boss says adding healthy food to menu doesn’t work
The biggest challenge for McDonald’s UAE is “making people buy more salads,” according to its managing director and partner Rafic Fakih. Fakih said there...
UAE
Egg and sperm freezing growing among unmarried in the UAE
A growing number of unmarried individuals in the UAE are opting to freeze their eggs and sperm as the country awaits further updates on...
Education
What’s stopping you from getting rich
Journalist Napoleon Hill researched more than 500 self-made millionaires over 20 years before releasing his 1937 bestseller, “Think and Grow Rich.” In addition to...
Education
‘MicroMasters’ Surge As MOOCs Go From Education To Qualification
The future shape of graduate and executive education is coming into focus with the surge of “MicroMasters” certificate programs on edX, to which 1.7 million...