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Why Dubai is taking responsibility for how its residents ‘feel’

Dr Lal Bhatia, a Dubai-based strategic communications consultant, writes about the Dubai Civility Committee's five-indicator framework to measure civility visual, public cleanliness, discipline and order, public behaviour and public calmness.

"By treating these as trackable civic outputs and not just aspirations – Dubai has done something that no G20 city, for all its institutional sophistication, has managed. It has made the “experience” of a city a matter of official record," he writes.

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u/TheNational_News — 2 days ago
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Inside the Maltese Falcon, the Dh2.5-million-a-week ($680k) superyacht

Commissioned by the late American investor Tom Perkins, she was conceived as a technical experiment as much as a yacht – a clean‑sheet attempt to rethink how a large sailing vessel could be engineered, sailed and operated. The result is one of the most unconventional superyachts ever built.
Now, under the aegis of Jumeirah Group’s ultra-exclusive Prive Collection, the Maltese Falcon is entering a new, by-invitation-only era.

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u/TheNational_News — 3 days ago
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Construction work on the first phase of the Dubai Loop is set to begin next year - and is slated to be up-and running in two years

u/TheNational_News — 3 days ago
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‘I want to make my country proud’: UAE teenager Zamzam Al Hammadi to make history at PFL in Dubai

Safe to say the 18-year-old is already making her country proud.

Zamzam Al Hammadi is set to make history as the first Emirati female to compete for the Professional Fighters League in Dubai, where she will face Abeer Mansour in an amateur strawweight bout.

In an interview with The National, the Abu Dhabi teenager spoke about her ambitions, her role models and how she balances studies with training, and shared some truly inspirational insights.

A great read.

thenationalnews.com
u/TheNational_News — 7 days ago