DUBAI: Hospital beds and waiting areas of all Dubai Health Authority(DHA) hospitals, primary health centers and specialty health centers will be equipped with android tablets, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported, quoting a top DHA official as (...)
Women in Iran are becoming more angry and are beginning to show their frustration through underground campaigns aimed at ending what activist Samira Mekhani told Bikyanews.com is "the bigotry of a male-dominated society." For her and other women in (...)
DUBAI: An Indonesian domestic worker has been arrested and charged with "practicing magic" against her employers and "seducing" a 9-year-old boy into having sex with her, police confirmed to Bikyanews.com on Tuesday.
The Saudi employer in the (...)
DUBAI: Women in the United Arab Emirates are once again speaking out against a court ruling that set free a man after he was accused of raping a woman he was working with.
A court in Ras Al Khaimah acquitted a barber of charges of raping his female (...)
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's religious police raided a party at a popular hotel where some 100 girls reportedly participated in a contest for the most beautiful ‘tomboy.'
Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, backed (...)
DUBAI: Optimism is still bounding in Kuwait after the Institute of International Finance (IIF) revised down its economic growth outlook for the UAE to 3.6 percent for 2013, from a previous forecast of 4.8 percent.
In 2013, the IIF also predicted (...)
DUBAI: In an exclusive interview with Australian media, Alicia Gali talked about being drugged, gang-raped and then imprisoned in Dubai for "illicit sex" in an incident that left many women in the Emirates angered and frustrated over the (...)
DUBAI: A couple who were caught by Dubai police having sex in the backseat of a taxi in the city are to be jailed for two months for violating the city's "illicit sex" law.
Dubai's highest court overruled on Monday the appeal lodged by R.B., a (...)
DUBAI: Kuwait women are hopeful that as they are being allowed to work as paramedics in the country the overall status of women in the small Gulf country will improve. Kuwait saw its first female unit graduate on Saturday.
"This is a momentous day (...)
DUBAI: In a move aimed at helping to boost Kuwait Airways, sources close to the company said the Kuwaiti national carrier is looking to purchase some 25 new Airbus aircrafts to replace the aging ones already in the air.
Airbus SAS is close to (...)
DUBAI: A Philippines woman was reportedly "clinically dead" at a hospital in Kuwait. However, miraculously she returned to the living after giving birth to a baby boy at a local hospital in what doctors are describing as "spectacular."
"We could (...)
DUBAI: There won't be a ban on bikinis or alcohol in Egypt just yet. According to the country's Tourism Minsiter Hisham Zaazou, the government has no intention of cracking down on women who wear bikinis or foreigners coming to the country and want (...)
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's ministry of health has reported that two more people have died from novel coronavirus, a new strain of the virus similar to the one that caused SARS, in an outbreak in al-Ahsa region of the country.
The deputy health minister (...)
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has beheaded a man after he was convicted of killing a relative in the kingdom's north, the interior ministry said. Awad Rawili stabbed to death Jazaa Rawili, a relative, during an argument , said the statement carried by the (...)
DUBAI: Women in Iran are becoming more angry and are beginning to show their frustration through underground campaigns aimed at ending what activist Samira Mekhani told Bikyanews.com is "the bigotry of a male-dominated society." For her and other (...)
DUBAI: The 9th International Zayed Charity Marathon, which begins on Saturday in New York City aims to raise awareness concerning kidney disease and increase funding for lifesaving programs, United Arab Emirates officials said.
Local media hailed (...)
DUBAI: Sanjeev was able to get out of Saudi Arabia last month after having spent close to 6 months in what he described as "poor" conditions. His sponsor, a requirement for all foreign works in the ultra-conservative Gulf country, refused to pay him (...)
RIYADH: The Saudi Arabia health ministry has reported 13 cases in a recent outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus that has emerged from the Gulf and spread as far as Britain and France, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, and 7 (...)
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is relaxing its restrictions on girls able to play sports in the country, but at the same time the ultra-conservative country again showed its ugly face towards women with a university recently banning women from hugging on (...)
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates and the city of Dubai have launched a new Arabic version of the Coastal Zone and Waterways Management Section that will detail and monitor conditions along the coast. The goal of the new site is to offer a database (...)
DUBAI: United Arab Emirates Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan said on Thursday that the greatest threat to the Arabic language, as well as Islam, was the rising influence of globalization and (...)
DUBAI: After 26 years outside the organization, the United Arab Emirates has returned to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) on Wednesday.
"The UAE plays a central role not only in the development of tourism in the region but also (...)
DUBAI: The concert for massive international sensation Justin Bieber was moving along smoothly. Then all pandemonium was unleashed after a fan in Dubai rushed the stage, snuck through security and went after the teenage star.
The fan attempted to (...)
RIYADH: The shop is full as women take our items not usually thought of when thinking Saudi Arabia. Garters, skimpy panties and bras line the walls as women, young and old, look for the next naughty item to take home to their husband. But another (...)
DUBAI: Japan and Saudi Arabia condemned "grave" human rights violations by Syria's regime which they said has lost its "legitimacy", in a joint statement on Wednesday after a meeting of top officials.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived (...)