Asma Ali Zain

DUBAI — “Dubai is our home, but we cannot live here forever,” opine an expat generation of youngsters searching for their roots. They are the offspring of expats who have been staying in the UAE for years, but are still yet to be welcomed by the local society.

DUBAI — The ban on smoking, which comes into effect by mid-February 2006, will also apply to workplaces, a senior official from the Ministry of Health told Khaleej Times yesterday.

DUBAI — Dentures are out and implantology is in as a long-term solution, says Dr Edwin Scher, a world-renowned expert in Implant Dentistry.

The 9/11 incident affected many lives world over, but for Jordanian national Mohammed J., it has posed a unique problem. For him, acquiring an original engineering degree he earned 16 years ...

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DUBAI — People in the West are genuinely ignorant about Islam, and in this ignorance, they link terrorism with Islam, said an expert on terrorism yesterday.

DUBAI – Democracy as perceived by the US should not be imposed on Iraq at this point of time, Prince Al Waleed bin Talal, the jet-setting prince of Saudi Arabia said yesterday. A vocal supporter of the US, Al Waleed bin Talal said that it was too early to let media rule in Iraq. "Iraq is a complicated country which has never experienced stability. Right now, it would be right to let the country have only one voice - one newspaper, one radio and one TV station," he said. Al Waleed bin Talal was being interviewed in the 'Spotlight' session of the Arab and World Media conference by Jim Kelly, Managing Editor, TIME Magazine and Khaled Al Maeena, Editor-in-Chief, Arab News.

The head of the United Nations World Food Programme said the agency can guarantee winter food supplies for hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in remote high-altitude villages in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, ...

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DUBAI — New health facilities, with a budget of Dh40 to 60 million, are being completed in Dubai at present, said Dr Ahmad Al Hashemi, Assistant Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health, and Director of Dubai Medical District.

Following the increase in health and medical fees in the UAE, more and more people are turning to pharmacists rather than consulting medical practitioners to avoid paying high consultation fees to doctors.

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DUBAI — The pocket-pinching move by the government to increase health and medical treatment fee in the country has had negative fallout, in that people are queueing up before pharmacists for "consultation" since they can’t afford the high fee.