the UAE

Now Dubai seems to have acknowledged reality: the UAE is one country, dependent on Abu Dhabi and its vast oil wealth.

"There was a misunderstanding between senior officials in the UAE and Finmeccanica leadership over specifications, " he said.

Residents of the UAE spend about USD 109 million a year on tobacco, she said.

BBC Middle East business reporter Ben Thompson said the threat by the UAE was likely an attempt to wring concessions out of RIM.

No definite conclusion is possible because it is unclear how much of Iran's trade with Europe is channelled via the UAE.

The UAE's telecoms regulator, TRA, said the lack of compliance with local laws raised "judicial, social and national security concerns" .

"It was very easy to bring them together and offer the UAE a complete package, " says Mark Yoon of CLSA, a financial-research firm.

Its hopes for a soft landing have always rested with its wealthy neighbour, Abu Dhabi, which sits on over 90% of the UAE's oil reserves.

Sheikh Mohammed said the UAE-China relations are currently at an important period of in-depth development and faced with good opportunities.

I believe the UAE has reached the point of no return when it comes to demographic imbalance.

In the UAE, this collaboration has led to a number of high -- profile commercial and residential properties in New Dubai.

The bail-out confirmed everyone's assumption that Abu Dhabi would not let the second-biggest member of the UAE fail.

Meanwhile, MMM reports that Flickr is now totally blocked in the UAE, after it was blocked by one Internet provider.

Sheikh Mohammed said the UAE expects that China will continue to play a positive role in international and regional affairs.

Abu Dhabi is one of seven semiautonomous emirates that make up the UAE.

With only a tiny percentage of the UAE's oil reserves, it has become adept at conjuring up ventures for others to finance.

For Gulf nations like the UAE, blessed with no shortage of sunlight, solar power could potentially be the oil of the future.

Indeed, the UAE's announcement is a reminder of how the region remains hostage to arbitrary decision-making from the top.

Even Abu Dhabi, the richest of the seven state lets making up the UAE, has had to silence the voice of dissent.

Bank of China announced its partnership with Mashreq, one of the UAE's financial institutions, to establish a "China Desk" in the UAE.

These moves renew concern among some people about efforts by the UAE and Saudi Arabia to control the flow of information.

Despite much of its riches having been founded on oil revenue, the UAE has recently been looking into renewable energy.

The UAE hopes to become the first Gulf state to develop a civilian nuclear programme to help meet soaring demand for power.

The UAE says the services are a threat to national security because government officials cannot access or monitor users' information.

Unlike Egypt, which celebrates 100 years of Arab cinema this year, the UAE was a desert backwater before the 1970s oil boom.

The Masdar Institute is part of a zero-emissions city being built in Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate in the UAE.

The Gulf is surrounded by some of world's biggest oil producers - Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Iran are all located along its shores.

Abu Dhabi has been working on a food security strategy and is building silos in Fujairah, a smaller member of the UAE.

The members are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE; Oman had already withdrawn from the monetary-union project.

Canada's minister of foreign affairs had refused several requests for a meeting from the UAE's ambassador in Ottawa.

Sharjah, another of the seven statelets making up the UAE, plans to host an outpost of INSEAD, a Paris business school.

Thousands of workers in the UAE have gone unpaid for six months or more because indebted employers fled the country.

Lately, the UAE, China and India have attracted interest from overseas universities hoping to set up offshore campuses.

The UAE is choosing an aircraft and will then hold a separate competition for a training system provider.

Dubai, located in the southern Persian Gulf on the Arabian peninsula, is both a city and an emirate in the UAE (United Arab Emirates).

Over the last calendar year my husband and I have used it as our home base as we relocated from the US to the UAE.

Following the UAE example, a number of GCC countries are considering a ban on the electronic cigarette citing health concerns.

This places their holdings behind only the UAE in terms of size.

The UAE has a highly mobile society that requires a new route around the Gulf south shore, connecting the three Emirates together.

Morocco announced the recall of the day, then ambassador to Syria, the UAE is the attack on the embassy to condemn the behavior.

The reality: Dubai, which enjoys a reputation as the most liberal emirate in the UAE, has long sustained an underground gay community.

The initial, primary focus is to support ground vehicle based ISR sensor solutions for the UAE Armed Forces.

Thanks to a liberal attitude to guest workers, in the UAE, for instance, over 90% of the private labour force is made up of foreigners.

The UAE went back to the Koreans and is in advanced talks.

How can they stay on the fast track if, as in the UAE, they cannot travel without a male chaperone?

The United States has been urging the UAE and other Gulf Arab to conform to the International Labour Organisation's standards.

Half its members are directly appointed by the UAE's seven emirs who also, via an opaque vetting process, choose the voters.

You can see this macroeconomics at work all over the UAE.

Last October the UAE denied a plane carrying the Canadian defence minister and chief of defence staff permission to land at Camp Mirage.

Goldman Sachs analysts said a "first stab" at HSBC's potential credit losses in the UAE was just over $600 million.

Tourism is a major part of the UAE's efforts to diversify its economy away from oil.

Some abandoned Arab embassies - including, last week, the UAE embassy - have also recently suffered a similar fate.

The UAE suffers from an automatic de stabiliser: 30 days after a foreigner loses his job, he loses his right to stay.

The UAE was chosen as the venue by the defending champions, the Swiss team Alinghi.

The first commercial interest came from the UAE where the super bus was flown in a jumbo jet.

Both companies have an impressive track record and their portfolio does the emerging skylines of the UAE, India and Pakistan.

The cases highlight the cultural ambiguity that permeates life in the UAE.

It is interesting to see the UAE develop a nuclear program.

The episode may have annoyed the UAE's telecoms regulator, perhaps partly explaining his tough line now.

Working for investors is the reputational damage that the UAE's ruling royal families may face.

Have investments in the UAE moved close to saturation level?

The UAE also wanted UAVs, in particular American Predators, to protect themselves against Iran.

The UAE has urged Tehran to take the island dispute to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

It aims to create jobs for Emirati citizens and provide aircraft maintenance to the UAE armed forces and other regional militaries.

"It's a final decision but we are continuing discussions with them, " Mohammed Al Ghanem, director general of the UAE's TRA, told Reuters.

The project will contain cultural, recreational and education facilities for women in the UAE.

The UAE Community Blog linked to the story and published excerpts from it, generating criticism from readers.

From the heady heights it reached in 2008, Dubai, one of seven members of the UAE, has fallen almost as far and as fast.

Last year Etisalat, a mobile-phone firm controlled by the UAE's government, sent an offer of a "software upgrade" to its BlackBerry users.

Since the airport has many shops, so it became a duty-free merchandise purchase in the UAE's main venue.

Called the Urban Tails, the new facility is seven star pet resort and is the first of its kind in the UAE.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Jordan could be among Arab states taking part.

In July, the French-owned, Bahamian-flagged ANL Australia bound for Iran was intercepted in the UAE after a US tip-off.

Etihad, an airline based in Abu Dhabi, the richest of the UAE's seven statelets, started flights to Baghdad in April.

Its executives declined interview requests in the wake of the UAE uproar.

UnitedHealth Group, an American insurer, estimates that 32% of the UAE's adults may have diabetes or pre-diabetes by 2020.

In the UAE, rebar prices are trending slightly above Turkish mills' prices nowadays.

The attacked region is Abu Dhabi, the capital region of the UAE, and the biggest region.

The facility will also provide small business resources and training for women in the UAE.

The landscape and climate of the UAE are integral to Emirati culture.

Now, Israel is attacking the Sharjah region in the UAE. The Sharjah region is the 3rd biggest region of the UAE.

Some may quietly exploit the UAE's pullout as ammunition against Dubai's claims in this regard.

More recent events have made the issue even more sensitive for the UAE.

China has praised the UAE's support in Xinjiang-related and human rights issues, he added.

In Qatar and the UAE, foreign workers are more than 90 percent of the workforce.

The reasoning is that the UAE is now wholly dependent on desalination to survive.

However it reflects official thinking in the most wealthy of the seven statelets that comprise the UAE.

And, apparently, officials in the UAE don't think they're getting that cooperation.

BBC article on usage of Bluetooth in the UAE for guys sending private notes to girls in public.

In the UAE, Shah Rukh has endorsed du, the country's second telecom operator other than Etisalat.

The UAE moved to improve conditions and Kuwait announced a reform of labor laws.

And the UAE's investment in the English Premier League encapsulates the new financial clout of the Gulf and the Middle East.

Despite the UAE's move, the monetary union's remaining backers seem keen to press on.

Iran has had control of the three islands since 1971, but recently agreed to negotiations with the UAE to resolve the dispute.

That should contain any immediate damage to the UAE's banking system.

Hamdan also reiterated that the UAE adheres to the one-China policy, which is a set position of the UAE.

He says the use of imported children as jockeys in camel racing first brought the issue to the fore in the UAE.

"The UAE and Qatar have definitely regressed, " says the ILO's Mr. Khan.

"I don't have anything to lose in this financial crisis, " said Ebtisam al-Kitbi, a politics professor at the UAE University in al-Ain.

Both sides say the UAE will forego enrichment and sign the protocol.

"Besides the UAE, we hope to expand our business and service to other Middle East countries in the future, " Ding said.

"We have an involvement with the two largest emirates in the UAE, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, " Mr Lanni said yesterday.

The UAE's suspension will begin on October 11 and will also apply to roaming BlackBerry devices.

This particular platform is owned by the UAE.

France, Malaysia and the UAE have already purchased the pod.

Dubai is the second largest emirate of the UAE, Dubai is building the world's a legend.

Ship arrived there with 10 hijackers, they will be sent to deal with the UAE Ministry of Interior.

People still have conferences and people are still traveling, so instead of going to Bahrain, they went to the UAE or Qatar.

Reported that the UAE is the second time in three months, the occurrence aircraft crash.

Middle East countries like Qatar, the UAE all sent immediate demands for labors such as construction workers, carpentry.

In the UAE, you can buy bars direct from a vending machine.

There are still some ongoing projects of smaller scale in Dubai and the UAE, but of course not at the levels of 2007 and 2008.

Tunisia and the UAE have also shown interest.

Abu Dhabi has nearly all the UAE's oil.

Foreigners do 60% of private-sector jobs in the GCC region; in the UAE, they do over 90%.

Some analysts think that, by importing both medical and expertise, the UAE could offer first-rate treatment.

Worse, the region is overbanked. The UAE alone has 52 banks.

Masud says the situation has most people in the UAE feeling vulnerable.

The rankings are dominated by European countries but also include the UAE, China and Russia in eighth, ninth and 10th place respectively.

The UAE ranks in sixth place, and holds a 7. 3pc share of global oil reserves.

In the UAE and Qatar it is also well into double digits.

Companies from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, for example, have leased farmland in Sudan and Pakistan, among other countries, to produce food.

When I first arrived in the UAE, I met up with a family friend who'd spent more years in the Middle East than in his native Ireland.

On March 14th, as the shows were about to open, the political unrest sweeping the Middle East drew in the UAE.

The ban in the UAE could affect 500, 000 BlackBerry users while Saudi Arabia has about 700, 000 users.