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			<title>Dubai gov't introduces part-time work option</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Move designed to increase productivity, help employees with work/life balance.]]></description>
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			<title>Sustained demand will drive real estate sector, says Alabbar</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["Domestic demand for real estate continues to outstrip supply and has positively shifted towards an end-user market," according to Mohamed Alabbar, Member of the Dubai Executive Council and Chairman of Emaar Properties in an address at the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Summit.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai's deputy ruler calls for more transparency</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sheikh Maktoum orders shake-up within government in bid to raise standards.]]></description>
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			<title>Will Aswaaq be the answer?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Plans for the UAE's biggest supermarket chain, Aswaaq, have signalled a major change in approach to local employment.]]></description>
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			<title>Flexible working = increased productivity</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has recognised that customer and employee needs are changing within the region and wants government departments to find an ideal working environment, to compliment these changes.]]></description>
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			<title>Think Tank to advise on healthcare funding</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai Executive Council's Health Insurance Committee (HIC) has formed a strategic Think Tank to advise it on new funding models for Dubai's healthcare system.]]></description>
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			<title>Flexi-work on the agenda</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  FMs could face extra workload, if flexible working hours come into play.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Developers given 'green' deadline</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai property firms have till January to comply with 'green' standards set to drive eco development.]]></description>
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			<title>UAE to open Vietnam embassy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Southeast Asian country will also establish embassy in Abu Dhabi, part of efforts to boost economic ties.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai ruler calls for greater ties with Vietnam</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sheikh Mohammad to meet with country's prime minister and president during visit.]]></description>
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			<title>Who would be a bachelor boy?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Uncertainty over UAE property laws has real estate agents calling for clarification.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai body to manage govt property</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Corporation will own all land and property registered to the Dubai government.]]></description>
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