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Les Khan- CEO of Citizenship by Investment Programme of St Kitts and Nevis reportedly stayed at Armani Hotel Dubai, Downtown for three nights during his official visit to Dubai in November 2021. As per sources, he was accompanied by Ying Jin (CEO of Caribbean Galaxy Real Estate Ltd.) It was revealed that both Les Khan and Ying Jin duo stayed in the same suite and accompanied each other during St Kitts and Nevis delegation’s official visit to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The sources stated that Les Khan and Ying Jin (CEO of Caribbean Galaxy Real Estate Ltd.) spent three nights together in the luxury suite while sharing the same bed during their stayover. They were together from 16 November 2021 to 18 November 2021. The closeness of the CEO with a CBI Programme agent can disregard the impartial nature of the unit’s functioning. The citizenship by investment programme applications are processed by the Citizenship by Investment Programme Unit of St Kitts and Nevis, but the duo's close-

The desert has never been far from Dubai's doorstep. Now a modern financial hub of some three million people, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) most populous city remains surrounded on one side by sea, on the other by a seemingly endless carpet of sand. Over the last 50 years the city has become a somewhat improbable success story, transforming from a sleepy fishing port to a shining urban metropolis. But despite its opulence, the city faces a major challenge: encroaching deserts which threaten the emirate's remaining fertile land. The UAE is around the same size as Portugal, but some 80% of its land area is already desert. Its ecosystem is fragile and, partly due to desertification, much of its most valuable land is coming under increased strain. A government report published in 2019 stated that "with an increase in population and food consumption systems, land degradation and desertification are becoming rampant". Finding effective solutions has become a priority for

  With the advent of new-age technologies, the UAE’s job market is constantly evolving as the public and private sectors are constantly adopting these new technologies. It’s expected that the UAE’s job market will witness substantial changes as a result of rapid technological developments and modern techniques, requiring job seekers in the country to upskill to match the requirements of the local and global employers. A Bayt.com survey has revealed that although 80 per cent of respondents in the Mena region are satisfied with their professional and personal growth during the past year, finding a new job emerges as the top career-related resolution for 56 per cent of respondents, followed by getting a promotion or a salary raise (21 per cent), learning new skills at work (21 per cent) and improving relationships with colleagues and managers (2 per cent). The UAE’s federal ministries have always been a guiding force for the sectors that they’re regulating. Keeping this tradition alive, t

Saudi Arabia is considering plans to cancel the much derided foreign worker sponsorship system, known as kafala and replace it with a new form of contract between employers and employees. More than ten million foreign workers are said to be living in Saudi Arabia under the decade old kafala system, which rights groups say leaves workers vulnerable to exploitation. Kafala requires them to be sponsored by a Saudi employer and be issued an exit/re-entry visa whenever they want to leave the country. The move would be the latest in a series of economic reforms as the country turns away from its dependence on oil revenues under the Kingdom’s Vision 2030. The abolition of the sponsorship system would give expatriate workers freedom to secure exit and entry visas, receive the final passport exit stamp without a sponsor, and gain employment without approval from a sponsor. “The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development intends next week to announce a new initiative that improves the co

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lodged a criminal complaint against Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders over a series of insulting tweets. Wilders shared a cartoon picture of Erdogan wearing a bomb-resembling hat on his head with the caption “terrorist” on Saturday. On Monday, he posted an image of a sinking ship with a Turkish flag on it. “Bye bye @RTErdogan. Kick Turkey out of NATO,” he said under the photo. Erdogan’s lawyer Huseyin Aydin submitted the complaint to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s office for “insulting the president” – a crime in Turkey punishable by up to four years in prison. “Suspect Wilders, in his content targeting our first [directly] elected [by public] president, used expressions insulting the honour and dignity of our president, and committed the crime publicly by targeting his personality, dignity and reputation,” state-run Anadolu news agency quoted the complaint as saying on Tuesday. ‘Fascism’ Wilders is one of Europe’s most prominent

Underlining that political instability, long-festering conflicts, sectarian divides, issue of refugees and terrorism continue to plague the Middle East, India on Monday called on concerned parties in the region to completely stop support to terrorist forces like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and others. In a statement during the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on ‘The Situation in the Middle East’, TS Tirumurti, India’s permanent representative at the UN, highlighted New Delhi’s stand on “interlinked and mutually reinforcing challenges” faced by the people of the Middle East and noted that the Covid-19 pandemic has only “exacerbated the threats posed by these challenges”. India has invested much in the peace and stability of the region by deploying its personnel as part of UN peacekeeping forces, through humanitarian assistance, development cooperation and capacity building, and will continue its contribution towards peace-building in the Middle East, Tiru

Everyone is facing change, but a whole generation of young people will bear the brunt of COVID-19’s economic fallout for decades to come. This is a moment when successful companies and business leaders must present real and immediate solutions to help retool and retrain these young people to harness their talents and pave a new path forward. Even before the pandemic, the fortunes of young workers were not faring well around the world. When global growth rates were rising, an estimated 70.9 million young people languished unemployed in 2017, bringing the global youth unemployment rate to 13.1 per cent. According to the  International Labour Organization , labour force participation rate of young people (aged 15–24) has continued to decline; young people are three times as likely as adults (25 years and older) to be unemployed. This is partly because their limited work experience counts against them when they are applying for entry-level jobs. But there are also major structural barriers