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Of these deputations and political representatives, the oldest and most important was to the Emir of Abu Dhabi, who was based in the city of Abu Dhabi, now the capital city of the UAE and the site of the modern British embassy. The UK also maintains an embassy in Dubai, subordinate to the Abu Dhabi embassy, headed by a Consul General.
British Council Delhi launch of Mix The City Delhi, 6 April 2017 British Council building in Hong Kong. The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.
Scott McDonald was born in Toronto, Canada. In the late 1970s, Scott's family moved to Saudi Arabia. His father (a doctor) and mother (a teacher and nurse) were involved in the early days of both the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh and the Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, after which they moved to Dubai.
Over 130,000 British nationals live in the UAE, majority of them residing in Dubai, with citizens engaged in business across the UAE. [21] Beside this each country share consistently high rates of mutual trade and investment. The UAE is the UK’s largest trading partner in the region and its 19th largest trading partner globally.
Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates describe the foreign workers who have moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for work. As a result of the proximity of the UAE to South Asia and a better economy and job opportunities, most of the migrant foreign workers are from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Philippines and Pakistan.
In the desert some 30km from central Dubai’s towering hotels and lavish shopping malls is a “hellish” Dubai prison, where inmates talk of being subjected to torturous conditions. British ...
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The first wave concerns migration to the GCC region prior to the British arrival in the so-called Trucial States, being modern-day Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE, in 1820.The oldest known maritime trading route is the one between the Indus Valley civilisation and Dilmun in modern-day Bahrain.