Ship seen in the Strait of Hormuz off Oman Fears Iran may close the strategically vital oil route through the Strait of Hormuz has prompted the United Arab Emirates to seek an alternate route to export its product. OPEC’s third largest exporter of oil has almost finished constructing a pipeline that will allow it to reroute much of its oil exports, bypassing the Straits. Twenty per cent of the... 

Emirati officials have declared BlackBerry smartphones a potential threat to national security because users’ data is stored overseas, where local laws don’t apply and where analysts say it could be harder for authorities to monitor. The move renews concerns about efforts by the United Arab Emirates to control the flow of information in the Gulf nation, which includes the business hub... 

The United Arab Emirates is considering the introduction of quotas to restrict the flow of non-Arab immigrants allowed to work in the country. According to the pan-Arab daily, Al-Sharq al-Aswat, the government does not want to limit the entrance for workers from specific countries. But it wants greater control over immigration since 80 percent of the national foreign work force is of Asian origin. For...