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Kyrgyz-Kazakh production nominated for ‘Best Asian TV Series’ at Busan Film Festival

Kyrgyz-Kazakh production nominated for ‘Best Asian TV Series’ at Busan Film Festival

BISHKEK: ‘The Black Yard’, a joint Kyrgyz-Kazakh TV series, has been nominated in the Asia Content Awards and Global OTT Awards 2023 – “Best Asian TV series” at Busan International Film Festival. Busan’s awards to recognise streaming and TV content, now known as the Asia Content Awards and Global OTT Awards, has recently joined forces […]

Fujairah Al Bader Festival set to highlight spiritual Mawlid values

Fujairah Al Bader Festival set to highlight spiritual Mawlid values

FUJAIRAH: Al Bader Festival will be held on September 18-23 under the patronage of Fujairah Crown Prince H.H. Shaikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi. The festival, in its third edition, is a spiritual and social-cultural commemoration of the birth (Mawlid) of Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) in 570. It will be held at the […]

South Korea pledges additional $300 million to Green Climate Fund at G20 session

South Korea pledges additional $300 million to Green Climate Fund at G20 session

NEW DELHI: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged an additional $300 million to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as part of the country’s efforts to help counter climate change. Yoon made the announcement during the first session of the Group of 20 (G20) summit under way in New Delhi, which was held under the […]

ADIHEX 2023 concludes amid magnificent figures, pledges for brighter future

ADIHEX 2023 concludes amid magnificent figures, pledges for brighter future

ABU DHABI: The 2023 Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (ADIHEX) has successfully concluded its 20th edition with magnificent figures that demonstrate its growing international status and global outreach. The exhibition that ran on September 2 – 8 under the theme “Sustainability and Heritage… A Reborn Aspiration” is the largest of its kind in the […]

Carved into the sand, UAE marine life highlighted at ADIHEX 2023

Carved into the sand, UAE marine life highlighted at ADIHEX 2023

ABU DHABI: When he was only 10 years old, Shadi Al Matroushy loved playing on the stretched beach at his hometown Khorfakan in eastern United Arab Emirates (UAE). But unlike other children, his interest was not in kicking a football or smashing a volleyball. It was rather sand sculpting. His first works were turtles that […]

The UAE’s passion for falcons soars high at ADIHEX 2023

The UAE’s passion for falcons soars high at ADIHEX 2023

ABU DHABI: The deep passion and the robust links between Emiratis and the falcon remain a strong feature of the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (ADIHEX), an annual cultural event that has been held over 20 years. The interaction between them is in fact so rooted in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) founding […]

Call for protecting Earth’s biodiversity takes center stage at ADIHEX 2023

Call for protecting Earth’s biodiversity takes center stage at ADIHEX 2023

ABU DHABI: A call for the urgent preservation of Earth’s biodiversity is taking center stage at the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (ADIHEX 2023). In an extraordinary collaboration that transcends borders and climates, two Emirati photographers have documented the beauty and fragility of two extreme environments: the scorching +50 Abu Dhabi and the freezing […]

Kazakhstan to hold national referendum on nuclear power plant construction

Kazakhstan to hold national referendum on nuclear power plant construction

ASTANA: Kazakhstan will hold a national referendum on the construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP) amid conflicting views on its merit. “Nuclear energy development has turned into an economic and political issue of particular importance,” President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said at a joint session of the Kazakh Parliament chambers. “On the one hand, being the […]

Fishing: UAE first all-women team shares accomplishments, inspiration, motivation

Fishing: UAE first all-women team shares accomplishments, inspiration, motivation

ABU DHABI: An all-women fishing team in the Gulf might sound a buzzword, but for a group of young Emirati women, it is a strong sense of accomplishment, an inspiration for fulfilment and a motivation for others to take on challenges regardless of how formidable they may seem. The members are sharing, at the Abu Dhabi […]

Kyrgyzstan bans TikTok, citing harmful effects for children

Kyrgyzstan bans TikTok, citing harmful effects for children

BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Culture has issued a directive to block the video-sharing app TikTok inside the Central Asian nation. The ministry’s press service said that non-governmental organizations have raised concerns about the harmful effects of the TikTok application and how it negatively affects the mental development and health of children. TikTok immerses the user […]

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