Domestic violence scars children forever, expert says

Dubai: Emotional violence towards children is as bad as physical abuse and leaves a child permanently scarred and unable to mature emotionally, a renowned family consultant said. Children of violent parents often grow up to become violent parents themselves because children learn by example, Khalifa Mohammad Al Mehrezi, Head of Quality Department and Family Consultant [...]

UAE well positioned to be a major force in knowledge, book event hears

Sharjah: The UAE features prominently in the region’s cultural and intellectual domains, and is well positioned to be a major force in “knowledge production”, a senior official said. Manal Ataya, general manager of the Sharjah Museums Department, added: “This helps to define the country’s cultural and literary identity and inspires in its citizens the hard [...]

Teaching others how to save our environment

Abu Dhabi: An Emirati has stopped using plastic bags soon after coming back from an expedition to Antarctica. “I had been thinking of abandoning plastic bags following a Daily UAE report on plastic bags causing death of camels. The presentations made by the climate change experts who showed how plastic bags were killing marine creatures, [...]

Abu Dhabi students conduct ‘No plastic’ campaign

Recently, a group of students representing the Verte Club at St Joseph’s School, Abu Dhabi, organised and conducted a ‘No Plastic’ campaign. The main aim of this campaign was to reform the lifestyles of people who excessively use plastic. The students tried to make them aware of the threat that plastic bags present to our [...]

UAE’s newest satellite launched successfully

Abu Dhabi: An Ariane-5 rocket placed two telecommunications satellites into geostationary orbit early on Saturday, including the UAE’s Yahsat Y1A, from the European Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying the UAE spacecraft lifted off at 1:37am UAE time. The 5.9-tonne UAE satellite Yahsat Y1A, built by Astrium and Thales Alenia [...]