Category: Press releases

New daily flights from Turkish Airlines from Dubai

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Turkish Airlines, flying to more countries than any other airline, increased the frequency of its Dubai to Turkey route to three daily flights to its Istanbul hub which connects travelers to over 300 destinations worldwide while maintaining the utmost care for a safe and healthy travel experience.

The new flight will start to operate from the 17th of June and is now available for purchase for holiday planners looking to escape the summer heat. It will depart from Dubai daily at 10:20 and arrive in Istanbul at 14:00 with return flights leaving Istanbul at 20:40 and arriving in Dubai the next morning at 2:00. All times are local times of their departure points. 

Turkish Airlines launched a promotional campaign that will be available until June 18, 2021 to announce the new flights. Tickets for Economy Class are starting at AED 1595 while Business Class tickets are starting from AED 10775 for the campaign period. The tickets purchased during the campaign are valid for the travel period until February 28, 2022. The flight will be operated with wide body aircrafts.

The passengers travelling from UAE will not be required to submit a negative PCR test result if they submit a document issued by the relevant country’s official authorities stating that they have been vaccinated at least 14 days before entry to Turkey and /or have contracted the Covid-19 and were cured within the last 6 months. Passengers may visit Turkish Airlines website to have more details.

The airline also launched its Newark route, starting its flights on 22nd May 2021. Newark is the 10th USA destination in the extensive network of the flag carrier. Other new destinations launched include Vancouver, Canada and Turkistan, Kazakhstan.

            To view the flight schedules and learn more please visit http://www.turkishairlines.com, contact the call center at 04 4440999 or visit Turkish Airlines Sales Office located Emaar Square Building 6.

FILORGA’s Global-Repair Eyes & Lips: the Latest Addition to a Supreme Anti-Aging Range

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FILORGA’s highly popular Global-Repair range has a new addition to its supreme anti-aging collection of products. An all-intensive feat of formulation, the Global-Repair Eyes and Lips acts as an ultra-targeted double agent. The specialist product contains a microcirculation-activating tuberose extract to give an intensive rejuvenating effect on the eye countour and smoothing sesame seed extract to redefine the lip contour. Global-Repair Eyes and Lips is perfect for the treatment of dark circles, puffiness, crow’s feet wrinkles, barcode wrinkles and nasogenian furrows. A thin layer of its lightweight melting texture to the eye and lip contours in the daytime and/or evening is the recommended usage.

Designed to provide a genuine youth-coaching action, the complete GLOBAL-REPAIR range takes care of the cells of the epidermis with complementary products enriched with Intensive Repairing Factors (50 meso factors, 3 super nutrients + 4 cellular boosters)  for intense nutrition and multi-revitalisation.  But that’s not all, all products incorporate 24H Chrono-Boosted Technology:  dual use day/night formulas that transform into a mask in the evening for optimum 24-hour effectiveness.

Launched in 2019, its genuine youth-coaching cosmetic program was developed for women who want to look the way they feel and included multi-active cream for lasting results and an expert serum for an intensive action. The supreme duo treats all the issues of devitalized skin with a core formula: Intensive Repairing Factors. A genuine feat of formulation, this complex combines the best cosmetic nutrients with ultra specialised ingredients to mimic the effects of aesthetic medicine for a spectacular rejuvenating action!

Filorga’s GlOBAL-REPAIR range including the all-new Global-Repair Eyes & Lips (AED 395) is available for purchase at leading pharmacies including Bin Sina Pharmacies, Boots Pharmacies and online at www.basharacare.com

Lovin’ with essence

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Summer is officially here! There’s nothing that screams summer better than a soft, dewy look. During the hotter months, lightweight and waterproof products are our favourite go-to’s because it feels like we don’t have anything on our faces. So, whether you are out and about during the day or need a natural glam look at night – these essence products need to be in your make-up bag for the season! 

Get your healthy glow and radiant complexion with HELLO GOOD STUFF! Face Serum. Made of 97% natural ingredients and no added silicones, this face serum can be used as a primer thanks to the intensive moisturizing formula. Not to mention the delicate delicious pineapple fragrance, making it perfect for the summer. 

Highlight the beauty of your skin using the HELLO GOOD STUFF! Tinted Beauty Cream. This lightweight beauty cream is softly tinted with nourishing properties from the natural cactus blossom extract, hyaluronic acid and glycerin. What’s better than 24-hour moisture?! It’s also ultra-soft texture makes it blend effortlessly into the skin to blur your minor blemishes.  

The vegan 24ever DEFINED Volume Mascara gives you volume while pampering your lashes at the same time! The deep black pigment and the mixture of hemp, almond, jojoba oil and vitamin E  has your lashes coated and protected all day long. The fibre brush gives the lashes a very defined and voluminous look and the mascara lasts for 24 hours! 

You can never go wrong with the DAILY DOSE OF LOVE EYESHADOW PALETTE, thanks to its beautiful and wearable rosé nuances, perfect for the season. The palette has nine metallic, shimmering, and matt shades that are highly pigmented – making us spoilt for choice! The packaging is also sustainable, made from 100% recycled paper and can easily fit your favourite handbag! Need to do your eyebrows on the go? The brow pomade + brush is your new best friend. All you need to do is unscrew the small container with creamy pomade and use the slanted brush on the other side to fill your brows the way you desire! The formula is also exceptionally long-lasting, waterproof and won’t smudge.

L’occitane relaunches the beloved almond milk concentrate

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L’OCCITANE is a committed brand and proudly enacting on change by holding true to brand values – reducing waste and respecting biodiversity. As cultivators of change, L’OCCITANE has always promised ingredients from natural origins and incredible sensuality experience of Provence. With this, L’OCCITANE is excited to introduce the relaunch of the Almond Milk Concentrate. Your all-time favorite body cream is revamped and ready to conquer you again with firmer, softer, smoother, and moisturized skin.

Cultivating Almond is a sixth sense

We’ve replanted 17,000 Almond trees and counting!

“You plant pieces of wood with three bit of roots on the ground in the middle of the stones and you think what’s going to happen? And then, after three years, we see the first flowers and about ten small almonds. And at this moment we are proud and proud. And then we tell ourselves that this is it, the adventure begins. But it is not an adventure of a year or two. It is an adventure for 40, 45, 50 years. Somewhere, it’s a secret. You say to yourself: I have to live to see them grow old – we’ll go with them.”

JEAN-PIERRE, Almond Producer

Almond Milk Concentrate

Formulated with powerful almond and walnut seed extract, melts deliciously into the skin, to help it look firmer and smoother. The Almond Milk Concentrate will still have the same jelly-creamy texture, the mouthwatering almond scent and the moisturizing power from the sweet almond oil and almond milk. 

What’s New?

  1. Improved formula
  2. Will now include 95% natural origin ingredients, to meet our clean charter*
  3. Formulated without silicones, sulfates, phenoxyethanol, PHMB
  4. Same iconic jar design but will now feature:
  5. NEW packaging (lighter jar, made with 31% recycled glass)
  6. NEW aluminum seal to replace plastic lid
  7. NEW packaging design which highlights the almond ingredient, its traceability and efficacy

* Through our dynamic programs of continuous improvement, we have set a new global challenge for ourselves with our “Clean Charter” criteria in addition to our Formulation Charter commitments: these additional criteria highlight our increasingly commitment to even more natural formulas (leave-on products) and ingredients that minimize our environmental impact (rinse-off products), without any compromise on the sensoriality, efficacy and safety of our products.

Republic of San Marino showcases attractions at Arabian Travel Market and reveals Dubai Expo plans

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Officials to highlight key national attractions and plans for the participation at the upcoming Expo Dubai

DUBAI, UAE: The Republic of San Marino for the first time ever will showcase the unique attractions and heritage in the UAE during the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) and will offer insights about the country’s participation at the upcoming Dubai Expo later this year. Attending the ATM will be Republic of San Marino’s Minister for Tourism and Expo, Federico Pedini Amati and Commissioner General of San Marino to Expo 2020 Dubai, Mauro Maiani. 

The ATM is an ideal platform for the Republic of San Marino officials to communicate and engage with partners, media and sponsors about the deep cultural and economic ties between San Marino and the UAE as well as strengthen crucial relationships to encourage more tourists at cultural sites, natural areas, retail and tourist attractions within the Republic of San Marino.

As the country gears up to be at the Expo Dubai, its participation at ATM reinforces the country’s efforts to position itself as a must-see tourist destination nestled within Italy and easily accessible via key airports such as Rome and Bologna. San Marino is located in Northern Italy and is an independent country founded more than 1700 years ago with a territory of 24 sq miles and 33.000 inhabitants.

Minister for Tourism and Expo of the Republic of San Marino, Federico Pedini Amati said, “We are delighted to be part of the Arabian Travel Market and share new developments for tourism and highlight our participation at Dubai Expo as we work together to help rebuild trust in travel and showcase our country’s appeal to potential visitors around the globe. This ATM is a great opportunity to highlight our country’s strengths and offer a short glimpse into our culture and our common interests. We are also keen for visitors to see a piece of San Marino in the UAE as we have a unique Fibula – a brooch in form of an eagle currently exhibited at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.”

During the presentation, the Ambassador to the UAE and Commissioner General Expo 2020, Mauro Maiani will unveil the main theme and title of the San Marino Pavilion at the Expo located in the Opportunity area. The Pavilion will be dedicated to the replica of the “Treasure of Domagnano” found in San Marino in late 1800.

The most important piece of the treasure, the fibula is now at Louvre Abu Dhabi. The pavilion will also tell the History and tradition of the country as well as its modern economic system based on tourism but also in innovative companies. The national day of San Marino at Expo 2020 will be on 10 December 2021.

Ambassador to the UAE and Commissioner General Expo 2020, Mauro Maiani  said, “We are keen to present our country as a destination for different types of travellers. Tourists can enjoy the classical Italian tourism tour, attend cultural and festival events that we organize mainly during summer time and we cater to the wedding tourism industry as well. San Marino is also a shopping destination with its old town full of stores and the brand new San Marino Outlet Experience, one of the biggest Italian fashion outlet malls in Northern Italy, opening on June 24.”

The San Marino Tourism Board, together with San Marino Outlet Experience and the incoming tour operators Mondo Immagine and Podium Tour Operator will be present at the ATM within the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) Stand number EU2550.

Ramadan and ‘Eid of 21’ promotions announced by RAK Mall, Lulu Mall Fujairah and Mall of Umm Al Quwain

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Line Investments & Property (LIP)malls plan Ramadan and Eid campaigns across the Northern Emirates

The shopping mall and management division of Lulu Group International, Line Investments & Property (LIP) announce Ramadan and Eid promotions at RAK Mall, Lulu Mall Fujairah and Mall of Umm Al Quwain, with the mall tenants offering exciting products and Ramadan sales.

The ‘Eid of 21’ promotion is until May 15th 2021. Based on the theme, the prizes of Eidiyah will be given to 21 people across each mall i.e. Mall of UAQ, RAK Mall, Lulu Mall Fujairah.Visitors who spend AED 100 in the mall and AED 200 in LULU hypermarket stand a chance to win Eidiya prizes.

The Eidiya prizes of AED 1,000/-, offered in Gift vouchers will have 21 winners from each mall during the campaign. The campaign will lead to Eid with entertaining shows and roaming entertainment across the three malls in form of Street comedy act, musical dance, roaming acts, dance flash act, international jugglers and much more.

With six different and unique entertainment shows, there will be two acts every day repeatedly for 3 to 4 times each and each day the acts, performances and the theme will change to new one.

All Line Investments & Property Malls place great emphasis on safety measures regarding COVID-19, ensuring the public areas remain a safe place to shop and dine in.

NFT-Creator Icecap Moves to Dubai in DMCC, Launches NFT Diamond Collectibles

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Icecap, LLC, the first company to offer diamonds via NFT “token” technology, has moved its headquarters to Dubai within DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Center) and has launched a line of high-end diamond and jewelry collectibles. The tokenized “Icecap Collectibles” will include very high-end, natural diamonds in red, yellow, green and other colors, plus unique finished jewelry pieces.  A US$3 million red diamond is included in the first offering.  The announcement came during the Company’s prestigious launch event held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Dubai International Financial Center. 

Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”) technology, gained worldwide attention in March when an NFT representing ownership of a piece of digital art was sold by Christie’s for $69 million.  NFTs are blockchain-based “tokens” which document ownership of real world or virtual world assets.  As blockchain tokens, once sold they can move efficiently between buyers/sellers for trading purposes, on NFT exchanges.

“NFT technology has opened up diamonds as an asset class for diversification,” explained Jacques Voorhees, CEO Icecap.  “Diamonds typically out-perform inflation, but now—with NFT technology—diamonds can be bought, sold, and traded almost as efficiently as gold and silver.  Thanks to NFTs, we might say the world’s hardest asset is now liquid.”

Icecap is the brainchild of the father/son team of Jacques Voorhees, who revolutionized the diamond industry in the 1980’s by introducing online trading technology via Polygon, and Erik Voorhees, the well-known bitcoin advocate and founder of ShapeShift. 

“Interest in diamonds as an investment goes back over a thousand years,” continued Voorhees.  “But diamonds are not fungible—each one is unique.  The technology of non-fungible tokens now makes it easy to trade this asset class without the friction of having to track the physical product itself—which is kept secure, vaulted, and insured.”

Icecap’s diamond tokens are traded on the world’s largest NFT exchange, OpenSea.io.  A buyer can hold the token as a hard-asset for diversification or for collecting, sell the token to liquidate, or redeem the token and take delivery of the physical diamond itself—which can later be re-tokenized if desired. 

Icecap’s relocation from the United States to Dubai was an easy one, according to Voorhees.  “In the last twelve months, Dubai has become the primary trading center for diamonds, globally.  And the UAE is a world leader in having a stable and well-evolved regulatory framework for the trading of blockchain assets.  Dubai in general and the DMCC free-zone in particular, is a natural home for a company that combines diamonds with NFT trading.”

Ramadan – Eid Trends – Crescent Jewellery from House of Biori

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This year let’s make Ramadan & Eid more meaningful by starting with what we wear and what we gift. Yes it is these small choices that make a big difference. 


Marking the onset of Ramadan, the crescent moon and star motifs have always been intertwined with sentiments of this holy occasion. House of Biori – a sustainable jewellery brand, offers an exquisite range of celestial ornaments that aptly reflect these sentiments in more ways than one. Complement your Ramadan-Eid look with fashionable moon & star jewellery that represents your spiritual side and also fulfills your desire to contribute towards the society and environment. 


House of Biori is a homegrown, evolving contemporary brand of handcrafted ethical fashion jewellery for men and women, created by artisans in sustainable communities.  

Shop House of Biori Ramadan – Eid Collection online on www.houseofbiori.com

Design International celebrates the opening of Silicon Central, designed by their team

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Silicon Central, designed by Design International, opens its doors to the public of Dubai who will experience the latest Lulu hypermarket, a new 9,000 sqm flagship store by Lulu Group.

The project, already considered a new landmark in Dubai, represents a step forward in the now well-established collaboration between Design International and Line Investments & Property FZE, the shopping mall division of Lulu Group International, a world-renowned purveyor of an international business portfolio that ranges from hypermarket operations to shopping mall development.

Strategically positioned 12 km from the city-centre and 15 km from Dubai Airport, Silicon Central is located at Dubai Silicon Oasis, the first eco sustainable district in Dubai focused on low carbon footprint, AI, and technology, masterminded by Dr. Mohammed Al Zarooni, Vice Chairman and CEO of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA).

The innovative design of the project is well embedded in the iconography of the place: 5 large dunes inspired by the natural movement of the desert sand frame large internal areas populated by plants, water, and natural light, recreating an oasis in the city. Lulu Group and Design International, assisted by local practice Eng. Adnan Saffarini Office, have targeted the highest certification possible – LEED Platinum – and therefore paid great attention to create an environmentally friendly project, using state-of-the-art technologies for waste management, energy savings, and a plethora of sustainable services provided within the mall, such as a bio-farming facility and electrical charging stations in the car-parking area.

Davide Padoa, Design International’s CEO, explains: “All of the parties involved in this project share the same values: the development of the community, as well as the desire to be at the forefront of style, technology and sustainable innovation, which is what Silicon Central stands out for.”

With a total of 81,500 sqm GLA and 3,500 car park spaces, Silicon Central will include 218 retail shops and services, 50 restaurant outlets with dedicated home delivery services, 12 cinema screens, 5,000 sqm fitness and a 7,000 sqm family entertainment centre. During its latest months of construction, Silicon Central has been adapted to integrate physical spaces with a digital application, moving boundaries to deliver a fully integrated customer experience both inside and outside the mall premises. Davide Padoa, CEO of Design International, summarizes saying: “Silicon Central is one of the first major projects that boldly symbolizes the rebirth, and the recovery to normal daily life, after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the most dynamic cities in the world”.

Three scents to help you find your signature

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“Purchasing perfume is a delicate and very individual process so you must pace yourself, to find the perfect one,” says Julien Sprecher, Creative Director of Parfums de Marly. 

Finding the right perfume is nothing but a series of trial and error. To find your signature scent you’ll have to put your olfactory senses to work  – inhale, exhale and think about the notes, are these fruity, floral, musky or spicy? Only then will you be a step closer to finding your scent soulmate. Below are some of our favourite scents from the Parfums de Marly, to get you on your way.