“One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.”

Dubai’s world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we’ll swing to heavy regulation.

These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in.

Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control.

On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.

Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations.

Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.

Wherever the centre of a thing lies, there lies its heart, for the word ‘heart’ means centrality.

Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora.