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DUBAI: A strike by thousands of migrant workers at Dubai’s biggest builder Arabtec last month may be a harbinger of a new wave of industrial activism that threatens to disrupt the Gulf’s latest construction boom.

DUBAI, June 5: A strike by thousands of migrant workers at Dubai's biggest builder Arabtec last month may be a harbinger of a new wave of industrial activism that threatens to disrupt the Gulf's latest construction boom.

Dubai: A woman says she has been hiding from the police for the past three years over bounced cheques which her boss used to pay the rent on his office.

Abu Dhabi: A member of the Federal National Council yesterday (Tuesday) demanded the Labour Ministry exert more effort to stamp out the practice of hiring illegal workers.

DUBAI// Pakistanis living in the UAE are being offered interest-free loans by their government to encourage more people to send money home.

Female expats are becoming a bigger part of the Gulf’s labour force - and changing the face of their own countries with billions of dollars of remittances in the process.

Dubai: Women expatriates send back home Dh2,000 more a year, on average, than their male counterparts, a paper by the American University of Sharjah and sponsored by Western Union showed.

DUBAI // A record-breaking sum of money is expected to be sent home to Pakistan by expatriates in the UAE this year, foreign exchange firms say.