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British outsourcing group Serco said it was on track with its 2011 expectations after some strong contract wins and was well placed to achieve future revenue targets. Serco, which among other things runs London's cycle-hire scheme and Dubai's metro, on Monday said it had won 1.6 billion pounds ($2.62 billion) worth of work since the start of its financial year on Jan. 1.

What does it take to lift the global economy, engineer growth, stimulate investment flows and create avenues for sustainable development? Indicators show that emerging markets with their strong economic performance, dynamic monetary policies and financial flexibility have singlehandedly transformed the post-recession world economy.

Dubai is nothing at all like Las Vegas. Though both are unlikely cities in waterless environs and full of people eager to divest visitors of both their souls and their money, that is where their likeness ends. As a tour leader for Trek America, I survived many weekends scratching the tacky surface of LV’s wholesale debauchery, but those dark nights of the soul don’t compare at all to how another desert city half way across the world makes a nature-lover feel.

Germany-based Micros Systems and UK’s Light Blue Optics presented the first wireless ordering solution for the hospitality industry at the Arabian Travel Market, a leading event for the travel and tourism sector, in Dubai.

Dr. Aysha Al Busmait, Director of the marketing &corporate communication, Chairwoman of Woman Committee, Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) recently received a delegation of Al Dana Woman Committee, Rashid Hospital, Dubai Health Authority to review the key achievements made by RTA Woman Committee over the past few years.

The first public transport ferry service is set to start from August, coinciding with the launch of the Metro Green Line, a senior RTA official told Khaleej Times. The route for the service between Al Ghubaiba and Dubai Marina is expected to complement the Metro as it passes through areas not served by the trains but would be connecting with two major metro stations.

In the first week of last April, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), started the distribution of an educative leaflet among visually impaired students, written in Braille language. The traffic awareness plans envisioned for this year target new community segments, including the disabled

A series of seminars and workshops designed to instill the proper concepts and standards of the Dubai Government Excellence Program (DGEP) by means of regularly held workshops to elucidate the key nine standards of the DGEP have been incorporated in this year's plan of the Development and Corporate Performance Department, Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).

Permanently disabled persons, both Emiratis and expatriates, can now purchase free Nol Blue cards for use in public transport across Dubai. Likewise, senior Emiratis and students, both Emiratis and expatriates, can avail a 50 per cent discounted fare on RTA’s mass transit modes comprising the metro and public buses in their daily travels within the Emirate of Dubai.

According to the Roads and Transport Authority, the Dubai Metro recorded 38.9 million passengers in 2010 with about 150,000 people taking the trips daily. Add to the mix a high penetration rate of iPhones in the UAE and you have a natural environment for a nifty little phone app that is making life a little easier these days for commuters. Meet the iMetro.