COMMENT: Global companies need to choose values they can defend globally -- and uphold.

Lego has expanded its empire into the Dubai desert with its latest theme park.

The couple have been detained since January 29, but details of their arrests are just emerging.

Can't decide between the sea view or the garden view? In this incredible hotel, you can have both.

Chinese companies are big winners in the competition among foreign bidders for stakes in Abu Dhabi's largest oil concession.

Water from huge genetically engineered jellyfish, food from robotic farms and cities that move with weather. Dubai has huge plans.

A plush Dubai hotel wants to ban flesh-baring models from using its name in a hashtag or sharing their location online.

There are plenty of good reasons to add Abu Dhabi to your list writes Stephanie Holmes.

New Zealand's thoroughbred horses have caught the attention of one of the world's most powerful men.

Stephanie Holmes checks into a huge junior suite with palace views.

Speakers boom in the dark, smoky room. It's 2am and the club is packed with sweaty, gay men getting their groove on to Madonna - and I'm one of them.

This city projects itself as a modern, sophisticated and welcoming spot for Western tourists. But when things go wrong, they go doubly wrong here.

Woman arrested after alleging rape is told she's free to go after case collapses.

My favourite thing about travel is its potential to surprise ...

A British tourist allegedly gang-raped in Dubai faces a prison sentence and needs $42,200 for legal fees after police accused her of having "extra-marital sex".

Kiwi pilot Richard Smith describes what its like to fly an Emirates A380 superjumbo ahead of the aircraft flying regularly from Auckland to Dubai.

Cabin crew training kicked in when an Emirates plane cashed in Dubai in August, said the airline's president Sir Tim Clark.

Best of NZ Herald Business 2016: Big western airlines were decades old in 1985 when Sir Tim Clark joined a tiny Middle Eastern start-up Emirates.

The 140,000-square-metre adventure park is one of two major theme parks opening this year in Dubai.

Graham Reid spends 24 hours in Dubai International's famously huge and busy terminals.

Dubai's new rainforest hotel will make for a unique guest experience.

Christopher Adams runs into an alarming situation in a Middle Eastern market.

There's more to Dubai than luxury hotels and liquid lunches. Dig deeper and you'll find a side to the emirate no one talks about.

Dubai's newest real-estate wonder has all the amenities of a luxury hotel - plus views of the bottom of the sea.

Toni Mason loses her heart to a graceful hunter in the deserts of Dubai.

A 10-minute taxi ride, or 30 to 40-minute walk, will take you to the city's downtown area, where Dubai Mall and the Burj Khalifa are located.

A new skyscraper will surpass the Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest building.

Travellers flying out of Dubai's airports will pay a new fee to cover improvements at the long-haul hub

COMMENT: From direct flights, to our co-operation in the Pacific and beyond, the UAE-New Zealand relationship is moving to exciting new levels.

Ewan McDonald heads to the UAE to live the high life.