Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi

On Sunday 23 October, the elite group from ADMC supervised by Mr. Hedley attended the GCC & Financial integration forum. We arrived on time to Emirate Palace, where the conference was located. Everybody had their names tagged on a card hanging on our shoulders.
The conference that we attended was divided to three sessions and
the first speaker was Dr Abdul Aziz Aluwaisheg, Director General International Economic Relations GCC Secretariat. He was speaking fluent English and we had to use a translation and he talked mainly about the history developments and agreements that were made in recent years by GCC countries in reducing tariffs in the GCC area.
The second speaker was Lukas Stemitsiotis, Head of Unit in the European Commission, EU, and he spoke about the problems and challenges faced by European countries and focused on the debt facing Greece and how to solve this problem.
The third speaker was Dr Aladdin Rillo, Director and Chief Economist ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office. He spoke of the experiences of the Association of South East Asian Nations. He mentioned ASEAN’s Mutual Recognition Arrangements, already implemented for engineers and architects. He talked about the difference between European countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and ASEAN; also he spoke about some of the difficulties faced by European countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and ASEAN; also he spoke about some of the difficulties facing ASEAN and how they can overcome them.
The session closed with a general discussion which proved to be more of a number of isolated statements rather than a genuine debate.

Dubai crowd

In recent years, Dubai became more familiar than it was before; it has gained popularity among different countries of the world. Dubai has faced economic development that has affected daily life. Recently individuals are demanding an easy and fast life. Everybody is looking towards owning a luxury flat or car.

I took over an hour to get to my work this morning. Double what it should usually take for me.  Most of my journey was spent, exhausted, and stuck frozen and motionless in traffic moving not an inch. Not only were there for some strange reason several road works going on, but the heavy rain meant that frustratingly drivers decided to adopt a 10mph speed limit. Besides that the Dubai government has settled easy rules to register a car which makes it easy for every one to get a driving license after a period of training. Giving the chance to everybody to get a diving license leads to a big crowd in the city because of the increasing numbers of cars without previous plans for the roads to accept this amount of increase.

If we go back to Dubai's location we will come to know that Dubai is located in the middle of the other Emirates and is considered as a link between all the other emirates   i.e. Abu Dhabi and the Northern Emirates which can be considered as a good reason for the traffic situation. On the other hand the other reason for the traffic situation in Dubai is that most people work in the city and live outside. The last reason for the traffic situation is the large vehicles using the roads inside the city.

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Hedley's trip to the Niah Caves

Thirty years ago, Hedley and his wife and his elder daughter Kate, travelled from Brunei to the Niah Caves in Sarawak, Malaysia. He travelled there by many things such as car, ferry, boat, and on foot. They set out early in the morning. They arrived in Malaysia at dusk when it's sunset. They stayed in a government rest house. They saw a lot of things like caves, birds, bamboo poles, men climbing to scrape birds' nests off the roof of the cave, in order to sell them to the Chinese.
They returned to Brunei the next day.