This week on The Cricket Pod, co-hosts Paul Radley and Chitrabhanu Kadalayil discuss the highlights of the busiest season in UAE cricket history.
What were the highs and lows, and who were the winners and losers?
Listen here to find out:
Also in this episode:
- Despite the ODI series outcome, both winners Australia and losers Pakistan will need to take it into perspective.
- There is much to look forward to when the UAE national team embark on their tours of Oman and Zimbabwe.
- It is far too early to get excited about a Sanju Samson resurgence despite a remarkable hundred in the IPL.
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Changing visa rules
For decades the UAE has granted two and three year visas to foreign workers, tied to their current employer. Now that's changing.
Last year, the UAE cabinet also approved providing 10-year visas to foreigners with investments in the UAE of at least Dh10 million, if non-real estate assets account for at least 60 per cent of the total. Investors can bring their spouses and children into the country.
It also approved five-year residency to owners of UAE real estate worth at least 5 million dirhams.
The government also said that leading academics, medical doctors, scientists, engineers and star students would be eligible for similar long-term visas, without the need for financial investments in the country.
The first batch - 20 finalists for the Mohammed bin Rashid Medal for Scientific Distinction.- were awarded in January and more are expected to follow.
Libya's Gold
UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves.
The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.
Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.
