Whois & Analysis for gulfnews.com

Gulf News is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai.

History and profile.

Gulf News was first launched in tabloid format in 1978 by prominent UAE businessman Abdul Wahab Galadari; its offices were located on the Airport Road, Dubai.

In November 1984, three leading UAE businessmen, purchased the company and formed Al Nisr Publishing.

The new owners of the paper were Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Abdullah Al Rostamani and Juma Al Majid.

With the death of Abdullah Al Rostamani in 2006, his position on the board is held by a family nominee while the other directors remain.

Dubai (', Gulf pronunciation) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

It is located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf and is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.

Abu Dhabi and Dubai are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature.

The city of Dubai is located on the emirate's northern coastline and heads the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area.

Dubai will host World Expo 2020.

The United Arab Emirates ('), sometimes simply called the Emirates (') or the UAE, is a federal absolute monarchy in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.

In 2013, the UAE's population was 9.2 million, of which 1.4 million are Emirati citizens and 7.8 million are expatriates.

The Roads and Transport Authority, commonly known as RTA, is the major independent government transportation authority in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

It was founded in 2005 and is responsible for planning and executing transport or traffic projects, along with legislation and strategic plans of transportation in the city.

It is a department of the Government of Dubai.

In finance, an exchange rate (also known as a foreign-exchange rate, forex rate, ER, FX rate or Agio) between two currencies is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another.

It is also regarded as the value of one country’s currency in relation to another currency.

For example, an interbank exchange rate of 119 Japanese yen (JPY, ¥) to the United States dollar (US$) means that ¥119 will be exchanged for each US$1 or that US$1 will be exchanged for each ¥119.

In this case it is said that the price of a dollar in relation to yen is ¥119, or equivalently that the price of a yen in relation to dollars is $1/119.