Daily intelligence for the GCC. Live in the UAE
Scooped tracks the rules, decisions, and changes that shape life and business in the Gulf — same day, source-verified, in plain language. Live in the UAE. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar follow.
What you receive
One short email a day on the changes that shape your business and your life in the UAE — what changed, who it affects, and by when. Every item traces back to its source.
Sent the days there’s news. Quiet days stay quiet. No filler.
The UAE list, for now
Seven categories built for the UAE. Each one set by what changes here — the regulation, the operational shifts, the things that affect a residency, a payroll run, or a school year. Other GCC regions will have their own list.
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Regulation & Policy
Federal and emirate-level laws, decrees, ministry circulars, free-zone updates, financial-regulator actions.
Most recent
RTA opens 260-metre tunnel on Dubai-Al Ain Road to ease traffic
Gulf News ·
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Safety & Emergency
NCEMA alerts, weather warnings, aviation incidents, police bulletins, public-health alerts.
Most recent
Abu Dhabi mandates responsible food placement in supermarkets from January 2027
Abu Dhabi Media Office ·
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Family & Education
School calendars, term dates, holidays, public health, vaccination, childcare rules.
Most recent
Expat parents must pay first school fee installment before Aug.15
Gulf Today ·
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Money & Cost-of-Living
Fuel prices, utility tariffs, banking rules, real-estate rents, taxation.
Most recent
Small Business Relief extended to 2029 under Ministerial Decision 131
WAM ·
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Transport & Disruption
Road closures, metro changes, airport alerts, weather-driven disruption.
Most recent
Monitoring — no alert in this area today.
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Major Events & City Impact
Concerts, sport, F1, conferences with city-wide effects.
Most recent
Monitoring — no alert in this area today.
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Visa & Residency
Golden Visa, work permits, residency rules, ICA and GDRFA changes, travel advisories.
Most recent
Employers cannot terminate maternity-leave workers; notice period starts after return
Gulf News ·
Where Scooped operates
Live in the UAE today. Building toward GCC coverage region by region.
The Scooped posture
Same day. From the source.
Primary sources publish faster than the outlets that cover them. Scooped reads the regulator directly where it publishes — the ministerial decision, the circular, the gazette — and works from the most primary source available, with clear attribution when news media surfaces a change first.
Plain language, not jargon.
Regulators write for compliance officers, not for the residents and operators who have to act on what’s published. Scooped translates the intent — what changed, who’s affected, by when — without losing what the source actually said.
Free to read. Built for the long term.
Never paywalled. The model is sponsorship, not advertising. Built to be useful enough to read every day, and credible enough to be referenced years from now. That’s the bar.
UAE editorial intelligence, engineered to last.
Bugbear Labs FZE operates Scooped from the UAE. Editorial discipline borrowed from regional news desks. Engineering discipline borrowed from modern software. Scooped’s regulatory-intelligence engine reads the sources continuously, and every alert traces back to the source it came from. The platform is built to outlast the news cycle — region by region, day by day.
Source-verified.
Every alert links to the publication it came from. No press releases, no aggregator chains, no shortcuts.
Same-day pipeline.
Built for regional scale before regional scale is needed.
An engine with editorial standards.
Alerts are produced by Scooped’s regulatory-intelligence engine and published under a public corrections policy. No fake bylines, ever.
Bugbear Labs FZE Get in touch: hello@scooped.me