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, from primary sources, in plain language. Live in the UAE. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar follow.
What you receive
One short email each day. Posts across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook the moment a regulation lands. Everything traces back to its source.
Tuesday 9 June
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Regulation & Policy
Private joint-stock firms must hold annual meetings by June 30 — Ministry of Economy and Touri…
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Safety & Emergency
Abu Dhabi launches Nutri-Mark QR code food labels with A–E nutrition grades
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Family & Education
Ministry of Education clarifies remote resit exam eligibility — students with medical needs, a…
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Money & Cost-of-Living
FTA expands VAT refunds for UAE citizens building new homes — eligible expenses widened — effe…
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Visa & Residency
Employers cannot retain passports indefinitely — all workers — report to MOHRE if withheld
Read today’s full feed
Abu Dhabi launches Nutri-Mark QR code food labels with A–E nutrition grades
via Gulf News · 6 hours ago
Employers cannot retain passports indefinitely — all workers — report to MOHRE if withheld
via Gulf News · 6 hours ago
FTA expands VAT refunds for UAE citizens building new homes — eligible expenses widened — effective 1 Jan 2026
via Gulf News · 6 hours ago
FTA expands VAT refund scope for UAE citizens building homes — eligible from 1 Jan 2026
via Khaleej Times · 10 hours ago
Sent every day 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
Private joint-stock firms must hold annual meetings by June 30 — Ministry of Economy and Tourism
Gulf News ·
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Safety & Emergency
NCEMA alerts, weather warnings, aviation incidents, police bulletins, public-health alerts.
Most recent
Abu Dhabi launches Nutri-Mark QR code food labels with A–E nutrition grades
Gulf News ·
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Family & Education
School calendars, term dates, holidays, public health, vaccination, childcare rules.
Most recent
Ministry of Education clarifies remote resit exam eligibility — students with medical needs, abroad, in care
Gulf News ·
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Money & Cost-of-Living
Fuel prices, utility tariffs, banking rules, real-estate rents, taxation.
Most recent
FTA expands VAT refunds for UAE citizens building new homes — eligible expenses widened — effective 1 Jan 2026
Gulf News ·
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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 retain passports indefinitely — all workers — report to MOHRE if withheld
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 — the ministerial decision, the circular, the gazette — and publishes from the source, not from someone else’s summary of it.
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.
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Built for the long term.
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- 12 sources monitored
- 12 sources monitored
- 33 alerts published this week
- 33 alerts published this week
- 7 sleeves of coverage
- 7 sleeves of coverage
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. Sources are reviewed continuously. Every alert traces back to its primary source. 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.
Editorial review on every item.
Before publication. Nothing reaches a subscriber unread.
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