Best of NZ Herald Business 2016: Big western airlines were decades old in 1985 when Sir Tim Clark joined a tiny Middle Eastern start-up Emirates.

Have you ever wondered what happens to an iPhone when it's dropped from the tallest tower in the world?

Alison Stephenson realises why her luxury hotel was so cheap - it's 50C outside.

The 140,000-square-metre adventure park is one of two major theme parks opening this year in Dubai.

Graham Reid spends 24 hours in Dubai International's famously huge and busy terminals.

Dubai's new rainforest hotel will make for a unique guest experience.

Christopher Adams runs into an alarming situation in a Middle Eastern market.

There's more to Dubai than luxury hotels and liquid lunches. Dig deeper and you'll find a side to the emirate no one talks about.

Dubai's newest real-estate wonder has all the amenities of a luxury hotel - plus views of the bottom of the sea.

A new skyscraper will surpass the Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest building.

Travellers flying out of Dubai's airports will pay a new fee to cover improvements at the long-haul hub

COMMENT: From direct flights, to our co-operation in the Pacific and beyond, the UAE-New Zealand relationship is moving to exciting new levels.

Ewan McDonald heads to the UAE to live the high life.

Business reporter Christopher Adams is spending 17 hours in the air flying to Dubai. Here's what he could be doing for 17 hours instead.

Emirates has changed the aviation game in New Zealand by announcing it will fly to Dubai without stopping in Australia.

Ultra-longhaul flight will take 17 hours.

Hundreds of Dubai's tallest buildings are infernos waiting to happen, says leading fire safety expert.

New Year partygoers escaped an inferno in a 63-storey Dubai hotel yesterday.

Emirates Aviation University and Airways New Zealand have opened a purpose-built air traffic control training facility in Dubai.

In the desert beyond Dubai's glittering and manic metropolis, Ewan McDonald unleashes his inner petrolhead ...

In Dubai, Peter Calder looks on enviously as the well-heeled browse among $12,000 bottles of wine.

Both places were called home by the vast foreign workforce drawn to the United Arab Emirates. Both caught fire last week.The similarities end there.

An airline slogan took a literal twist for a young Auckland woman whose long-haul flight was ruined by a fly in her salad.

In Dubai, Pamela Wade meets a cranky camel who takes her on a peaceful and relaxing ride.

A bank in the United Arab Emirates is trying to lure a rapidly rising number of working women - with a perfumed credit card.

Abu Dhabi is one of the seven principalities that comprise the United Arab Emirates. Michael Lamb is easy prey for its complicated charms.

The Black Caps' win by an innings and 80 runs on the fourth day of the third test against Pakistan will rank as one of the most comprehensive in the country's history.

Brendon "Baz" McCullum - you are a legend. Frustrating maybe, but a genuine legend, writes Chris Rattue.

Everything is on a huge scale in Dubai, discovers Peter Feeney.