UPDATE: This article was updated on May 15, 2017. United Arab Emirates is one of the top destinations of expatriates and is now home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. UAE is comprised of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, each one governedRead more

UPDATE: This article was updated on May 17, 2017. Last 2015, Sweden made headlines when it announced that it will be adapting a gender-neutral pronoun, hen. Hen can be used as an alternative to han (he) and hon (she) for situations when gender in unknown or irrelevant. This step highlights Sweden’s emphasis towards gender equality,Read more

  Commuting in Australia is fast, efficient, and peaceful. But sometimes it will be disrupted by blokes who will suddenly stop dead along the way (for reasons only known to them and God), blocking the traffic of people; or the ones that will read your text messages over your shoulders, seemingly (and creepily) interested onRead more

Norway is one of the very few countries in Europe that is not a member of the European Union. Experts say that the country is not in favor of the internal redistribution that the EU mandates, and wants to manage its resources independently. Nevertheless, Norway became one of the most efficient countries and even  onceRead more

Austria used to depend on Germany as its main trading partner (the two have so much history), thus making the earlier vulnerable to the economic changes of the latter. But since Austria joined the European Union in 1995, it started to draw a massive influx of foreign investors and rose to be one of the wealthiestRead more