Passport holders of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have been granted visa-free access to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the HKSAR government said Wednesday.

As of today, 174 countries and territories have granted visa-free access or visa-on-arrival to HKSAR passport holders, including all six member states of the GCC.

"Group of Indian workers stranded in UAE without jobs, passports" 16 June 2021 A group of Indian blue-collar workers is stranded in the UAE without jobs after they were allegedly duped by an agent.

In December 2020, 10 Turkish workers were repatriated from the UAE after they were sent there by a Turkish company but unable to return when the UAE employer confiscated their passports.