ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways has announced the launch of its New Year’s sale — get two tickets for the price of one. Fares from Abu Dhabi to Istanbul start from AED 1,790, Dublin from AED 3,830 and Toronto from AED 5,790. The sale extends across all of Etihad’s cabins, with return Business fares starting from AED 8,750 out ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) on Tuesday announced that it traded 12.73 million contracts in 2020, and recorded a yearly AOI of 220,504 contracts. Open interest refers to total number of outstanding contracts at the end of the trading day and is a strong indicator of an exchange’s success. Additionally, the best performing product in ...

ABU DHABI / WAM “Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries share the same destiny,” this is a phrase followed by the UAE in words and actions from the first GCC summit held on Monday, May 25, 1981, to the 41st GCC Summit held in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia. The UAE still believes that GCC countries share the same destiny, as the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, on Tuesday announced that its Al Taweelah alumina refinery, the first in the UAE, has delivered sustained monthly production at or above nameplate capacity each month for the past three months. The milestone marks the completion of a world-class ramp-up of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways announced the launch of its New Year’s sale – get two tickets for the price of one. Fares from Abu Dhabi to Istanbul start from just AED1,790, Dublin from AED3,830 and Toronto from AED5,790. The sale extends across all of Etihad’s cabins, with return Business fares starting from AED8,750 out of Abu Dhabi to ...

Sharjah / WAM Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council, an affiliate of the Nama Women Advancement Establishment, has broadened the global appeal of the UAE’s timeless, indigenous craft traditions through collaborations with entities at the forefront of the international design and cultural landscape. Teaming up with Dezeen, an influential architecture and design magazine and digital platform, Irthi showcased a selection of its ...

Like the little boy haunted by ghosts in the horror movie “The Sixth Sense,” President Donald Trump sees dead people everywhere. He thinks at least 5,000 of them voted in Georgia during the presidential election and were part of a broader conspiracy that deprived him of a victory in the state. In an unhinged, extraordinary phone call with Georgia Secretary ...

An $18 billion merger between Indonesia’s transportation king Gojek and e-commerce giant PT Tokopedia would create the kind of champion Southeast Asia’s largest nation deserves. The real synergies may be hidden below the surface, just like the landmines they face. Both are ready for a possible deal, with a view towards an initial public offering, Bloomberg News wrote on Tuesday. ...

South Korea greeted the new year by recording its first annual population decline. Unfortunately, the go-to solutions are meeting some practical challenges in the Covid-19 era. Headcount dwindled slightly to 51.8 million last year, the Ministry of Interior and Safety said. The retreat was the product of a 10.6% slide in births, coupled with a 3.1% increase in deaths. South ...

The Indian state faces one of the world’s most formidable challenges: rolling out a Covid-19 vaccination program for 1.3 billion people. To succeed, many things have to go right in a country that usually gets a lot wrong. The government would be wise to enlist the country’s private sector in this gargantuan effort — and soon. The vaccine rollout is ...