Dubai / Emirates Business Mint Middle East (MME) is reinventing online shopping and payments in the UAE and the region with three new products. Three products — GoMart, Marakez and MintPay — will foray into the country with the aim to taking consumer experience with online shopping to a new level, offering an integrated secure payments gateway that completes a ...

Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Community Development has approved the names of 374 beneficiaries from the marriage grants during the first quarter of 2019 with a total amount of over AED26.2 million that were disbursed to the beneficiaries and transferred to their bank accounts and notified through SMS text messages. AED70,000 will be disbursed as one payment for those ...

Dubai / WAM du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), announced that the inaugural Dubai Pulse customer, the Department of Economic Development (DED), in Dubai, has successfully migrated all of their data centres and applications to the cloud-based platform. Launched by the Smart Dubai Office in partnership with du, Dubai Pulse offers virtual solutions to cater to web, application, database ...

Aden / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), organised the second group wedding for 200 couples in 11 Yemeni Governorates, as part of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to hold a series of weddings which will benefit 2200 young people. ...

Dubai / Emirates Business His Excellency Dr Amin Hussein Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Policy and Licensing, Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP), inaugurated the new plant for Geltec that manufactures dietary supplements and medicines at the National Industries Park (NIP) of DP World. The opening ceremony was attended by Ahmad Al Haddad, Chief Operating Officer, Parks and ...

Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah FDI Office, Invest in Sharjah, in collaboration with the Chinese Business Council, organised the Sharjah–China “Belt & Road” Business Round Table at the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Chinese delegation of 140 businesspersons was led by Lei JIN, Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China, and Shaoguo ...

ROME / WAM The UAE Embassy in Italy opened the Afghan hand-woven carpets exhibition under the theme ”Empowering Afghan women for more shining future” at San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi in central Rome. The exhibition is being held under the Fatima bint Mohamed bin Zayed Initiative (FBMI), which offers a unique and creative approach by employing Afghan women in the handmade ...

Bloomberg The Cuban negotiator who normalised relations with the US during the Obama administration said President Donald Trump’s push to dismantle the deal won’t dislodge the communist regime in Havana. Cuba endured almost 60 years of US aggression and can survive another bout of antagonism from Washington, Josefina Vidal, now Cuba’s ambassador to Canada, said in an interview. The latest ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co denied a report by the Nikkei that it’s planning to cut global output by around 15 percent for the fiscal year to March 2020, even as the carmaker struggles to reignite earnings and sales while dealing with the fallout from the arrest of ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn. Nissan issued a rare response calling the details in the ...

Bloomberg China didn’t follow proper procedures when it imposed trade restrictions on agricultural imports, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in a ruling that bolsters President Donald Trump’s dispute against Beijing. China used a flawed and opaque approach when it administered tariff-rate quotas for rice, wheat, and corn, the Geneva-based arbiter of global trade disputes said on its website. It’s ...