Sharjah / WAM The UAE has a fast growing market for luxury products that is driven by high demand from citizens, residents, tourists, and especially from the younger generation, who are keen to keep up with the latest trends, and who are vastly interested in the luxury brands of the watch and jewellery industry. The MidEast Watch and Jewellery Show, ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business In collaboration with Khalifa University of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) launched the UAE Air Quality Index (UAE AQI) on MOCCAE’s smart application. The index displays real-time readings of the satellite-monitored air quality index (AQI) across the UAE. The UAE AQI employs cutting-edge technologies in live monitoring of air ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Hessa Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development, met with Dr Catherine Boura, Ambassador of Greece, and Navdeep Singh Suri, Ambassador of India to the UAE, to discuss means of enhancing cooperation in social and community development. The minister expressed her pleasure at holding discussions with the two ambassadors, highlighting that the meeting comes within the framework ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha), on Saturday announced the appointment of Dr Gareth Goodier, as the new Group Chief Executive Officer. Announcing the appointment, Salem Rashed Al Nuaimi, Chairman at SEHA, said, “At SEHA we have a vision to elevate the quality of healthcare through innovation and skills, and we are confident that we have the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The number of hotel guests staying in Abu Dhabi during August rose by 10.5 percent compared to the same month in 2017, with double-digit growth in most key source markets underpinning the upward trend, latest figures released by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, DCT Abu Dhabi, for the emirate’s hospitality sector have ...

Bloomberg Gunmen attacked a military parade in Iran’s southern city of Ahvaz on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and injuring 53, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported on its website, citing an “informed source” it didn’t identify. Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and civilians, including a child and a journalist, were among those killed, the semi-official Tasnim news agency ...

Bloomberg China’s military cooperation with Russia is “normal,” in accordance with international law, and the US has no right to intervene, Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, said on Saturday in response to Washington’s sanctions on its military agency. China urges the US to immediately correct its mistakes and withdraw the so-called sanctions, otherwise it must ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump vowed to rid the Justice Department and FBI of “bad” people, echoing previous criticism he’s made that the law enforcement agencies he controls are tainted by political bias. “Just look at what is now being exposed in our Department of Justice and FBI,” Trump said at a rally in Springfield, Missouri. He told his audience that ...

Bloomberg British Prime Minister Theresa May struck back at the European Union for bluntly dismissing her Brexit plan with a speech designed to shore up her increasingly precarious position at home. May told EU leaders that she wouldn’t back down and demanded they show “respect” to her country during talks. Rather than giving her a boost, a summit of EU ...

Bloomberg Another week, another coalition crisis for Angela Merkel. Just days after Germany’s chancellor said her government had a deal to remove the domestic intelligence chief over his stance on anti-migrant protests, the accord fell apart Friday in a renewed sign of political fragility in Europe’s biggest economy. Merkel said she’ll find a new solution this weekend. The case of ...