HANOI/ WAM The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade has hosted the fifth UAE-Vietnam Joint Committee in Hanoi. The Committee was co-chaired by Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, and Dr. Nguyen Hong Dien, Vietnam’s Minister of Industry and Trade. Senior diplomats and government officials from both sides participated in the Joint Committee and ...

RIYADH/WAM Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President, delivered a formal address at the opening ceremony for MENA Climate Week today, where he called on nations in the region to expand on their legacy of climate leadership to drive inclusive progress ahead of COP28. Regional wind and solar investments have grown over ...

ABU DHAB / WAM Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, the Abu Dhabi Poetry Festival will take place from October 12-15 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (Adnec), in cooperation with the Emirates Heritage Club. The festival is being ...

CAIRO / WAM Adel bin AbdulRahman Alasoomi, President of the Arab Parliament (AP), has congratulated the UAE on the success of the Federal National Council (FNC) elections 2023. He praised the efforts exerted by the UAE and its supervising bodies on the electoral process that was characterised by integrity, valuing the awareness of the Emirati citizen who was keen to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Zayed Higher Organisation for People of Determination (ZHO) signed a joint memorandum of understanding with the Southwestern University PHINMA (SWU PHINMA) in the Philippines to train students of the College of Rehabilitative Sciences at the health care management departments of ZHO’s care and rehabilitation centres in neurological rehabilitation therapy services for children, as part of the ...

DUBAI / WAM In line with the role of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) in enhancing education in the UAE, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) donated 22,000 books to the Emirates Schools Establishment (ESE) to be distributed at the newly established Zayed Education Complexes as part of the ‘My Family is Reading’ ...

BLOOMBERG Finnair Oyj plans to raise as much as €600 million ($632 million) issuing new shares, as the Finnish flag carrier seeks to prop up its balance sheet after its strategy was upended by the closing of Russia’s airspace in the wake of the war in Ukraine. The Finnish state, the carrier’s controlling shareholder, backs the offering and plans to ...

BLOOMBERG British Airways (BA) reached a tentative labour agreement with unionised pilots, removing the threat of a walkout through 2027 as the flagship UK carrier cements a recovery from the Covid-19 era travel slowdown. The agreement in principle builds on pay and working-condition changes made last year, BA said in an emailed statement. Members of the British Airline Pilots’ Association ...

BLOOMBERG The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it has closed a mishap investigation into the botched flight of Blue Origin LLC’s New Shepard rocket, which suffered a mid-flight failure in September of 2022. The FAA says the problem was due to a structural failure of a nozzle in the New Shepard’s BE-3 engine, which caused the engine to overheat ...

BLOOMBERG Government-imposed changes to the fees Mexican airports can charge will affect all of the companies’ tariffs and not just the charges for airline passengers, according to a person familiar with the matter. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration made changes to the formula that sets price caps for airport tariffs, including the passenger fee known as the TUA, the ...