Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business In addition to its complimentary inflight service and recently launched menu of Buy on Board products, Etihad Airways introduced additional food and beverage items available for purchase to provide more choice for guests in Economy Class and further enhance their travel experience. New snack options now include locally sourced brands Munchbox and Freakin’ Healthy, who ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Aldar Properties PJSC (Aldar) on Sunday provides its latest quarterly update on its projects under development across key destinations in Abu Dhabi. On Yas Island, Aldar has begun the handover process for the first 300 homes West Yas, the island’s first villa community. The community retail plaza, which includes the first Spinneys supermarket on Yas ...

DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Community Development (MOCD), launched the Taalouf initiative, a family counselling service provided through a variety of private channels that guarantee confidentiality in order to resolve family disputes, offer guidance to married couples, and ensure family cohesion. Sana Mohammed Suhail, MOCD Under-Secretary, said that the initiative, adopted during the annual meeting of the government of ...

DUBAI / WAM Retail companies of all sizes can capitalise on the huge merchandising opportunities available before, during and after Expo 2020 Dubai. With more than 5,000 types of official licensed products due to go on sale, Expo 2020 is seeking companies which can help it deliver top-class retail goods to millions of Expo visitors and enthusiasts from around the ...

Bloomberg India, the world’s fastest growing oil consumer, is bucking an emerging market trend of populist measures to curb surging oil prices. While governments in Indonesia, Brazil and elsewhere are cutting or freezing prices, India is standing its ground on gasoline and diesel costs even after they rose as much as 16 percent this year. India has, so far, resisted ...

Bloomberg OPEC’s Gulf members may need to pump almost as much crude as they can to cover swelling supply losses from Venezuela to Iran and beyond, the International Energy Agency said. “Rising production from Middle East Gulf countries and Russia, welcome though it is, comes at the expense of the world’s spare-capacity cushion, which might be stretched to the limit,” ...

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp quit the American Legislative Exchange Council, a lobbying group bankrolled by fossil fuel companies, following a disagreement over climate-change policy. The oil giant won’t be renewing its membership after it expired in June, spokesman Scott Silvestri said by phone. Exxon had a public spat with ALEC in December when some members backed by climate skeptics such ...

Bloomberg Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed to cancel and wind down more than 750 contracts for renewable power projects, making good on a campaign pledge to revamp the province’s energy policies. Terminating the early-stage projects, which the government didn’t identify, would save electricity customers in the Canadian province C$790 million ($600 million), Ford’s energy minister, Greg Rickford, said in a ...

Bloomberg Solar tariffs in India remained at record lows in the country’s largest federal auction of 3 gigawatts of projects, according to state-run Solar Energy Corp. of India. Acme Solar Holdings Ltd. won 600 megawatts of projects at the lowest tariff of 2.44 rupees a kilowatt-hour, the record low hit last May and then again in an auction earlier this ...

Bloomberg Oil companies operating in the central US want oil to average $69 a barrel before they’ll substantially expand drilling, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. That’s up from $56 a year earlier, according to a survey of firms released by the Kansas City Fed, which serves all or parts of seven states from Nebraska to New ...