Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance, and President of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), opened on Monday, the Arab Health, the largest gathering of healthcare and trade professionals in the MENA, at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The 2018 edition of the event is expected ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE outperformed all other Gulf and Arab countries and was ranked 28th in the world in the Ocean Health Index (OHI), a tailorable marine assessment framework to comprehensively and quantitatively evaluate ocean health. The UAE scored 77 points out of 100, although the global average of the Ocean Health Index requires only 70 points. The Ocean ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Tally Solutions, a leading international accounting and compliance software provider partnered with electronics retail giant Sharaf DG, in the UAE to make its Value Added Tax (VAT) software – Tally.ERP 9 easily available to the business community. As part of the agreement, Sharaf DG will have Tally.ERP 9 Silver and Gold (single and multi-user editions) available ...

Bloomberg All major US stock indexes declined and Treasuries extended a selloff that’s taken yields to the highest since early 2014 as traders gear up for a hectic week of data and policy announcements. The dollar strengthened against its biggest rivals. The euro retreated as German bonds dropped for a fourth day, while the Stoxx Europe 600 Index inched lower ...

Bloomberg Cryptocurrency-related stocks rallied in Japan on Monday, even as news of a $500 million heist at an exchange run by Coincheck Inc. spawned security concerns about digital money. Remixpoint Co. rose as much as 6.1 percent after the BITPoint exchange operator said it will list more coins in a bid to win over customers. GMO Internet Inc. advanced as ...

Bloomberg The dot-com bubble was a lot more picky. Even on the day the S&P 500 Index hit its March 2000 peak an investor could buy a third of the index for less than 11 times earnings. Today that figure is just 6 percent. While the average valuation for the gauge of US equities is the same between the two ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and His Highness Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Ruler’s Representative in the Al Ain Region, on Monday received hundreds of mourners at Al Mushrif Palace in Abu Dhabi, who came to pay ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The Middle East’s online education is forecasted to experience continuous growth thanks to the rising government investments and increasing popularity of e-learning especially among professionals. According to a report by Research and Markets titled the ‘Middle East Online Education & E Learning Market Size, Demand, Opportunity & Growth Outlook 2023,’ the regional online education and e-learning ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Rail contracts worth $16 billion are planned to be awarded in 2018 in the MENA region, according to MEED Rail Report. The report is issued ahead of the Middle East Rail, the largest railway industry event across the Middle East, North Africa, South and Central Asian region, which will take place from March 12-13 at Dubai ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE Water Aid Foundation (Suqia), under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI), carried out 85 development projects in 21 countries around the world, benefiting approximately 553,370 people during 2017, the Year of Giving. In the Year of Zayed 2018, Suqia aims to continue its charity and volunteer projects around the ...