Dubai / Emirates Business Etisalat on Wednesday clarified that it had not increased the prices of prepaid recharge cards after the implementation of VAT in the UAE. “Etisalat has introduced five denominations of recharge cards sold at AED30, AED55, AED110, AED210 and AED525 to ensure customers have sufficient credit to subscribe to existing data and combo packages after adding 5% ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation, Empower, the world’s largest district cooling services provider, has revealed that it currently supplies its highly efficient district cooling services to 17 percent of the 674 hotels located in the emirate of Dubai. The total number of hotels was recently released by the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), the principal ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Emirates is extending its popular My Emirates Pass programme to customers visiting Dubai this winter season. The programme gives Emirates customers exclusive offers and discounts across the city by turning the Emirates boarding pass into an exclusive membership card. Those flying to or through Dubai between January 1 and March 31 can take advantage of a ...

DUBAI / WAM The UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) hosted a Youth Circle entitled ‘Youth & Sustainability in Aviation’ in conjunction with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Emirates Engineering at Dubai International Airport. Attended by around 70 young people representing a range of technical and managerial backgrounds in the aviation sector, the meeting discussed issues that young Emiratis ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Aviation Group (EAG) has announced a year-long programme of activities and humanitarian initiatives to mark 2018 as the Year of Zayed. Etihad’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi inaugurated its Year of Zayed activities by holding a flag-raising ceremony attended by employees. The aviation group’s offices and buildings around the world are now adorned with Sheikh ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Healthcare City Authority (DHCA), the governing body of Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), on Wednesday announced, in collaboration with the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA), the setting up of an ICA’s Customer Happiness Centre in the free zone to serve its community members and the wider Dubai community. As many as 8,000 people working in ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Gulf Craft will start 2018 in style in Thailand at the new luxury lifestyle event Phuket Rendezvous from January 4 to 7. “Thailand is an increasingly important market for several reasons,” said Tony Nixey, Managing Director of Gulf Craft’s dealer in the country, Go Boating Thailand. “Not only is it popular with the global yachting community, ...

Bloomberg Ant Financial may have to re-tool its global ambitions after stiff US opposition scuppered what would have been its largest overseas acquisition. The Chinese financial services giant controlled by Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma abandoned a plan to buy MoneyGram International Inc. after failing to win approval for the deal from a key government panel. China’s largest online wealth management ...

Bloomberg Samling Group, the Malaysian timber giant, is planning an initial public offering of its automotive operations that could raise more than $250 million, people with knowledge of the matter said. Samling is working with advisers to explore a possible dual listing of the business in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore later this year, according to the people. The share sale ...

Bloomberg BlackBerry Ltd.’s efforts to push into self-driving cars took a new step forward as the former smartphone maker signed a deal with Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. to work together on automotive software. Baidu will bundle BlackBerry’s QNX vehicle operating system into its Apollo self-driving car platform, a set of tools that automakers can use when designing autonomous vehicles. ...