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  Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Airport International Free Zone Authority (Saif Zone) has achieved a series of tremendous successes during 2021, strengthening its position as a major hub for trade, industry, and logistics services in the region. The directives and vision of HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the main ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM A delegation from the Ministry of Culture and Youth is attending the 53rd edition of the Cairo International Book Fair which is running under the theme ‘Egypt’s Identity – Culture & the Question of the Future’. The book fair will run until February 7 in Cairo under the patronage of Abdel Fattah El Sisi, President ...

  Bloomberg NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power producer, posted a 25% jump in quarterly profit as demand for electricity soared in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Profits increased to 41.3 billion rupees ($551 million) in the three months through December, compared with 33.2 billion rupees a year ago, the state-run company said in a stock-exchange filing. Profits surpassed an ...

  Bloomberg North Korea appeared to have fired one of its biggest ballistic missiles in almost five years, adding to its largest series of tests since Kim Jong-un took power as he forces his nuclear arsenal back onto the Biden administration’s agenda. North Korea launched a suspected intermediate range missile for the first time since 2017, according to initial assessments ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The report, titled, “Non-Oil Foreign Merchandise Trade Through the Ports of Abu Dhabi”, published by the Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi (Scad), confirmed that the value of non-oil foreign trade passing through Abu Dhabi ports over 11 months in 2021 amounted to some AED190.20 billion, an increase of 2.9 percent compared to the same period in 2020, ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC (Etisalat Group) on Friday announced that, further to the announcement on November 18, 2021, it has completed the acquisition of elGrocer DMCC. Founded in 2015, elGrocer is a leading online marketplace for groceries operating in all seven Emirates of the UAE. It brings together major retailers and specialty stores on a ...

  GAZA / WAM The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has received a medical supplies convoy provided by the UAE, containing one million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to fight Covid-19. The convoy arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Border Crossing, and is the largest medical support of its kind provided by the UAE to ...

  Dubai / WAM The Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC) revealed that the number of medical personnel in the UAE grew between 104 percent and 140 percent on average over a period of ten years. The number of physicians working in the public and private sectors in the country increased to 26,151 by the end of 2020, compared to ...

  Bloomberg Japan’s coal imports are poised to jump to the highest level in at least two years as the nation’s utilities turn to the dirtiest fossil fuel as a replacement for expensive liquefied natural gas. More than 17.3 million tons of coal will be delivered to the country this month, said Edwin Toh, a dry bulk manager at energy ...

  Bloomberg Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that the American proposal to defuse tensions with Ukraine contained “rational elements,” even though some key points were ignored. The seemingly calmer tone came after U.S. President Joe Biden warned of a possible Russian attack next month during a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. They also discussed ...