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Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, launched 8-language ‘Mystery Shopper’ application to enhance the role of customers, and measure the performance of government entities and efficiency of the services they provide. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed affirmed, “That every individual in our community in the ...

DUBAI / WAM The United Arab Emirates has facilitated a mission by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to deliver medical supplies and equipment to Iran in a bid to help contain the new coronavirus, Covid19, in the neighbouring country. The UAE Air Force deployed an aircraft that carried 7.5 tonnes of cargo from Dubai to Iran on Monday afternoon. Dubai’s ...

ABU DHABI / WAM First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has announced the launch of a new “payment as a platform” for merchants, consolidating a full range of payment needs into a single, digital-first package. The platform can converge card payments, new payment methods including domestic and international digital wallets, loyalty programmes, QR solutions, and value-added services such as buy-now-pay-later and ...

DUBAI / WAM As part of the directives of the wise leadership to support charitable and humanitarian causes, the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai (IACAD) on Monday announced that the construction of the Zayed Dialysis Centre is approximately 36 percent complete. The centre, located in the Al-Twar 3 area, is a joint project between the IACAD and ...

Bloomberg North Korea launched two unidentified projectiles off its eastern coast, South Korea’s defense ministry said, a move that comes just after the year anniversary of the failed Hanoi summit between leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. The projectiles were launched on Monday from an area near the North Korean coastal city of Wonsan, the South Korean defense ...

Bloomberg A Chinese biotech company which claimed to be able to manufacture an experimental drug from Gilead Sciences Inc with the potential to treat the novel coronavirus, was censured for disclosing inaccurate information. The Shanghai Stock Exchange said in an statement that BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology Co has not gained approval from China’s drug regulator to make the drug known as ...

Bloomberg Masayoshi Son’s pitch to US hedge funds and financial institutions on the merits of SoftBank Group Corp just got harder, with a record market plunge that has made investors skittish and raised risks for its portfolio companies. The Japanese billionaire will be in New York for the first such meeting since the implosion of WeWork. In the months since, ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co, the Chinese technology giant barred from doing business with US suppliers, is finding a way around the strict limits imposed by the Trump administration. The Commerce Department, citing national security concerns, has largely forbidden American companies from selling Huawei the computer chips it needs to make a piece of equipment integral to newly introduced high-speed wireless ...

Bloomberg Nokia Oyj will replace Chief Executive Officer Rajeev Suri after the Finnish maker of telecommunications gear lost ground to rivals including Huawei Technologies Co in the race for 5G networks. Pekka Lundmark, the CEO of Fortum Oyj, will take over from Suri at the start of September. Nokia is also set to elect Sari Baldauf as its new chairman ...

Bloomberg When Twitter Inc executives met their activist investor agitators from Elliott Management Corp for the first time last week, the man with the most to lose was absent. Jack Dorsey, the Twitter chief executive officer whose role is in the crosshairs, didn’t attend the summit in San Francisco where his future was the main topic of conversation, according to ...