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Dubai / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, and Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, has said that the emirate pays special attention to its sports sector. This attention, he explained, is reflected in the growing number of local and international competitions and events that Dubai hosts, as ...

Dubai / WAM The Director-General of Dubai Customs Ahmed Mahboob Musabih has held a meeting with Adamu Aba Bajnan, Consul-General of Benin in Dubai. The two discussed means of boosting bilateral trade and customs cooperation between Benin and Dubai. “It’s very important for us to boost ties of partnership with Beninese diplomatic missions and businesses. We have priorities which include ...

NUR-SULTAN / WAM Nursultan Nazarbayev, First President of Kazakhstan, has received Dr Mohammed Ahmed bin Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Ambassador to Kazakhstan. During the meeting, which took place at Nazarbayev’s palace in the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, both sides discussed bilateral ties, which have witnessed significant development in recent years, particularly following signing of a mutual visa exemption agreement for citizens ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said that if North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missiles, the US will “deal with it.” “I handle them as they come along,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. North Korea had long suggested it would use the end-of-year holiday season to deliver a “Christmas gift” to the US after demanding Washington ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co’s third-highest-ranked executive is planning to leave the company to join a leading electric-motor company, an abrupt move that deals yet another blow to the scandal-plagued Japanese carmaker. The shares fell to their lowest in 8 years. Jun Seki, the vice chief operating officer in charge of Nissan’s performance recovery, plans to join Japanese manufacturer Nidec Corp ...

Bloomberg The operator of China’s high-speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai kicked off its initial public offering, which will for the first time allow investors to buy shares in what is the world’s largest such network. Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway Co, a unit of state-owned China Railway Corp, plans to sell as many as 6.3 billion new shares, or 12.8% ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc’s former Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick is stepping down from the board, severing his last ties to the company he co-founded a decade ago and helped become one of the world’s most valuable, and controversial, startups. Kalanick, 43, has sold all of his remaining shares in the ride-hailing giant and plans to focus on his new ...

Bloomberg Dell Technologies Inc, the computer company founded by Michael Dell, is considering buying the remaining outstanding shares in cybersecurity services operator Secureworks Corp, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Round Rock, Texas-based company is exploring making an offer for the remaining 13.8% of shares it doesn’t own of Secureworks and fully consolidating the business, said the ...

Bloomberg China’s ByteDance Inc created one of the country’s rare global hits with the addictive video app TikTok Now the US government is threatening that success as officials in Washington warn the service presents a security threat. The Beijing-based company, led by Chief Executive Officer Yiming Zhang, is weighing a range of options to address those concerns, according to people ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, launched a new phase of Dubai’s Happiness Agenda. Under the new phase, a Happiness Champion working in customer-oriented services will now be referred to as a ‘Smart City Experience Specialist’ while a Champion working in Human Resources-oriented ...