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ABU DHABI / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec), completed the Structural Integrity Test (SIT), and Integrated Leak Rate Test (ILRT), at Unit 2 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant. These significant pre-operational tests incorporated all the lessons learned from the same tests on Unit 1, and represent another major achievement in the testing and commissioning phase of the ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), Mubadala and Dubal Holding on Sunday officially broke ground on a new AED1 billion state-of-the-art power block at EGA’s Jebel Ali smelter in Dubai. EGA is the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, and is jointly owned by Mubadala Investment Company and Dubal Holding. The ground-breaking ceremony was held ...

Dubai / WAM Arab Regional Tax Forum has discussed ways of balancing tax policies, Arab countries’ competitiveness in managing them, as well as the challenges facing these nations in pursuing their tax policies. The two-day forum which opened on Sunday at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai, is organised by the Ministry of Finance (MoF), and the Arab Monetary Fund ...

Bloomberg Some ex- Tata Group executives have teamed up with a veteran investor to seek to bring change at Indian companies, in a rare attempt to influence management in a country where shareholder activism has largely failed to take hold. Former Tata employees including Mukund Rajan and Govind Sankaranarayanan have partnered with Ajit Dayal, the founder of mutual fund firm ...

Bloomberg A rare public protest in Singapore underscored mounting anger among investors set to suffer sharp losses in one of the country’s highest-profile corporate debt restructurings. The catastrophic slump of the once-vaunted water and power company, Hyflux Ltd, has stunned debtholders, who stand to lose about 90 percent. About 400 to 500 of those individual investors gathered in a downtown ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg called for new global regulations governing the internet, recommending overarching rules on hateful and violent content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. In a statement that was also published as an op-ed in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg said the company is seeking regulations that would set baselines for prohibited content and require ...

Bloomberg PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are exploring a partnership to share investments to build cars in Europe, according to people familiar with the talks. The French carmaker and its Italian-American peer have been holding preliminary discussions to collaborate on a “super platform” — the basic underpinning of a car model — to reduce their investment costs in the ...

Bloomberg Luxembourg’s PM Xavier Bettel joked that Brexit is like Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Unfortunately, many UK citizens in the Grand-Duchy have become the protagonists in a tragicomedy of their own. Since the June 2016 referendum, there’s been an influx of finance workers fleeing the City of London. But other Britons, employed at EU institutions, were essentially forced to ...

Bloomberg North Korea says it’s monitoring “rumours” the FBI was involved in a recent raid on its embassy in Spain. In Pyongyang’s first public statement on the incident, an unidentified foreign ministry spokesperson said North Korea is tracking rumours that the FBI and an anti-North Korea group were involved in the “grave terrorist attack” on its embassy in Madrid on ...

Dubai / WAM During his participation in the High-Level Meeting on Climate and Sustainable Development for All, convened by Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment, reiterated the country’s green commitment and support for ambitious and innovative global climate action. Delivering ...