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Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business In collaboration with more than twenty business councils from around the world, Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD), a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports, brought together more than 500 companies, investors, officials and diplomats to discuss investment opportunities in KIZAD and Khalifa Port Free Trade Zone (KPFTZ), the largest free zone in the Middle East. ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Wednesday honoured the winners of the 17th Arab Journalism Award at a ceremony held at the conclusion of the Arab Media Forum (AMF), 2018. HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh ...

Abu DHABI / Emirates Business Etisalat on Wednesday announced the launch of a roaming pack exclusively for its mobile post-paid and prepaid customers, offering unlimited data and voice roaming for AED400 per week. The new Saudi unlimited pack, valid for 7 days, offers value for money with bigger savings on calls and data usage due to very high data and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The newly launched Google News Initiative together with Google News Lab will offer free training to 4,000 journalists in the Middle East and North Africa region to help journalists advance their editorial, research, writing, fact-checking and editing skills, over the next 12 months, a senior Google official told delegates at the Arab Media Forum. “We have ...

Bloomberg The Pentagon says it’s received 1,089 comments—including submissions from 46 companies—on its plans for a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract in a sign of the intense interest and sharp debate over a winner-take-all award that competitors say will favour Amazon.com Inc. Industry comments and questions, but not the names of the companies making them, will be posted along with the ...

Bloomberg PSA Group Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares played down concerns about Brexit as he unveiled a plan by the French carmaker to invest in a factory near London in a bid to revive the Vauxhall brand it acquired last year. “We are hearing many remarks from the UK government that make us think that they are negotiating with the ...

Bloomberg Martin Sorrell’s once-undisputed control of the advertising giant he’s assembled over more than 30 years may be slipping away. The firm, WPP Plc, is investigating allegations of personal misconduct by the 73-year-old Sorrell. The company statement—along with a denial by Sorrell—was released after news of the probe was leaked to the Wall Street Journal, which reported that the accusations ...

Bloomberg Chinese companies scrambled to assess the impact of proposed US tariffs on 1,300 products as President Donald Trump took a swipe at companies making televisions to dishwashers but spared levies on other goods that might hurt US consumers. The wide-ranging list of products that may be hit with 25 percent tariffs includes malaria diagnostic test kits, sewing machines and ...

Bloomberg Companies owned by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal may raise as much as 365 billion rupees ($5.6 billion) selling bonds as the telecom titans build a war chest in what investors hope will be the home stretch in India’s bruising tariff war. Mittal-controlled Bharti Airtel Ltd., which sold its first-ever rupee bond of 30 billion rupees in ...

Bloomberg The triple alliance of Russia, Turkey and Iran, now the dominant actors in Syria’s war, is stepping up efforts to impose a peace. It may end up presiding over a partition. Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting his Turkish and Iranian counterparts in Ankara on Wednesday for their latest summit on Syria’s future. The three leaders have buried their ...