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DUBAI / WAM The UAE, with its more than 213 health facilities, has been ranked number one in the number of internationally accredited facilities by the Joint Commission International (JCI), once again highlighting its series of achievements and indices geared towards accomplishing the aspirations of the UAE Vision 2021 in order to strengthen its position on the global competitiveness map ...

Dubai / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), is gearing up for the opening of cycle tracks stretching 32 km in Mushrif, Mirdif and Al Khawaneej early next month. The project includes the construction of two bridges for the combined use of cyclists and pedestrians over Al Khawaneej and Academic City Streets. The project cost amounts to AED67 million. ...

Bloomberg India slashed tax rates on some goods and services just days ahead of the country’s budget, as it continues to rationalise its six-month-old regime to ease the pain for businesses hit by its chaotic roll out. A panel of federal and state finance ministers decided to revise GST rates on 29 goods and 53 services, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ...

Bloomberg Byton, the Chinese electric-car startup founded by former BMW AG executives, is seeking about $400 million in a new round of funding, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Nanjing-based company, which showcased a concept car at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, has been reaching out to potential investors to gauge their interest, according ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. said it will bring hundreds of billions of overseas dollars back to the US, pay about $38 billion in taxes on the money and spend tens of billions on domestic jobs, manufacturing and data centers in the coming years. The iPhone maker plans capital expenditures of $30 billion in the US over five years and will create ...

Bloomberg Google Inc. is set for its first battle in a London court over the so-called “right to be forgotten” in two cases that will test the boundaries between personal privacy and public interest. Two anonymous people, who describe themselves in court filings as businessmen, want the search engine to take down links to information about their old convictions. One ...

Bloomberg The federal gas tax should be increased to help modernise US roads, bridges and other public works, and Congress must expand funding and financing options for projects, US Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue said. The chamber is calling on Congress and the Trump administration to raise federal fuel taxes by 25 cents, pass initiatives including a new federal ...

Bloomberg The US government officially entered a partial shutdown on Saturday as Senate Democrats and a handful of Republicans blocked a bill to fund the government after the two parties failed to break their deadlock over immigration. The shutdown began one year from the day President Donald Trump was inaugurated. Trump and his aides were typically defiant, with his press ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Wednesday visited the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW 2018), the largest sustainability gathering in the Middle East. His Highness toured various exhibition pavilions at the show currently taking place at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), from ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court, on Wednesday visited Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, ADSW 2018, at ADNEC. During his tour, Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed, while accompanied by Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, ...