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  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Ports, the master developer, operator and manager of ports and Khalifa Industrial Zone in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, is now ISO 10002:2014 certified, which ensures best global practice in handling complaints related to any services offered by Abu Dhabi Ports. Basem Obaid, Area General Manager, was the representative from the Lloyds ...

  Bloomberg Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected as the leader of Britain’s Labour Party with an increased share of the vote and then urged the movement to heal its bitter divisions and unite against Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May. Corbyn took 62 percent of the votes of more than 500,000 party members and supporters, according to the result announced on Saturday ...

  Bloomberg Oracle Corp., which has faced shareholder opposition to its compensation practices, cut pay for its top executives in 2016. Co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison received $41.5 million, a 35 percent decrease from last year. Co-Chief Executive Officers Safra Catz and Mark Hurd each received about $41 million, a 23 percent decline. The drop for the co-CEOs is accentuated ...

  BEIRUT / AFP Syrian government forces captured a rebel-held area on the edge of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city as an ongoing wave of airstrikes destroyed more buildings. The new government push came as the U.N. said that nearly 2 million people in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and onetime commercial center, ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-Ying pledged to provide more land to build apartments for low-income people in a bid to lower housing prices in the world’s least-affordable city. Only a small portion of Hong Kong’s 11 million square kilometers (6.8 million square miles) of land has been developed, and is the reason housing is expensive and land ...

  Bloomberg Six years ago, India’s biggest share sale was in commodities. Now, as the IPO market heats up again, the key to investors’ hearts lies in finance. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance’s float has attracted strong demand, drawing orders of 10.5 times the amount of stock available to raise as much as 60.6 billion rupees ($909 million). It’s the nation’s ...

  Los Angeles / AFP Police were searching on Saturday for a gunman who killed five people during a shooting at a mall in the US state of Washington, amid a raging national debate over gun control. Four women and one man were killed, police said in an updated toll. The man had been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Trade exhibitions related to technology, real estate, education, healthcare and upcoming themeparks are all set to boost the temporary staff requirements as per Dulsco, a regional leader in human resources and waste management. UAE is one of the most sought after destination in the Middle East for the MICE sector (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions). ...

  Gordon Haff Special to Emirates Business There lingers the misperception that DevOps is mostly for companies that sport ping-pong tables and have free sushi for lunch. Trendy Web giants out on the technology bleeding edge. Firms that manufacture construction equipment and have large swaths of legacy computer code? Not so much. It’s really not surprising that this misperception exists. ...

  Dubai / WAM The UAE and the Republic of Slovenia are witnessing an evolving economic landscape and have an extraordinary opportunity to take their bilateral relationship to the next level and help each other make a more positive and profound impact on the global economy, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, said on Thursday. “In recognition of Slovenia’s ...