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  ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business UAE’s construction and real estate sector is poised for sturdy growth over the next five to ten years, as the industry is exploring an already favourable Public Private Partnership (PPP) investment structure. However, at a time when many banks are shying away from giving easy loans, PPP model emerges as a boon in the ...

  Bloomberg Growing demand from oil refiners and the continued filling of strategic crude reserves in the face of domestic production declines will support crude buying by the world’s second-largest consumer, according to analysts from Energy Aspects Ltd. and ICIS China. Coal imports will continue to rise to help fill a supply gap left by a mining slowdown. “Crude buying ...

  Istanbul / AFP Turkey launched fresh raids and sacked almost 9,000 officials on Monday in a relentless crackdown against suspects behind an attempted coup that left over 300 people dead, as Western allies warned against reinstating the death penalty. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to wipe out the “virus” of the putschists after facing down the coup bid ...

  Nablus / AFP Clashes erupted on Monday as Israel’s military demolished the home of a Palestinian accused of involvement in a February attack outside Jerusalem’s Old City that killed a policewoman, officials said. The family home of Bilal Abu Zeid in Qabatiya, in the north of the occupied West Bank, was destroyed by a bulldozer around 2:00 am (2300 ...

  Nice, France / AFP France fell silent on Monday for the victims of the Nice truck attack, but the mourning was overshadowed by politicians tearing into each other over the massacre. A sea of people thronged the Nice promenade for the emotional minute’s silence just days after a Tunisian attacker drove a truck into a crowd at the same ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May will make the case for Britain remaining a powerful player in the world after last month’s vote to leave the EU. The premier will use her first appearance in parliament since succeeding David Cameron to argue for renewing the Trident nuclear-weapons system after a weekend in which the team overseeing the divorce from the ...

  Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp. is doubling down on Papua New Guinea, topping a rival offer for InterOil Corp., a gas explorer focused on the Southeast Asian nation. The energy giant’s offer values InterOil at $2.5 billion, including debt, beating an earlier bid from Oil Search Ltd. and Total SA. Exxon already runs Papua New Guinea’s only liquefied natural gas ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Industrial Coordination Council recently held its first meeting at the Ministry of Economy’s headquarters in Dubai headed by HE Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy and Chairman of the Board. Also in attendance were Council members representing the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment; the Industry Development Office in Abu Dhabi; ...

  Alkesh Sharma / Emirates Business As UAE financial institutions face unnerving and intricate challenges in light of increasing cyber scams, big data emerges as one of the major carriers of malware to the company’s system. According to industry pundits, apart from using a foolproof anti-virus to counter this problem, a close study of algorithms and better usage of statistics ...

  RITIKA SHARMA / Emirates Business Among various technological developments, Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to remain a key trend in the UAE as the nation moves towards its goal of becoming a knowledge-based economy by 2021 and prepares to host the world’s biggest exhibition event, Expo 2020. Regional experts believe IoT will change the face of industries in ...