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  ABU DHABI / WAM Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (Yahsat), the UAE’s flagship satellite solutions provider, on Monday announced that its government division, Yahsat Government Solutions (YGS), agreed with Edge Group entity, NIMR, a leading manufacturer of combat-proven wheeled military vehicles, to line-fit pre-qualified Comms-On-The-Move (COTM) solutions on NIMR’s vehicular systems. The agreement was announced at the World ...

  DUBAI / WAM Emirates has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau at the Emirates Group headquarters in Dubai. The pact reaffirms the airline’s commitment to Sri Lanka and outlines mutually beneficial initiatives that will help revive the country’s trade and tourism industry. The MoU was signed by Ahmed Khoory, Emirates’ Senior Vice President, Commercial ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Austria for a comprehensive collaboration in the hydrogen technology industry. The agreement follows the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which was signed in July 2021 during the official visit to Austria ...

  RIYADH / WAM Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi, Minister of State for Defence Affairs, met separately with Prabowo Subianto, Indonesian Minister of Defence, and Kang Eun-ho, South Korean Minister of the Defence Acquisition Programme Administration, in the presence of a number of senior officers and officials of the Ministry. During the meetings, held on the sidelines of the World ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC), has signed a commitment letter with the Dominican Republic’s General Directorate of Customs to officially implement a Customs Management System that will streamline logistics processes and reduce time and costs in cross-border trade. This agreement was signed at Expo Dubai 2020, as part of the Dominican Republic’s National ...

  SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Entrepreneurship Foundation (Ruwad) affiliated to Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) discussed a new set of funding requests submitted by a number of small and medium enterprises in the Emirate of Sharjah. This came during the 8th meeting of the Foundation’s Project Finance Committee, and its second during 2022, which was held at the headquarters ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The government of the UAE has worked with the UK government to launch a toolkit to support financial institutions in tackling illicit financial flows in Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT). Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, UAE Minister of State, has partnered with UK Minister Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon to launch the toolkit, which was launched at ...

Bloomberg China’s export growth moderated in the first two months of the year, pointing to more stable global demand as multiple risks cloud the outlook. Exports rose 16.3% in dollar terms in the January-February period from a year earlier, data from the General Administration of Customs showed on Monday, beating the 14% median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. ...

  Bloomberg Tata Consultancy Services plans to overhaul its organisational structure with specialized groups targeted to help startups as well as large global firms as Asia’s largest software outsourcing provider gears up to double its revenues to $50 billion before 2030, according to people familiar. The Mumbai-based company will create four internal teams — a business transformation group, incubation group, ...

Bloomberg TikTok says it’s suspending livestreaming in Russia amid the country’s new “fake news” law that’s aimed at silencing dissent and limiting information about its invasion of Ukraine. “We have no choice but to suspend livestreaming and new content to our video service while we review the safety implications of this law,” the company announced in a series of tweets. ...