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ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE-Japan Friendship Committee for Women (FCW) recently held its 12th forum meeting, under the patronage of HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation. The forum, which supports the empowerment of women in the oil ...

Ras Al-Khaimah / Emirates Business The RAK Finance Department signed a partnership with the Emirates Auction, a company in the field of management and organisation of public and online auctions in the Middle East, to organise auctions for selling all RAK Government-owned assets. The agreement was signed at the Department’s headquarters by His Excellency Youssef Ali Mohamed, Director General of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) hosted a forum for stakeholders and partners to share its industry outlook amid resurgence in the sector since Dubai’s reopening to international tourists on July 7. The meeting provided insights into the current tourism situation both in the UAE and worldwide and steps taken to accelerate growth ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Public Prosecution has clarified the penalties for the use of the Internet Protocol (IP) address for committing a crime. In a post on its social media accounts on Saturday, the Public Prosecution defined the IP address as the numerical label assigned to any information technology media participating in computer network which is used for ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co founder Ren Zhengfei called the sale of its Honor budget smartphone division a “clean break” that should free it from US restrictions and create a new powerhouse in the world’s largest mobile arena. Ren, blasting Trump administration tactics to contain his company, assured employees in a memo Honor will rapidly resume production after regaining access to ...

Bloomberg The World Economic Forum (WEF) is looking at sites in countries less affected by Covid-19 than Switzerland to replace Lucerne for the meeting scheduled to take place next May, according to the Schweiz am Wochenende newspaper. The Swiss newspaper, which didn’t say the source of the information, also published an interview with WEF founder, Klaus Schwab, who said the ...

Bloomberg The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed a proposal to allow in-flight voice calls via mobile phones, ending its examination of an idea that evoked fears of air rage from passengers trapped beside jabbering seat mates. The idea drew “strong opposition” from pilots and flight attendants, the agency said in a four-paragraph order. The FCC in 2013 proposed allowing ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson defended his decision to put most of England into the highest levels of pandemic restrictions even as the rate of infection across the UK fell to its lowest level since mid-August. Leading members of Johnson’s Conservative Party have said the government’s new three-tier system to contain the coronavirus when the national lockdown ends next week is too ...

Bloomberg The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating whether faulty suspension parts on nearly 115,000 Tesla Inc cars can result in damage to the tires. The agency said it received 43 complaints about 2015 through 2017 Tesla Model S and 2016 through 2017 Model X vehicles. NHTSA said 32 of the complaints involve failures that occurred during parking ...

Bloomberg England’s luxury stores will have more than Christmas sales to worry about when they reopen next week. Many fear a planned tax change related to Brexit could hurt business even more than Covid-19 lockdowns. Retailers are calling on UK Finance Minister Rishi Sunak to reverse a decision to abolish a perk for shoppers from China, the Middle East, the ...