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Dubai / WAM P&O Marinas has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Pindar Yacht Management for the development of a water sports academy, a recreational club, an exhibition space and associated marine leisure services and facilities. Under the agreement, Pindar Yacht will bring its experience as an international sailing business and brand to support the transformation of the P&O Marinas ...

Bloomberg China’s trade surplus surged to a record in May as exports fell less than expected, helped by an increase in medical-related sales, and imports slumped along with commodity prices. Exports decreased 3.3% in dollar terms from a year earlier, beating economists’ estimates, while imports plunged 16.7%. That resulted in a trade surplus of $62.93 billion. The record surplus comes ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates NBD and digital payments facilitator Visa on Sunday announced the renewal of their partnership with a five-year agreement. As part of the agreement, Visa has secured exclusivity over Emirates NBD’s debit card offering to personal, priority, private and business banking customers, and the debit card programme for Liv. Emirates NBD’s lifestyle digital-only bank. In addition, the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The latest regional developments and issues of mutual interest have been deliberated by His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry. This came during a phone call on Saturday, where top diplomat valued the efforts made by Egypt that led to ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Future Academy (DFAc)’s Dubai Future Experts Program, an initiative by Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), has concluded the third module of its Future Analyst’s phase. Spanning a year and a half, the program, developed in partnership between The Executive Council of Dubai and DFF, and supervised by DFAc, is divided into three phases of six months ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Cuban government held an official ceremony in the country’s capital, Havana, to coincide with the arrival of UAE medical aid. The UAE recently dispatched an aid plane carrying eight metric tonnes of medical supplies to support Cuba in curbing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Commenting on the occasion, UAE Ambassador to Cuba Bader Abdulla ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM In line with its efforts to enhance societal awareness of best food safety practices, the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (Adafsa) has launched a guide in three languages on the necessary procedures and measures to prepare, handle and deliver food safely during Covid-19 crisis. The guide provides a detailed clarification of food safety guidelines, ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Municipality announced that it has begun distributing 600 residential plots in the Nad Hessa area to eligible citizens using smart technologies as part of its remote work framework and procedures. In a statement, the municipality noted that the distribution of lands reflects the keenness of the UAE leadership to provide a decent life for citizens, and ...

Dubai / WAM The Customs Development Division of Dubai Customs, which is in charge of developing innovative systems and platforms, showed that 96 percent of customs transactions were approved and endorsed automatically thanks to smart workspace system which reduced clearance time to 4 minutes only. Employees have used TEAMS Microsoft 615,000 times, completed 3.1 minutes of calling, and sent 440,000 ...

Bloomberg The coronavirus pandemic has left Malaysia’s palm oil industry without enough workers, a shortage that could cost farmers as much as 25% of their annual production — a loss worth about $2.8 billion. Malaysia’s economy relies on palm oil, its most important agricultural commodity, but palm oil needs migrant workers from Indonesia, Bangladesh and India to do jobs locals ...