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SHARJAH / WAM Dr Eng Mohammed Nasser Al Ahbabi, Director-General of the UAE Space Agency, said that the new UAE space law is in its final stage, and has been approved by the UAE Cabinet, the Federal National Council (FNC) and national authorities. In an interview with the Emirates News Agency (WAM), on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, a symbol of Islam that embodies the message of peace, tolerance and diversity, welcomed 4,480,000 visitors from 249 nationalities in the first half the Year of Tolerance, according to the half-yearly statistics released by the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre (SZGMC). According to the statistics, there were 967,150 worshippers among the ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), announced that it has been awarded the British Standard for governance (BS 13500) Certification, becoming the first organisation in the GCC region to receive it in 2019. Dewa received certification after thorough auditing process by British Standards Institute (BSI) to ensure authority’s pro-cesses are in line with highest effective governance ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s successful development model, which has seen it become one of the world’s most prominent cities in the last few decades, has always had inclusive growth and social well-being at its centre. Nowhere is its focus on human welfare more evident than its investment in improving the lives of people with special needs. At the launch of ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co is planning to cut jobs at its US subsidiary as the Chinese technology giant continues to struggle with its American blacklisting, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the situation. The cuts are expected to affect employees at Futurewei Technologies Inc, a research-and-development subsidiary that employs about 850 people in states including Texas, ...

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co has secured emergency supplies of three key materials that Japan had cut off as part of its export restrictions, averting a crisis at the South Korean company’s production lines. Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong shared the “outcome” of his Japan trip with the company’s management during a directors’ meeting he hosted, Yonhap reported, citing unidentified people ...

Bloomberg A unit of Porsche Automobil Holding SE will recall 57,200 imported Cayenne and Panamera cars due to faulty transmission components, while a unit of Ferrari NV will recall 200 vehicles due to faulty airbags. The Porsche recall will start from August 26, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said in a statement. Ferrari’s will start from October 10, the ...

Bloomberg Tiger Global Management has examined at least a dozen deals with Indian startups in recent months, according to multiple people with knowledge of the talks, illustrating global investors’ fierce interest in the country’s technology ecosystem. The ultra-secretive New York-based hedge fund has closed investments in at least half of these startups — nearly all of them in fintech or ...

Bloomberg China is grappling with a slowdown that will see output growth slide to the weakest pace in almost three decades this year, as factors far beyond the trade war with the US weigh on the world’s second-largest economy. Gross domestic product is forecast to grow at 6.2 percent in the second quarter, the slowest in a three-month period since ...

Bloomberg US officials approved a record $5 billion privacy settlement with Facebook Inc to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, people said, prompting an immediate outcry from lawmakers and privacy advocates who said it didn’t go far enough. Although details of the settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) weren’t announced, the fine is steep but far from devastating ...