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Dubai / WAM Hessa bint Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development headed the UAE delegation in the ministerial meeting about Women Empowerment at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Cairo, Egypt. During the meeting, she emphasized that women empowerment in their community is one of the main conditions that contributed to the achievement of sustainable development and gender equality, ...

NUR-SULTAN / WAM Mohammed Haji Al Khouri, Director-General of Khalifa Foundation, on Saturday, opened the Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Arabic learning centre at the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed School (KBZS), in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan. The opening ceremony was attended by Mohammed Ahmed bin Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Ambassador to Kazakhstan, senior Kazakh officials and members of the UAE mission in ...

Mocha / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), organised second group wedding in Yemen as part of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and the follow up of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued the Presidential Resolution No. (1) of 2019 towards raising women’s representation in the Federal National Council (FNC) to 50 per cent with effect from the upcoming legislative cycle. Issued in the run-up to the fourth cycle of FNC elections that are scheduled to take place ...

SHARJAH / WAM The Expo Centre Sharjah concluded its visit to Egypt and Jordan where it explored prospects of future cooperation and joint coordination in the sector of international exhibitions and conferences, to promote the interests of the Arab economy. The Expo delegation was headed by Saif Mohamed Al Midfa, Expo Centre Sharjah CEO, and he was accompanied by Mahmoud ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A UN official has praised the UAE’s role in implementing disaster risk reduction across the world. Sujit Mohanty, Chief of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Regional Office for Arab States, said the UAE plays an important role, both locally and internationally, to apply emergency crises response systems and programmes. The UAE government has ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co CEO Hiroto Saikawa is due to be questioned by the board on Monday about allegations by a former senior executive that he broke company rules to pay for a house in Tokyo, according to people familiar with the matter. Saikawa will be asked at the extraordinary meeting whether date restrictions on selling compensation-linked stock were altered ...

Bloomberg The billionaire founder of Apple Inc’s largest supplier asked the US company to move from China to neighbouring Taiwan. “Speaking from the perspective of the Republic of China, I will plead to Apple to come to Taiwan,” said Terry Gou, who remains the largest shareholder in Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, answering a question about whether Apple will shift ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp founder Masayoshi Son says he wants to re-list ARM Holdings Plc within five years, re-introducing stock markets to the British chipmaker his company bought for $32 billion in 2016. SoftBank has not yet decided where the public offering will be held, Son said in Taipei. Founded in 1990, ARM quietly grew into the UK’s largest listed ...

Bloomberg Oyo Hotels & Homes, a lodging operator backed by SoftBank’s Vision Fund, is betting the same formula that fuelled the company’s rapid growth in India and China can work in the US. Oyo, which opened its first US hotel at the beginning of the year, plans to invest $300 million to expand in the country, Chief Executive Officer Ritesh ...