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ABU DHABI / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec), completed the Structural Integrity Test (SIT), and Integrated Leak Rate Test (ILRT), at Unit 2 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant. These significant pre-operational tests incorporated all the lessons learned from the same tests on Unit 1, and represent another major achievement in the testing and commissioning phase of the ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Guest, the loyalty programme of Etihad Airways, and the Saudi-headquartered Arab National Bank (ANB) have partnered to launch an ANB Etihad Guest Signature Visa Card in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Yasser Al Yousuf, Vice President Commercial Partnerships, Etihad Airways said: “At Etihad Guest, we make every effort to cooperate with prestigious companies to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), held meetings with the Amman Stock Exchange, ASE, Jordan Securities Commission, JSC, and representatives of the companies listed on ASE on the sidelines of ADX’s participation in the second Arab Capital Markets Conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman. The ADX delegation held a series of meetings with the ASE to discuss ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), and the Hainan Provincial Government have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to further boost the economic and financial collaboration between China and the UAE via Hainan Free Trade Zone and ADGM’s international financial centre and financial free zone. The signing took place on the sidelines of the 2019 ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), Mubadala and Dubal Holding on Sunday officially broke ground on a new AED1 billion state-of-the-art power block at EGA’s Jebel Ali smelter in Dubai. EGA is the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, and is jointly owned by Mubadala Investment Company and Dubal Holding. The ground-breaking ceremony was held ...

Dubai / WAM Arab Regional Tax Forum has discussed ways of balancing tax policies, Arab countries’ competitiveness in managing them, as well as the challenges facing these nations in pursuing their tax policies. The two-day forum which opened on Sunday at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai, is organised by the Ministry of Finance (MoF), and the Arab Monetary Fund ...

Bloomberg China’s first official economic gauge for March signalled a stabilisation in the world’s second-largest economy, easing one of the biggest worries for the global outlook. The manufacturing purchasing managers index rose to 50.5 from 49.2 last month, the biggest increase since 2012 and exceeding all estimates by economists. Both new orders and new export orders — leading sub-gauges that ...

Bloomberg China continues to suspend retaliatory tariffs on US autos and car parts from April 1. The end date for the suspension may be given at a later date, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement on its website. It added that China hopes to continue talking with the US about trade issues and to make efforts to end ...

Bloomberg First came a type of cumin-flavoured sparkling water. Next up is a mix of unripe mangoes and spices. After that could be buttermilk. Then maybe some potions based on a 2,000 year-old system of traditional medicine. That’s a rough outline of Coca-Cola Co’s strategy in India as it tries to outrun the global decline in consumption of sugary sodas. ...

Bloomberg Some ex- Tata Group executives have teamed up with a veteran investor to seek to bring change at Indian companies, in a rare attempt to influence management in a country where shareholder activism has largely failed to take hold. Former Tata employees including Mukund Rajan and Govind Sankaranarayanan have partnered with Ajit Dayal, the founder of mutual fund firm ...