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Dubai / WAM On Wednesday, the fifth “Africa Investment Conference” will be held at the Four Seasons Resort in Dubai. The two-day conference, which will be hosted by the African Legal Network, aims to promote investments in Africa and encourage discussions on critical issues facing the continent, and is expected to attract more than 400 representatives and will include speakers ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, is introducing Economy Space, a new seating option across its wide-body fleet, to enhance its product offering and to provide more choice to its customers on longer flights. By December this year, Etihad Airways will have retrofitted its 10 Airbus A380s with Economy Space seats, which feature ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM International economic and oil media outlets highlighted the outcomes of the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC), which took place on Sunday and was led by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and Deputy Chairman of the SPC. These media outlets observed the ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Financial Market (DFM) on Monday announced its financial results for the first nine months of the year ending September 30, registering a net profit of AED103.7 million. According to a press statement, total revenue reached AED251.9 million during the nine months’ period ended September 30. The revenue is comprised AED154.3 million of operating income and AED97.6 ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE was elected as a member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Council for the fourth consecutive term. Member states at the 20th ITU Plenipotentiary Conference on Monday completed the election process for the ITU Council and Radio Regulations Board for the 2019-2022 period. The UAE garnered 164 votes, and was elected as member in the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Saif Bader Al Qubaisi, General Manager of Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM), and Dr Ali Al Zarouni, Deputy Executive Director of Production, Technology Development and Transfer at Emirates Global Aluminum Company (EGA), signed an agreement under which EGA will construct a sports stadium at Al Samha. The initiative is intended to bring happiness to community members, ...

Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA), the government body that develops the emirate’s tourism infrastructure and initiates its domestic and overseas promotions, on Monday announced its consolidated results for the first three quarters of 2018. The organisation reported growth of 11.2 per cent in international guests in the first nine months of the ...

Bloomberg Gas is in such hot demand in China right now it’s allowing a quirky market to flourish: transporting fuel on trucks. Call them pipelines on wheels. The country’s top suppliers are loading liquefied natural gas onto tanker trucks and delivering it to users to make up for insufficient pipeline coverage inland. The method is so effective ENN Group is ...

Bloomberg Equatorial Guinea expects international oil companies to spend about $2.4 billion on the nation’s oil and gas industry by the end of next year, a government official said. The investment should include about 11 new wells, the official said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. They didn’t give a breakdown in spending by company. In ...

Bloomberg Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurds upgraded their oil export pipeline to accommodate future production growth from their region as well as from the contested Kirkuk area controlled by the central government in Baghdad. The Kurdistan Regional Government completed improvements to the pipeline to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan by installing another pumping station in the Shaikhan area, the KRG’s Ministry of ...