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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 ...

Bloomberg Encana Corp.’s founder and former Chief Executive Officer Gwyn Morgan said he’s disappoi- nted by the driller’s $5.5 billion purchase of New- field Exploration, which moves focus to US and dashes hopes that company would represent Canada on world stage. Morgan, who named the oil and gas producer Encana to evoke “Energy Canada,” blames the move on PM Justin ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma called fighting over trade senseless and decried once again a widening conflict between the US and China. China’s richest person — who warned just last month that a trade war could last two decades — argued it was pointless to target goods because the Asian nation was on its way to becoming a major ...

Bloomberg China will set up a new trading venue in Shanghai that will make it easier for high-tech companies to access funding, as President Xi Jinping vows more opening measures to boost the world’s second-largest economy. The Shanghai Stock Exchange will also start a pilot programme on a registration-based system of initial public offerings, Xi said at the opening ceremony ...

Bloomberg India’s IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they’re not South Asian. The company was expected to go on trial on Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at ...