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DUBAI / WAM Ahead of President Xi Jinping of China’s arrival in the UAE later this week, Dubai Tourism reports continued growth in visitors from China. With a robust growth of 119 percent in overnight Chinese visitors since 2014 and a year on year increase of 41.4 percent overnight Chinese visitors to Dubai from 2016 to 2017 combined with a ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates on Wednesday announced that it will introduce two additional flights to Lyon and one to Paris per week, complementing its existing schedule and providing even more choice and convenience to travellers. The increase in frequency from five to seven between Lyon and Dubai will see the route become a daily service, while the extra flight ...

New York / WAM The UAE presented its first ever Voluntary National Review (VNR), at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, providing a review of the country’s progress in implementing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The presentation was delivered during the UN’s High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the global gathering of decision-makers that has been ...

Dhala / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) distributed 600 food baskets to undeprivileged families in the villages of Al-Arayef, Al-Worah and Al-Bajh across the Dhala governorate of Yemen. Nabil Al-Afeef, Dhala province deputy, and Mohamed Fadl Ismail, Director of the Dhala Governor’s Office, oversaw the distribution of the food aid. Al-Afeef expressed his appreciation for UAE’s humanitarian and relief support ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Health Insurance Company, Daman, has launched a new service that allows private sponsors to renew health insurance policies of family members and domestic staff online. The service is a significant upgrade over previous iteration, launched in 2016, which limited renewals to sponsored employees in eight professions, mostly domestic staff. During its trial phase, more ...

Dubai / WAM The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), has been awarded three certificates by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), in the fields of Information Security Management, IT Service Management, and Energy Management. Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, TRA Director-General, received the certificates during a meeting with Ahmad Al Khatib, General Manager of the British Standards Institution in the Middle East ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE, represented by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), will be hosting the 4th Young Professionals in Space Conference (YPS, 2019), from October, 28-31 2019. The announcement was made during this year’s YPS conference, currently being held in Barcelona, and comes in recognition of the UAE efforts to encourage youth in the field of space science ...

Bloomberg Vitol Group, the biggest independent oil trader, and mining giant Peabody Energy Corp are joining forces to give coal a new lease on life. The companies have teamed with a UK startup that’s developed a process to pulverize coal, remove impurities and pollutants, and blend it with crude or fuels for use by refineries and other customers. While unproven ...

Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd., India’s second-largest company by market value, plans to raise about $5.8 billion in fresh debt this financial year as it expands its consumer businesses, according to people familiar with the matter. The billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led company will raise funds through loans and bonds, mostly in the Indian currency, the people said asking not to be named ...

Bloomberg China’s electric-vehicle battery sector is set for a brutal reshuffle as the government reforms subsidies to meet the more exacting technological demands of next-generation transport, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. China built massive new battery capacity in recent years, aided by generous government support, creating industry heavyweights Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. and the Warren Buffett-backed BYD Co. ...