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Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued Federal Decrees ratifying a number of bilateral agreements between the UAE and brotherly and friendly countries. The Decrees have been published in the latest issue of the Federal Official Gazette. His Highness Sheikh Khalifa approved an agreement between the UAE and Afghanistan on the mutual allocation ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Tuesday received Rt Hon Gavin Williamson, UK Secretary of State for Defence, who is currently visiting the country His Highness Sheikh Mohamed welcomed the UK Secretary of State for Defence and discussed with ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), on Tuesday extended his congratulations to President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the UAE retained the title of the “Top World Aid Donor” in the field of official development assistance for the fifth year in a row. He also ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi’s Department of Transport (DoT) announced that the smart card service, ‘Hafilat’ is now available on board regional buses. The service, launched by the department’s Integrated Transport Centre, will facilitate the payment of trip fares efficiently – through the automatic calculation of fares based on distance traveled – saving passengers time, effort and money. The ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates has set a new record with over 1 million Wi-Fi connections made on board its flights in March alone. During the month, 1,037,016 Emirates customers connected to the internet during their flight. The connections were mainly made over mobile devices with over 94% of users connecting with a smartphone –twice as many connections were made ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), said on Tuesday that it has successfully completed the Reactor Containment Building (RCB), dome for Unit 4, the final unit of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, marking another milestone in the development of the plant, located in the Al Dhafrah region of Abu Dhabi. ENEC also said that the Unit’s ...

Bloomberg The head of China’s largest natural gas importer believes the country’s energy ties with the US are set to deepen, despite trade conflict between the world’s two largest economies that has roiled financial markets. “There is more room for cooperation than confrontation between China and the US,” China National Petroleum Corp. Chairman Wang Yilin said in an interview with ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia wants to get oil prices near $80 a barrel to pay for the government’s policy agenda and support the valuation of state energy giant Aramco before an initial public offering. In conversations with OPEC delegates and oil market participants, Saudi officials had been careful to avoid pinpointing an exact price target. Yet people who have spoken to ...

Bloomberg China’s massive build programme to recreate trade routes stretching from Asia to Africa and Europe is gaining momentum. Since President Xi Jinping’s flagship Belt and Road project was announced about five years ago, it gave impetus to billions of dollars of Chinese investment — some of which were already in the pipeline for several years — to build railways, ...

Bloomberg Ant Financial is in talks to raise at least $10 billion in a funding round that could value the Chinese internet giant controlled by Alibaba-founder Jack Ma at $150 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Singaporean state investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte wants to be the lead investor in the financing for China’s largest internet financial services ...