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Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday received Aga Khan IV, Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai. During the meeting, Sheikh Mohammed and Aga Khan exchanged ...

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 members of the organising committee of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), along with Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO. During the meeting, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Borouge’s portfolio of creative and value creating plastics solutions including the breakthrough flexible packaging product Anteo were demonstrated at the 15th International Saudi Plastics and Petrochemicals and Print and Pack 2018 (Saudi PPPP) joint exhibitions held at the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Centre from January 21-24. Bringing together key players and professionals in the plastics ...

Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), announced that 6,000 new companies joined the Chamber in 2017, reflecting Sharjah’s continuous attractiveness to foreign investment and a modern business environment capable of adding value to the companies that set up business in the emirate. The total number of members increased by 6.8 percent year-on-year to 69,108 members ...

Dubai / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), welcomed Liborio Stellino, Ambassador of Italy to the UAE, as part of diplomatic and consular visits to DEWA. During the meeting, Al Tayer emphasised the importance of cooperation between DEWA and Italian energy companies, and working to develop them on a wider scale. ...

DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has launched its first international marketing campaign, using hands to demonstrate the power of human collaboration. Using bold colours and the dexterity of dozens of hands, the campaign visuals create the illusion of easily recognisable objects, such as the Burj Khalifa, a lightbulb, Earth and wind turbines. The launch comes with 1,000 days to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A record 4.87 million people stayed in Abu Dhabi’s 162 hotels and hotel apartments during 2017, with the emirate recording an impressive 9.8 percent year-on-year rise. Figures released by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT) for its hospitality sector reveal that the number of guests staying in Abu Dhabi city during the ...

Bloomberg The Tata Group sees potential for significant growth in financial services without relying on acquisitions, as India’s largest conglomerate looks to sharpen its focus on about half a dozen businesses. “Both our insurance business and non-banking finance company have got a huge opportunity to grow,” Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of group holding company Tata Sons, said in an interview with ...

Bloomberg India is working towards a $5 trillion dollar economy by 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday at the opening session of the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Almost all areas of our economy have been opened to foreign direct investment,” said Modi, the first Indian prime minister in two decades to attend the forum of global business ...

Bloomberg The Philippines retained its position as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies after expansion exceeded 6 percent for a sixth year. Gross domestic product increased 6.7 percent in 2017, the Philippine Statistics Authority said in Manila on Tuesday, matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The economy rose 6.6 percent in the fourth quarter from a ...