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  Dubai / WAM All taxis in Dubai will soon be available through the Careem app under a new agreement between the e-hail taxi company and the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). RTA signed the agreement with Careem Networks Company on Tuesday making all its 9,841 taxis and 4,700 limousines available on Careem app. According to Mattar Al Tayer, Director General ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The World Green Economy Summit (WGES) 2016, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, is set to open tomday at Dubai International Convention and Exhibitions Centre in New Za’abeel Hall 6. The 2016 Summit marks the third ...

  Bloomberg In a testament to the rising consumer potential of the world’s No. 6 emerging market, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has tapped for guidance the king of Chinese e-commerce: Jack Ma. Jokowi, as Indonesia’s leader is known, further intensified the buzz surrounding his country’s $2 billion e-commerce market with a stop at Jakarta’s sprawling Mangga Dua bazaar last month, ...

  Bloomberg Indian Oil Corp. is scaling up an expansion plan for its biggest refinery in northern India at a cost of 150 billion rupees ($2.3 billion), as it races to meet demand in one of the world’s fastest-growing crude consumers. India’s top refiner will expand its Panipat refinery to 25 million metric tons a year (500,000 barrels a day) ...

  Beijing / AFP China’s dependence on debt is growing at a “dangerous pace” and it must act to head off a brewing crisis, the IMF warned on Tuesday. The International Monetary Fund also said the country’s leaders should kick on with vital reforms or risk a painful correction in the world’s number two economy, adding that Beijing’s “unsustainably high” ...

  Seoul / AFP The chairman of South Korea’s Hanjin Group on Tuesday apologised for the “cargo chaos” caused by the collapse of its shipping unit, but insisted the company could, and should, be salvaged. Hanjin Shipping, the world’s seventh largest shipping company, is seeking bankruptcy protection at home and in the US after creditors rejected its latest plan to ...

  Tokyo/ AFP Business confidence among Japan’s largest manufacturers is at its lowest since Tokyo introduced measures to kick-start the struggling economy more than three years ago, a central bank survey showed in a report. The Bank of Japan’s closely watched Tankan report comes after data showing weak growth in the second quarter and as soft inflation and spending figures ...

  Brussels / AFP The IMF raised its growth forecast for the eurozone on Tuesday, but warned of uncertainty due to the still unknown consequences of Brexit and damage caused by low inflation. The IMF edged up the growth forecast for the 19 nation currency bloc to 1.7 percent in 2016, from an earlier 1.6 percent, citing low oil prices ...

  Bloomberg Ericsson AB plans to cut 3,000 jobs in Sweden, a fifth of the workforce in its home country, as it curbs production to cope with shifting technology and stagnant demand for wireless-network equipment. The company will reduce manufacturing in the towns of Boraas and Kumla — a move it signaled last month— as it turns its focus to ...

  Strasbourg / AFP The European Parliament will vote on its “negotiating lines” for Britain’s exit from the EU after London triggers the divorce process next year, its Brexit pointman said on Tuesday. Former Belgian premier Guy Verhofstadt welcomed Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement at the weekend that Britain will start negotiations by the end of March but said there ...