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  Dubai / WAM Hussein Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, opened the Historical Documents Centre in Shindagha. The centre, which contains more than 20,000 documents collected by the municipality, aims to have all the documents that tell the history of the Emirate of Dubai as well as of the nation. Lootah stressed DM’s continuous efforts in compiling these valuable documents ...

  Mumbai / Emirates Business The second edition of the premium real-estate exhibition, Dubai Property Show, concluded successfully at Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai with a phenomenal response from serious property buyers and investors from India. Reputed property developers and real estate companies from Dubai showcased a wide range of properties from lavish apartments to sprawling villas and from sophisticated ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in the Western Region, Abu Dhabi Ports on Thursday officially opened Sir Bani Yas Cruise Beach, offering cruise ship passengers a new beach destination with unmatched tourism experiences. The beach was officially inaugurated by His Excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business Committed towards identifying young talent and empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs, Sheraa sponsored ten students to participate at the GlassQube Startup Weekend FinTech Hackathon in Abu Dhabi held recently. As part of the global movement coordinated by TechStars and supported by ‘Google for Entrepreneurs’, this year’s GlassQube Startup Weekend competition gathered developers, designers and ...

  Dubai / WAM The Thuraya Telecommunications Company has supplied books for classrooms in Lebanon, where displaced Syrian children are being helped to return to structured school life. Thuraya is supporting the Ana Aqra Association, a non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-political association that exists to respond to the educational, psycho-social and cultural needs of children in the early years of learning. Ana ...

  Dubai / WAM Wellbeing, positive education and the benefits of learning in nature will be the focus of a design-thinking workshop by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) on Saturday. The workshop will be held at the Wellbeing Campus of the Hatta Development Project, an eco-tourism and learning initiative recently announced by Vice President and Prime Minister of the ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Supreme Legislation Committee in the Emirate of Dubai (SLC) hosted recently a panel discussion titled the ‘Legislative Audit Guidelines for Proper Implementation of the Legislation in force in the Emirate of Dubai.’ During the sessions, 17 participating local government entities gained valuable insights on the legislative audit. This includes the rules and measures ...

  Bloomberg Russia’s finance minister is counting himself among the skeptics of OPEC’s agreement to cut production, if only to beat back efforts to raid a windfall as oil rallies. “Improvements in oil prices, in our view, aren’t structural in character,” Anton Siluanov told reporters in Moscow. “Rather, it’s a reaction to the limits on oil output adopted by OPEC ...

  Bloomberg Tata Motors Ltd., the $22 billion producer of Jaguar sports cars and Land Rover sport utility vehicles, is shaping up as a key battleground in the fight for control of India’s biggest conglomerate. Tata Group is facing opposition to its plan to remove Cyrus Mistry from the automaker’s board after Glass Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s property developers are fast falling out of favor among investors as surging mortgage costs and punitive taxes threaten to choke home sales. A gauge of real estate companies traded on the city’s stock market has tumbled 13 percent this quarter, with developers accounting for half of the biggest losers on the benchmark Hang Seng Index, which ...