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  Dubai / Emirates Business PayPal and Ipsos released their third annual cross-border commerce report. The global insights research investigated the online domestic and cross-border shopping habits of more than 28,000 consumers in 32 countries, to uncover opportunities for consumers in the world’s commerce revolution. The Global Cross-Border report shows Middle-East as one of the regions with the highest incidence ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Mashreq, the UAE’s leading financial institution, has introduced its latest innovation – UAE’s First ‘Mashreq Bot’; an Artificial Intelligence agent – or chat-bot – programed to simulate an intelligent conversation with users. Customers can use the chat-bot to display Mashreq products and perform card-less cash transactions, low ticket local transfers and inquire about balance and ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The second World Halal Tourism Awards 2016 winners were announced on Thursday. An unprecedented 1.9 million votes were received across the 16 Halal tourism categories making it the largest travel awards presentation in the world. The awards were independently verified by an industry governance panel ensuring that all nominations fulfilled criteria of each of ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business DAMAC Towers by Paramount Hotels & Resorts, one of the largest projects under construction in Dubai, yesterday won the “Tower Project of the Year” award at Construction Week Awards. The project was named the winner in its category and selected based on construction best practice and an exemplary safety record. Construction Week Awards, one of ...

Dubai / Emirates Business City Centre Fujairah— one of the largest shopping mall in the Emirate, and the first integrated shopping, leisure and entertainment destination of its kind—is bringing the renowned ‘Snakes and Ladders’ board game to life for a whole month until December 31. Following the success of previously hosted illustration workshop and live LEGO activation, Snakes and Ladders ...

  Bloomberg India, the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is aiming to extend its lighting efficiency program with the help of the World Bank to seven other Asian nations and to the UK while also applying it to other technologies at home. Initial agreements have been signed with the governments of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, while discussions are underway ...

  Bloomberg China posted a 26th consecutive annual auto sales record with a month to spare, fueled by a cut in levy covering a large swathe of the industry. The lurking concern is that the streak may end if the tax break isn’t extended. With three weeks left until the tax break expires, the government has yet to indicate whether ...

  Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co., the Japanese automaker that’s become symbolic of what it means to be a truly global manufacturer, has a simple plan to navigate an unprecedented level of uncertainty around policy and regulation: focus on what’s in its control. “The regulations are not in our control, but what is in our control is that we stay competitive ...

  Bloomberg China’s crackdown on illegal steel mills, which has sent prices to two-year highs, would target about 6 percent of output in the nation’s biggest steel-making city of Tangshan, according to consultancy Mysteel Research. Tangshan’s total output of about 100 million metric tons — around an eighth of the nation’s supply — includes about 6 million tons of steel ...

  Bloomberg Japan unexpectedly cut its reading of third-quarter economic growth to an annualized 1.3 percent, from a preliminary estimate of 2.2 percent expansion. The revision was driven by drops in business spending and in private inventories. Meanwhile, the government’s projection for the overall size of the economy rose, thanks to changes in the way gross domestic product is calculated. ...