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  Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (TDA), which develops the emirate’s tourism infrastructure and oversees its domestic and overseas promotions, has revealed that total visitor arrivals between January and July increased by seven percent, compared to the same period in 2015, with further indicators foretelling another successful year for the region’s fastest growing ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate’s dedicated entity for heritage, arts and culture, has announced its support for the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) ‘Let’s Make this Summer Green’ environmental awareness campaign. The initiative, which will be implemented at the Dubai Public Library – Al Twar branch this month, will be ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Catering to the Middle East’s growing demand for US goods, MyUS.com, America’s leading package forwarding and consolidation company, shipping more than 10,000 parcels daily around the world, has announced the expansion of its services in the GCC. As a result, customers residing in the GCC can now use MyUS.com in Arabic (MyUS.com/ar/) to sign-up for ...

  Emirates Business datamena, the pioneering carrier neutral data centre and connectivity platform based in the UAE and servicing the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, has announced the addition of Tier 1 Global Internet Service Provider (ISP), Sprint, to its list of partners. With ambitions to expand the reach of its network into the Middle East and Africa, Sprint ...

  Emirates Business ‘1001Titles,’ an initiative from Sharjah-based cultural organisation Knowledge without Borders (KwB), has received a major boost following its manager’s completion of a leading publishing course at Yale University, USA. Majd Al Shehhi’s attendance at the prestigious Ivy League institution’s ‘Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing’ programme was aimed at enhancing the attributes of the initiative, which plans to ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business du, the UAE-based telecommunications company with a focus on supporting and educating youth in the UAE, congratulated 15 dedicated Emirati students on the completion of its Summer Training Programme. To conclude their participation in the programme, the students were awarded ‘Work Experience Appreciation’ certificates during the graduation ceremony that was held at the du headquarters ...

  Reuters The International Monetary Fund has approved a $723 million loan facility to Jordan in a three-year programme to support economic and financial reforms aimed at lowering public debt and accelerating growth, it said on Wednesday. The IMF said in a statement the first $72.3 million tranche was to be paid immediately, and the remaining amount would be disbursed ...

  Reuters Sky Prime Aviation Services has become the latest aviation company in Saudi Arabia to be awarded a national air operator licence under an ongoing liberalisation of the kingdom’s aviation market. The company, which provides private jets, received the licence for chartered flights from Minister of Transport Sulaiman al-Hamdan during a ceremony in Riyadh, according to its Twitter feed. ...

  Reuters Iran and Ecuador discussed ways that the two countries can strengthen oil prices as Iran signals it may support joint efforts by exporters to prop up flagging crude. Iran has been boosting output since Western sanctions were eased in January. Tehran refused to join a previous attempt this year by OPEC plus non-members such as Russia to stabilize ...

  Bloomberg For UK consumers, the good times might not keep rolling. Quickening inflation looks set to erode almost two years of real-wage growth, undermining the key driver of the economy. Data due Friday will probably show consumption helped growth accelerate to 0.6 percent in the second quarter, before the referendum on European Union membership. Still, there are challenges ahead ...