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  Brussels / WAM The 25th European Union-Gulf Cooperation Council Ministerial Meeting ended with a firm determination to expand and strengthen bilateral political, economic, cultural and social cooperation and relations. “In a challenging regional environment, the EU and GCC Ministers underlined the importance of further strengthening their ties, to serve as a solid and effective foundation for sustainable regional and international ...

  DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Dubai Land Department’s (DLD) Transactions Report, issued by Real Estate Research and Studies Department, announced that the total amount of real estate transactions recorded in the Emirate in the first six months of the current year reached a total of AED 113 billion, achieved through 28,251 sales, mortgages and other transactions. The report reveals that property ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business A UAE delegation headed by the Ministry of Economy is currently participating in the 14th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 14) which officially launched in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi under the theme ‘From decision to action: Moving towards an inclusive and equitable global economic environment for trade and development.’ The ...

  DUBAI / WAM Continuing its local and global successes, Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation, Empower, the world’s largest district cooling services provider, signed a contract with Nakheel to provide district cooling services to Jumeirah Village Circle and Jumeirah Village Triangle, with a total value of AED1.8 billion. Empower will build up to 6 cooling plants in the two locations, ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce noted thriving trade between Brazil and the Arab World as attested to by the impressive numbers issued by the organization covering Brazilian exports to Arab countries during the first half of 2016. These positive numbers reflect the great strides that companies across various sectors are making towards strengthening ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai has a huge opportunity to boost growing real estate investment from Chinese investors in the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, developers and property marketers have been told. Uncertainty in Europe following the Brexit vote could attract a new wave of Chinese investment in Dubai based on the Emirate’s offer of quality new ...

  Bloomberg Asia is embracing bullet trains like never before. Singapore and Malaysia signed an agreement on Tuesday that will bring a high-speed rail link to Kuala Lumpur by 2026. The long-envisioned plan, six years behind an earlier target completion date, follows a $5.5 billion project already underway in Indonesia. India last year chose Japan to build a $15 billion ...

  Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is piloting a feature in India allowing users to save videos to watch offline, chasing a similar program from Google’s YouTube, as the companies attempt to crack a market ridden with poor internet connectivity. The move followed feedback from users in the country citing poor video experiences because of limited mobile coverage, Facebook said in a ...

  Bloomberg Singapore Exchange Ltd., whose stock market suffered a five-hour halt last week, said the issues were caused by a hard disk failure and an application that didn’t detect the fault. The exchange has replaced the disk and submitted an interim report to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, CEO Loh Boon Chye told reporters on Tuesday. Investigations are ongoing ...

  Bloomberg Malaysia’s ringgit posted the biggest two-day slide since Britain voted to exit the European Union amid the subdued mood in emerging markets as oil and stocks fell. Crude prices dropped for a second day, damping the outlook for government finances for Asia’s only major net oil exporter before the International Monetary Fund updates its projections for world growth ...