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  Emirates Business A complete overhaul of Dubai’s building classification is currently underway, led by Dubai Land Department’s (DLD) Technical Affairs Department. The DLD’s state-of-the-art Building Classification System (BCS) has so far enabled the surveying of 20,000 plots of land, and more than 120,000 units including apartments, offices, retail, schools, and public amenities. This was done via a bespoke smart ...

  Emirates Business In its efforts to continue its expansion plans in order to reach the establishment of more than 450 stations in the UAE by 2017, ADNOC Distribution has announced the new opening of Kaber service station in Umm Al Quwain. ADNOC Distribution is keen to employ all its capabilities and expertise to provide the station with all the ...

  Emirates Business HOW TO ROCKET —an exciting new event connecting small business owners to key service providers — will be launched in the Emirates on Tuesday. Focusing on showcasing outstanding quality companies that offers their business related services and products to micro- and small- businesses, the event will feature quality brands showcasing their services, engaging presentations and seminars, hands-on ...

Emirates Business Amanat Holdings PJSC (“Amanat”), the region’s largest integrated healthcare and education company, announced a net profit of AED 9.5 million for the first quarter of 2016, compared to AED 1.5 million reported for Q1 2015. Amanat’s total revenue for the three months was AED 16.6 million, more than double that for the corresponding 2015 period, comprising AED 15.5 ...

  Emirates Business The Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) has received three prestigious awards during the annual Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) Supply Management Awards held at The Address Dubai Marina recently. ENOC was recognised as the “Overall Winner” for 2016 in addition to two team categories called “Best People Development” and “Best Supplier Relationship Management”. The acknowledgement ...

  Emirates Business Dubai Trade, the premier cross-border trade facilitator, has announced the 9th edition of its annual flagship event, the E-Services Excellence Award (ESEA). The event aims to recognize the best performers in the e-Services adoption on Dubai Trade portal and celebrate the success of digital transformation in trade and logistics activities. Categories for the 9th ESEA will remain ...

  Managua, Nicaragua / AFP The political and economic crises buffeting Brazil and Venezuela are having a big impact in Nicaragua, where the future of billion-dollar projects have been thrown into uncertainty. Venezuela was to have invested $6.5 billion in a petrochemical plant in the Central American country, while Brazil was set to spend $1.1 billion on a hydroelectric facility. They ...

  Bloomberg EIG Global Energy Partners has submitted a new bid for Pacific Exploration & Production Corp. with $830 million in creditor recovery that the private-equity firm argues is “vastly superior” to one selected last month by the board of the Colombia-based oil producer. The new bid comes ahead of a Tuesday court hearing in Canada on Pacific’s restructuring plan. ...

  Caracas, Venezuela / AFP Venezuela’s opposition forces said electoral authorities have tallied 1.5 million signatures seeking to force President Nicolas Maduro from power with a recall referendum. Oil-dependent Venezuela has descended ever deeper into economic turmoil as global crude prices have collapsed, triggering food shortages, rampant inflation and now an electricity crisis. The center-right opposition, which won control of the ...

  Bloomberg Look to the currency market for an early reading on the U.S. presidential election. Six-month options-based measures of exchange-rate volatility now include the Nov. 8 vote, offering traders a way to express views on the outcome, or to hedge against price swings. While neither major political party has formally chosen candidates, Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee for ...