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]ubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS More and more women want to achieve better work-life balance, earn extra income while nurturing their families. Some are keen to start their own business, manage their time and be their ‘own boss’. One of the quickest, easiest, and low risk opportunities available to women is to be empowered visionaries and entrepreneurs within the direct selling ...

DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Swiss Healthcare Services (SHS), the medical arm of the Swiss Discovery group that provides clients with customized solutions from Switzerland, showcased the country’s medical expertise in treating and rehabilitating people with injuries and disabilities at ‘AccessAbilities Expo 2016’. Swiss Healthcare Services showcased its carefully chosen network of Swiss specialist care providers that together cover a comprehensive range ...

Dubai / WAM Ras al-Khaimah International Airport has announced that Air India Express, India’s leading low cost carrier, will start flights to the northern emirate from this March. This comes on the back of the commencement of scheduled flights by Qatar Airways between Ras al-Khaimah and Doha last week and the announcement of other development projects at RAK International. Air ...

Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS Dubai Health Authority held a smart clinic from the DHA stand at AccessAbilities Expo 2016. Health experts from the Authority highlighted the various services available at the DHA facilities for differently-abled persons and emphasized on the need for early detection, social interaction and community support to help improve the lives of such patients and to help them ...

RITIKA SHARMA / Emirates Business Emiratisation rang loud and clear at the recently-held National Career Exhibition 2016, in Sharjah. Backing UAE’s pledge to nurture local talent and provide superior training and growth opportunities to Emiratis, participating companies said they were fully dedicated to create a national workforce. Rashed Al Ansari, General Manager, Al Ansari Exchange, one of the main participants ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Plans for self-sufficient greenhouses that enable the production of high-quality plants in sub-tropical regions affected by water scarcity will be unveiled by leading agricultural experts at Abu Dhabi’s Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) on Tuesday. Saving water while utilising renewable energy sources, such as solar power, wind, biomass and geothermal energy is vital ...

Ritika Sharma / EMIRATES BUSINESS Gains are in for interior fit-out companies in the UAE as real estate in the region is getting a push from the ensuing Expo 2020. The estimated size of the interior and fit-out market grew at a pace of 8.5 percent and reached US$7.98 billion in 2015. On the same lines, Cloisall, the GCC’s leading ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business UAE government enterprises will gain access to some of the world’s smartest applications in 2016 through their new cloud services, according to telecom giant du and software leader SAP. The announcement was made during the World Government Summit held in Dubai. The collaboration between the two organisations will create digitalization and innovation across the country. ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Economic confidence among CEOs in the MENA region has hit a three-year low in the final quarter of 2015, according to a new survey, which attributes the trend to oil price plunge and political, social unrests in many of the nations. The YPO Global Pulse Confidence Index for the MENA declined for the fifth consecutive ...

Bloomberg World powers agreed on a partial cease-fire in Syria’s civil war, reaching a deal that could forestall a humanitarian crisis around the besieged city of Aleppo even amid skepticism about how broad and lasting the truce might be. Backing the accord were all the major outside powers in the five-year-old conflict, including the US, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and ...