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  Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs and Dubai Chambers discussed cooperation to support businesses and the private sector and enhance the emirate’s competitiveness following Dubai’s strategic plans and vision. These were the highlights of the meeting between Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director-General of Dubai Customs, CEO of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation and Dubai Chambers’ delegation headed by Mohammad Ali ...

  Sharjah / WAM The Expo Centre Sharjah has made a noteworthy appearance at the 2023 Global CEO Summit, hosted by the prestigious Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI). The summit, held in Lisbon, Portugal, brought together more than 100 influential CEOs, executives, and directors from the exhibitions and conferences industry globally. Saif Mohammed Al Midfa, CEO of Expo ...

Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Electricity, Water and Gas Authority (Sewa) implemented many development projects in Khorfakkan city in 2022, as it implemented 36 sub-distribution stations, in addition to the completion of 80 percent of the main distribution station 11/33 kV (Al Haray Station No. 3) with a total capacity of 60 MVA, which feeds 502 residential plots of land in ...

  Sharjah / WAM Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi, the newly appointed President of the American University of Sharjah (AUS), was welcomed for her first official visit earlier this week to the 25-year-old centre of excellence, a leading academic institution in the Gulf region and beyond. Sheikha Bodour’s appointment to the position of President of AUS was announced in an Emiri ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Global Tolerance and Human Fraternity Summit, organised by the Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence and the Council of Muslim Elders in Abu Dhabi kicks off on Monday. The two-day summit will be organised under the patronage and presence of Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, in the presence of ...

  Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) received a delegation from “Matajer”, one of the most important commercial shopping groups affiliated with Sharjah Holding Company, which was established under a strategic partnership between Majid Al Futtaim Properties and Sharjah Asset Management. This comes within SEDD’s interest to strengthen partnerships with leading companies in the field of retail trade ...

  Sharjah / WAM The Expo Centre Sharjah has made a noteworthy appearance at the 2023 Global CEO Summit, hosted by the prestigious Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI). The summit, held in Lisbon, Portugal, brought together more than 100 influential CEOs, executives, and directors from the exhibitions and conferences industry globally. Saif Mohammed Al Midfa, CEO of Expo ...

  Bloomberg The UK Treasury is exploring a significant increase in the bonds it sells to retail investors, a move that analysts say may draw in as much as £70 billion ($85.8 billion) for financing deficits in the coming years. The move would help Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt raise money at a time of economic turmoil and alleviate ...

Bloomberg Emmanuel Macron’s government may offer another concession on plans to raise France’s retirement age from 62 to 64, seeking to secure a parliamentary majority amid a massive public backlash. The government is considering another carve-out so more people can retire before they turn 64, Macron’s Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said in an interview with the JDD newspaper on Sunday. ...

  Bloomberg Joe Biden’s clean technology law has dragged the European Union into a subsidy fight that may trigger a transatlantic trade war, just as the allies are joining forces against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The EU has always defended the global rules-based order, even as the US has grown increasingly hostile toward the constraints it adopted as a member ...