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Dubai / WAM Due to the high demand for museum tickets and an enormous appetite for exploring the future, the Museum of the Future is extending its opening hours by adding more visitor slots, meaning guests can now book slots for as late as 19.30. Tickets for the extended slots are now on sale and the new opening hours will ...

  Sharjah / WAM Public members get the chance to win airline tickets with Air Arabia in a ‘Treasure Hunt” challenge organised by Sharjah Museums Authority in celebration of 90 years since the day the first aircraft ‘Hanno” landed in Sharjah back on October 5, 1932. The challenge, held in Al Mahatta Museum every Saturday on November 19 and 26 ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM As visitors begin flying for the winter break and the many spectacular events taking place in Abu Dhabi, Etihad Airways looks forward to welcoming over 1.5 million travellers at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Shaeb Al Najjar, General Manager Hub Operations, Etihad Airways, said, “There has never been a better time to experience Abu Dhabi, with ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping said the Asia-Pacific was “no one’s backyard” in written remarks to an economic summit in Thailand, in which he pitched his vision for greater regional cooperation on development and security. Xi’s speech was released to a gathering of business executives shortly after he arrived for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Bangkok. The gathering came ...

  Bloomberg Indonesia, home to a quarter of the world’s nickel reserves, is proposing the creation of an organization similar to Opec for the metal used in battery-making to coordinate supply. Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia expressed the idea of creating an “Opec-like” cartel in a meeting with Canada’s International Trade Minister Mary Ng on the sidelines of the Group of ...

  Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported a surprise loss after quarterly revenue barely grew, as China’s rigid Covid controls continue to sap consumer sentiment. Revenue rose a slightly less-than-expected 3% to 207.2 billion yuan ($29 billion) in the September quarter, versus the 209 billion yuan average projection. It reported a net loss of 20.6 billion yuan versus estimates for ...

  Bloomberg On November 14 in Sharm El-Sheikh, representatives from nine countries sat down to dinner. It was the start of the second week of COP27, but this was no panel discussion or debate over loss and damage. The dinner, hosted by California-based startup Good Meat, Washington DC-based nonprofit the Good Food Institute (GFI), and the country of Singapore, was ...

Bloomberg Shares of One 97 Communications Ltd., the parent of India’s leading digital payments brand Paytm, plunged in Mumbai as a unit of Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. lowered its stake in the company. SoftBank’s SVF India Holdings (Cayman) Ltd. sold 29 million shares of Paytm at 555 rupees ($6.8) each, according to people familiar with the matter, raising 16.1 billion ...

  Abu Dhabi / GULF TIME AD Ports group, the leading facilitator of global trade, logistics, and industry, has signed a land lease agreement for 30 years with Audex Pte Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of PEC Ltd, a leading integrated project and maintenance solutions provider to the energy, petrochemical, terminal and pharmaceutical industries, with fabrication facilities spread across Asia ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE strongly condemned the attack that targeted the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, resulting in deaths and injuries. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed in a statement the UAE’s solidarity with all measures taken by Iraq to protect its sovereignty, security, and stability, stressing UAE’s support for efforts to establish security ...