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Dubai / Emirates Business In a bid to support business continuity and enable its business partners to overcome the effects of the current economic slowdown following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), on Sunday announced exemptions, incentives and flexible payment plans for companies, commercial tenants, and residents ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates has sent a plane carrying 18 metric tons of medical and food aid to Mauritania as a gesture of solidarity in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The shipment, which contained testing kits, medical devices, and food supplies, will assist approximately 10,000 healthcare workers in Mauritania as they work to contain the ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) has launched the “One Million Arab Coders” Covid-19 Hackathon to engage Arab coders from around the world to develop innovative solutions to challenges that have emerged due to the Covid-19 outbreak, such as access to healthcare services, education, social solidarity and supporting startups. These innovative solutions seek to create effective services and ...

Bloomberg Cafes bustled with customers, parks teemed with sunbathers, and the first Apple store to reopen outside China had lines snaking out the door as many South Koreans — almost all wearing masks — emerged from months of self-isolation. The scene in Seoul on a picture-perfect weekend contrasted sharply with other nations where major cities look like ghost towns as ...

Bloomberg India recorded its largest daily spike in coronavirus cases, adding 1,400 new infections to its tally of more than 16,000 amid a nationwide lockdown that’s about to enter its fourth week. The South Asian nation’s cases have been surging over the last week as it gradually scales up its testing capacity. Confirmed infections are up 78% to 16,365 on ...

Bloomberg Just weeks after a surging dollar was causing havoc in world financial markets, President Donald Trump has decided that a muscular US currency is a good thing after all. “The dollar is very strong,” he told a press conference. “And dollars — strong dollars are overall very good.” The comment marked a U-turn from the president’s rhetoric for much ...

Bloomberg Mexico’s economic contraction may be deeper than expected, according to Scotiabank. The bank now estimates Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP) to drop 8.4% in 2020, more than the 5.77% contraction it predicted on March 20, due to the increasingly adverse economic indicators, Economia Hoy newspaper reported. The forecast was adjusted due to the lack of an effective policy response ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump raised the prospect that China deliberately caused the Covid-19 outbreak that’s killed over 39,000 Americans and said there should be consequences if the country is found to be “knowingly responsible.” Dr Deborah Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said on Sunday that the first country exposed to a pandemic has a “moral ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Around 122,550 tonnes of vegetables crops were produced in both open field and greenhouse farms on 18,711 donums in Abu Dhabi during the farming season 2018/2019, according to Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA). A total of 74,885 tonnes of vegetable crops were produced in Al Ain, accounting for about 61.1 percent of the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM In line with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, to take further measures to prioritise SMEs, the Abu Dhabi Government expanded the SME Credit Guarantee Scheme, increasing SME’s access ...