PANAMA CITY / WAM Dubai Chamber organised a breakfast roundtable for private and public sector stakeholders in Panama to introduce them to the trade and investment opportunities in Dubai due to Expo 2020, in addition to highlighting Dubai as a global business destination and gateway to the Mena region for Latin American countries. Fourty-five participants representing the private and public ...
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Malaysia’s power struggle puts the economy’s outlook at risk
Bloomberg Malaysia’s political upheaval is jeopardising the economy’s outlook at a time of heightened global risks and brewing discontent among locals about rising living costs. The ruling coalition collapsed Monday amid a power struggle between 94-year-old Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his planned successor. The political uncertainty is stalling economic policy, including a stimulus package that was due to be ...
Read More »Nissan warns about future of its plants as Brexit weighs
Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co gave the starkest warning yet on the future of the Japanese group’s car factories in western Europe, with a plant in the UK threatened by Brexit and another in Spain suffering from a slump in demand. The Sunderland site in England, which makes models that account for the bulk of European sales, remains under a cloud ...
Read More »Johnson faces complaints of bad faith ahead of trade talks
Bloomberg The UK and the European Union (EU) are increasingly at odds ahead of next week’s trade talks, with each side accusing the other of backing away from past promises. Regaining political independence and freedom from the EU’s legal system will take priority over securing a trade deal by the December 31 deadline, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman, James Slack, ...
Read More »Gilead drug leads race for virus treatment
Bloomberg China will release results at the end of April from clinical trials of a Gilead Sciences Inc drug that is emerging as a frontrunner in the race to find an effective treatment for the novel coronavirus. The outcome of trials of the experimental medication remdesivir on 761 patients in Wuhan, the city where the virus originated, will be made ...
Read More »Seattle techies earn 56% more than NYC finance workers
Bloomberg Employment increased in about 80% of the largest US counties in the third quarter of 2019 from a year earlier and wages grew in 350 of 355, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the third quarter of 2019, average weekly wages for the nation rose to $1,093, a 3.6% increase from a year earlier. People working ...
Read More »Trump, Modi talk in India while tensions rise in Delhi
Bloomberg US President Donald Trump met his Indian counterpart in New Delhi on Tuesday, amid growing tensions between rival protesters in the capital and with a host of critical issues from defense to regional security on the agenda. Now that the US-India trade agreement looks likely to be pushed until after the US election, news of a $3 billion military ...
Read More »UAE continues to strengthen its position as a leader in 4IR, AI
ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, visited on Monday the exhibition halls of Umex and SimTEX 2020. The fourth edition of the exhibition is the only event in the Middle East dedicated for drones, robotics, components and unmanned systems. Organised ...
Read More »Adasi to supply ‘Camcopter S-100 UAVs’ to armed forces
ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments Company (Adasi) on Monday announced that it has signed an AED234 million contract to supply the new Camcopter S-100 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)s to the UAE Armed Forces. Ali Al Yafei, CEO of Adasi, made the announcement on the sidelines of the Unmanned Systems Exhibition and Conference (UMEX) 2020, that is ...
Read More »Falcon Aviation expands ‘maintenance capability’
DUBAI / WAM Falcon Aviation, one of the UAE’s leading business aviation services company, has been awarded the D1 approval for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) by three authorities, including the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) allowing Falcon Aviation to identify latent issues in customer aircraft and attend to them to the highest safety degree. The coveted D1 approval has been ...
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