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DUBAI / Emirates Business Underscoring its mission to bring the world together, Emirates has rolled out its A380 dressed in the striking ‘Year of Tolerance’ livery from its Engineering Centre, ready to take-off for the historic one-off EK 2019 flight on November 29 that will bring together the diverse, multi-cultural communities of the UAE. The vibrant ‘Year of Tolerance’ livery ...

Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Economy (MoE) has launched a new plan to develop the National Programme to Support Young Innovative Companies to stimulate national entrepreneurship and increase the number of projects in line with the country’s innovation standards. The plan, developed by the National Programme for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in the Ministry of Economy, was launched ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi aims to substantially reduce its consumption of single-use plastic by 2021, a top official told the Emirates News Agency (WAM), on Tuesday. “We will have the draft policy on single-use plastic by early 2020. We are actually aiming to have a phenomenal reduction of consumption of single-use plastic by 2021,” said Dr Shaikha Al ...

Bloomberg Justin Trudeau scored a major political victory with the negotiated end to a damaging Canadian rail strike that will only cement his government’s growing ties with organised labour. The prime minister’s reluctance to force an end to the strike of about 3,200 conductors and railyard operators at Canadian National Railway Co (CN) won him accolades from the union and ...

Bloomberg British automakers warned that the next UK government needs to deliver a “world-beating Brexit trade deal” to bolster their competitiveness and safeguard jobs following a split from the European Union. Carmakers need a frictionless border free of tariffs and customs, regulatory alignment and access to talent, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders lobby group said ahead of the ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel said Europe should set up an agency that certifies components for the region’s fifth-generation wireless networks, in a bid to address safety concerns over equipment from Chinese suppliers including Huawei Technologies Co. The agency could set standards for components built into Europe’s 5G networks and be modelled on the European Medicines Agency (MDA), which evaluates pharmaceutical drugs ...

Bloomberg The earliest-available indicators of China’s economic performance point to a continued slowdown in November. Economic growth was already the slowest in almost three decades in the third quarter, and Bloomberg Economics’ gauge aggregating the earliest data from financial markets and businesses shows that continuing, with a worsening picture for trade, sales manager sentiment, and factory prices. While tensions with ...

Bloomberg Thailand backed down on a plan to prohibit three pesticides from December 1 after coming under pressure from farmers, the US government and lobbyists for chemicals companies. The ban on paraquat and chlorpyrifos will be delayed until June 1 next year, industry minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit said in a briefing. Glyphosate — commonly sold as weedkiller Roundup — won’t be ...

Bloomberg It’s been about two years since Kim Jong-un launched a missile capable of hitting the entire US, declared his nuclear weapons programme “complete” and halted all ICBM tests. In that time, the North Korean leader has also become an even bigger threat to America. Kim’s testing freeze ushered in unprecedented diplomacy with US President Donald Trump, leading to historic ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, attended the launch of the Smart Corporate Social Responsibility Platform at the ongoing 3rd UAE Government Annual Meetings, which started in Abu Dhabi Monday. The platform, overseen by the National Corporate Social Responsibility Fund, is aimed at ...