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SHARJAH / WAM Thirteen UAE-based female entrepreneurs have started their social entrepreneurship training journey with the pilot edition of Badiri Social Entrepreneurship Programme (BSEP), which kicked-off in the UK. BSEP is the brainchild of Sharjah-based NAMA Women Advancement Establishment’s education and capacity building arm, Badiri Education and Development Academy, and the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE). Through their collaboration on ...

Bloomberg The trade war between the US and China is about to get uglier. After a long, hot summer spent weighing risks and firing warning shots, the hawks in President Donald Trump’s administration have gained the upper hand — and they’re set to unleash a fall offensive. Talks in Washington this week yielded little visible progress towards a ceasefire between ...

Bloomberg The UK government said it will move forward with plans to punish directors who fail to safeguard their workers from the effects of a company’s bankruptcy. New powers announced Sunday will be given to the UK Insolvency Service, including the ability to issue fines or even disqualifications to company bosses if they are found to have tried to avoid ...

Bloomberg Poland’s jobs conundrum is worse than it looks. A labour shortage has increasingly emerged as one of the biggest hurdles for the European Union’s biggest eastern economy. Now the remaining pool of available workers is drying up fast. Data showed Poland’s registered jobless rate unchanged in July at a record low, with the number of newly unemployed down by ...

Bloomberg Democrats voted to dramatically reduce the influence of superdelegates on the party’s presidential nomination process as part of an effort to move past the fissures of the 2016 election as candidates gear up for the next one. The measure passed by a voice vote at the party’s summer conference in Chicago, with a small fraction voting against it. “Today ...

Bloomberg South Korea’s antitrust watchdog proposed new rules for family-run conglomerates to make it harder for such businesses to muscle through their agendas at the expense of minority shareholders. The proposed amendments to existing regulations would require a newly created holding company to own at least 30 percent in an entity it wants to treat as a listed subsidiary and ...

Bloomberg Nestle SA’s unit in Japan expects a fledgling business selling nutritional drinks and supplements to aging consumers to grow into a nearly $1 billion business within a decade as the food giant becomes the latest to employ genetics to market food. The world’s biggest food company has seen increasing demand for a Japanese subscription program for nutrition that can ...

SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah Airport received the first delegation of pilgrims returning to the United Arab Emirates after performing Hajj. They arrived on flights from Jeddah, Medina and Taif in Saudi Arabia. The airport expects a continuous flow of pilgrims from both scheduled and non-scheduled flights to Sharjah during this period. Sharjah Airport Authority (SAA) has taken all possible measures ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikha Fatima Global Humanitarian Campaign has succeeded in attracting young doctors and enabling them to alleviate the suffering of Rohingya refugees by providing the best diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive services to children and women. A group of Emirati and Bangladeshi doctors are participating in the campaign, which is being held in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM On Tuesday, August 28, the UAE will celebrate ‘Emirati Women’s Day’, which will be held this year under the theme, ‘Women on the Course of Zayed’, and coincide with the ‘Centennial of Zayed’ and the announcement of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan declaring 2018 as the Year of Zayed. The country’s leadership ...