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Dubai / Emirates Business The UAE has moved ahead of other regional and overseas destinations in positioning itself as a hub for investment and international talent, say legal experts. The introduction of a long-term visa system for investors, entrepreneurs, specialised talents, and researchers has been warmly received by business analysts, and STA Law Firm says the initiative can deliver even ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) recorded an unprecedented growth in the last ten days of 2018. HE Sultan Butti bin Mejren, Director General of DLD, stressed that Dubai’s real estate market recorded a high-transaction volume during the last ten days of 2018 with a value of over AED 19 billion through 2,081 transactions. Bin Mejren affirmed that ...

Sharjah / WAM Sharjah SME (RUWAD) in cooperation with the Sharjah Education Council, have launched the “Business Stars” initiative, which empowers school and university students and encourages them to take part in the business investment experience. The initiative was inaugurated by Dr. Saeed Musbah al Kaabi, Chairman of Sharjah Education Council, and Abdullah Musabah Al Tunaiji, Board Member of RUWAD. ...

Bloomberg Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party won almost 90 percent of the seats to give the premier an unprecedented fourth term in a vote marked by tight security, violence and a crackdown on the opposition. Hasina’s Awami League and its close allies won 267 of the 299 seats up for a vote, Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed told ...

Bloomberg Japanese prosecutors extended Carlos Ghosn’s stay in jail for 10 more days, another setback for the fallen auto executive who has sought bail to start mounting his defense in the case that has shocked the global car industry. A Tokyo court approved the extension of detention until January 11, The Foreign Press in Japan said in a statement on ...

Bloomberg China heads into the new year with its factories back in contractionary territory as the threat of a prolonged trade war dampens sentiment and stimulus struggles to gain traction. The manufacturing purchasing managers index dropped to 49.4 in December, the weakest since early 2016 and below the 50 level that denotes contraction. Measures of new orders and new export ...

Bloomberg Canadians will start paying a carbon tax in what is set to be a key political battleground of the 2019 election. From January 1, Justin Trudeau’s government will start rolling out a “backstop” price on provinces that don’t have their own levies on emissions. That includes Ontario, an industrial heavyweight whose populist premier scrapped an existing plan, setting up ...

Bloomberg The world’s best-paying bond has a big fan in one of the world’s largest bond investors. Pacific Investment Management Co and its parent company, Allianz Global Investors, have snapped up an Argentine government note that pays a floating coupon equal to the country’s benchmark interest rate — which at one point in October reached a staggering 74 percent. They ...

Bloomberg College football won’t go dark on New Year’s Day. Millions of TV customers from Boston to Washington were spared the loss of channels such as ESPN — and popular college football games — after Verizon Communications Inc and Walt Disney Co struck a distribution agreement on the eve of the New Year. The companies reached a broad-based, multiyear agreement, ...

DUBAI / WAM The representation of UAE nationals, both males and females, in the UAE Internal Auditors Association (UAE IAA), will be 44 percent in the coming years, according to its chairman. “Emiratis to account for 44 percent in internal auditing in the coming years,” Abdulqader Obaid Ali said at an honouring ceremony for graduates of the 8th batch of ...