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SHARJAH / WAM As part of its ongoing commitment to empower young leaders in Sharjah and the UAE, the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), has launched Shurooq Youth Council, a first of its kind council in Sharjah. The new council is dedicated to support the distinguished young leaders working in Shurooq, to empower their ambitions in line with future ...

Dubai / WAM Smart Dubai has begun preparations for its pavilion at the upcoming Gitex Technology Week 2018, set to be held at the Dubai World Trade Centre from October 14-18, where it plans to showcase the strategies, services and initiatives that have made Dubai a world leader in the smart city sector. The Smart Dubai Office, SDO, is collaborating ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), and the Registration Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC), to foster a conducive environment and explore joint efforts to support the development of professional, business and trade associations and non-profit organisations established in Abu Dhabi. The memorandum ...

Bloomberg Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen cautioned China against any efforts to interfere in local elections next month, in a toughly worded speech that mirrored US Vice President Mike Pence’s own rebuke to Beijing. Tsai made the remarks during a National Day address in Taipei, in which she described China as a threat to the international order. The Taiwanese president used ...

Bloomberg China has turned half a trillion dollars of central bank money into bricks and mortar, and there’s more to come. That transformation can be best seen in Heze, a ‘small’ city of about nine million in the province of Shandong. There, local authorities have ripped down more than a quarter of a million older houses since 2015, some of ...

Bloomberg Indonesia has a blunt message for the US Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell and other global financial chiefs gathering in Bali this week: be mindful of the effects of your policies on emerging economies. Even though authorities in the Southeast Asian nation are taking the right steps to stabilise the currency and keep deficits on the current account and budget ...

Bloomberg The US is threatening to block the UK from a 46-nation public procurement agreement, a move that would deny British companies from accessing a near $2 trillion marketplace after leaving the European Union, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation. The UK will apply to rejoin the Government Procurement Agreement, a $1.7 trillion trade accord that governs ...

Bloomberg British and European Union officials are locked in talks in Brussels over a compromise Brexit deal that could see the UK remain temporarily in the EU’s customs regime, people familiar with the negotiations said. With just a week before a crucial summit of EU leaders that could determine the outcome of Brexit, officials from each side are wrangling over ...

Bloomberg European Union governments tightened a proposed cap on carbon dioxide from cars in 2030, whittling away German resistance in a sign of heightened sensitivity across the bloc to road pollution. EU environment ministers set a CO2-reduction target for autos of 35 percent compared with 2021 in a bid to give a stronger spur to the development of electric vehicles. ...

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, witnessed several sessions of the two-day “2nd Mohamed bin Zayed Majlis for Future Generations,” which was held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed attended sessions presented by ...