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  Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA), which develops the emirate’s tourism infrastructure and initiates its domestic and overseas promotions, has expanded its presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the opening of a new representation office in the country’s capital, Riyadh. Marking its sixth international representation office, the Riyadh opening will ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business His Excellency Essa Kazim, Governor of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), earlier this week welcomed His Excellency Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as a high level delegation from Kazakhstan visited DIFC for a series of meetings and presentations, in presence of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of ...

  Bloomberg India is likely to give Bangladesh a credit line of at least $3.5 billion for infrastructure projects during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s state visit in April, as Beijing and New Delhi jostle for geopolitical influence in South Asia. The credit line, which would be India’s third to its neighbour, would go toward a variety of projects ranging from ...

  Bloomberg India’s wheat imports are likely to remain near the highest in a decade as the world’s second-biggest producer seeks to replenish stockpiles slashed by El Nino-induced drought, according to one of the nation’s largest buyers. Imports may reach 3 million metric tons in 2017-18, S. Sivakumar, the chief executive officer of ITC Ltd.’s agriculture business division, said in ...

  Bloomberg Businesses are bracing for Brexit by making last-ditch demands of the UK government to keep their interests in mind when Prime Minister Theresa May opens two years of talks with the European Union this week. Concerns include the risk of tariffs on exports to the EU, disruptions to supply chains and the potential loss of European workers. Bloomberg ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump is expected to lift a moratorium on federal coal-mining leases — and it probably won’t do the industry much good until years after he’s left office. That’s because US coal companies including Peab-ody Energy Corp. won’t be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows ...

  Bloomberg In the end, the pipeline won. Dakota Access, which became a rallying point for tens of thousands of anti-fossil fuel and Native American-rights protesters, is preparing for service, a court filing on Monday showed. Now that the last segment built underneath Lake Oahe has been filled with oil, it’s only a matter of time before the line delivers ...

  Bloomberg Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co.’s success at converting smart ideas in the laboratory into products used by farmers across the world was nearly their undoing when European Union regulators started poking around their proposed $77 billion merger. The bloc has been pushing to encourage investment in research and development as part of its political agenda, and EU ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, approved the award of two contracts for constructing the 7th Interchange on Sheikh Zayed Road, as well as Al Yalayis and Al Asayel Roads, at a cost of AED 1.2 billion. The two projects will enhance the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Inaugural edition of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) was officially opened on Monday evening in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai. The Summit is being held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed ...