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  DUBAI / Emirates Business The six-fold growth in mobile robotics by 2020 will dramatically enhance Middle East and global business productivity, workplace safety, and daily lives, according to an exclusive new report by Frost & Sullivan prepared in collaboration with GITEX Technology Week. Shipments of mobile robotics will grow from 4 million in 2012 to 25.4 million in 2020. ...

  Emirates Business Representatives from the Central Asia and North Africa (CANA) branches of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) have participated at the IBBY International Congress and General Assembly. The event, which concluded on Sunday in Auckland, New Zealand, the delegates were able to attend the influential biennial literary event thanks to sponsorship supplied by the Sharjah ...

  Bloomberg The crash in crude prices may have nudged Kazakhstan toward its biggest wave of privatization in history, but its wealth fund is now willing to bide its time for a recovery in oil to take hold. Samruk-Kazyna, with assets worth over $64 billion, is in no hurry to kickstart the process, waiting until oil prices recover and Russia ...

  Beijing / Bloomberg China Vanke Co., the developer at the center of a battle for control, posted a 10 percent increase in first-half profit as a home-market recovery boosted sales, helping offset uncertainties over the company’s future because of the ownership struggle. Net income at the nation’s largest residential developer climbed to 5.35 billion yuan ($804 million), or 0.48 ...

  Manila / AFP President Rodrigo Duterte threatened on Sunday to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations, as he launched another profanity-laced tirade against the organisation for criticising his bloody war on crime. More than 1,500 people have been killed since Duterte took office and immediately began his law-and-order crackdown, according to police statistics, triggering fierce criticism from the ...

  Ajman / WAM HH Sheikh Ammar bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Ajman Crown Prince, Chairman of the Executive Council, issued a resolution on the government indicators system regarding the strategic roadmap of Ajman Vision 2021. The resolution calls for implementing the government indicators system through data collection, analysis and review to support the decision-making, as well as identify normative and appropriateness ...

  Sharjah / WAM HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of H.H. the Ruler of Sharjah, Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children and Chairperson of the Big Heart Foundation, has called for concerted efforts to help people who are affected by wars and disasters. Sheikha ...

  Sharjah / WAM More than 1,200 freshmen and their parents were welcomed to an orientation session held at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) on August 19. The event was aimed at enabling new students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the university and to familiarise them with life at AUS. The new students, who come from the top 20 ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Ten Emirati students have returned to the UAE from the South Korea where they gained invaluable hands-on experience, nuclear industry insight, and an introduction to Korean culture through the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) summer internship program, organized in partnership with KEPCO International Nuclear Graduate School (KINGS). The students from Khalifa University of Science, ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business City Centre Sharjah, owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim — the leading shopping mall, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East and North Africa — will celebrate education and International Literacy Day in September. In line with ‘the year of reading’ initiative, the mall offers a range of education enhancing initiatives, culminating in ...