Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, witnessed the launch of the ‘Emirates Villages’, a AED1 billion project aimed at developing a sustainable development model and creating economic and business opportunities to promote social stability and wellbeing. HH Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin ...
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DMCC, SafeGold join hands to use gold-backed digital assets
Dubai / WAM Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) and SafeGold, Asia’s leading digital gold platform, have signed an MoU to advance SafeGold’s vision of digitising gold investment and enabling a digital ecosystem to flourish within the Middle East and North Africa region’s $20 billion gold market. With SafeGold’s proprietary technology and DMCC’s leadership in the commodities and crypto-technology space, the ...
Read More »Emicool signs pact to increase solar capacity by 238%
Dubai / WAM Emirates District Cooling Company (Emicool), a joint venture between Dubai Investments, a leading investment company listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Actis LLC, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement with Emirates Electrical Engineering (EEE), one of the solar market leaders in the UAE. The agreement confirms the ...
Read More »Violent protests erupt at iPhone factory in China
Bloomberg Hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.’s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled over after almost a month under tough restrictions intended to quash a Covid outbreak. Workers at the Foxconn Technology Group plant streamed out of dormitories in the early hours of Wednesday, jostling and pushing past the white-clad guards they vastly outnumbered, ...
Read More »UK’s top court rejects Scotland’s bid for new independence vote
Bloomberg The UK’s top judges threw out an attempt by the Scottish government to bypass Westminster and call a second independence referendum, thwarting nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon’s plan for a vote next year. The Supreme Court was asked by Scotland’s top legal adviser to assess whether the Scottish Parliament had the power to legislate unilaterally for a consultative referendum. The ...
Read More »VP witnesses launch of ‘We The UAE 2031’
Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, witnessed the launch of ‘We The UAE 2031’, a national plan and road map for the next 50 years. The national plan is an integrated programme shaping the future of the country within the next ten ...
Read More »Dubai Airports raises annual passenger forecast to 64.3mn
Dubai / WAM Dubai Airports has upped again its annual forecast for passenger traffic at Dubai International (DXB) to 64.3 million following a strong performance by the hub in the third quarter, and the prospects of a stronger surge in the offing in the final three months of 2022. DXB started the second half of the year with a ...
Read More »Future of global aviation takes centre stage at 4th IAMC
Dubai / WAM Riveting keynote speeches from leaders, compelling research papers, and speakers drawn from the industry and academia marked the opening of the 4th International Aviation Management Conference (IAMC) at Emirates Aviation University. This year’s topical theme – The Future of Aviation: Covid-19 Pandemic and Challenges – has brought together leaders, professionals, research scholars, students and academia to ...
Read More »US presses China to ease up on Taiwan as defense chiefs meet
Bloomberg US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urged China to avoid “destabilizing actions†toward Taiwan in his first face-to-face meeting with Defense Minister Wei Fenghe since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei in August. In talks Tuesday in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the Pentagon chief also called for the two sides to maintain open lines of communication and warned of ...
Read More »Xi’s common prosperity roars back in JD executive pay cuts
Bloomberg JD.com Inc. is slashing salaries for about 2,000 managers by 10% to 20% and diverting some of those savings toward a $1.4 billion employee benefits fund, aligning China’s No. 2 online retailer with Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity†campaign to share the wealth. Billionaire JD.com founder Richard Liu will donate 100 million yuan ($14 million) of his own money toward ...
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