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Bloomberg Taiwan welcomed its third US congressional visit this month, as Senator Marsha Blackburn began a three-day trip to the island that’s likely to further test Washington’s tense ties with Beijing. Blackburn, a Republican on the Senate’s Armed Services Committee which oversees defense policy, met Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday morning, after landing in Taipei the previous evening. Days ...

ATHENS / WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held a meeting on Thursday in Athens with Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of the friendly Republic of Greece. At the beginning of the meeting, that took place at the presidential palace, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou welcomed HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and congratulated him on becoming the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Blockchain and Virtual Assets Committee held its first meeting, under the chairmanship of Mohamed Ali Al Shorafa, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (Added) and Chairman Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), to discuss strategy for blockchain and virtual assets, which is aligned with the Emirates economic strategy. The committee emphasised ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, this week celebrated Captain Aisha Al Mansoori who has become the UAE’s first female Emirati Captain in a commercial airline. This is a significant milestone for aviation within the UAE and part of Etihad’s efforts to expand the roles of women in aviation, in particular the pilot ...

  Dubai / Gulf Time HSA Group, Yemen’s largest private company, has announced a $1.2 million donation to support the United Nations’ (UN) efforts to avert a major humanitarian, economic, and ecological disaster in the Red Sea. The donation is the first committed by a private sector organisation. The FSO SAFER oil tanker is one of the world’s largest shipping ...

  Bloomberg Pakistan’s military-backed establishment faces a dilemma: The more they seek to boot Imran Khan out of politics, the greater the risk he becomes even more popular. Since his ouster in a no-confidence vote in April, Khan has sought to rally his supporters in the world’s fifth-most populous country to hit the streets and push for a fresh national ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Airports, the operator of the five airports in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday released its passenger traffic report for the first half of 2022. The report revealed healthy figures for passenger traffic of 6,299,725 across Abu Dhabi International, Al Ain International, Al Bateen Executive, Delma and Sir Bani Yas Island airports ...

  Sharjah / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has presented to Holy Quran Academy (HQA)  new batch of precious books concerned with the Quran sciences and the Prophet’s Sunnah. The manuscripts are considered among the valuable scientific and historical treasures, as they are added to the academy, along ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has registered more than 2,200 civil marriage applications before the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court for foreigners in less than eight months, at a rate of 25 applications per day, or four new marriages per hour, since the Abu Dhabi Emirate Civil Marriage Law came into force in January ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has upgraded the automated system for assessing the condition of roads, managing their maintenance and pavement to achieve the relevant strategic objectives. The system constitutes a comprehensive programme for automating and governing the assessment of the performance of the functional and construction pavement condition of the road network through software ...