Dubai / Emirates Business The DIFC Courts has announced changes to the rules of wills registrations, which will now accommodate all resident and investor assets across the Emirates, as well as assets held outside the UAE. Effective from July 1, the Courts’ Wills Service Centre also confirmed that existing wills registered with the Courts can be amended free-of-charge until August ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation has received a thank you letter from the Director-General of the Agriculture and Irrigation Office in Yemen, Fahmi Al-Ghathanim, in which he expressed his appreciation to the Foundation for its conservation efforts in the Socotra archipelago. In the letter, the Yemeni official detailed the UAE’s efforts in the conservation ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Japanese companies are making a strong presence in the UAE, with their number increasing 23.44 percent in the past six years, according to a top Japanese diplomat. “The number of Japanese corporations in the UAE has slowly but steadily been increasing; from 273 in 2013 to 337 in 2018,” Akihiko Nakajima, the Japanese Ambassador to the ...