Dubai / WAM Dubai’s unemployment rate reached 0.5 per cent last year, while the refined economic participation rate as a percentage of total working-age population reached 83.2 percent, according to the Labour Force Survey 2018 published by Dubai Statistics Center. Arif Al Mehairi, Executive Director of Dubai Statistics Center, said: “The results of the Labour Force Survey 2018 illustrate the ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co has stockpiled enough chips and other vital components to keep its business running for at least three months as the US curtails its access to American technology, people familiar with the matter said. The Trump administration blacklisted China’s largest tech company — which it accuses of aiding Beijing in espionage — threatening to cut off the ...

Bloomberg Singapore urged the US to allow China to have a greater say in shaping global rules to avoid a prolonged clash that could force smaller countries to choose between the world’s biggest economies. Speaking to an audience in Washington, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said it won’t work to view China as an adversary that must be contained and called ...