Abu Dhabi / WAM Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy, visited the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, ICBA, in Dubai and was briefed on its areas of work including techniques of water use, crops and non-conventional water resources, as well as bioenergy crops such as Salicornia. This is one of a series of visits conducted by …

  Dubai / Emirates Business Wages in the United Arab Emirates are set to rise by an average of 4.6 percent in 2017, following an average increase of 4.9 percent this year, according to Willis Towers Watson’s latest Salary Budget Planning Study. The inflation rate in the UAE in the past two years has been an average of 4.0 percent; …

  Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Speed is the key in data transfer. Exploring this aspect, UAE-based tech company Zero1 has adopted ‘LiFi’ — a technology that enables transmitting high-speed data using light — in its services. Light Fidelity (LiFi), which uses visible light communication (VLC) rather than radio bands, is poised to become US$113bn industry by 2022, according to …