ABU DHABI / WAM The Industrial Producer Price Index related to manufacturing in Abu Dhabi rose by 80.6% during second quarter 2018, a 13.4% increase compared to 71% during the same period in 2017, according to statistics issued on Tuesday by Abu Dhabi Statistics Centre, which also highlighted a 4.2% increase in the index compared to the first quarter of ...

HADRAMAUT / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), continues to provide relief aid to eligible households in Al-Reida and Qusayr districts of the Hadramaut governorate. Teams from the UAE’s premier aid arm have recently distributed 1,000 food baskets containing basic necessities to some 5,000 individuals in Qusayr. Since the beginning of 2018, marked as the ‘Year of Zayed’, more than ...

Bloomberg India and Pakistan’s bitter rivalry is costing them $35 billion worth of annual trade, the World Bank said in a report. Someone might want to tell the two countries’ leaders — both of whom want to boost trade to battle widespread poverty. The World Bank called for South Asia, the world’s least economically-integrated region, to start cooperating instead of ...