Bloomberg It took more than a decade, but California has a new law requiring extensive labelling of ingredients in cleaning products, and it got support from what might seem the unlikeliest of advocates: product manufacturers themselves. Companies like Procter & Gamble Co. and Easy-Off maker Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc, after years of arguing the need to preserve their proprietary formulas …

Dubai / WAM In his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, approved the Government of Dubai’s 2018 General Budget Law No. (21) for the year 2017, with AED 56.6 billion expenditure, according to the new budget classification. Featuring a 19.5 % year-on-year increase, the …

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) revealed the value of UAE foreign aid to Yemen during the period April 2015 to November 2017, amounting to AED9.4 billion ($2.56 billion). In a report, MoFAIC said that the humanitarian aid covered a number of vital sectors, reflecting the UAE’s keenness to reduce the suffering of …