Bloomberg Air-passenger traffic slumped 54% in China in the first three months of 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak and related travel restrictions decimated demand. China’s aviation industry lost 39.8 billion yuan ($5.6 billion) in the first quarter, with airlines accounting for 33.6 billion yuan, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CACC) said at a briefing in Beijing on Wednesday. Passenger ...

DUBAI / WAM The number of visitors to the official portal of UAE government (U.AE) exceeded 2.9 million during the first quarter of 2020, a rise of 56.63 percent from the first quarter of 2019, the Telecommunications Regulatory (TRA) announced. The authority added that there were four million visits to the portal in the first quarter of this year, while ...

Sharjah / WAM The emirate of Sharjah has recorded up to 18,537 real estate transactions totalling AED3.6 billion in the first quarter of 2020, revealed a report by the Sharjah Real Estate Registration Department (SRERD). The said transactions were recorded in 129 areas in the emirate covering 8.9 million square feet, according to Abdul Aziz Ahmed Al Shamsi, Director-General of ...