Hodeidah / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), distributed 5,000 food parcels to Yemeni families across liberated towns and villages in Hodeidah in the past four days. This latest aid distribution benefited 35,000 individuals as part of the UAE-Saudi Arabia humanitarian assistance plan across Yemen’s Red Sea Coast. The UAE aid authority distributed 1,000 food baskets to Yemenis residing in ...

Dubai / WAM The Business Registration and Licensing (BRL), sector in the Department of Economic Development (DED), in Dubai has added 26 new business activities across a number of sectors in the first half of 2018, following that tracked local market needs supply and demand in those vital sectors. The move, which is part of DED’s efforts to facilitate business ...

Dubai / WAM Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), the region’s trade enabler and leading business hub, on Monday signed a cooperation agreement with the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) to further simplify existing visa procedures and improve customer experience. Under the agreement, the GDRFA will provide enhanced services to companies operating in Jafza and the National Industries ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Saif Badr Al Qubaisi, General Manager of Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM), launched the third edition of the municipality’s Internal Excellence Award (Ertiqaa), 2018. The launch of the award comes in implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The number of hotel guests staying in Abu Dhabi increased by 4.9% during the first five months of 2018 compared to the same period last year. According to statistics from the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), 162 hotels, resorts and hotel apartments offering 31,236 rooms across the emirate welcomed ...

Bloomberg Germany’s Thyssenkrupp AG and India’s Tata Steel Ltd. reached a final agreement to set up a European steel company with equal share of ownership, more than nine months after signing a memorandum of understanding to establish the venture. The proposed name of the new company is Thyssenkrupp Tata Steel B.V., focussing on high-quality flat steel production, the companies said ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Anil Agarwal added to a string of commodities deals with plans to buy out minority investors in Vedanta Resources Plc, the resources group that he’s seeking to transform into one of the world’s largest. Agarwal’s Volcan Investments Ltd. will offer 825 pence a share for the 33.5 percent of Vedanta it doesn’t already own and plans to cancel ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co. abandoned a $1 billion deal to sell its electric-battery business because the prospective buyer failed to raise the money required. The Japanese automaker cancelled the sale to GSR Capital, saying in a statement on Monday the Chinese private-equity firm didn’t have sufficient funds. Nissan and GSR were due to close the transaction by June 29. The ...

Bloomberg China’s top high-end developer Greentown China Holdings asked its staff to accelerate cash inflows “on all fronts” and speed up sales, according to memos seen by Bloomberg, amid escalating regulatory scrutiny of the sector. The Hangzhou-based builder urged faster sales, redoubled efforts to collect accounts receivable and called for strict control over payments, according to the memos. Moves to ...

Bloomberg Embedded in the sleek metallic and cypress interior of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s new global headquarters in Tokyo are stylised Japanese characters for words like life, water and light. Melding futuristic design with traditional Japanese elements highlights the balancing act facing Chief Executive Officer Christophe Weber: showing he can honour the 237-year-old drugmaker’s Japanese heritage as he tries to complete ...