Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS The Tejar Dubai entrepreneurship development programme, a Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry initiative, launched its 20th commercial project, Familia Emirati clothes store on Dubai-Oman Highway in Hatta recently. The new commercial project which is the 4th launched by Tejar Dubai this year has come as part of the entrepreneurship development programme’s efforts to support ...

  Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS Finance comparison site compareit4me.com reported impressive surges in the number of UAE residents researching the finer details of credit cards and personal loans in the first quarter of 2016, compared with the same period last year. The number of enquiries into mortgages that don’t require salary transfer were up by 450 percent, showing that people ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business GE (NYSE: GE) on Tuesday unveiled the UAE results of its 2016 Global Innovation Barometer, which explores how business leaders and members of the public perceive the opportunities for and barriers to innovation in a changing complex global environment. Now in its fifth year, the research surveyed 2,748 senior business executives and 1,346 informed publics ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The board of directors of Smart Dubai Office (SDO) held its 5th meeting, which was presided over by H.E. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, chairman of the board, as part of its action to fulfil the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Global Village, the region’s leading family destination for cultural entertainment and shopping, held an entertaining and educational activation for more than 200 orphan children at Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation Headquarters in Dubai on June 20. The activation comes under Global Village’s continuous engagement with the Arab Reading Challenge as well as its diverse range ...

  Dubai / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has marked World Environment Day by holding an array of environmental events. The RTA’s Energy and Green Economy Team held several awareness workshops to highlight the concept of green economy and energy saving. During the events, several departments and teams were congratulated for their excellent performance in implementing RTA environmental policies ...

  Amman / AFP A car bomb outside a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan killed six soldiers on Tuesday in a remote desert area where hundreds have been held for screening for suspected links to the IS group. There was no immediate claim for the bombing but Jordan is a leading member of the US-led coalition fighting IS in neighbouring Syria ...

  Kuala Lumpur / AFP A Malaysian opposition politician who worked on native land rights issues was shot dead on Tuesday six weeks after a failed run for a local assembly seat. Bill Kayong, 43, was gunned down in his pickup truck while stopped at a traffic light in the small city of Miri in Sarawak state, police said. Kayong ...

  BEIRUT / AP The IS group has launched a counteroffensive in Syria’s northern province of Raqqa, retaking wide areas the militants recently lost to government troops. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that the government forces have lost all territories they gained in Raqqa province since launching their offensive in early June. The IS-linked Aamaq ...

  BAGHDAD / AP A senior Iraqi military commander says about 2,500 IS militants have been killed during a month-long offensive to recapture the city of Fallujah. The counterterrorism forces’ chief in the operation, Lt. General Abdul-Wahab Al Saadi, told the local al-Sumaria TV late on Monday that the number of IS fighters inside Fallujah ranged between 3,500 to 4,000 ...