ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business Dubai’s Demand Side Management Strategy has initiated strenuous efforts towards achieving its aim of reducing the Emirate’s energy, electricity and water consumption by upto 30 to 40 percent by 2030. One of the critical pillars of this strategy ‘Outdoor Lighting Program’ is all set to host its much-awaited annual event ‘Outdoor Lighting Projects UAE’ event ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Makers of luxury superyachts must change the way they do business in order to survive in today’s challenging economic environment, according to Gulf Craft CEO Erwin Bamps. Speaking on the sidelines of the Dubai International Boat Show (DIBS), Bamps said superyacht businesses must redirect their focus from one that is product oriented and focused on acquiring ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Airports has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aéroports de Paris (ADP) linking Al Bateen Executive Airport with Le Bourget Airport. The MoU was signed by Abdul Majeed Al Khoori, Chief Financial Officer of Abu Dhabi Airports and Isabelle Dreysse, Deputy Managing Director of Paris-Le Bourget, during Abu Dhabi ...

Ritika Sharma / Emirates Business The advent of on-demand, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and over-the-top (OTT) viewing trends is spurring the global TV industry into exciting times, according to experts. As TV moves away from its image of a ‘second-class medium’, experts at the ongoing CABSAT 2016 highlight the huge budgets and impressive productions and call the present time one ...

Dubai / Emirates Business As the automotive aftermarket in the Middle East and Africa posts impressive growth rates, international auto aftermarket players are keen to be a part of this growth by increasing their footprint across the region. This can be gauged by the influx of international manufacturers and suppliers of aftermarket products and equipment to Automechanika Dubai 2016 – ...

Bloomberg The Kremlin is putting “unprecedented” pressure on opposition activists as President Vladimir Putin prepares for his toughest electoral test amid Russia’s longest recession in two decades, according to his former prime minister. “The authorities understand that 2016 will be decisive because the economic and political situation is acute,” Mikhail Kasyanov, who was premier from 2000 to 2004 and is ...

Moscow / AFP Armed men attacked the office of a prominent human rights organisation in the volatile Russian region of Ingushetia, the group said on Thursday, hours after an assault on journalists in the same area sparked international outrage. Footage of the attack posted on Twitter by Dmitry Utukin, a lawyer for the Committee to Prevent Torture, appeared to show ...

Moscow / AFP Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko, on trial in Russia over the killing of two journalists, has started drinking water but will continue her week-long hunger strike until the verdict, her lawyer said on Thursday. “Nadezhda halted only a ‘dry’ hunger strike,” lawyer Mark Feigin said. “She will be fasting until the verdict is announced,” he said, using ...

RIKUZENTAKATA / AP The Japanese coast guard resumed underwater searches this week for some of the more than 2,500 people still missing from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country’s northeast coast. Six divers entered Hirota Bay in near-freezing temperatures on Thursday at the behest of surviving families in the city of Rikuzentakata. As reconstruction of the disaster-hit ...

Naypyidaw / AFP Aung San Suu Kyi was on Thursday finally ruled out of the running to become Myanmar’s next president, as her party nominated one of her most loyal aides to rule the formerly junta-run nation as her proxy. Suu Kyi has vowed to rule “above” the president, despite being barred from top office by the army-scripted constitution, as ...