ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday announced a 63 percent increase in full-year passenger traffic with partner Jet Airways to and from India, reinforcing the strength of the equity tie-up and the airline’s commitment to one of world’s largest travel markets. Together, the airlines carried a record 3.3 million passengers ...

ALKESH SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS Methods needed to increase the global food production by 70 percent to feed over 9 billion people by 2050; mechanisms best suited to profitably restore land globally; ways to tackle the current worldwide water crisis and steps to bring all economies on a common platform to ensure food security. Participants racked their brains as they ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Blue Bolt Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has acquired a 36% stake in Fenix Power Peru, a thermoelectric power generation company in Lima, as part of a consortium transaction valued at US$786 million. The Peruvian investment fund SIGMA holds 13% of Fenix. Fenix Power is a power generation company which ...

SINGAPORE / WAM A round-table meeting, organised by the UAE Economy Ministry and Executive Directors of 15 of the biggest investment companies in Singapore, was held on Tuesday. The meeting reviewed the importance of expanding economic relations between the UAE and the Republic of Singapore and the need to promote trade and investment establish strong strategic partnerships between the two ...

Dubai-Riyadh / EMIRATES BUSINESS Wadi.com, the fastest growing e-commerce platform of the Middle East, has raised USD 67m with Al Tayyar Travel Group . The investment marks the largest series A funding in the tech history of the Middle East and will further accelerate the growth of the company. Wadi.com was started in 2015 by the Mideast Internet Group , ...

PALMA DE MALLORCA/ WAM RIU Hotels & Resorts and Dubai master developer Nakheel have formally signed their business partnership agreement. Ali Rashid Lootah, Chairman of one of the Middle East’s biggest developers travelled to Mallorca to sign the joint venture agreement with Luis Riu, CEO of RIU Hotels. Thanks to this partnership, the chain’s first hotel in Dubai will become ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of Federal National Council (FNC) has expressed the FNC’s wishes for every success for the new government in the performance of its tasks and in foreseeing the future of the country, stressing that the FNC and the government constitute a working team with an aim to achieve further progress. He ...

Bloomberg Vienna’s Hotel Imperial, once Adolf Hitler’s favorite and now used by stars including Madonna and Mick Jagger, was bought by Dubai’s Al Habtoor Group LLC for $78.8 million. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. sold the 138-room property, which will continue to operate under its Luxury Collection brand, the Stamford, Connecticut-based company said in a statement on Tuesday. All ...

DUBAI / WAM H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Chairman of Emirates Group, on Tuesday honoured the winners of the 8th Dubai Award for Sustainable Transport (DAST) 2015. The Award is one of the key initiatives developed by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to leverage the public and private sectors to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Federal National Council on Tuesday passed a federal bill regulating the responsibilities of the National Media Council. According to Article 2 of the bill, the NMC is a federal government body affiliated with the Cabinet and has a corporate character and a mandate to undertake the responsibilities of overseeing and supervising media in the UAE. ...