DUBAI / GULF TIME The Emirati company, Carter & White, participated in the “Dubai International Boat Show 2023,” at Dubai Harbour, which concluded on March 5. Marwan bin Yousef Al Serkal, founder and CEO of Carter & White, expressed his pride in participating in the exhibition, pointing out that Dubai has strengthened its position as a regional and global destination ...

ABU DHABI / WAM e& enterprise, part of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group) on Friday announced the implementation of a unique Microsoft solution powered by cutting-edge data technologies that enables companies of any size to define and implement their sustainability agenda and reduce their carbon emissions. The solution called ‘Microsoft Sustainability Manager’ is an extensible solution that unifies data ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Alpha Dhabi Holding PJSC (Alpha Dhabi or the Group), listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, has reported its financial results for the full year period ending on December 31, 2022, and the numbers are impressive. In 2022, Alpha Dhabi achieved a net profit of AED 10.6 billion, a staggering increase of 104% year-on-year from AED ...

ABU DHABI / WAM During a virtual summit, President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Türkiye, witnessed the signing of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (Cepa) between the UAE and the Republic of Türkiye. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, UAE Minister of the Economy, and Mehmet Muş, the Turkish ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) has revealed that the UAE capital’s real estate market recorded 19,033 transactions, reaching a total value of AED77.6 billion in 2022. As per the Department’s reports, the emirate’s real estate sector recorded 9,010 sales transactions worth AED23.5 billion and 10,023 mortgage transactions worth AED54.1 billion Yas Island topped the ...

BLOOMBERG It’s been more than three decades since the Philippines ordered US troops to withdraw from their sprawling military bases in the country, ending an era that hearkened back to America’s colonial days. Now the man overseeing the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority — once home to the US’s biggest naval base in Asia — wants them back. A recently revived ...

BLOOMBERG US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Quad nation counterparts seemed to use a public appearance to reassure China the grouping was not a security union seeking to force countries in Asia to choose between them and Beijing. “This is not a military grouping, it’s not that kind of alliance,” Blinken said on Friday at a panel discussion ...

BLOOMBERG Turkey’s opposition is in crisis over a failure to agree on a joint candidate to contest President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hampering a rare chance to unseat the country’s longest-serving leader at elections in less than three months. The infighting burst into the open on Friday when the opposition bloc’s second largest party Iyi slammed the rest of the group ...

BLOOMBERG A billionaire and “close” partner of oligarch Roman Abramovich has become the first person to challenge the UK’s Russian sanctions regime in a London court. Lawyers for Eugene Shvidler, who has long been associated with Abramovich, filed the claim last month, saying that the UK made “significant errors” in its assessment of Shvidler’s relationship with the former owner of ...

BLOOMBERG Germany has asked Switzerland if it can buy back some of the nation’s decommissioned Leopard 2 battle tanks as part of an effort to replace depleted stocks among Nato allies. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and Economy Minister Robert Habeck made the request in a February 23 letter to Swiss Defense Minister Viola Amherd, a German defense ministry spokesman ...