ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has received a phone call from Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan. During the call, His Highness and the Japanese Prime Minister discussed the strategic relations between the two countries and ways to ...

  DUBAI / WAM The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been ranked first regionally and 10th globally for Influence in the Global Soft Power Index (GSPI) 2022. The UAE advanced to 15th place globally in the overall GSPI ranking, up from last year’s 17th in the GSPI 2021. The country sits at the top in the region and remains at ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Santiago Andrés Cafiero, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Argentina, stressed that the UAE is a key partner of his country in the Middle East region and the relations between the two countries are dynamic. In an interview with the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Cafiero said the diplomatic ties between the UAE and Argentina ...

  DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai’s focus on children and education has boosted its visit numbers, which have soared to 19,009,065, up almost 1.6 million in a week, with 2.7 million children under 18 visiting the site since the event opened in October last year. Expo 2020 Dubai’s virtual visitation numbers have crossed 180 million, driven by the diverse ...

Dubai / WAM Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, on Tuesday inaugurated Dubai WoodShow 2022, which will run until 17th March at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, with the participation of 400 companies from 41 countries. At the show, a huge number of machineries from Canadian, European, Chinese and American manufacturers were on ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Statistics Centre – Abu Dhabi (Scad) has signed an agreement with Economist Impact, part of The Economist Group, to carry out research studies on improving the quality of life indicators in Abu Dhabi through an integrated network of statistical data for healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. The agreement comes in line with ...

  Dubai / WAM Equal access to opportunities is critical to gender equality and women’s empowerment, but it is equity that will genuinely make an impact, according to Dr Kirsty Coventry, cabinet minister for Youth Affairs, Sport, Art and Recreation of Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean minister spoke at a “Visions and Journeys” event at the Expo 2020 Dubai Women’s Pavilion, sharing ...

One question I get repeatedly these days: What is wrong with the Russian military? Many in the West had a mistaken belief that the Russian war machine was a rough match for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), and they are surprised at how much trouble the massive force is having subduing a much smaller and less-equipped neighbour, Ukraine. During ...

Singapore appears to be shutting its doors to foreign talent just as the exodus of expatriates from Hong Kong gathers pace. The government recently tightened visa rules for white-collar workers, adding hoops to a process that employers already complain is too onerous. Will the city-state miss its golden opportunity to scoop up Hong Kong’s disgruntled elites? Hardly. It’s a different ...

  At the dawn of the 20th century, Norman Angell famously (or infamously) predicted that the era of global commercial integration had made great power conflict so costly and destructive as to be unthinkable. A few years later, the outbreak of World War I proved him right about the cost and destruction, but wrong about being unthinkable. The Great War ...