ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE-Japan Friendship Committee for Women (FCW) recently held its 12th forum meeting, under the patronage of HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation. The forum, which supports the empowerment of women in the oil ...

Ras Al-Khaimah / Emirates Business The RAK Finance Department signed a partnership with the Emirates Auction, a company in the field of management and organisation of public and online auctions in the Middle East, to organise auctions for selling all RAK Government-owned assets. The agreement was signed at the Department’s headquarters by His Excellency Youssef Ali Mohamed, Director General of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) hosted a forum for stakeholders and partners to share its industry outlook amid resurgence in the sector since Dubai’s reopening to international tourists on July 7. The meeting provided insights into the current tourism situation both in the UAE and worldwide and steps taken to accelerate growth ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Public Prosecution has clarified the penalties for the use of the Internet Protocol (IP) address for committing a crime. In a post on its social media accounts on Saturday, the Public Prosecution defined the IP address as the numerical label assigned to any information technology media participating in computer network which is used for ...

President Donald Trump keeps claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and was replete with fraud. He has spread the false assertion that voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems Inc deleted millions of pro-Trump votes and shifted hundreds of thousands to his victorious opponent, President-elect Joe Biden. Many Republicans agree that the presidency has been stolen. Polls ...

Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden’s reported pick as Treasury secretary, is surely one of the most qualified nominees for the job in history. Not only has she been chair of the Federal Reserve and the White House Council of Economic Advisers, but she also enjoys widespread bipartisan respect, which will benefit her in coming negotiations over Covid relief. The markets ...

How much risk will a vital hub of global commerce entertain to open an important chunk of the economy? None, appears to be the answer, judging by the suspension of the Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble on the eve of its debut. The two finance and transport centres hit pause on what would have been the world’s first quarantine-free bubble, citing ...

Most Western countries have suffered mightily from Covid-19, but Britain still managed to stand out for all the wrong reasons during the first wave of the pandemic. There was the initial see-sawing between whether to follow a Swedish-style laissez faire approach or more draconian measures, the struggles with test and trace and confusing public communications. Still, there appears to be ...

Bloomberg ANA Holdings Inc will raise as much as 332.1 billion yen ($3.2 billion) via an overseas and domestic share placement as airlines around the world rush to shore up their finances amid the coronavirus pandemic. Japan’s largest carrier, whose shares have slumped 30% this year, will use the proceeds to repay long-term debt and buy Boeing 787 aircraft to ...

Bloomberg Arcadia Group, the retail empire controlled by Philip Green is likely to file for administration in the UK as early as next week, putting 13,000 jobs at risk. The owner of the Topshop and Topman brands wrote in an emailed statement that it’s exploring “a number of contingency options” after the closure of its stores due to Covid-19 “had ...