Dubai / WAM The Director-General of the Government of Dubai’s Department of Finance (DoF), Abdulrahman Saleh Al Saleh, has said that the continuous improvement in the performance of Dubai’s public budget over the last five years has been driven by Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong protest organisers said they would lead demonstrators through Kowloon on Sunday in a march despite losing an appeal against a police ban on the procession. The Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions supported the police’s refusal to approve the march because of the potential for violence, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported. The rally was originally ...

Bloomberg US officials proposed a long-term plan to help North Korea construct a tourist area in return for denuclearisation during recent working-level talks in Stockholm, Hankook Ilbo newspaper reported. US negotiators prepared plans on the development of the Kalma tourist area, the paper said, citing an unidentified senior South Korean diplomat familiar with the talks in Stockholm. The paper didn’t ...

Bloomberg Tens of thousands of protesters set fires and cut off roads across Lebanon, demanding the removal of a political class whose mismanagement and corruption they say has brought the economy to the brink of bankruptcy. In a televised speech, Lebanese PM Saad Hariri gave his feuding coalition government a 72-hour deadline to get behind his plan for an economic ...

Bloomberg A group of South Korean students broke into the residence of American ambassador Harry Harris, in a protest against Donald Trump’s campaign to get the Asian nation to pay more for US military support. Nineteen students, who described themselves as members of a liberal university students’ group, were detained by police after staging a protest against plans to impose ...

Bloomberg A dam collapsed at a gold mine in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, leaving at least 15 people dead, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said on its website. The collapse happened at about 2 am Moscow time near one of the small local gold mining companies’ operations, the ministry said. Another 13 people are still missing as emergency services continue rescue ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy, an Abu Dhabi Ports company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s marine and logistics subsidiary, Adnoc Logistics & Services (Adnoc L&S), to offer cadetships to Emirati students, enrolled at the Academy, with invaluable first-hand experience on-board of Adnoc’s vessels. The MoU, signed by senior representatives ...

FRANKFURT / WAM The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi has revealed that Germany will be the Guest of Honour for the 31st edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF), in 2021. The announcement was made as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), was signed by Saif Saeed Ghobash, Under-Secretary of DCT Abu Dhabi, and Juergen Boos, ...

SHARJAH / WAM Polling centres for the Sharjah Consultative Council (SCC), elections will open their doors from Sunday, to receive candidates wishing to enter the elections. Registrations will run from October 20-22 across the municipalities of Sharjah City, Al Dhaid, Khorfakkan, Kalba, Dibba Al Hisn, Al Madam, Mleiha, Al Hamriyah and Al Batayeh. The polling stations will open from 08:00 ...

RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM Chinese tech giant Huawei will donate equipment to the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (Aurak), to set up the first Huawei ICT Academy in the UAE. Representatives of Huawei visited the Aurak campus to initial the agreement and met the university’s President, Professor Hassan Hamdan Al Alkim. Aurak is the first educational institution in ...