Abu Dhabi / WAM The Small to Medium Enterprise Exhibition (SME Expo), kicked-off on Monday in the nation’s capital, Abu Dhabi. The event was inaugurated by Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy and Chairman of the UAE Small and Medium Enterprises Council. The two-day event is organised in strategic partnership with various funding programmes – such as the ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai World Central (DWC), is set to handle 240 million passengers, the CEO of Dubai Airports Corporation Paul Griffiths revealed on Tuesday at the 19th edition of the Dubai Airport Show. In a keynote address, Griffiths said that future passengers will be provided with a “personalised experience” at DWC, adding that the hub model is “right and ...

Beijing / WAM Mansour Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director-General of the National Media Council (NMC), officially opened the UAE Pavilion at the Expo 2019 Beijing, taking place in the Chinese capital from April 29 to October 7. Managed and supervised by the NMC, the Pavilion bears the theme ‘Greening the Desert’. This participation, which is the UAE’s first at the Expo’s ...

Bloomberg Anadarko Petroleum Corp, the oil producer at the center of a bidding war, posted adjusted earnings for the first quarter that beat analysts’ estimates as oil and gas sales rose versus last year. The Texas-based driller said it earned 53 cents a share, excluding one-time items that included a $316 million loss attributed to the settlement of commodity derivatives. ...

Bloomberg Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez is looking to keep his options open as he prepares for talks with potential allies over his next government. And that includes Ciudadanos, the center-right party that spent the last few months saying that he must be kicked out of office. Spainish election delivered a clear victory to Sanchez’s Socialist party, but no straightforward route ...

Bloomberg The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Kenneth increased to 42 as the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros struggles to restore power supplies and torrential rains causes flooding in Mozambique. At least 182 people were injured by the hurricane-strength storm that swept across the two nations, the United Nations humanitarian office said. Kenneth was the second cyclone to hit Mozambique ...

Bloomberg An Algerian convicted in 2015 for his involvement in an unsuccessful terrorist plot to blow up the Eiffel Tower and Louvre Museum in Paris can be deported to his home country without a credible risk of torture or other inhuman treatment, Europe’s top human rights tribunal has ruled. Ali Meguimi was sentenced in 2015 to a six-year prison term ...

Bloomberg American naval vessels transited through the Taiwan Strait for the second straight month, highlighting the US’s strategic rivalry with China as Taiwanese presidential hopeful and Foxconn founder Terry Gou called for the island to adopt high-tech defense mechanisms. The destroyers USS Stethem and USS William P Lawrence conducted a transit through the waters on Monday, US Seventh Fleet public ...

Bloomberg Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Donald Trump, called for more sanctions on Russia and criticised presidential adviser Jared Kushner’s statements downplaying the significance of that country’s interference in the 2016 election. “I like Jared a lot, but he’s leaving out a big detail,” Graham said on CBS, noting that Russia hacked into the emails of Democratic ...

Bloomberg Indonesian President Joko Widodo led his challenger by about 12 percentage points midway through an official tally of votes cast in the election, weakening his rival’s claim of victory. Widodo, known as Jokowi, secured 56.2 percent of the votes, compared to 43.8 percent for challenger Prabowo Subianto with ballots from 52 percent of the polling stations tallied, according to ...