Dubai / WAM Emirates Airline announced that it completed the reconfiguration of its last Boeing 777-200LR aircraft. Emirates invested $150 million in converting the ten Boeing 777-200LR aircraft in its fleet from three to two class cabins featuring wider Business class seats in a 2-2-2 format and a fully refreshed economy class cabin. The reconfiguration of the ten aircrafts was ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (Adnec) is hosting several major local and international events throughout the month of April, including three key events this week. Set to welcome tens of thousands of visitors from the UAE and abroad under one roof, notable among these events are the EmiratesSkills National Competition, Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2019, Morocco ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) announced the launch of a new sponsorship scheme to drive continued innovation and sustainability across Dubai’s events industry. Reaffirming Dubai’s position as a global events hub, the scheme is designed to further empower leisure event organisers with additional incentivisation opportunities in the form of event sponsorship. The ...

FUJAIRAH / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, signed, in his office in the Emiri Court, a contract to construct the Dibba Sports Club Stadium with the Fuj Singh International Company, as per the directives of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Fujairah, ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE- Italy non-oil trade exchange amounted to $7.8 billion in 2017 and exceeded $5.7 bn during the first nine months of 2018, according to Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy. The minister said this while delivering the inaugural remarks of the Italy-UAE Business Forum which opened on Monday in Dubai in the presence of ...

Cairo / WAM Workplace relationship in the UAE is based on tolerance, dialogue, accepting the other, respect for diversity, combating discrimination and guarantee of rights, affirmed Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, UAE Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, at the 46th Arab Conference in Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Monday. “In the Year of Tolerance 2019, the UAE is embedding the ...

Bloomberg Oil companies in Norway may pay some of the highest taxes and wages in the world but they could always count on support in the halls of power. Then last week the country’s biggest political party pulled out the rug from under that certainty in a dramatic policy shift to abandon support for drilling off the Lofoten islands. As ...

Bloomberg Papua New Guinea’s Finance Minister James Marape has left the government, citing differences with Prime Minister Peter O’Neill over resources policy, days after the state signed a deal with France’s Total SA on a liquefied natural gas expansion project. Marape announced his resignation in a Facebook Inc. post, saying his voice was not being heard on policy-related matters, including ...

Bloomberg The Estonian government has decided not to proceed with an application for a 600-megawatt wind farm by developer Saare Wind Energy OU, citing security concerns. The company had been drawing up plans for four years and had applied for a 50-year building permit for 100 six-megawatt turbines off the island of Saaremaa. The cost of the project was estimated ...

Bloomberg Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou said the iPhone will go into mass production in India this year, a shift for the largest assembler of Apple Inc’s handsets that has long concentrated production in China. Gou said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited him to India as his Taiwanese company plans its expansion in the country. Apple has ...