San Francisco / AFP Vanishing message service Snapchat announced it will launch a line of video-catching sunglasses, a spin on Glass eyewear abandoned by Google more than a year ago. The California-based company, which also announced it is changing its name to Snap Inc., said in an online post that its Spectacles will be “available soon,” with media reports …

  Emirates Business While smartphone cameras are still unable to compete with high-end DSLRs, the gap is closing. Despite their shortcomings, the flexibility of smartphones leaves them well-equipped to capture content that is off limits to traditional cameras. From 360 Virtual Reality-ready content and action photography to wide-angle shots, the ability of smartphones to interact with companion devices or smart …

  Bloomberg A neglected waiting area, empty reception and dim lights greet visitors at what used to be the biggest textile factory in the northern industrial area of Pakistan’s economic hub. At its peak Al-Abid Silk Mills Ltd. employed 7,600 employees in Karachi, now only a handful can be seen in the near-abandoned garment workshop. It’s one of hundreds that …

  Moscow / AFP Kyrgyz migrant worker Belek Asanbekov sits at the kitchen table of his cramped Moscow apartment, scrolling through pictures on his mobile phone of friends killed days earlier in a fire at work. One of his seven flatmates, Gulbara Boobekova, a 45-year-old mother of two, was minutes away from finishing her 12-hour night shift at a Moscow …

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), the master developer of major tourism, cultural and residential destinations in Abu Dhabi, announced on Saturday its opening of a new and dedicated Lagoons Sales Centre, located at the Saadiyat Lagoons District construction site. The Sales Centre’s convenient location next to New York University Abu Dhabi offers potential …

  ABU DHABI / WAM Aldar Properties on Saturday announced that public sales for the third phase of Yas Acres, Aldar’s AED 6 billion flagship golf and waterfront villa development on Yas Island, will commence on October 4 at the Aldar Sales Centre on Yas Island. This phase, consisting of 260 homes will include, for the first time, 2 bedroom …

  Dubai / WAM Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), the UAE’s flagship trade and logistics hub for the wider Middle East region and Africa, has become a distribution hub for Japanese goods and products and has supported the companies in reaching the regional countries and beyond, said Talal Al Hashimi, Chief Operating Officer, Jafza, to a Japanese Business Forum. The …

  ABU DHABI / WAM A delegation of the Central Bank of the UAE attended on Thursday the 40th Regular Meeting of The Board of Governors of Arab Central Banks and Monetary Institutions in Rabat, Morocco. The Meeting Agenda included discussion of regional and international economic and financial developments, the recommendations and actions of Arab Committees for Banking Supervision and …

  New York / Emirates Business HE Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, chaired the annual Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, held on the sidelines of the 71st Session of the United Nation General Assembly. This was the UAE’s first time chairing the Asia Cooperation Dialogue since its inception in 2002. In his opening …

  Abu Dhabi / WAN Seventy percent of the construction at the Barakah nuclear power plant has been completed, according to a plant official. Mohamed Al Hammadi, ENEC’s CEO said, “We at ENEC are proud of the progress we have made in the development of the UAE Peaceful Nuclear Energy Program. We are committed to delivering safe, clean, efficient and reliable …