Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc reported a record-breaking holiday season as shoppers loaded their online baskets with items from Echo speakers to Calvin Klein clothes, suggesting consumer optimism isn’t being deterred by a tumbling stock market. The internet retailer said “tens of millions of people worldwide” signed up for its Prime service, which offers free two-day shipping on millions of items as ...

RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Minister of State, stated that the memory of the country’s founder and the builder of its modern advancement, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, will remain with the UAE’s people. He made this statement during a dialogue meeting, titled, ‘Centennial of Zayed,’ which was held on Wednesday by the Emirates ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Municipality (ADM) attained new achievement this year when its building data management system (BDMS) was recognised among the global top five systems in the ‘International Best Practice Competition’ at the Global Organisational Excellence Congress. The congress, held in Abu Dhabi from December 10 to 12, saw the participation of 250 regional and international ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) continue to present one of the world’s key growth regions for printing. In 2019, the total value of the commercial print business in Mena is forecast to reach $32 billion, according to research from Smithers Pira, the worldwide authority on the packaging, print and paper supply chains. They released ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, on Wednesday chaired board meeting of Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD)  on the Presidential Affairs ministry’s premises. The meeting addressed the status of the projects being funded by the ADFD in several countries along with future plans. A number of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE dirham has appreciated against currencies of top 10 non-dollarised import and non-oil export partners by 3.08 percent and 3.97 percent respectively during the first nine months of 2018, according to Central Bank of the UAE statistics. Year-on-Year, the dirham appreciated as well against the currencies of the same partners by 3.8 percent and 7.11 ...

GROZNY / WAM President Ramzan Kadyrov of the Chechen Republic received a delegation from Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED), led by Hussain Jasim Al Nowais, Chairman of the Fund, and lauded the friendly relations and cooperation between the Chechen Republic and the UAE, and the success of these relations that support shared interests in various fields. “Zayed Fund for ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, issued Cabinet Resolution No. 52 of 2018 on regulations concerning Federal Law No. 03 of 2016 on Child Rights (Wadeema’s Law). The Resolution was published in the latest issue of the Official Gazette. The regulations included ...

Ajman / WAM The Department of Finance (DoF) in Ajman has achieved the total digital transformation of all its services, which are available on smartphones and e-portals. HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Ajman Ruler’s Representative for Administrative and Financial Affairs and Chairman of the Department of Finance, stated that the department’s digital transformation aims to support the Ajman Vision ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Environment Agency (EAD), announced that it banned barber fishing of surface fish by nets in a barber manner in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi from December 23, and also prevents the carrying of the same nets on all marine means in the fishing waters of the emirate. The move follows Resolution No. 542 ...